* (Markus Jakobsson FIN)

"LOVE AIN'T NO STRANGER" (Transcribed by Markus 
Jakobsson)

A-Intro/First Verse

The song begins with (Jon Lord's) wonderful keyboards. 
The keyboard parts
mainly outline these chord changes, that could be 
strummed if you don't play
with a keyboard player.

   Who knows where the cold wind blows?  I ask my 
friends, but nobody knows...
 |       |              |          |   |            |  
         |       |
D/F#     G              A         Bm  D/F#          G

           A      Bm

    Who am I to believe in love?      Oh, oh, oh. Love 
ain't no stranger...
  |        |        |       |        |          |
 D/F#      G        A      Bm       Bm          A


B-Second Verse 

The acoustic guitar enters, arpeggiating the same 
chords(almost). It is pos-
soble that the slide in the Bsus2 chord should be a 
hammer-on. It is also
possible that I just have tin ears, but I do think I 
hear SOME sort of grace
note there. Anyway, it is just a detail, so if the 
fingering is tricky to you,
forget *: What I call "dive bomb" slide has nothing to 
do with the thing
you do with the whammy bar. I just don't know what else
 you call those long,
fast slides down the low E-string.

[-Rhythm *]                  Strum chords and let ring.
|-----------|---------------| Played 5 times |--------
|---------3-|-------------2-| and then...     |-0------
|---2----0--|---2------s-4--|                 |-4------
|--0----0---|--2----(2)/4---|                 |-4------
|-----------|-0---2---------|                 |-2------
|-2---3-----|---------------|                 |--------

||--|-0------------| 
||--|-2------------| 
||--|-2------------| 
||--|-2------------| 
||--|-0------------| 
||--|---------xxxxx| 

  Verse 2:(with *)                      xxx=Electric 
guitars enters,
   I looked around, and what did I see?            with
 a "dive bomb slide"
   Broken hearted people staring at me...
   All searching 'cause they still believe..     Oh, 
oh, oh...Love ain't no
                                                       
         stranger!!!

C-Main Riff/Third Verse 

()=These notes are there, but I can't make out if they 
are played by the
hammond or another guitar. They don't have to be played
 by this guitar, anyway.

[-Rhythm Fig2----------------------------------------------------------------]

|------------|------------|-------------|-----------|--
|-(3-2-3)----|-(3-2-3)----|-(3-2-3)-----|-----------|--
|--4-2-4-----|--4-2-4-----|--4-2-4----2-|-----------|--
|--4-2-4-----|--4-2-4-----|--4-2-4----2-|----2------|-(
|--2-0-2-----|--2-0-2-----|--2-0-2----0-|----2------|-(
|------------|------------|-------------|----0------|-(

||-------|--------------| 
||-----With- drum-fills-| 
||-------|-2------------| 
||2)-----|-/---(2)------| 
||2)-----|-4---(2)----s-| 
||0)-----|-----(0)--xxxx| 

                                                Let 
E5-chord ring
Make sure to nail that staccato rhythm, and to shake 
that last B5-chord in
every bar a little. (Maybe it would make more sense to 
place the 2/4 bar
after the A5-chord, but that's one for the music theory
 guys to think about.)

[-Rhythm Fig. 3-----------------------------------------
|---------------|------------------|-------------------
|---------------|------------------|-------------------
|-------4-2-4---|----------4-2-4---|-------------------
|-------4-2-4---|----------4-2-4---|--------2----------
|-------2-0-2---|----------2-0-2---|--------2----------
|---------------|------------------|--------0----------
  ----------------------]
||----|------------------| 
||3---|------------------| 
||2---|----------4-2-4---| 
||0---|----------4-2-4---| 
||----|----------2-0-2---| 
||----|------------------| 

 Verse 3:
I was alone,And I needed love. So much I'd sacrifice 
for all I was dreaming of.

(With *)

I heard no warning, but a heart can tell... I feel the 
emptiness of love I know
so well...

D-Chorus. 

Those slighly muted G5-Chords are the key to the fat, 
chunky sound. I don't
really remember if those "extra" chunks on the open and
 fifth fret of the A-
string really are on the record, but experiment with 
16th-note chunks there.
It can sound very cool...

|------------------|-----------------|-----------------
|-*=Slight-Palm-Muting---------------|-----------------
|-------------7--2-|-(2)-------------|-----------7---7-
|-*-5-*-*-*-5-7-p2-|-(2)-------------|---*-*-*-*-7-pp7-
|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-00-|-(0)-------------|-p-5-5-5-5-5-555-
|-3-3-3-3-3-3------|-----------------|-3-3-3-3-3-------

|||-------------------| 
|||-------------------| 
|||---2---------------| 
|||-pp2---------------| 
|||-000---------------| 
|||-------------------| 

                     Let Chord Ring.
 Chorus:           Love ain't no stranger...           
 I ain't no stranger...
                   Love ain't no stranger...        I 
ain't no stranger to

    with *.
  [----------4-----------]
   love...  no ,no ,no...

E-Fourth Verse

With *.3 ( 2 times)

    Can't hold the passion, of a soul in need...
    I look for mercy when my heart begins to bleed.
    I've known good loving, I'm a friend of pain.
    But when I read between the lines it's all the 
same...

F-Second Chorus 

   with *
 [--------8----------]
  Love ain't no stranger.
  I ain't no stranger.
  Love ain't no stranger.
  I ain't no stranger to love...

E-Guitar Solo

The rhythm part behind the solo is a semi-distorted 
electric, playing a pro-
gression almost like the one in Rhythm Figure 1. The 
chords are the same, but
I think they are arpeggiated a little differently. Play
 that, and nobody will
notice. The solo is a slow beautiful melody thing, that
 should not be hard to
figure out. I haven't transcribed it, since I work out 
my own leads for the co-
ver tunes I learn.(Try it, it's great fun).The last 
three bars of the rhythm
part goes something like this.

|-----------|----|-----|                               
|--3--3-----|----|-----|      Then the song comes back 
|--2--0---2-|-2--|-(2)-|                               
|--0--0---2-|-2--|-(2)-|        [--------8---------]   
|---------0-|-0--|-(0)-|                               
|--2--3-----|----|-----|       With Verse 1.     "Lord 

||                    
||to rhythm figure 1. 
||                    
||                    
||                    
||have mercy...       

                                                  Love 
ain't no stranger!!!"
F-Agressive part.(Dunno what else to call it)

Play this part aggressively(Why do I keep giving these 
instructions? You know
how the record sounds. Oh, well...).

 with *, 1,5 times, then...  
|------------|-----|------------|
 [-----6------]                    
|------------|-----|------------|

                                   |-4-2-4----2-|-(2)-|
                                   |-4-2-4----2-|-(2)-|
                                   |-2-0-2----0-|-(0)-|
                                   |------------|-----|

 |--9-7-9-----| 
 |--9-7-9-----| 
 |--7-5-7-----| 
 |--------xxxx| 

G-Fifth Verse/Last Chorus.
  * (two times)
 [-------8--------]

   I was alone, and I needed love.
   So much I'd sacrifice for all I was dreaming of.
   Can't hold the passion of a soul in need.
   I look for mercy when my heart begin to bleed.

  * (two times)
 [------8---------]

H-Outro

Turn down the volume knob on your guitar a bit for this
 tone. This is mainly
Rhythm Figure 1, again with some different 
arpeggiations.

  *
 [-----6-----]  |-----------|----------|-----|

                |-3--3------|----------|-----| 
                |-2--0----2-|-2----4-4-|-(4)-| 
                |-0--0----2-|-2----4-4-|-(4)-| 
                |---------0-|-0----2-2-|-(2)-| 
                |-2--3------|----------|-----| 

                                  "I ain't no 
stranger..."

 There we are. I hope I haven't forgotten anything, but
 I'm too sick of this
machine to double check anything. If something is 
missing, or if something is
unclear, mail me. If the guy who requested this song 
still needed it and found
it useful, I would appreciate it if he mailed me and 
let me know. That goes for
everyone else who finds use for it as well. It is 
always nice to get some feed-
back.

     "Well I got this guitar,
      and I learned how to make it talk..."
       -Bruce Springsteen, "Thunder Road"-

                  MAC
                  (*)