Mistreatin Mama

Use this tab as a guide to imitate the audio clip.

Two holes in parentheses (-3 -4) means play them both at the same time.  
Try not to get very much breath through the second hole, except in the ending riff.  The way I do this (We’re all different.) is to do a Billy Idol sneer to reach over to the higher hole.

/ or \ indicates a slur.

By “Inhale” or “Exhale”, I mean to let a little puff of air in or out with your lips barely touching the harp.

To get his vibrato, I do a kind of a nervous jiggle with my belly.

First verse:

Wail & moan on -4, at one point hitting -5 for a nano-second, then gliss across -3 to -2 (hold the -2).  Exhale.  
-3 -4 -3 -2” -2  Exhale

Play the -3 with varying degrees of bend, then go up to -3 unbent and down to -1.
Exhale -3 -4 -3    -2’ -2

He starts singing about something, here.


Second verse:

  -4 -4 -4     -4’ -4’ 4    -4’ -3 -2  
 Slight bend...More bend 
 
Exhale  -3 -4 -3     -3’ -3”  (-3 -4)

Exhale  -4 -4 -4 -4’   -1  Exhale  -3 -2 -4 -3 -2\-2’/(-2 -3) Exhale 

-4 -4 -4 -4    -4 -4 -4’   -4 -3 -2 Exhale -3 -3 -3’  2 (-2 -3)

Now he does some more of that singin’. 

-4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4’    5 4 (3 4)   Inhale

-3 -4 (-3 -2)   -2 -2
    (Weak on -2)

More singin’.

-3’ -3’ -3’ -3’ -3”   -3 -2  Exhale
Listen to the clip and imitate his degree of bends.

-3 3 -4 (-3’ -4’)  -4 -3 (-2 -3)
                    --gliss--


Singing again.

-4 -4 -4 -4    -4 -4’    -4 -3 -2    Exhale

-3 -4 -3    -2 -2       Exhale

-3 -3 -3 -3’  -4 -1   Exhale  -3 -2 -4 (-3’ -4’) 
 
(-2’ -3’) (-2’ -3’)


“Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm   Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm”

-4’ -4’ -4’ 4      -4 -3 (-2 -3)  Exhale

-3 -4 -3     -3 3 (-3 -4)   Exhale

-3’ -3’ -3’ -3’     -3 -2 -1  Exhale

-3 -4 -3     -2 -2    Exhale

-4 -4 -4 -4      -4 -4 -4\-4’    -4 -3 -2  Exhale

-3 -4 -3     -2 -2   


(2:58) 
(5 6) (-4 -5)   (4 5) (-4 -5) (4 5)   
-3 (3 4)   (2 3) (-2 -3) (2 3)  -2 2 -2