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The Internet can be a great resource....but sometimes it can be frustrating as well.

I love Dave Matthews, but seem to have no luck actually trying to play any of his stuff. Most of his songs revolve around some kind of riff, making it even harder to sing and play.

There's several sources for tabs on the Interent: www.dmbtabs.com and www.olga.net, but they aren't ideal.

Take dmbtabs, which has tab and video for just about every DMB song (video for some songs only.)

Check out the tab and video for Cry Freedom. If you watch the video for the verse, you'll see that the tab (below) is just the basic chords, and doesn't indicate at all how it's actually played.

E:----------------------
B:----------------------
D:-6-----7-----4-----6--
G:-4-----4-----2-----6--
A:-x-----x-----x-----4--
E:-7-----5-----5--------

And then there's this from Lie In Our Graves:

E:-2--------x--------------------------
B:-3--------x--------------------------
G:-2--------x-----------2--------4--4--
D:-0--------x--0--2--4-----4-----2--2--
A:----4--2--x--------------------------
E:----------x-----------------3--------
      4  1        1  4  1  4  2 

which again, seems to be missing parts (like strumming the first chord three times, not once...)

And how do you play:

E:-x-
B:-x-
G:-x-
D:-x-
A:-x-
E:-x-

anyway?! ;)