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e: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 12:28:35 -0700 (PDT)

Title: Penny For Your Thoughts
Artist: Peter Frampton
Album: Frampton Comes Alive (1975)
Transcribed: rjmcpher@uci.edu

This is a solo acoustic song with no singing.
It is really fun to play and I highly recommend it (tune to open G).
Corrections are welcome.

Notes: Open G tuning (DGDGBD)


[start]
                                                          3x
D||---12p9p0---------------------|------------------------||
B||------------------------------|--0h---1p-0/-3\---1-----||
G||*---------0--0----------------|--0-------0-------0----*||
D||*------------0----------------|--0----2p-0/-4\---2----*||
G||-------------0----------------|--0---------------------||
D||------------------------------|------------------------||

repeat phrase above 3x then advance to I, II, III, or IV

[I]
open G (000000) then harmonics on the 7th fret then harmonics on the 12th fret.
  (repeat from start but advance to [II] below)


[II] and [III]
----------------------------|
--0--1--3--5--7--8--10--12--|    repeat from start
--0-------------------------|      but continue after [IV] below
--0--2--4--5--7--9--10--12--|
--0-------------------------|
----------------------------|

[IV]
--|----------------------|----------------|
--|--0----1----3----5----|--5------5------|
--|--0-------------------|-----5------5---|
--|--0----2----4----5----|-------5------5-|
--|--0-------------------|--5------5------|
--|----------------------|----------------|


----------------|----------------|----------------|
--5------5------|--3------3------|--3------3------|
-----5------5---|-----3------3---|-----3------3---|
-------5------5-|-------3------3-|-------3------3-|
--5------5------|--3------3------|--3------3------|
----------------|----------------|----------------|


--------------------------|--------------------------|
--0------1----1/-3----3-3-|--0------1----1/-3----3-3-|
--0-----------0-----------|--0-----------0-----------|
--0------2----2/-4----4-4-|--0------2----2/-4----4-4-|
--------------------------|--------------------------|
--------------------------|--------------------------|


----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
--5------5------|--5------5------|--3------3------|--3------3------|
-----5------5---|-----5------5---|-----3------3---|-----3------3---|
-------5------5-|-------5------5-|-------3------3-|-------3------3-|
--5------5------|--5------5------|--3------3------|--3------3------|
----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|



----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
--7------7------|--7------7------|--5------5------|--3------3------||
-----7------7---|-----7------7---|-----5------5---|-----3------3---||
-------7------7-|-------7------7-|-------5------5-|-------3------3-||
--7------7------|--7------7------|--5------5------|--3------3------||
----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||

Return to start and play phrase ending with [II] 2x
 then end 2nd time with harmonics on 7th and 12th.