WHAT IT TAKES
Words and Music by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Desmond Child

Fig. 9 - Solo and Bridge

	"What it Takes" began life as a slow keyboard-based tune with a country and western
flavor. Aerosmith transformed the song into a definitive band piece on PUMP with 
heavier elecric guitars and a noteworthy Joe Perry solo.
	Perry's solo enters at 2:30. His guitar tone is processed with a deep vibrato effect
from a Leslie cabinet and his lines are appropriately melodic, in a George Harrison "Let Ot
Be" sense, for this emotional power balled. The lines are based primarily on the F major
pentatonic scale (F-G-A-C-D), with occasional deviations like the A passing tone in
measure 3 and the B in measure 4, which occurs as a result of slurring a dyad passage.
Check out the attractive interval jumps in measure 5 (octaves, fifths, and fourths) as well
as the momentum-gathering ostinato lick that concludes the solo with a strong climax in
measure 7.
	The sobbing string bends during the bridge (2:53-3:07) are a perfect example of
Perry's musical word painting. Here, his singing, sustaining lines capture the emotional
intent of the lyrics with a series of half-step bends that are struck and released after they
are bent (pre-bent) for a depictive crying effect. Notice that they form a melodic sequence
of root (C) released to the third (B) of the next chord (G major), and root (B) released to
the third (A) of the final chord (F major).


GUITAR SOLO (2:30)

KEY=
^=Bend String to shown measure, ex. 3^¼
P=Hit string and pound the next

 1
E|-----~~|-|~~--------------------------|--10---------------------------------------------|
B|--13^--|-|--(13)~~~~~~~-10-13-10------|------10--13p10----------------------------------|
G|-------|-|-----------------------12^--|-----------------12^--(12)-10-----------------5--|
D|-------|-|----------------------------|----------------------------------12----5/p7-----|
A|-------|-|----------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
E|-------|-|----------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|

 3
E|-----------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------|
G|--(5)------------------------------------------|
D|---7----6--5--3^½------5----3--5^-----3--5--3--|
A|-----------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------|

 4
E|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------13----10--10-13^-|
B|-----------------------------------|--------------10------13--------------------10-------|
G|--------7\p5------5-\3-----2-------|------------------10------12^--10--------------------|
D|--5/p7--------5--(5)\3--3----------|------10---------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------|--12------12-----------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------1--|-----------------------------------------------------|

 6
E|~~~~~~~~(13)-13^~~~(13)-10--13^½~~(13)-10-----|
B|--------------------------10--------------10--|
G|----------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------|


 7
E|--13^~~~(13)--10-----13^~~~(13)--10-----13^~~~(13)--10-----15^~~~(15)--13------|
B|------------------10-----------------10-----------------10-----------------15--|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

             Tell me that your hap-py that you're on  your
 8
E|--19^½~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~------19^½~~|
B|----------------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------|

    own._      Yeah,__ yeah,      yeah._ Tell me that it's bet-ter when you're all a -
 9
E|--(19)~~~~~~~~----------18^½~|~~(18)-----------------------------------------17^½~~|
B|-----------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|

 -  lone.___________
 11
E|~~(17)------------17\---17\--|-|-------|
B|------------------15\---15\--|-|-------|
G|-----------------------------|-|-------|
D|-----------------------------|-|--3----|
A|-----------------------------|-|--3----|
E|-----------------------------|-|--1----|


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Tabbed By:
Robert Hughes



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