Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing - Guitar Tab

About Little Wing

Few covers in the guitar world carry as much weight as Stevie Ray Vaughan's take on "Little Wing," originally written by Jimi Hendrix. SRV stretched the song into a slow, expansive reading that demands both fingerstyle-influenced chord embellishments and stinging single-note lead work, often within the same phrase. The tuning is Eb Standard, which drops every string a half step and gives the bends a slightly looser, fatter feel you need to match his tone and phrasing. At 104 BPM in Em, the tempo is moderate but the challenge lies in blending rhythm and lead seamlessly, the way Vaughan fills space between vocal-like melody lines with subtle chord stabs. Getting that interplay right takes patient repetition, so use the Practice Toolbar to isolate the intro passage slowed down until the transitions between chord and melody feel natural. The Blues Rock vocabulary here is deep, and learning even the core phrases will sharpen your overall command of the neck in the key of E minor.

• SRV plays in Eb Standard tuning, dropping every string a half step, which loosens string tension and thickens the tone of his bends.
• The main challenge is the Hendrix-style hybrid approach of weaving single-note melody lines through chord voicings, all on one guitar.
• Focus your practice on the intro progression first, looping it slowed down, as it contains the densest mix of technique in the song.