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Here's one I messed with today, now that I finally have a slide that fits. Still learning how to use it. Busted is actually a pretty good tune to get used to slide with.

I left out the intro, where Dan noodles around on the e (d here) string. Personally, I prefer the way he opens it live, just fiddling around on the E and A (D and G).

The double slashes (//) denote use of the slide. Is that how you distinguish from a normal slide? I don't even know.

The toughest part is the verse, which is just hard to nail down. I hope my interpretation is right...but would love to get others' thoughts.

Credit to James Fisher and his xtracrispy tab, which was my foundation.

Comments welcome. Enjoy!

Busted
The Black Keys
The Big Come Up
(R.L. Burnside)

Open G tuning (DGDGBe)
With distortion

d|-------------------------------------
B|-------------------------------------
G|-------------------------------------
D|-------------------------------------
G|------0---0---0---0---0---0----------
D|-------------------------------------

d|----------------------------------------------------------------------------
B|----------6-------8p6-------------------------6-------8p6-------------------
G|------5/7-----------------3b------0-------5/7-----------------3b------0-----
D|----------------------------------------------------------------------------
G|------0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-----
D|----------------------------------------------------------------------------

d|----------------------------------------------------------------------------
B|----------6-----------------------------------6----------------------------
G|------5/7---------5-------3b------0-------5/7---------5-------3b------0-----
D|----------------------------------------------------------------------------
G|------0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-------------
D|----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Main theme:
d|------------------------------------------------------------------
B|------------------------------------------------------------------
G|----------------------0-x---------------------0-x-----------------
D|---------//5v---------0-x-------//5v----------0-x-----------------
G|---------------5---3-------------------5---3----------------------
D|------------------------------------------------------------------x2

The verse is basically this:

d|------------------
B|------------------
G|----------0-------
D|----------0-------
G|-----0------------
D|------------------

played rhythmically and improvised, with dampened strings and muting, with this riff mixed in:

d|------------------
B|------------------
G|----------0-------
D|----------0-------
G|------------------
D|-----3b-----------

Then back to the main theme…

d|--------------------------------------------------------------------
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------
G|----------------------0-x---------------------0-x-------------------
D|---------//5v---------0-x-------//5v----------0-x-------------------
G|---------------5---3-------------------5---3------------------------
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------

d|---------------------------------------------------------------------
B|---------/6-------8p6--------------------/6-------8p6----------------
G|---------/7---------------3b------0------/7---------------3b---------
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------
G|----------0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0----------
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------

d|---------------------------------------------------------------------
B|---------/6------------------------------/6--------------------------
G|---------/7-------5-------3b------0------/7-------5-------3b------0--
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------
G|----------0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0--
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------

Then back into the main theme…rinse…repeat.

This is how I first started playing it. But he is actually playing

D----3-5p3-3-------------
B-1/3-------------------
G-------------3-0--------
D--------------------
G--------------------
D-------------------

Put a slight bend on the g string when fingering the 3rd fret

As for the verse:

D----------------------
B------------------------
G-----------------0----
D-----------------0-------
G-0-0-3-0-0-0------------------
D-------------3sb-------------

Thats basically it, sb=slight bend. Sometimes ive heard him mess around the middle two strings in between on the 5th, 3rd, and open frets.