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#Hey dude, nice page, but I noticed you don’t have my favorite song,
#”Three Mile Smile”…so I typed up my transcription and here it is!
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# Chris Calabrese
#”Three Mile Smile” by Aerosmith
#>From _Night in the Ruts_
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#I have most of the song down, but I haven’t heard it for about a year, and I
#just dug up a transcription I did from a year ago so here it is. This song is
#a lot of fun to play!
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#Riff A – play twice
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[B/A] [B/A]

e-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
B-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
G----4----4---------------------------|---4-----4---------------------------|
D----4----4----0-0-1-2-4--------------|---4-----4----0-0-1-2-4--------------|
A----0----2--------------2---2--2--2--|---0-----2--------------2---2--2--2--|
E----------------------------0--0--0--|----------------------------0--0--0--|

Then there’s the drum break
Riff B – play 6 times

e--------------------------|-------------------------|
B--------------------------|-------------------------|
G--------------------------|-------------------------|
D--6--6---5--4---4--4--4---|--4--4---5--6------7--6--|
A--7--7---6--5---5--5--5---|--5--5---6--7------5--7--|
E--------------------------|----------------0--------|

Riff C – play twice

e---------------------------------------|
B----------------3-----------------3----|
G----------------2-----------------2----|
D-------2--------0--------2--------0----|
A-------2-----------------2-------------|
E--3^---0---3^-------3^---0---3^--------|

Then play
Riff B four times
Riff C once
Riff D twice
Riff D

e------------------------------------|
B------------------------------------|
G------------------------------------|
D------------------------------------|
A--------5-------------0--5----------|
E--0--3------3--0---3--------3--(0)--|

Then play
Riff B four times
Riff C once
Riff D once
Riff C once
Riff D once
Riff A twice
Next comes the solo. I did the rhtyhm part, but I was too lazy to do the
solo, because Joe Perry is a very sloppy player, and especially in this solo.
Solo Rhythm – play 3 times

e------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
B------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
G--7---7---2-------------------|----------------7--7--2-------------------|
D--7---7---2-------------------|--6--6---5--4---7--7--2-------------------|
A--5---5---0------2---2--2--2--|--7--7---6--5---5--5--0------2---2--2--2--|
E-------------3^--0---0--0--0--|-------------------------3^--0---0--0--0--|

Lead after solo
Guitar 1

e--------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
B--------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
G--------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
D--------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
A--------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
E--4-5-4-5-6-7-------|-4-5-4-5-6-7------|-4-5-4-5-6-7-------|-4-5-4-5-6-7----|

| |
| |
| Guitar 2 E A E E A A |

e--------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
B--------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
G--------------9--2-|--------------9--|-------------9--2-|-------------2--|
D--------------9--2-|--------------9--|-------------9--2-|-------------2--|
A--------------7--0-|--------------7--|-------------7--0-|-------------0--|
E--------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|

Then play
Riff D four times
Then after that there’s a second solo where he just plays riff D throughout
pretty much of the solo. It’s pretty easy to figure out what he’s doing after
this spot, but I haven’t heard the song in a while so I can’t remember.
Chris Calabrese
robert.calabrese@snet.net
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() the note in parenthesees is tied to the next measure