Cut the Cake

by Average White Band

🎧 Funk
Difficulty ★★★☆☆
Tuning Standard
Capo None

AWB's 1975 follow-up funk hit with an irresistible groove. The tight rhythm guitar plays clipped chord stabs in Eb while the lead guitar weaves funky single-note lines.

  Eb funk rhythm
e|---x-6---x-x---6-6---x---6---x-x---6---x-------|
B|---x-8---x-x---8-8---x---8---x-x---8---x-------|
G|---x-8---x-x---8-8---x---8---x-x---8---x-------|
D|---x-8---x-x---8-8---x---8---x-x---8---x-------|
A|---x-6---x-x---6-6---x---6---x-x---6---x-------|
E|------------------------------------------------|

  Lead fill
e|---6--8--6---8--6-----------6--8--11--8--6-------|
B|-----------------8--6---8-----------------------8|
G|------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------|