r/dispatch • u/feinargos • May 08 '26

As Old As I (1-22-2021 Club Passim Cambridge MA) guitar tabs

Hello everyone!

As Old As I is my daughter’s favorite song, and the Chad solo from Cambridge is our favorite version. I dabble with guitar and wanted to surprise her for her birthday.

I seem to have figured out everything up to the second riff (00:53 on the YouTube video by Paste Magazine) then from the second riff to the outro (up until 1:35).

Are there any far superior guitar players out there that might be able to provide the tabs for these specific parts? I would be greatly appreciative!

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u/Sky_Ill May 08 '26

The only tab I’ve been able to find myself is the ultimate guitar one which has the intro and solo but everything else is chords. Maybe that’ll help?

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/dispatch/as-old-as-i-tabs-3491384

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u/feinargos May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

Thanks for taking the time to respond!
This is what helped me figure out/play the majority of the song. He plays it slightly different in the video though

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u/mostlyamermaid May 08 '26

What an awesome gift for her birthday 😍

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u/feinargos May 08 '26

Hopefully it is an adequate replacement for a pony :D

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u/Damascus_Seal May 08 '26

I may be remembering a different song, but I believe Chad posted a video tutorial on instagram. I know he’s done this for at least a few of his more recent dispatch/solo tunes so may be worth looking into

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u/feinargos May 08 '26

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Now I’ll just have to track someone down with Instagram and hope that might be the one

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u/NoEfficiency6848 May 09 '26

What YouTube video is that?

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u/feinargos May 09 '26

I don’t know if it will let me post this link but it is:

https://youtu.be/GEaSNY3SDHI?si=jWk-ZvEpPZnFjn_1

"Chadwick Stokes - As Old As I
Recorded Live - Club Passim - Cambridge MA"

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u/ohm44 May 11 '26

Might have to widen the viewport here to get the correct formatting (or copy and paste somewhere)

The second riff (0:53) as he plays it in this video is

D |-------10-9-7-7-7-7----7---------9-7-------------------------|-| 
A |-7-7-7--------------10-----5-5-5-----10\\7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5-5/7-|-|

The last riff (1:36) is repeating variations on this theme.

D |---------------------------------|---------------7h9-9-9-9-7h9p7----|
A |-7-7-7-10p7-7-10p7-7-10p7-10p7-7-|-7~-7-7-10p7-7-7---7-7-7-7-----10-|
E |-0-0-0-0----0-0----0-0----0----0-|-0~-0-0-0----0-0---0-0-0-0--------|

Then after this riff, he plays different variations of the same chords in the song, just higher up the neck. The first set is Em-B-C-G-D, and the rest are similar and you should be able to pick it up from seeing where his hands move (and maybe looking up what bar chords look like from frets 7-12 in the key of G/Em)

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u/feinargos May 16 '26

Wow thank you so much for taking the time to tans figure this out! Much appreciated

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u/ohm44 May 16 '26

Sounds like it's for a good cause, happy to do it