Guitar Cover – Billie Jean

Here are the guitar tabs and sheet music for a guitar cover I did of Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean (A Section only). The whole thing was recorded on an iPhone 4s — guitar into a Line 6 Sonic Port, through Mobile POD and Altispace convolution reverb, straight into iOS GarageBand. Not bad for a phone from 2012.

I played it on my Avian Hawk Custom using the neck humbucker. The tab below covers the A Section. Note: the original Vine only looped the first two bars — Vine is long gone now, but the tab is all here.

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Billie Jean Guitar TAB

Line 6 Mobile POD Settings

Compared to the factory preset (Line 6 Clean), I turned off the bright switch, turned up the mid and bass, and switched the cabinet to  2×12 Modern Class A Cabinet.

Line 6 Jazz Tone Settings

Altispace Convolution Reverb Settings

I used the Guitar Spring 4 SPRING preset and made slight changes to Reverb, Length, and Stereo.

Altiverb Settings in iOS