Good Riddance Time Of Your Life Chords (ver 3) by Green Day Comments @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com

+1 December 11 2001, 12:00 am by solitudereturns |

Very good tab, mate! Good work!

+1 December 27 2001, 12:00 am by blink_chick |

Good tab, but not very clear, what strings do you pluck? and isn't the 'g' funny like?
but still good

+3 March 18 2002, 12:00 am by i_g_ie |

alot of it is hard to understand but after a few minutes listenin to the actual song it sounds alright - good tab!

April 20 2002, 12:00 am by Wxdx0702 |

AT LAST!!!! SOMEONE WHO CAN PLAY THIS SONG!!!!!!

+1 June 7 2002, 12:00 am by Jaycee91687 |

the lyrics on the second verse should be tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial. get it right. j/k

November 12 2002, 12:00 am by strumit |

Other than the second verse good job if u want the real chords e-mail me @boxer872002@yahoo.com

+1 December 28 2002, 12:00 am by justs389 |

good job but how are we supposd to know the plucking (my version should be out soon with the chords and plucking! :)

June 19 2003, 12:00 am by big.al.brown |

this is the muts nuts. good tab. easy to play

+8 July 24 2003, 12:00 am by aperson2016 |

great tab.

anyone seen my tuner?

December 29 2005, 11:27 am by system_chick182 |

it dont soud like this song at first but if u get the hang of it it sound spot on :)!!!

March 6 2006, 10:30 am by ginger balls |

this is the best tab 2 play this song its the 1ive played all the time and it sounds reeett youth

+1 July 13 2006, 11:30 pm by Guitar_Chick99 |

great tab

July 30 2006, 05:27 pm by x-xemo-angelx-x |

what strings do you pluck, great tab btw

September 1 2006, 09:31 pm by kaiyamie |

nice tab! it rocks

-1 September 19 2006, 03:21 pm by busted_dude |

It's a good tab... the only problem is the chord is not D, it's Dsus4! I've seen BJ play Dsus4 on the video.

+2 September 27 2006, 06:32 pm by Phand21 |

That's definitely NOT a C. More like a C/G. (x32033) Everything else looks good.

September 27 2006, 06:38 pm by Phand21 |

Played correctly, the song is not played with chords. Hold a G chord, and play strings 6-3-2-3-4-3. Then hold a C/G and play 5-3-2-3-4-3. Then hold a D chord and play 4-3-2-3-4-3. That's it.

October 6 2006, 01:59 pm by phoenix risen |

First song I've learnt to pluck. Great tab. Sounds clear when I play it.

+1 November 12 2006, 05:30 pm by KingFender |

this was the best one by far, but its a Gadd9 and a Cadd9.
still a sweet tab

-5 November 15 2006, 12:41 am by madelino93 |

You've missed out and Em. It goes G Em C D. Other than that, good job!

November 16 2006, 02:30 am by madelino93 |

I mean in the verse not the intro.

+1 January 22 2007, 09:45 pm by PurelyCanadian |

Best chord version of this song you're going to find in my mind. I think this song sounds great all three ways, all plucked, all strummed, or a little of both. There is already a great picking tab for this song on here, and this is a great version of the chords. Great job.

The one thing I'll comment on though, but I agree with KingFender, it's Gadd9 and Cadd9. Also, Em7, in my opinion, sounds better than just an Em. It might not be right, but I just think it sounds nice - but I think in the actual song the tone is lower than Em7 so you're probably right.

-1 March 27 2007, 10:01 pm by Tan010 |

TATTOOS AND MEMORIES AND DEAD SKIN ON TRIAL!

June 21 2007, 12:15 pm by blindinglight |

I think its actually cadd9 not just c.
sorry

+1 June 27 2007, 11:53 am by ShaneOmac066 |

looks decent to me
if its not right then its really close
nice job

August 14 2007, 06:49 pm by Mariev |

Yeah, this one's good!

-1 August 21 2007, 07:34 am by sergerocks123 |

i thought good riddance was on interational superhits!!

-1 September 28 2007, 03:34 pm by Dudeman5000 |

I AGGREE WITH Wxdx0702 : | !!!

-1 October 5 2007, 12:40 pm by gavz_verdikt |

it shud be G9.. C9.. etc

-1 December 18 2007, 04:54 pm by minidoresy |

its not c u use

January 2 2008, 10:35 am by maoam0208 |

hey... first: really great tab! love it
but i've got a question though... its a silly one, i know but i have to
ask...
i dont quite understand what the numbers behind the chord names mean (e.g. in the solo or the interlude -> G-4,
C-4 and so on)
can somebody pls help me???

-1 January 4 2008, 06:27 pm by OrangeLoco |

wats the strumming pattern

February 22 2008, 08:58 pm by nrlsky |

I like this tab because it has the chords above the words and accurately. I already know what chords to play and what string to pick; all I need is when to do it, and this tab delivers! A+

March 27 2008, 10:48 pm by Hobbzy |

there is good video on youtube that shows the strumming pattern.... check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugS4brug3Fg

+2 April 14 2008, 12:15 pm by CasanovaBass |

Lyrics correction:

Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth etc.

Just a minor thing there. Great tab, cheers

April 26 2008, 01:28 am by SonOfNorth |

Great tab! Sounds really nice!

May 21 2008, 12:25 pm by Secret7 |

Very good tab :D superb *****

June 1 2008, 02:41 pm by GuitarSk8er804 |

SAAAAWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET

June 18 2008, 07:53 am by Kydos |

When i'm strumming i tend to only hit the bottom 3 strings on the first 2 and the top 3 on the next strums it sounds better i think

June 21 2008, 10:14 am by arobilla |

two viable strumming patterns i believe
down down, up down up
or down down up, up down
I prefer the second one personally

Excellent tab, tho i do believe it is a C9 but great regardless

June 28 2008, 02:43 pm by gpt |

dude its G5 , Cadd9

August 3 2008, 08:34 pm by billy_talent101 |

nice tab dude all the chords are all rite but the g gpt is rite it is a g5 not sure about cadd9 watever that is g5 sounds better

-1 August 5 2008, 04:28 pm by billy_talent101 |

strum patterns down,up,down up,down.up

October 9 2008, 03:24 am by franky munez |

lol epople are soo funny about strumming patterns they seem so important when u first start playing but within liek a couple months ull be able to alpply a strumming pattern to a song that doesnt even have guitars just use ur inuition. but for those who want to know it sounds nice if u do what a couple people said and hit top few strings for the first stroke then play it out on the bottom doesnt matter tho.

October 9 2008, 03:29 am by franky munez |

btw agree with the whole c9 g9 stuff d is technicaly the only chord thats right lol

November 3 2008, 03:12 pm by dj.vice |

good tab, seems to be in order...
this song lives on and on.

OTW: how the heck should know which strings to pluck?

+2 November 24 2008, 08:35 am by monkeycasino |

if you change the chords to completely different ones it doesn't sound like the song at all. how bizarre.. . . i also changed the lyrics and it sounded different too - otherwise very good tab!

December 11 2008, 02:33 am by jadynjack |

it should be C7 not C and Emsus4

December 20 2008, 11:52 pm by boy652 |

ooo nice tab :D i get the stumming part but can sum1 help me on the G-8 C-4 D-4 parts with that i didnt really get it =/

+1 January 1 2009, 12:43 pm by dj.vice |

tatoo the memories and dead skin on trial, otw - awesome

February 26 2009, 01:24 pm by xrachelyolandex |

intro; pick g 6th string then 4th 3rd 4th. then pick g 6th 4th 3rd 2nd 3rd 4th 3rd twice. then once pick C 5th 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 3rd 2nd, then D 4th 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 3rd 2nd.
looks hard but very easy

-2 February 27 2009, 10:55 am by pooflinger069 |

dude with the tuner problem...tune by ear :P....bad ass tab I knew I had it right

March 2 2009, 08:09 pm by slivor23 |

wtf is the picking patters?

March 21 2009, 02:26 pm by Wondewall7 |

A strumming pattern to this song is now posted in my blog in my profile so check it out

June 13 2009, 02:08 am by razza guitar |

nice

June 26 2009, 08:48 pm by Krazey Kat |

cool

June 29 2009, 01:43 pm by military7 |

ya its perfect but there is no C in that song at all, i sound like an ******* but im just making a small correction. okay so on the g chord your first and second finger are on the 5th and 6th string. you move them down one string so your first finger will be on 4th string second fret and your second finger will be on the 5th string third fret. wow this is a long comment.

July 7 2009, 10:26 pm by rikro |

This is a repost that Hobbyz posted above. Check it out, it will show you all the right chords and strumming pattern.
there is good video on youtube that shows the strumming pattern.... check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugS4brug3Fg

August 5 2009, 10:26 am by jprocker |

No C but just put a cadd9 where the C is

December 30 2009, 03:53 pm by Gaffamau |

Almost, just change all the C's yo cadd9 ;) don't get you can't hear there is something wrong ...

+1 February 17 2010, 05:53 pm by x-kaycee |

Clearly judging by what everyone else says it's a Cadd9 instead of a C. I usually strum the whole thing, it's easier & still sounds pretty close to right. But I'm pretty new to guitar =)

Oh and if anyone wants a video tutorial, yourguitarsage on youtube has one.

May 27 2010, 06:18 pm by musicgeek4 |

***** BIG TIME. IT'S PERFECT IF U ASK ME!

+1 September 19 2010, 06:54 am by Didii |

Why is everyone asking how to pluck?? This is a chord tab and it means you get chords...
If you want to know how to pluck just search for a normal tab, though it isn't hard to find out.
And as others say: C has to be Cadd9 (x32033)

Still great tab ;)

November 21 2010, 03:15 pm by delaney<3music |

great tab! thank you but i just wanted to let people know that i use Gadd9, Cadd9, em7, and dsus4. it sounds better to me. but thank you for such an awesome, easy to play tab. (:

-2 November 23 2010, 09:05 am by Ruzaldeen |

its a C9 dude x32033....
and a G9 320033

December 21 2010, 07:18 am by viper-2 |

For anyone who wants to know...The lyrics in the second verse are wrong. It is "Dead skin on trial" not "this test." Also, There is a "So" before "...take the photographs." This matters to me because I sing too.

+2 January 6 2011, 10:17 am by Sharigon300 |

Everything sounds right, but just a minor adhustment. It's supposed to be Cadd9 rather than the C major chord. But other than that it was a good tab.

+1 January 6 2011, 10:21 am by Sharigon300 |

And it actully is a regular G major chord. I don't know why people confuse the two so much. There are many ways to play the same chord. For instance G major 320003 or G 320033

January 11 2011, 07:42 am by rockonav4 |

GREAT JOB!!!

July 7 2011, 03:16 pm by Jack Frusciante |

Em-4 D-4 C-4 G-4
Em-4 D-4 C-4 C-4

should be

Em-4 D-4 C-4 G-4
Em-4 D-4 C-4 G-4

right???

September 16 2011, 01:11 am by mirth_20 |

Nice tab man i hope i can give ya a lil help and clarity fellas the song has four beats. 1,2 an 3,4 an. If ya'll r not sure what i mean by that. Its strummed d,d,u,d,d,u. The c you have in your verse should be a C9. the intro is same as the verses two measures of G, then one of C9 and D. Repeat. the chorus is Em,D,C,G do that twice then Em,G,Em,G,Em,D back to G and thats all there is to it. I hope thats clears up some stuff for ya guys o the intro picken is G chord pick the E, G,D twice the switch to C9 pick the A,G,D once switch to D chord and pick D,B,G. And repeat. If im wrong please let me know. Because i been messen it up. Great tab though man 5 star all the way!

September 16 2011, 03:37 am by mirth_20 |

Holy crap sorry for the novel ya'll just tryen to help out hope i did!

January 27 2012, 10:26 pm by Loulou800 |

GREAT! :) Love it!
Haven't played this song since I started out guitar... wow, that was a looong time ago.

+1 February 21 2012, 11:37 am by Kevinminney |

its a CAdd9 not C!

March 18 2012, 07:05 am by Izaak247 |

Such a moving song to play love it!

April 21 2012, 01:38 am by haydeN64 |

this doesn't sound right to me, for example, starting on the '2' of the e string, the very first note of the song. shouldn't that be a 3?

April 21 2012, 01:46 am by haydeN64 |

can someone tab this in..not chords? ****ing chords.

April 26 2012, 02:03 pm by PirateGirl94 |

Chords are brilliant! Thanks! :D Green Day rocks!!!!

May 14 2012, 09:32 am by SwagChick3n |

OK tab. During the "plucked" sections the bass notes of the chords should be plucked, then the rest of the chord strummed.

June 6 2012, 12:43 pm by mrnike992 |

Hey geniuses... it's Cadd9 not C

March 4 2013, 01:55 am by NimrodOnHoliday |

There's a line (of lyrics) that's wrong and I had to point it out.

Instead of
"Tattoos the memories and this test go on trial"
It should be
"Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial."

Besides that, it's a great tab :)

March 13 2013, 07:06 pm by Tannerthejay |

How does the actual plucking go? I can get the strumming, but I still don't understand the plucking section

March 18 2013, 04:04 am by hay-jay98 |

Hey, great configuration! Chords are practically perfect, but what exactly to you pluck, and transition to strum? I'd really like to know! Thankyou :)

March 29 2013, 12:29 pm by sammi&music |

what do u mean by 4 or 8 like the amount of times we play it ?

March 29 2013, 12:33 pm by sammi&music |

this helped i was sure what he meant by '4' and '8' thanks :)

April 3 2013, 03:15 pm by lucien1 |

It is 10 strums on g, 5 on c and 5 on d but still good.

April 3 2013, 03:17 pm by lucien1 |

The numbers are telling you how many times to strum the chords.

April 4 2013, 12:53 pm by ash.jarvis.5 |

correction
g-g5:

----3----
----0----
----0----
----0----
----3----
----3----
c-c5:

----0----
----3----
----0----
----0----
----3----
----3----
d-dsus2:

----0----
----0----
----0----
----2----
----3----
----0----

April 4 2013, 12:55 pm by ash.jarvis.5 |

only in the first two lines of verse and interlude also last chord of chourus

April 4 2013, 12:56 pm by ash.jarvis.5 |

the strumming pattern is d-d-u-u-d-u twice for the first chord of the line in the verse and interlude once for every other chord in all of song

+1 April 7 2013, 11:37 am by Godofthesea |

for every C chord after a G chord it sounds better with a Cadd9 which is just a G with ur first two fingers moved back a string, also hold down the third fret on the B string (2nd from the bottom) as well....the C after the E minor is best as a normal C chord tho

April 18 2013, 05:00 pm by joey.dalesio |

Awesome! This is so useful! Such a fun song to play.

April 18 2013, 05:10 pm by joey.dalesio |

Yeah, I use cadd9 as well, I think it sounds way better. Learned this song when I first started playing guitar; thanks to Next Level Guitar.

Picking I use is in this song is first plucking the root note followed by G, High E, G, and B strings.

This songs awesome.

April 19 2013, 10:11 am by Godofthesea |

so did I! first song i learned how to play...well after yankee doodle :P But that is the strumming i do to, i wouldnt be able to explain cuz i just kinda DO it, but best explaniation ive seen :)

May 12 2013, 06:23 pm by zachdoering |

In verse two Line 3 it goes
"Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial"

May 15 2013, 04:48 pm by Awesomechipmunk |

320033 is not a G9 it's just a regular Gmajor traid with the notes G B D. G9 would have an extra A note and would look like 320203. The C9 (actually called a Cadd9) is right though I think.

May 15 2013, 04:54 pm by Awesomechipmunk |

How is a x32033 a C/G which is a C chord with a G bass note which would look like this:332010. a x32033 is a Cadd9

May 15 2013, 04:55 pm by Awesomechipmunk |

Know the feeling.

May 16 2013, 07:32 pm by GreendayMCR182 |

The The chords is not a C but A Cadd9

May 20 2013, 09:44 am by shay99 |

those tabs aren't really good..