American Idiot Tab

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			     AMERICAN IDIOT - Green Day
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Tabbed by: G@vie
Email: brainstew@for-president.com
This song is pretty easy.. I'm not sure if I tabbed it right.. but it sounds OK
to me :) The end of the first half of the solo is total crap.. but I think you
can figure that out for yourself :P

You have to listen to the song to find out the strumming, etc..

Tuning:

Intro (Low presence)

e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------555------3----------------------------------------------------------|
A|-555--333--33--1--5-------------------------------------------------------|
E|-333-------11-----3-------------------------------------------------------|

Interlude

e|--------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------------|
B|--------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------------|
G|------555------3----|------555------3-------|------555------3-------------|
D|-555--555--33--3--5-|-555--555--33--3--5--3-|-555--555--33--3--5----------|
A|-555--333--33--1--5-|-555--333--33--1--5--3-|-555--333--33--1--5----------|
E|-333-------11-----3-|-333-------11-----3--1-|-333-------11-----3----------|


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Don't wanna be an American idiot.  (Part 1 + 2)
Don't want a nation that under the new media. (Part 1)
And can you hear the sound of hysteria? (Part 1 + 2)
The subliminal mindfuck America. (Part 1)

        PART ONE                 PART TWO
e|-------------------------|--------------------|
B|-------------------------|--------------------|
G|------555------3---------|--------------------|
D|-555--555--33--3--5------|----(3)-------------|
A|-555--333--33--1--5------|----(3)-------------|
E|-333-------11-----3------|----(1)-------------|


Main riff:

e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---5----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---5--etc----------------------5------------------------------------------|
A|---3---------------------------5--etc-------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------3------------------------------------------|
Welcome to a new kind of tension, all across the idiot nation


e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---3-----------------------5----------------------------------------------|
A|---3--etc------------------5--etc-----------------------------------------|
E|---1-----------------------3----------------------------------------------|
Everything isn't ment to be okay


e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---5----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---5--etc-------------------5---------------------------------------------|
A|---3------------------------5--etc----------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------3---------------------------------------------|
Television dreams of tomorrow, We're not the ones who're meant to follow


e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-3------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-3-etc--------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-1------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Convincing them to walk you

-------Until the solo is the same idea---------

Solo:

e|------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------|---------88888-10-8-6--101010-121212-131313>15/--|
G|------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------666688643--|-------------------------------------------------|
A|---888888864------------|-------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------|-6668986-----------------------------------------|


e|------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------|---------88888-10-8-6—13let-ring-----------------|
G|------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------666688643--|-------------------------------------------------|
A|---888888864------------|-------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------|-6668986-----------------------------------------|

| /  slide up
| \  slide down
| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~  vibrato
| +  harmonic
| x  Mute note
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