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  Green Day â€" American Idiot
  By Shaun Lingham
  Date: Tuesday 3rd august 2004
  Very first guitar tab of this song!!!
  Maybe not 100% correct...but I tabbed it by ear
  Tuning: Standard E A D G B E
  
  Intro/Verses
  I play mostly downstrokes but throw in a couple upstrokes as well
  |-----------------------------------------------------|
  |-----------------------------------------------------|
  |--------6666------6----------------------------------|
  |---666--6666--44--6--6--4----------------------------|
  |---666--4444--44--4--6--4----------------------------|
  |---444--------22-----4--2----------------------------|
  
  Chorus
  |-----------------------------------------------|
  |-----------------------------------------------|
  |-----66666666------------88888888--------------|
  |-----66666666--66666666--88888888--66666666----|
  |-----44444444--66666666--66666666--66666666----|
  |---------------44444444------------44444444----|
  
  |-----------------------------------------------|
  |-----------------------------------------------|
  |-----66666666------------88888888--------------|
  |-----66666666--66666666--88888888--------------|
  |-----44444444--66666666--66666666--------------|
  |---------------44444444------------------------|
  
  Solo
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------
  |--------------------------------------------888-101010-121212-13/15/13
  |---------------------------888-10-11-10-8-6---------------------------
  |-888888-6-4--6666--8-6-4-3--------------------------------------------
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------
  |--------------------------------------------8/13~~~~------------------
  |---------------------------888-10-11-10-8-6---------------------------
  |-888888-6-4--6666--8-6-4-3--------------------------------------------
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  The verse riff is played clean after the solo, then the chorus
  comes in and then the play the Ending.
  
  Ending
  Same as the Intro/Verse but the very final time he plays the riff he
  misses of the last chord(F#) hence finish on the G#.
  |-----------------------------------------------------|
  |-----------------------------------------------------|
  |--------6666------6----------------------------------|
  |---666--6666--44--6--6--4----------------------------|
  |---666--4444--44--4--6--4----------------------------|
  |---444--------22-----4--2----------------------------|
  (c) Shaun Lingham 2004.

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