I think I've got down all the chords to this Green Day song. Actually, I don't even know the name of the song, I've just heard it on the radio and on MTV and thought it was pretty cool. I'd appreciate it if someone who has the album could finish up the rest and fill in the lyrics!
: I think I've got down all the chords to this Green Day song. Actually, : I don't even know the name of the song, I've just heard it on the radio : and on MTV and thought it was pretty cool. I'd appreciate it if someone : who has the album could finish up the rest and fill in the lyrics!
NO!!! You have to tune a half step down to play it like this. The chords should all be a half step down from what is listed in the crd. The last line in the chorus is "I'm just stoned". However, I'm very unsure of what is posted for the "I think I'm cracking up" line. My band plays it like Eb F G :--- All Power chords I think I'm cracking up
however, I know this doesn't sound right. Anyone have any other suggestions? Here's the outro to Basketcase: Eb Ab Eb C Ab C Ab Eb Bb :---- All power chords You can also play it like this if the above is too fast for you:
Tom
-Someone posted this song before I could, but there seems to be some contreversy about it. I hope this settles it!
This is from Green Day's album DOOKIE BASKET_CASE
VERSE:
Do you have the time, to listen to me whine
About nothing and everything all at once
I am one of those, mellodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone no doubt about it.
CHORUS:
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up, I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid? I'm just stoned.
Bridge?:
Verse:
I went to a shrink to analyze my dreams She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down I went to a whore, she said my life's a bore And quit my whining cause it's bringing her down.
_____________________________________________________________________________ I think the chorus is screwed up, but you'll have to forgive me, it's from memory..
do you have the time
to listen to me whine
about ?everything¬hing?
all at once
i am one of those
melodramatic fools
neurotic to the core
no doubt about it
sometimes i give myself the creeps
sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
it all keeps adding up
i think i'm cracking up A B E B C#min B x4(?) am i just paranoid, or am i (?)
i went to a whore etc.....
etc.......................
E B C#min B x4
you ask me to control (nada) so you better hold? E B C#min G# A E-lo E-HI bar B x2? on?
sometimes i give myself the creeps (etc...)
outro
Esus4 Esus4/C# A E B x4
the guitar player pedals on a E to Esus4 figure while the bass player goes thru the E-C#-A-E-B changes. for a satisfying armchair axe-warrior experience you might try... x7999x E x79910x Esus4 9x999x E/C# 9x9910x Esus4/C#
the band either tunes down to Eb or tunes to D and then speeds up the tape to make it more awesome. Dookie seems to be somewhere around Eb when you play it. so while you can't play along with the record with this fingering, this is probably the way they finger it.
the finale is... A E B
Song:Basket Case Band:Green Day
This song is very simple. It goes like:
Verse: Riff 1: E-B-C#m-G#m-A-E-B Play that a few times
Chorus: Riff 2: A-B-E Play that 3 or 4 times and on the last time play this:
Riff3:E~ D~ C#m~ A-B Play that once and then play:
Riff4:E-B-C#m Play that twice and then play Riff1 Again and then Riff2,Riff3,Riff4 four times,and then play this:
Riff5:A-B Play that at the "Grasping to control...so I better hold on" part,then play
Riff6:E-C#m-A-B-E Repeat that and then play this at the end:
Riff7:A-E-B~A-E-B~~
So the whole song goes:
Riff1 x2
Riff2 x3 or 4
Riff3 x1
Riff4 x2
Riff1 x2
Riff2 x3 or 4
Riff3 x1
Riff4 x4
Riff5 x1
Riff6 x2
Riff7 x2
P.S. (I KNOW THIS TAB IS RIGHT CAUSE MY GUITAR TEACHER TAUGHT ME HOW TO PLAY IT AND HE IS BETTER THAN JIMI HENDRIX!)
