Green Day - Basket Case from the Album Dookie 1994
Right, so I'm not boasting but I have looked plenty of places for the correct way
to play this song an' so far I haven't found single accurate tab.
So I'm give you the correct way... Part from the outro I'm not 100% sure about
that but erm it sounds good enough to me :) So this tab is pretty much 99% right.
There are always two places that you can play power chords on the neck and its
proven in this song but this is the exact way Billie Joe plays it :) TUNING HALF-STEP DOWN
Chords used [In Order of "appearance"]:
E (2 fr.) B5(2) C#5 Ab5 A5(2)
|G:-9| |D:-9| |G:-6| |D:-6| |D:-7|
|D:-9| |A:-9| |D:-6| |A:-6| |A:-7|
|A:-7| |E:-7| |A:-4| |E:-4| |E:-5|
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A B5 E(3) Eb5 E
|B:-2| |G:-4| |B:-4| |G:-8| |e:-0|
|G:-2| |D:-4| |G:-4| |D:-8| |B:-0|
|D:-2| |A:-2| |A:-2| |A:-6| |G:-1|
|A:-0| |D:-2|
|A:-2|
|E:-0|
E(4)[An open E chord but on 7th fret]
|e:-0| That's all the chords :)
|B:-0|
|G:-6|
|D:-7|
|A:-7|
|E:-0|
THERE IS ALSO ONE OCTAVE IN THE BRIDGE TIS THIS: |G:-6|
|D:-4|X
|A:-4|
INTRO: (Palm mute)
E (2 fr.) B5(2)
Do you have the time
C#5 Ab5
To listen to me whine
A5(2) E (2 fr.) B5(2)
About nothing and everything all at once
E (2 fr.) B5 (2)
I am one of those
C#5 Ab5
melodramatic fools
A5(2) E (2 fr.) B5(2)
Neurotic to the bone no doubt about it...
[PRE-CHORUS PM TO "I THINK I'M CRACKING UP"]
A B5 E(3)
Sometimes I give myself the creeps....
A B5 E(3)
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me....
A B5
It all keeps adding up....
E (2 fr.) Eb5 C#5
I THINK I'M CRACKING UP!
A5(2) B5(2)
Am I just paranoid
B5(2) E (2 fr.) B5 C#5 B5 x2
Or am I just stoned?
Verse:
E B5
I went to a shrink
C#5 Ab5
To analyse my dreams
A E(3) B5
She says its lack of sex that's bringing me down
E B5
I went to whore
C#5 Ab5
He said my life's a bore
A E(3) B5
So quit my whining cos its bringing her down
A5 B5(2) E (2 fr.)
Sometimes I give myself the creeps....
A5 B5(2) E (2 fr.)
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me....
A5 B5(2)
It all keeps adding up....
E (2 fr.) Eb5 C#5
I THINK I'M CRACKING UP!
A5(2) B5(2)
Am I just paranoid
B5(2) E (2 fr.) B5 C#5 B5 x4
A YEAH HUH HUH Go Go!
pm.........
A B5
Grasping to control
[BRIDGE] (HIT THE CHORDS QUITE HARD)
E B5 C#5 Ab5 A E(3) B5
So I better hold ooooon
E B5 octave Ab5 A E(3) B5...........
|G:-6|
|D:-4|X
|A:-4|
PRE-CHORUS PM TO "I THINK I'M CRACKING UP"]
A B5 E(3)
Sometimes I give myself the creeps....
A B5 E(3)
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me....
A B5
It all keeps adding up....
E (2 fr.) Eb5 C#5
I THINK I'M CRACKING UP!
A5(2) B5(2)
Am I just paranoid
[OUTRO]
B5(2) E(4) Ab5 E(4) A5(2) E(2) B5(2) x3
Or am I just stooooooooooooooooned
(Then finish on) /slide finger down E6th string then A E(3)B5
