• Song:

    Cowboy Dan

  • Artist:

    Modest Mouse

  • Album:

    2000-05-19: Bowery Ball...

Words and music by Isaac Brock/Modest Mouse
Standard Tuning (E, A, D, G, B, e)

Intro/Verses/Main Theme

During the Intro, this riff is accompaniedby harmonics, played at the 
seventh fret, and bent up and down with the whammy bar.

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----11-12----11-12------------------------------------------------------
--9-------12-------12-11------------------------------------------------
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2nd theme

  F#       C#                D  C# D C#  B
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------------------------------------------------------------------------
--11-11-11--------------------------------------------------------------
--x--x--x--11----11-11-11-11-12-11-12-11-9-9----------------------------
--9--9--9--x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x-x----------------------------
-----------9-----9--9--9--9--10-9--10-9--7-7----------------------------

3rd theme
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------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--11----11---11----11h12/14---------------------------------------------
-----12---12----12----------11----11----11----11h12/14------------------
-------------------------------12----12----12---------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--9----9----9----9h10/12---9--------------------------------------------
----10---10---10-------------10-9-10-7-9-10-12--------------------------

4th theme
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------------------------------------------------------------------------
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--11-12-14--14-12-11--9-11-12/14-14-12p11-7-----------------------------
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Chord Variation during outro

  F#                               C#

------------------------------------------------------------------------
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--11-11-xxxx-11-11-xxxx-11-11-xxxx--------------------------------------
--x--x--xxxx-x--x--xxxx-x--x--xxxx-1111-xxxx-11-11-xxxx-11-11-----------
--9--9--xxxx-9--9--xxxx-9--9--xxxx-x-x--xxxx-x--x--xxxx-x--x------------
--------------------------------xx-9-9--xxxx-9--9--xxxx-9--9------------

heres the order:

Main theme
2nd theme
Main theme
3rd theme
4th theme (solo?)
Main theme
2nd theme(Listen to song to know when to switch to the chord variation)
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