Rooftops

Author/Artist: Alkaline Trio Title: Rooftops Album: Alkaline Trio/Hot Water Music Split Transcribed by: Jim Taone Email: j_bro124@hotmail.com Oddly, even though it's a hwm cover, i think it's alk3's best song on the album it's fun as hell to play and dan and matt always sound great singing harmony parts... enough rambling, here's the song jim Intro: Guitar 1 -------------| -------------| -7--7--------| -7--7----7---| -5--6----7---| ---------5---| Guitar 2 -------------| -------------| -7--6--7/9---| -------------| -------------| -------------|

Verse: palm mute -------------------------------------| -------------------------------------| -------------------------7-7-7-7-7---| -7-7-7-7-7---4-4-4-4-4---7-7-7-7-7---| -7-7-7-7-7---4-4-4-4-4---5-5-5-5-5---| -5-5-5-5-5---2-2-2-2-2---------------| Chorus: Timing on this is not exact, so play along with the c.d. -----------------------------------------| -----------------------------------------| -----------------------------------7-7---| -7-7-7---7-7-7--9-9-9---4-4-4------7-7---| -7-7-7---7-7-7--9-9-9---4-4-4------5-5---| -5-5-5---5-5-5--7-7-7---2-2-2------------| Outro; Guitar 1 -------------------------------------| -------------------------------------| -------------------------7-7-7-7-7---| -7-7-7-7-7---4-4-4-4-4---7-7-7-7-7---|play 4x -7-7-7-7-7---4-4-4-4-4---5-5-5-5-5---| -5-5-5-5-5---2-2-2-2-2---------------| Guitar 2: ------------------| ------------------| -6h7--7/9--7--6---| ------------------| play approximately 10 times then go on to the below riff ------------------| ------------------| ---------------------------------------------| ---------------------------------------------| -6-6-6--7-7-7--6-6-6--5-5-5--6-6-6--4-4--2---| -x-x-x--x-x-x--x-x-x--x-x-x--x-x-x--x-x--x---| -4-4-4--5-5-5--4-4-4--7-7-7--4-4-4--2-2--0---| ---------------------------------------------| ---------------------------------------------| ---------------------------------------------| -6-6-6--7-7-7--9-9-9--7-7-7--6-6-6--4----6---| -x-x-x--x-x-x--x-x-x--x-x-x--x-x-x--x----x---| -4-4-4--5-5-5--7-7-7--5-5-5--4-4-4--2----4---| ---------------------------------------------| Songflow: Intro Verse (4x) Chorus (2x) Verse (4x) Chorus (4x) Outro Questions, comments, corrections... e-mail me at j_bro124@hotmail.com