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Whatsername by Green Day
from the album American Idiot
tabbed by Amrish Kelkar

Intro :
[D|D|D|D|Bm|Bm|Bm|Bm] X 2

Verse :
[D|D|D|D|Bm|Bm|Bm|Bm] X 2
[G|G|D|D|F#|F#|Bm|A] X 3
 G|G|A|A

Riff 1 :
E|----------------------------------------------------------------|11
B|3------5h7---3---0---2---3----3------5h7---3---0---2---3------10|-
G|----------------------------------------------------------------|-
D|----------------------------------------------------------------|-
A|----------------------------------------------------------------|-
E|----------------------------------------------------------------|-
  D                Bm           D                Bm

Repeat Verse

Guitar piece :
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--2h3-3---2h3-3---2h3-------------------2h3-3---2h3-3---2h3-------|
G|-2-------2-------2---------------------2-------2-------2----------|
D|0-------0-------0-----9---------------0-------0-------0-----9-----|
A|----------------------9-------------------------------------9-----|
E|----------------------7-------------------------------------7-----|
                        Bm                                    Bm

E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--7-6-6-7-7-7-7-7-7-6-6-7-6-----------6--------------6-4-6-7------|
D|---------------------------7-8-8-8-8-8-8---9-9-9-9----------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
  G               D            F#            Bm        A 

E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--7-6-6-7-7-7-7-7-7-6-6-7-6-----------6--------------6-4-6-7------|
D|---------------------------7-8-8-8-8-8-8---9-9-9-9----------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
  G               D            F#            Bm        A

[G|G|D|D|A|A|D|D] x 2
[G|G|D|D|F#|F#|Bm|A] X 4
[G|G|A|ADDD] x 3
 G|G|A|A

D|D|D|D|Bm|Bm|Bm|Bm

E|--------------------------------|
B|3------5h7---3---0---2---3------|
G|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|
  D                Bm              D

That's it. All are power chords. One additional note is that the D
is played as 554xxx in certain places instead of 5577xx. Listen to
the song to figure out when the two position are used. Comments
yada yada at amrishkelkar at gmail dot com.

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Last Updated: January 7, 2026