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Cowboy Dan Tab by Modest Mouse

Cowboy Dan tab by Modest Mouse

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Author/Artist: Modest Mouse
Title: Cowboy Dan
Album: Lonesome Crowded West

Standard Tuning

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---------------------------

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

4th theme (solo?)
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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------------


This can get a bit complicated, so here's a basic frame of the song.
Listen to the album to get the rhythm and number of repititions, and
to see if I forgot to include something here.

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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