American Dream tab by Silverstein

Tabs

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           American Dream - Silverstein
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Tabbed by: Tylernol

Tuning: DADGBe

I think the other tabs of this are right, but this is for the people like
me who dont wanna tune every string down to make there guitar drop D MajorD flat,
so here’s an alternative way to play it in just drop D. Plus I changed very
slight things that I thought may have been a little off. Most of this i did
by ear, but i wanna give some credit to the other tabs, there was a couple
times i looked at theirs to see if i was getting something similar

Intro:
e|---------------------------------|  e|--------------------|
BB|-------2-------2-------2-4-2-----|  BB|-------2-------2----|
G+G|---------------------------------| x3 G+G|-----------------6~-|
D MajorD|-4-3-4---4-3-4---4-3-4-------4-3-|  D MajorD|-4-3-4---4-3-4---4~-|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------|  A augmentedA|--------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------|  D MajorD|--------------------|

Verse Riff 1:
e|-----------------------------------------|
BB|-----------------------------------------|
G+G|-6~----------4~-6~-----4~-6~--4-strum-a--|
D MajorD|-6~-4-3-4-1~-4~-6~--1~-4~-6~--4-bunch-of-|
A augmentedA|-4~-4-3-4-1~-2~-4~--1~-2~-4~--2--times---|
D MajorD|----4-3-4-1~--------1~-------------------|
Pm  . . .

Verse Riff 2:
e|-------------------------------------------------|
BB|-------------------------------------------------|
G+G|-------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-----3---3h4-----3---3h4-----3---3h4-6-4-3-4-3---|\
A augmentedA|-------------2-2---2-----4-4---4---------------4-| \
D MajorD|-1-1---1-----------------------------------------| \
Pm . .  .   . .  .   . .  .           \ x2
                            /
e|--------------------------------------|       /
BB|--------------------------------------|      /
G+G|--------------------------------------|___________/
D MajorD|-----3---3h4-----3---3h4--3/4-4/6-6/8-|
A augmentedA|-------------2-2---2------------------|
D MajorD|-1-1---1------------------------------|
Pm . .  .   . .  .

e|-9-9-9-9-9-9-|
BB|-------------|
G+G|-------------|
D MajorD|-------------|
A augmentedA|-------------|
D MajorD|-------------|

Chorus:
e|-------------------------|  Tabbing out the higher part by ear is a
BB|-------------------------|  mission for me, so just use ver 2 by
G+G|-------------------------| x2 shinsen88 and move everything down a
D MajorD|-4~-1~-4~-6~-4~-4~-4~-6~-|  semi-tone, or half-step, whatever
A augmentedA|-4~-1~-4~-6~-4~-4~-4~-6~-|  terminology your used to, I think that
D MajorD|-4~-1~-4~-4~-2~-4~-2~-4~-|  tab has it right

REPEAT VERSE RIFF 2
but this time end with:
e|-------------|   e|-9-9-9-9-9-9-|
BB|-------------|   BB|-------------|
G+G|-------------| x3 G+G|-------------|
D MajorD|-4-4-6-6-8-8-|   D MajorD|-------------|
A augmentedA|-------------|   A augmentedA|-------------|
D MajorD|-------------|   D MajorD|-------------|

REPEAT CHORUS

REPEAT VERSE RIFF 1

Bridge:
e|---------------|
BB|------7-9-7----| One guitar plays this a bunch of times
G+G|-8-10-------10-| continuously throughout the bridge
D MajorD|---------------|
A augmentedA|---------------|
D MajorD|---------------|

e|--------------|  e|---|
BB|--------------|  BB|---|
G+G|-4~-----6~-4~-| x2 G+G|-4-| Palm mute
D MajorD|-4~--4~-6~-4~-|  D MajorD|-4-| until chorus
A augmentedA|-2~--4~-4~-2~-|  A augmentedA|-2-|
D MajorD|-----4~-------|  D MajorD|---|
           Pm .

REPEAT CHORUS
But instead of playing it
twice, play it four times

Outro:
e|-------|  e|------------| e|-------|  e|------------|
BB|-------|  BB|------------| BB|-------|  BB|------------| Repeat all
G+G|-----6-| x4 G+G|-----6666-8-| G+G|-----6-| x4 G+G|-----8888-6-| of this
D MajorD|-1-1-6-|  D MajorD|-1-1-6666-8-| D MajorD|-1-1-6-|  D MajorD|-1-1-6666-6-|
A augmentedA|-1-1-4-|  A augmentedA|-1-1-4444-6-| A augmentedA|-1-1-4-|  A augmentedA|-1-1-6666-4-|
D MajorD|-1-1---|  D MajorD|-1-1--------| D MajorD|-1-1---|  D MajorD|-1-1--------|
Pm . . .   Pm . .     Pm . . .   Pm . .

e|-------------------| Note: instead of playing the power chord on the
BB|-------------------| 1st fret you can play a power chord on the 6th
G+G|-8888-6--8888-6--8-| fret on the A augmentedA string: G+G|-8-|
D MajorD|-8888-6--8888-6--8-|            D MajorD|-8-| If you find this
A augmentedA|-6666-4--6666-4--6-|            A augmentedA|-6-| is easier
D MajorD|-------------------|