Truckers Atlas Chords & Tabs
Truckers Atlas – by Modest Mouse
Album: Lonesome Crowded West
Sounds just like Brock on the neck single coil of my Epiphone S-600 (strat copy) on a fender clean amp. Standard tuning.
Verse
e---------[----------------------------------------------------
B---------[------------------------------------4---------------
G---------[-----------4-----------------------------------------
D---------[------------------------------------------------------
A---------[--------------------------4--4-----------4/7--------
E----12\0—[---4--4------4-0-0-0--------------------------------
(1st time only)
Pre-Chorus (“This truckers atlas roads the ways…”)
Strum patterns are obvious (listen to the song), here are the 3 chords (they’re just octaves). You can add a fuller sound by leaving the low E open and letting it ring.
e----------------
B---------------
G--9----6----4
D--x----x----x
A--7----4----2
E---------------
Chorus (“I don’t feel and I feel great…”)
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/modest_mouse/truckers_atlas_tab.html ]
e----2-------------2---------------0-----0-------0--------0-----
B------4------4------4------4--------4------4-------x---------4
G---------4--------------4---------------------------------------
D-----------------------------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------------
E------------------------------------------------------------------
Chorus 2 (“Going up going over to Montana…”)
e--2p0----2p0-----2p0------2p0-------2p0---------------------------
B-------4-----------------4-----------------------4-------2---4--2-----
G----------------4------------------4------------------4-------------4---
D--------------------------------------------------------------------------
A--------------------------------------------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Post-Chorus (“Do you speak the lingo?”)
This is the easiest part of the song. Just improvise w/ hammering on and bending the 2nd frets on the low E and A strings until it sounds right… something like this
A-----------------------0p2^2^--------------------
E--0-0-0h2p0h2p0-------------------------------
Outro
Just improvise on the theme, that’s all the band does.
-c.
