American Dream Chords & 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 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|--------------------|
B|-------2-------2-------2-4-2-----| B|-------2-------2----|
G|---------------------------------| x3 G|-----------------6~-|
D|-4-3-4---4-3-4---4-3-4-------4-3-| D|-4-3-4---4-3-4---4~-|
A|---------------------------------| A|--------------------|
D|---------------------------------| D|--------------------|
Verse Riff 1:
e|-----------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------|
G|-6~----------4~-6~-----4~-6~--4-strum-a--|
D|-6~-4-3-4-1~-4~-6~--1~-4~-6~--4-bunch-of-|
A|-4~-4-3-4-1~-2~-4~--1~-2~-4~--2--times---|
D|----4-3-4-1~--------1~-------------------|
Pm . . .
Verse Riff 2:
e|-------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------|
D|-----3---3h4-----3---3h4-----3---3h4-6-4-3-4-3---|\
A|-------------2-2---2-----4-4---4---------------4-| \
D|-1-1---1-----------------------------------------| \
Pm . . . . . . . . . \ x2
/
e|--------------------------------------| /
B|--------------------------------------| /
G|--------------------------------------|___________/
D|-----3---3h4-----3---3h4--3/4-4/6-6/8-|
A|-------------2-2---2------------------|
D|-1-1---1------------------------------|
Pm . . . . . .
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/silverstein/american_dream_tab_ver_3.html ]
e|-9-9-9-9-9-9-|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-------------|
A|-------------|
D|-------------|
Chorus:
e|-------------------------| Tabbing out the higher part by ear is a
B|-------------------------| mission for me, so just use ver 2 by
G|-------------------------| x2 shinsen88 and move everything down a
D|-4~-1~-4~-6~-4~-4~-4~-6~-| semi-tone, or half-step, whatever
A|-4~-1~-4~-6~-4~-4~-4~-6~-| terminology your used to, I think that
D|-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-|
B|-------------| B|-------------|
G|-------------| x3 G|-------------|
D|-4-4-6-6-8-8-| D|-------------|
A|-------------| A|-------------|
D|-------------| D|-------------|
REPEAT CHORUS
REPEAT VERSE RIFF 1
Bridge:
e|---------------|
B|------7-9-7----| One guitar plays this a bunch of times
G|-8-10-------10-| continuously throughout the bridge
D|---------------|
A|---------------|
D|---------------|
e|--------------| e|---|
B|--------------| B|---|
G|-4~-----6~-4~-| x2 G|-4-| Palm mute
D|-4~--4~-6~-4~-| D|-4-| until chorus
A|-2~--4~-4~-2~-| A|-2-|
D|-----4~-------| D|---|
Pm .
REPEAT CHORUS
But instead of playing it
twice, play it four times
Outro:
e|-------| e|------------| e|-------| e|------------|
B|-------| B|------------| B|-------| B|------------| Repeat all
G|-----6-| x4 G|-----6666-8-| G|-----6-| x4 G|-----8888-6-| of this
D|-1-1-6-| D|-1-1-6666-8-| D|-1-1-6-| D|-1-1-6666-6-|
A|-1-1-4-| A|-1-1-4444-6-| A|-1-1-4-| A|-1-1-6666-4-|
D|-1-1---| D|-1-1--------| D|-1-1---| D|-1-1--------|
Pm . . . Pm . . Pm . . . Pm . .
e|-------------------| Note: instead of playing the power chord on the
B|-------------------| 1st fret you can play a power chord on the 6th
G|-8888-6--8888-6--8-| fret on the A string: G|-8-|
D|-8888-6--8888-6--8-| D|-8-| If you find this
A|-6666-4--6666-4--6-| A|-6-| is easier
D|-------------------|
Well thats it :)
