. - palm mute / - slide up to
\ - slide down to ~ - vibrato
h - hammer on b - bend
p - pull off Suffixes for bend
t - tap with finger f - full bend h - half bend
* - see comment r - release t - tap bend
X - percussion mute ~ - vibrato bend
" - tremelo note () - ghost note, sustained note
| - measure marker
Tuning: D (All strings down a whole step.)
Intro:
Riff 1
|----------------------|-------------------|
|----------------------|-------------------|
|----------------------|-------------------|
|----------------------|-------------------|
|------ 10---------7---|------ 10--7---5/7-|
|-0-0-0-8----0-0-0-5---|-0-0-0-8-0-5-0-3/5-|
. . . . . . . . . . .
- Play Riff 1 twice.
Verse 1:
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-0-0-7-0-0-5-0-0-|-3-0-0-5-0-0-8-8-8-8-|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Trogdor was a man - I mean"
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|-==----------7-7-7---|
|-0-0-7-0-0-5-0-0-|-3-0-0-5-0-0---------|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"He was a dragon-man"
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-0-0-7-0-0-5-0-0-|-3-0-0-5-0-0-8-8-8---|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"I mean he was just a dragon"
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|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|-------------777-7---|
|-0-0-7-0-0-5-0-0-|-3-0-0-5-0-0---------|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
"Um...but he was still..."
Chorus:
- Play Riff 1 twice
Verse 2:
Riff 2
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
|---5/7---5/7---5/7-7-7--|
|-0-3/5-0-3/5-0-3/5-5-5--|
. . .
Riff 2A
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|---5/7---5/7---5/7---5/7-7--|
|-0-3/5-0-3/5-0-3/5-0-3/5-5--|
. . . .
- Play Riff 2 once ("Burninating the countryside"), then Riff 2A three times
Final Chorus:
Riff 1A
|----------------------|---------------------|
|----------------------|---------------------|
|----------------------|---------------------|
|----------------------|---------------------|
|------ 10---------7---|------ 10--7---5/7-7-|
|-0-0-0-8----0-0-0-5---|-0-0-0-8-0-5-0-3/5-5-|
. . . . . . . . . . .
- Play Riff 1A twice.
- Guitar is tacit during "And the Trogdor comes in the niiiiiiiight!"
Verse accompaniment:
During the verse, there's a higher part that goes over the main rhythm riff.
(Maybe Strong Bad overdubbing some "hott lixx" with his guitar or possibly
the Cheat on keyboard.) Here it is transcribed for guitar.
Riff 4:
|-7---5---3---5---3-0-|-7---5---7---5---12-12-|
|---------------------|-----------------------|
|---------------------|-----------------------|
|---------------------|-----------------------|
|---------------------|-----------------------|
|---------------------|-----------------------|
- Play Riff 4 twice (all legato) over Verse 1.
Performance notes:
- Strong Bad uses a very low gain tone on his guitar here, but it sounds
pretty good with a lot of distortion as well.
- It looks like they're playing in shifting odd time signatures (look at Riff
2 and 2A) all over, but really they're just winging it. It's actually not
hard to follow if you just play along with the song, in case I gave you that
impression. It's just one of those "looks worse on paper" kind of things.
PLAY TOO ..