Song:Basket Case
Artist: Green Day
Album: Dookie

Tuning: Standard

tabbed by: Jamie D.


chords used:

  A5   B5   C#5   D5   E5   E5ii   G#5
e-----------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------
G------------6-----7---------9------------------
D-7-----9----6-----7----2----9------6-----------
A-7-----9----4-----5----2----7------6-----------
E-5-----7---------------0-----------4----------- (basic power chords)


verse: (screw around with the palm muting but it's not fully muted)

E5ii            B5
Do you have the time
   C#5          G#5
to listen to me whine
 A5               E5ii              B5
about nothing and everything all at once
E5ii        B5
i am one of those
   C#5       G#5
melodramatic fools
   A5           E5ii                B5
neurotic to the bone no doubt about it



Chorus:

A5            B5              E5ii
  Sometimes i give myself the creeps
A5             B5                   E5ii
  sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
   A5               B5
it all keeps adding up
  E5ii      D5       C#5
i think i'm cracking up
   A5         B5
am i just paranoid am i just stoned

break riff:

  E5ii  B5   C#5   B5
e----------------------------
B----------------------------
G--9---------6-6-------------
D--9---9-9---6-6---9-9-------
A--7---9-9---4-4---9-9-------
E------7-7---------7-7------- play x 2

  E5ii      B5
i went to a shrink
   C#5        G#5
to analyze my dreams
    A5                E5ii                  B5
she says it's lack of sex thats bringing me down
  E5ii      B5
i went to a whore
    C#5             G#5
she said my lifes a bore
   A5              E5ii                   B5
so quit my whining cause its bringing her down

play chorus

play break riff x 4

A5              B5
grasping to controoooooooooooooolllllllllll
                E5       c#5      A5  E5ii  B5
so i better hoooollllldd on

repeat those last 5 chords X 4 (listen to the song and you'll know what i mean)

play chorus

again repeat those 5 "hoooooooollllllldd on" chords x 4

end with A5 E5ii B5

that's it
it's pretty simple
i even lined the words up with the chords to make it easier

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peace out