Basket Case
Green Day
Dookie (1994)
Lyrics: Billie Joe Armstrong
Music: Green Day
Tuning: 1/2 step down (sounds a semitone lower than written here)
Notes: Not much to say here, played fast with lots of distortion.
h = hammer-on
p = pull-off
b = bend
/ = slide up
\ = slide down
5 = power chord
Verse (second verse and bridge, use low E5 (022xx)) E5 B5 C#5 G#5 A5 E5 B5 (x2)e|---------------------------------------------------------------|B|---------------------------------------------------------------|G|-9---------6--------------9------------------------------------|D|-9----9----6----6----7----9----9-------------------------------|A|-7----9----4----6----7----7----9-------------------------------|E|------7---------4----5---------7-------------------------------|
Chorus A5 B5 E5 (x2) A5 B5 E5 D5 C#5 A5 B5e|---------------------------------------------------------------|B|---------------------------------------------------------------|G|-----------9--------------------9-\-7-\-6----------------------|D|-7----9----9---------7----9-----9-\-7-\-6----7----9------------|A|-7----9----7---------7----9-----7-\-5-\-4----7----9------------|E|-5----7--------------5----7------------------5----7------------|
Bridge E5 B5 C#5 B5e|---------------------------------------------------------------|B|---------------------------------------------------------------|G|-9-------------------------------------------------------------|D|-9----9----11---9----------------------------------------------|A|-7----9----11---9----------------------------------------------|E|------7----9----7----------------------------------------------|
Interlude A5 B5e|---------------------------------------------------------------|B|---------------------------------------------------------------|G|-----------(verse chords x2)-----------------------------------|D|-7----9--------------------------------------------------------|A|-7----9--------------------------------------------------------|E|-5----7--------------------------------------------------------|
End Riff E5 C#5 A5 E5 B5 (x4) A5 E5 B5e|---------------------------------------------------------------|B|---------------------------------------------------------------|G|-9----6---------9----------------------------------------------|D|-9----6----7----9----9--------\-7----2----9--------------------|A|-7----4----7----7----9--------\-7----2----9--------------------|E|-----------5---------7--------\-5----0----7--------------------|
Order
Verse 1 (palm mute)
Chorus (palm mute until walkdown)
Bridge (x2, single guitar)
Verse 2
Chorus
Bridge (x4)
Interlude
Verse chords x2, no lyrics
Chorus (palm mute until walkdown)
End Riff
Lyrics
Do you have the time
To listen to me whine
About nothing and everything
All at once
(Verse 1)
I am one of those
Melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone
No doubt about it
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up (Chorus)
I think I'm crackin up
Am I just parananoid
Am I just stoned
(Bridge)
I went to a shrink
To analyse my dreams
He said it's lack of sex
That's bringin me down
(Verse 2)
I went to a whore
He said my life's a bore
So quit my whinin
Cuz it's bringin her down
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
(Interlude)
(Chorus)
