Intro
Clean with light vibrato or sine chorus effect
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Distorted guitar starts (listen to song for rythm) repeat twice
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Verse 1
Clean sound, repeat twice
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/h/hoobastank/the_letter_tab.html ]
Chorus, repeat twice
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then listen for the different rythm (not sure what he plays after B with a funky
sound, probably another variation of B played up higher)
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Play the same chords as the start of the chorus once more then back into the clean
part again for Verse 2 (i.e. same as verse 1)
Repeat Chorus
Solo using wah
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Play verse part twice then repeat chorus twice (listen for stacato part on last
chorus repeat)
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Steve R.
