Cough Syrup Chords & Tabs
Verses and Intro:
Guitar 1/Intro Melody - Continues in the background throughout each verse
"Life's too short to even care at blahhh blahh..."
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----7---6---6---4---4---------0h2------6---4---4---7---7---------------------|
--4-------------------7--------------7-----------------------5------4----5---|
5-----5---5---5---5---5----5-------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------5-----5---5---5---5---5---5---5-----5-----|
-------------------------------------------------------5---------------------|
------------------3---3---5---5------------------------5---------------------|
-----4-----6--6-------------------------6----7---7-----6---------------------|
---5-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------4--------------------------------------|
-3------3---3---3---3---3---3---3---5------5---5---5---5---------------------|
*Every other time he plays behind the vocals he just continues playing 5 on the E string
and 6 on the G string
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/y/young_the_giant/cough_syrup_tab_ver_7.html ]
Guitar 2 - Continues during each verse
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-7---------------------------------------------------------------|
-5-x16--7------------6-----5------7------------------------------|
--------5-x14-then---4-x2--3-x16--5-x16--------------------------|
Guitar 3 - Plays a bunch of garbage. Single notes. figure it out :P
PreChorus: First two chords play 2 full measures, next two chords, starting with Gmaj
play one measure, then 2 full measures for the final chord.
"If I could Find a wayyyy1!!!!
-x-
-6-
-4-
-4-BMin Barre Chord x16strums for those of you who dont know what a measure
-2-
-x-
-x-
-2-
-2-
-2-AMaj Chord x16strums for those of you who dont know what a measure is...
-0-
-x-
-x-
-x-
-4-
-5-GMaj Chord x8strums
-5-
-3-
Back to BMin x8strums and then to Amaj x 16sturms again
Then the
CHORUS!!!
Simplified it's just a Gmaj chord, shown above, then the Bmin Chord and it ends on the
Amaj chord
That's pretty much the jist of it, figure out your favorite rhythmn and learn some of
the little bits on your own.