Turning American tab

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Anyone got the intro tab for this, as whatever I do, I justcant get it right! (inserts banghead smiley, but cant find it)

[Ean]

I'm not sure which bit of the intro you mean, so here's the tab I've got :-

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TURNiNG AMERiCAN
THE WiLDHEARTS

All strings tuned flat (b) !
Intro :

Play Octaves !! for the intro chord sequence.....

EEEEE EEEEE D#D#D# BBBBB BBBBB BBB GGGGG GGGGG BBBBB BBBBB FFF

(Work out the above sequence for timing...pretty easy ....)

Then the picking guitar comes in....

Heres the riff :

E--------------------------------------
B--------------------------------------
G--------------------------------------
D--------------------------------------
A------- 9767------9767----------------
E---0670------670----------------------

This sequence kicks in playing the full chords....i.e.

E A# B E  G E D# E   A# B E    G E D# E

Then there's a picking turnaround......ala...

E------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------
A------- 9767------234-----432----432----432-
E---0670------230-------33-----33-----33-----

then..... G# A     D C#  C G#

back to first kickin riff.....
before coming in to start the song.......phew !!

Verse 1:

E               A
Do you remember British achievement?
A                 E
Living when times were good
E              A
Watching the start of the end of an era
A                 E
Would you go back if you could?
E
When I was younger
A
Ihe smell of the hunger
A                       E
In all of the music you played
E
Kept me believing
A
You lived for the lifestyle
A                             EEEEE
And not just the cash to be made













E (slide XXXX)  E (slide xxx...etc...)
'Cos it's a place where people happen

It's the corner of success
E              E
Everybody loves you
E              E
And you're never second best
E              E
The smell of easy money
E              E
And you follow it to death
E
I smell
E
The shit
E     E   E
Upon your breath

Chorus:

B
I remember you
A
When you were an Englishman

But now you're
E
Turning American
E
Turning American
B
I remember you
A
When you were an Englishman
E
But now you're
E
Turning American
E
Turning American

(Note ...here is the octave riff played as Ginger sings Turning
American....)


E----------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------
G--9 11 9 13 11 9-------------------------
D-----------------------------------------     F#   G
A--7 9  7 11  9 7------------------------
E----------------------------------------

2nd verse same as first and
Chorus same too....

Middle section plays around open Es ala...
And this daintly lil chord progression !

E------12-12---12-12----------------------------------------------
B------15-15---15-15----------------------------------------------
G----------------------------------------------4-----------7------
D----------------------------------------------2-----------5------
A------------------78998----789876545-45-45-45--45-45-45-45--------
E----0----0--------56776----567654323-23-23-23--23-23-23-23---------

And this chunkarama !!

E--------------------------------------
B--------------------------------------
G--------------------------------------
D--------------------------------------
A----7653-65-76------------------------
E----5431 43 54--etc...----------------



Now here comes the middle 8/bridge...(building up)....

B
I want to be American

I want to be a star
G                  D
You should be over there
G             D
You should go far
B
But I don't want to learn

Cos I know it all now
G                D
You should be guaranteed
G            D
To find out how

A                  F#
You'll always be a wanna be
B                  G D G D G D...etc
You look to far away


E
'Cos it's a place where people happen
E
It's the corner of success
E
Everybody loves you
E
And you're never second best
E
I smell
E
The shit
E
Upon your breath etc....

Chorus:

Throughout the song there are 3 0r 4 turnarounds after verses and
bridges

These are the following :

G#   A     D   C#     C   G#

And:

After, "You look to far away"...

A# B  D C# C G# E D#

The song ends with.....this along with "Turning American"...

G  A  G   B B   Bb A


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Thajks, it was the B after the G in the intro that was annoying me! Rock on!