Academy Award Tabs & Lyrics by The Dismemberment Plan
Academy Award
guitar tabs lyrics
This is the angular guitar riff off one of my favorite songs by these guys. Despite this
being a heavily mathy period for the D Plan, you can think of this riff as being in 4:4
time. If you care more about this than me you can probably take the chord progression
underneath from this.
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Tuning: Standard
This starts are on an off beat, an eighth rest if you will. About 180bpm.
e|--------10---------------------|-----------------------------------------|
B|--------------------8----10b12-|--(12)r(10)------------------------------|
G|----8-----------10-------12----|--(12)-(10)---------------9--------------|
D|-------------------------------|---------------8----10---------10----8---|
A|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
The unison bend is slightly out of tune. You want to the dissonance to show, this riff
has major 7ths, that F and G played at the same time, and the implied tritone in the
resolution. It's a precise riff, but play it a little sloppy too.
