Basket Case - Tutorial

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  1. Song Audio
  2. Song Form (PDF)

Song Audio

Album: Dookie (1994) - YouTube

Lyrics and Chords

Guitar: Overdrive Opportunity

Click on your overdrive pedal for the Chorus in this song. Work on your settings to try to get a similar amount of crunch on your guitar amp.

Lyrics and Chords
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[Verse 1]
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 G               D        Em          Bm
Do you have the time to listen to me whine
  C                  G               D
About nothing and everything all at once
G             D
I am one of those
   Em          Bm
Melodramatic fools
   C             G
Neurotic to the bone
                  D
No doubt about it
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[Chorus]
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   C         D                G
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
   C         D                    G
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
    C               D
It all keeps adding up
    G         F      Em
I think I'm cracking up
   C           D
Am I just paranoid? 
  (No chords)
I'm just stoned
 G    D     C     D
(No lyrics)
 G    D     C     D
(No lyrics)
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[Verse 2]
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   G         D
I went to a shrink
     Em        Bm
To analyze my dreams
     C                 G                    D
She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me__ down
   G         D
I went to a whore
    Em               Bm
He said my life's a bore
     C                G                    D 
And quit my whining cause it's bringing her__ down
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[Chorus]
======
   C         D                G
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
   C         D                    G
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
    C               D
It all keeps adding up
    G         F      E(m)
I think I'm cracking up
   C           D
Am I just paranoid? 
  (No chords)
Ee Ya ya ya.
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[Bridge]
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 G    D     C     D
(No lyrics)
 G    D     C     D
(No lyrics)          Woah, woah!
 G    D     C     D
(No lyrics)
 G    D     C     D
(No lyrics)
   C             D
Grasping to control

                  G      D
So you better hold__ on__

Em   Bm   C   G   D
(No lyrics)
G   D   Em   Bm   C   G   D
(No lyrics)
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[Chorus]
======
   C         D                G
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
   C         D                    G
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
    C               D
It all keeps adding up
    G         F      Em
I think I'm cracking up
   C           D
Am I just paranoid? 
  (No chords)
Am I just stoned?
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[Outro] - No lyrics
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Bm  C   Bm  C
C   G   D

(Above X4 and then below)

C   G   D
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Chords Only

INTRO
|: Dm / Bb / | F / C / :|

VERSE 1
|: Dm / Bb / | F / C / :| (x3)
| Bb / / /  | C / / / |

VERSE 2
|: Dm / Bb / | F / C / :| (x3)
| Bb / / /  | / / / C |

CHORUS 1
|: F / C / | Dm / C / | 
| Bb / F / | C / / / :| (x2)
| Bb / F / | C / / / |

VERSE 3 = verse 1
VERSE 4 = verse 2
CHORUS 2 = chorus 1

BRIDGE
|  Dm / Bb / | F / C / | 
|: Dm / Bb / | F / A / :| (x2)
|  Bb / / /  | C / / / |

SOLO = chorus 1
|: F / C / | Dm / C / | 
| Bb / F / | C / / / :| (x2)
| Bb / F / | A / / / |

INTRO

VERSE 5
|: Dm / Bb / | F / C / :| (x3)
| Bb / / /  | / / / / |

CHORUS 3
|: F / C / | Dm / C / | 
| Bb / F / | C / / / :| (x4)
| Bb / F / | C / / / |





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