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Trogdor Guitar Tablature
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STRONG BAD - TROGDOR

Written by Strong Bad (Possibly, with help from The Cheat. Maybe even Strong 
Mad, but that doesn't seem very likely.)

From the "Dragon" Strong Bad email
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html
Copyright 2002 The Brother Chaps


Transcribed by: 

JIM KANG 	
[email protected]	
http://chaos.corrupt.net


.  - palm mute                  /  - slide up to         
  - slide down to              ~  - vibrato             
h  - hammer on                  b  - bend 
p  - pull off                        Suffixes for bend    
t  - tap with finger                     f - full bend    h - half bend
*  - see comment                         r - release      t - tap bend
X  - percussion mute                     ~ - vibrato bend
"  - tremelo note               () - ghost note, sustained note
|  - measure marker



Tuning: D (All strings down a whole step.)



Intro:

Riff 1

|----------------------|-------------------|
|----------------------|-------------------|
|----------------------|-------------------|
|----------------------|-------------------|
|------ 10---------7---|------ 10--7---5/7-|
|-0-0-0-8----0-0-0-5---|-0-0-0-8-0-5-0-3/5-|
  . . .      . . .      . . .   .   .

- Play Riff 1 twice.



Verse 1:

|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-0-0-7-0-0-5-0-0-|-3-0-0-5-0-0-8-8-8-8-|
  . . . . . . . .   . . . . . . . . . .

"Trogdor was a man - I mean"

|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|-==----------7-7-7---|
|-0-0-7-0-0-5-0-0-|-3-0-0-5-0-0---------|
  . . . . . . . .   . . . . . . . . .

"He was a dragon-man"

|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-0-0-7-0-0-5-0-0-|-3-0-0-5-0-0-8-8-8---|
  . . . . . . . .   . . . . . . . . .

"I mean he was just a dragon"

|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|---------------------|
|-----------------|-------------777-7---|
|-0-0-7-0-0-5-0-0-|-3-0-0-5-0-0---------|
  . . . . . . . .   . . . . . . ...

"Um...but he was still..."



Chorus:

- Play Riff 1 twice



Verse 2:


Riff 2

|------------------------|
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
|---5/7---5/7---5/7-7-7--|
|-0-3/5-0-3/5-0-3/5-5-5--|
  .     .     .

Riff 2A

|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|---5/7---5/7---5/7---5/7-7--|
|-0-3/5-0-3/5-0-3/5-0-3/5-5--|
  .     .     .     .

- Play Riff 2 once ("Burninating the countryside"), then Riff 2A three times



Final Chorus:

Riff 1A

|----------------------|---------------------|
|----------------------|---------------------|
|----------------------|---------------------|
|----------------------|---------------------|
|------ 10---------7---|------ 10--7---5/7-7-|
|-0-0-0-8----0-0-0-5---|-0-0-0-8-0-5-0-3/5-5-|
  . . .      . . .       . . .   .   .

- Play Riff 1A twice.
- Guitar is tacit during "And the Trogdor comes in the niiiiiiiight!"
- End of song.



Verse accompaniment:

During the verse, there's a higher part that goes over the main rhythm riff. 
(Maybe Strong Bad overdubbing some "hott lixx" with his guitar or possibly 
the Cheat on keyboard.) Here it is transcribed for guitar.

Riff 4:

|-7---5---3---5---3-0-|-7---5---7---5---12-12-|
|---------------------|-----------------------|
|---------------------|-----------------------|
|---------------------|-----------------------|
|---------------------|-----------------------|
|---------------------|-----------------------|

- Play Riff 4 twice (all legato) over Verse 1.



Performance notes:

- Strong Bad uses a very low gain tone on his guitar here, but it sounds 
pretty good with a lot of distortion as well.

- It looks like they're playing in shifting odd time signatures (look at Riff 
2 and 2A) all over, but really they're just winging it. It's actually not 
hard to follow if you just play along with the song, in case I gave you that 
impression. It's just one of those "looks worse on paper" kind of things.
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