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/ 3 Doors Down / The Better Life (2000) / Kryptonite bass tab

Title: KRYPTONITE
Artist: Three Doors Down
Lyrics: Brad Arnold
 Music: Matt Roberts / Todd Harrell
  bTAB: S. Swanson (cygnus2@cygnus2.com)


Play this over the Intro, Verse 1 and Verse 2. Hold the notes on the 
first, third and fourth down beats.
 B       G   A   B       G   A         
 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &       
---------------|---------------||-|-|-|-|-|-|-|--------------------------
---------------|---------------||會會會會會會會--------------------------
-2-----------0-|-2-----------0-||會會會會會會會--------------------------
---------3-----|---------3-----||-|-|-|-|-|-|-|--------------------------

Play this over the break between Verses 1 and 2 in sync with the drums-
note: If your drummer doesn't play this beat, play to whatever he is playing. 
 B       B        G       A        B       B        G       A
 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &  1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &  1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &  1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
-----------------|---------------|----------------|----------------||-|--
-----------------|---------------|----------------|----------------||會--
-2-2--22-2-2--22-|--------0-0--00|-2-2--22-2-2--22|---------0-0--00||會--
-----------------|3-3--33--------|----------------|-3-3--33--------||-|--
     
For the chorus, it sounds nice and chunky to play each beat. (I also 
"release mute" with my left hand on all but the open notes and the 
F#'s at the end of the riff) 
 B         B         G         A         B         B         E
 1 & 2 &   3 & 4 &   1 & 2 &   3 & 4 &   1 & 2 &   3 & 4 &   1 & 2 & 
---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---
---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---
-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-|---------|-0-0-0-0-|-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-|---------|---
---------|---------|-3-3-3-3-|---------|---------|---------|-0-0-0-0-|---

 F#
 3 & 4 &
---------||-|------------------------------------------------------------
---------||會------------------------------------------------------------
---------||會------------------------------------------------------------
-2-2-2-2-||-|------------------------------------------------------------

Verse 3 starts out the same as Verse 1 and 2, then changes to follow the 
pattern of the chorus when the vocals kick in.
First play this:                     Then play this over the vocals:
 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
---------------|---------------||-|---------------|---------------||-|--
---------------|---------------||會---------------|---------------||會--
-2-----------0-|-2--------0----||會-2-----------0-|-2-------------||會--
---------3-----|-------3-------||-|---------3-----|---------0---2-||-|--

After the second chorus comes the guitar solo. Rather than going back to
the same old single notes over the changes, I strum power chords on the 
upper part of the neck. Here are the positions. Strum once on the first
down beat and again on the next two up beats like this:  
boom-ba..ba  boom-ba..ba
  B          B          G          A           B          B
 1  &  2 &  3  &  4 &   1  &  2 &  3  &  4 &   1  &  2 &  3  & 4 &   
-16-16---16-16-16---16|------------14-14---14|-16-16---16-16-16--16|-----
-16-16---16-16-16---16|-17-17---17-14-14---14|-14-16---16-14-16--16|-----
-14-14---14-14-14---14|-17-17---17-12-12---12|-14-14---14-14-14--14|-----
----------------------|-15-15---15-----------|---------------------|-----

 E          F#
 1  &  2 &  3  &  4 &
----------------------||-|-----------------------------------------------
-14-14---14-16-16---16||會-----------------------------------------------
-14-14---14-16-16---16||會-----------------------------------------------
-12-12---12-14-14---14||-|-----------------------------------------------

After the solo, come out and play these notes over the last Verse
(which is just the chorus sung as a verse).
 B       A   G   B       A   G
 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
---------------|---------------||-|-|-|----------------------------------
---------------|---------------||會會會-- go to -------------------------
-2-------0-----|-2-------0-----||會會會-- chorus ------------------------
-------------3-|-------------3-||-|-|-|----------------------------------

After the last chorus, go back to the chord strumming twice and end on
the B at the 14th fret. My first tabbing attempt so, Good Luck!


3 Doors Down albums
2005 Seventeen Days
2002 Away from the Sun
2000 The Better Life
The Better Life tabs
01Kryptonite tabbass tab
02Loser tabbass tab
03Duck And Run tabbass tab
04Not Enough tabbass tab
05Be Like That tabbass tab
06Life Of My Own tabbass tab
07Better Life tabbass tab
08Down Poison tabbass tab
09By My Side tabbass tab
10Smack tabbass tab
11So I Need You tabbass tab

 

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