American Life

From: * (Jeffrey Swing)


AMERICAN LIFE  from "Sailing the 
Seas of Cheese" revised 5/15/95

After seeing Les play this song on a
 video that somebody copied for me
(thanks again for the video, Dave) I
 noticed that Les strums and does 
hammer
ons for this riff.  I have rewritten
 it below.  The important thing to
rememeber when playing this is to 
keep your strumming constant and 
hammer on
all of the notes with your left 
hand.  The slap on the lowest note 
is done
on the downstroke strum, and isn't 
hard to work in to your strumming
technique.  Make sure that you let 
the G-string drone on while you 
hammer on
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the D-string notes.

V = downstroke strum
^ = upstroke strum
h = hammer
S = slap

     (V)  ^         V         ^     
     V     ^     V     ^
G-|-------0-(0)(0)--0-(0)(0)--0-(0)(0)---0-----0-----0-----0--|--|
D-|*------0--3h-5h--0--3h-5h--0--3h-5h------5h-5-----5-----5-*---|
A-|*---------------------------------------------------------*---|
E-|---3S---------------------------------------------------------|

The fills are done with the same 
strumming (downstroke on the 
downbeat,
upstroke on the upbeat), except that
 the left hand remains still, 
fretting a
power chord first on Eb, then later 
on F.

G-|--8--|-        G-|--10------|
D-|--8--|-        D-|--10------|
A-|--6--|-        A-|--8-------|
E-|-----|-          E-|--------|
    Eb5			     F5