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Time to Break Up

Blink-182
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Song

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TIME TO BREAK UP

As recorded by Blink 182

(From the Album TAKE OFF YOUR PANTS AND JACKET)

Transcribed by andrew88

ridethelightning3@hotmail.com

A few people have tabbed this song in standard tuning. If you listen to it carefully

you will notice that it is tuned down.

Gtr I (Db Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)

Gtr II (Db Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)

Intro:

Gtr I

|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|-7-7--7-5-5--5-4-4--4-7--7----|
|-7-7--7-5-5--5-4-4--4-7--7----|
|-7-7--7-5-5--5-4-4--4-7--7----|

PM| PM| PM|

|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----4-4-2-2-------4-4-2-2----|-----4-4-2-----5------7-----------|
|---------------------------0-|-(0)-----------5------7-----------|
|-0-----------0--0------------|-----------0-0-5--0-0-7--0-0-0----|

PM| PM| PM--|

|---------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|------4-4-2-2-2------4-4-2-2-2---|--------4-4-2-----5------7---------|
|-------------------------------0-|-(0)--0-----------5------7---------|
|-(0)------------0--0-------------|--------------0-0-5--0-0-7--0-0-0--|

Verse:

||--------------------------||---------------------------|
||o------------------------o||-7--7--7--7--5--5--8--8----|
||--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--||-7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7----|
||--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--||-x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x----|
||o-5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5-o||-5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5----|
||--------------------------||---------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-7--7--7--7--5--5--------------|
|-7--7--7--7--7--7--------------|
|-x--x--x--x--x--x--5-5--5-5----|
|-5--5--5--5--5--5--5-5--5-5----|
|-------------------5-5--5-5----|

Chorus:

||----------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||o---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--4--4-|
||o-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--4--4-|
||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--4--4-|
|---------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|---------------------------------|-------------------------------o||
|---------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|-7-7--7-7-7--7-7-7--7-7-7--7----||
|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|-7-7--7-7-7--7-7-7--7-7-7--7---o||
|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|-7-7--7-7-7--7-7-7--7-7-7--7----||

Then play intro, verse and chorus again.

Interlude: 3x

||----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||o---------------------------------|----------------------------------o||
||----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||----0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-|---0---0---0---0-------------------||
||o---------------------------------|-------------------7---7---7---7--o||
||--9---9---9---9---5---5---5---5---|-7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7-----||
||--------------------------------------||
||o------------------------------------o||
||--------------------------------------||
||----0---0---0---0---------------------||
||o-------------------7---7---7---7----o||
||--7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7-------||

Gtr I

|-----------------|------------------------|
|-----------------|------------------------|
|-----------------|------------------------|
|-0--0------------|-7--7-------------------|
|-0--0------------|-7--7-------------------|
|-0--0------------|-7--7-------------------|

|

| Gtr II

|-----------------|------------------------|
|-----------------|------------------------|
|-7--7------------|-9--9-------------------|
|-7--7------------|-9--9-------------------|
|-5--5------------|-7--7-------------------|
|-----------------|------------------------|
|-----------------|------------------------|
|-----------------|------------------------|
|-----------------|------------------------|
|--0---0----------|-7--7------7-7---7-7----|
|--0---0----------|-7--7------7-7---7-7----|
|--0---0----------|-7--7------7-7---7-7----|

|

|-----------------|------------------------|
|-----------------|------------------------|
|-11--11----------|-9--9------9-9---9-9----|
|-11--11----------|-9--9------9-9---9-9----|
|--9---9----------|-7--7------7-7---7-7----|
|-----------------|------------------------|

Then play chorus again.

Outro:

||--------------------------------------------------|
||o-------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------|
||---0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-|
||o--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-|
||---0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-|

|

||--------------------------------------------------|
||o-------------------------------------------------|
||--11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-|
||---0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-|
||o--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9-|
||--------------------------------------------------|

4x

|----------------------------------||
|---------------------------------o||
|----------------------------------||
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--7--7--||
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--7--7-o||
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--7--7--||

|

| 4x

|----------------------------------||
|---------------------------------o||
|-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--9--9--||
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--7--7--||
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--7--7-o||
|----------------------------------||
|-------|
|-------|
|-------|
|--0----|
|--0----|
|--0----|

|

|-------|
|-------|
|-11----|
|--0----|
|--9----|
|-------|

Tablature Legend

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h - hammer-on

p - pull-off

b - bend

pb - pre-bend

r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)

/\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")

s - legato slide

S - shift slide

<n> - natural harmonic

[n] - artificial harmonic

n(n) - tapped harmonic

~ - vibrato

tr - trill

T - tap

TP - trem. picking

PM - palm muting

\n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip

\n - tremolo bar down

n/ - tremolo bar up

/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip

= - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls

<> - volume swell (louder/softer)

x - on rhythm slash represents muted slash

o - on rhythm slash represents single note slash

Misc Legend

-----------

| - bar

|| - double bar

||o - repeat start

o|| - repeat end

*| - double bar (ending)

: - bar (freetime)

$ - Segno

& - Coda

Tempo markers - <E/E./Q/Q./H/H.> = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths

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* Generated using Power Tab Editor by Brad Larsen - http://powertab.guitarnetwork.org *

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