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Seven Nation Army Guitar Tablature
Hey! I’m Robert... before to start to play seven nation army... there are a few details that I must say...
1) I think the recorded song is tuning: E A E A C# e (cause’ the A chord that is played before the CHORUS, is played OPEN)... but anyway, it doesn’t matter...
2) I have watched a few Live Presentations of W. Stripes... and I realized that Jack uses a sub octave effect (lower pitch one octave) to get that sound.
3) And, if you don’t have this effect... try using Drop D or something... I dunno, is just to get the right sound.


Tuning E A D G B e


INTRO/VERSE: clean w/sub octave effect (lowers pitch one octave... only this riff have this effect)
e |------------------------------------------------------------|
B |------------------------------------------------------------|
G |------------------------------------------------------------|
D |------------------------------------------------------------|
A |--7~-----7--10--7--5--3-------2~----------------------------|
E |------------------------------------------------------------|

Note: I used Pal muted in the intro, until start drums... 

PRE-CHORUS/POST-CHORUS

e |----------------------------------|
B |----------------------------------|
G |----------------------------------|
D |-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|
A |-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|
E |-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|

CHORUS 1 (you have to use so much the Slide)(use a little distortion…or clean w/delay)

e |--------------------|------------------------|
B |--------------------|------------------------|
G |-7/9—-9-12-9-7-5--4-|-7/9—-9-12-9-7--5/7-5-4-| x2
D |-7/9—-9-12-9-7-5--4-|-7/9—-9-12-9-7--5/7-5-4-| 
A |-5/7--7-10-7-5-3--2-|-5/7--7-10-7-5--3/5-3-2-|
E |--------------------|------------------------|

POST-CHORUS x1

VERSE x1

PRE-CHORUS


CHORUS 2 (is the same as the CHORUS 1 but is played the solo)

SOLO (use any distortion effect... but my favourite is a straight Pedal Wah sound)

The solo goes like this...

e |-------------------------|---------------------------|
B |-------------------------|---------------------------|
G |-9~9-9-12-9-7---12~-11~--|-9-9-9-12-9-7-12/14-12-11~-| x2
D |-------------------------|---------------------------|
A |-------------------------|---------------------------|
E |-------------------------|---------------------------|



e |-12~-12-15-12-10-15~-14~-|-12~-12-15-17-15-15/17-15-14-|
B |-------------------------|-----------------------------|
G |-------------------------|-----------------------------|
D |-------------------------|-----------------------------|
A |-------------------------|-----------------------------|
E |-------------------------|-----------------------------| 

e |-12~-12-15-12-10-15/16-14~|-12~-12-14-12-12-14-12--------|
B |--------------------------|-----------------------13-12~-|
G |--------------------------|------------------------------|
D |--------------------------|------------------------------|
A |--------------------------|------------------------------|
E |--------------------------|------------------------------| 

POST-CHORUS (w/distortion)

Then start the main riff... but with the “7”(E in the A string) more accented...

VERSE

PRE-CHORUS

CHORUS 3 (the same as the CHORUS 1)

The song ends with:

e |-----------|
B |-----------|
G |--9~-----9-|
D |--9~-----9-|
A |--7~-----7-|
E |-----------|

Thanks to The White Stripes... for that really great song...
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