This is a tab done for the colormeimpressed.com site done by Jason "No Fat Chicks" Warden. It
may be reproduced wherever for whatever purpose as long as this initial paragraph header is 
left intact. Please, any comments, suggestions, peanut butter, email me at jason (at)
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forum where I occasionally haunt (and there are some good tabs done, by good people).

Today's tab is ""Let The Bad Times Roll". Hey, let's not steal my work and call it your own!

This song is in our old favourite, CST or Common Stereo Tuning. If you're unfamiliar with the tuning,
I suggest learning first Dirt To Mud http://colormeimpressed.com/tabs/Dirt_To_Mud_TAB.txt and then
Got You Down http://colormeimpressed.com/tabs/GotYouDown2.0_TAB.txt in order to get a grip on
the chord fingerings and stuff. This song features a lot of the same chord voicings but
some also rather tricky (and wrist breakin') variations.





This song is in G#Maj, or as I like to call it CST (Common Stereo Tuning). It is as follows:


Low E: D#
A: G#
D: C
G: D#
B: G#
E: C

You can tune your guitar easily to this tuning by doing the following:
1) Tune your high E so it matches the C on the B string (1st fret)
2) Tune your b so it matches the G# on the G string (1st fret)
3) Tune your G so it matches the D# on the D string (1st fret)
4) Tune the top 3 (low E to D) so they are an octave below the bottom 3. That is low e->octave below G string; 
a string->octave below B string; D string->octave below high E string

Here are some chord voicings used in this song. Remember, my tab is always
high E
b 
g
d
a
low E

Fminor     D#     G#    C#   A#
-3-       -3-    -3-   -3-  -3-
-0-       -2-    -0-   -0-  -0-
-2-       -0-    -0-   -2-  -2-
-3-       -3-    -3-   -1-  -2-
-x-       -2-    -0-   -0-  -2-
-2-       -0-    -0-   -x-  -x-

For best ease of playing, play the D# like so:
-3- (pinkie)
-2- (second finger)
-0-
-3- (third finger)
-2- (first finger)
-0-

Okay, let's learn the song. The main lick is C# to A# but with a really cool
variation on the A#:

Let the good times hide... 

-3-------------------0--0--0--0---2--2--2--- 
-0-------------------2--2--2--2---0--0--0--- 
-2-------------------2--2--2--2---0--0--0--- 
-1-------------------0--0--0--0---2--2--2--- 
-0-------------------2--2--2--2---2--2--2--- 
---------------------------------------------


Let's carefully go through the first verse and chorus:
C#             A#(variation)
The good times hide
    C#      A#(variation)  
And so do I
       C#        A#(variation)    
Out of my control
  C#          D#(supra variation)    
I dig a hole

Here is the said supra variation. It's a twister!

-----------1-1-0-0---------------------
-----------0-0-0-0-2-2-----------------
-------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----------------
-------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-----------------
-------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-----------------
-------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----------------

(hole) 

G#  F#min D#      D#riff    C#   (in between lines, a rollover part with G# to D#)
I'm gonna let the bad times roll
G#  F#min D#      D# riff   C#   
I'm gonna let the bad times roll

The ultra suave D#riff, presented for you!

-0---------0-----------3-------------
-4---------x-----------0-------------
-0---------4-----------2-------------
-3---------3-----------1-------------
-2---------2-----------0-------------
-0---------0-------------------------
bad        times       roll

At this point you have most everything to piece the song together...here's..stuff:
F#min    D#
Just add water
       C#  
I'm disappointed
F#min        D#
Just like my father
           C#
I miss the point
F#min  D# 
I need someone
      C#  
not infection
F#min    D#     
Just add water
    A#
I'm disappointed

The weird part with the spoken distorted vocals is just the special verse lick again.

Sometimes in the song, just for twiddling around, he'll play the C# with an open G string

-3-
-0-
-0-
-1-
-0-
-0-

The intro is just the chorus.

Uhm. That's it!?!