Dance Dance by Fall Out Boy

“Dance Dance” is in drop D tuning.  You can use the audio clip below to tune your low E string to
D for drop D tuning.

Intro/Verse

This is the easiest riff in this lesson. Apply a small amount of palm mute. Use your 1st finger to play the notes on the 9th fret and use your 3rd finger to play the notes on the 11th fret and your 4th finger to play the notes on the 12th fret.

Video

Here’s what the guitar part sounds like when played with the bass guitar.

Bass Guitar

Below is just the bass guitar part. Practice playing the guitar part above with it:

Pre-Chorus

This riff has fast 16th notes and will take a little practice to nail. The ghost note in the tab at the very beginning should be played the very first time.

 

Here it is with the bass:

Bass Guitar

Here’s just the bass part. Use it to practice the guitar part over:

Chorus

The chorus has two guitar parts. The 1st is playing the chord progression with power chords while the 2nd guitar plays octaves.

Guitar 1

 

 

Guitar 2

Here are both guitar parts with the bass guitar:

Bass Guitar

Below is just the bass guitar. Use it to play along with both guitar parts above:

 

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