“Self Esteem“ by The Offspring on License Plate Guitar from Salvage Sounds

A simple and fun song to play on this or any other 3-string Cigar Box Guitar-type instrument tuned to EBE (Open E) This song is based around playing variations of a repeated 5 / 13 / 8 / 3 fret pattern (with the 1st fret in place of the 13th for the “chugga-chugga“ palm-muted parts in the second half of the verses) The alternative section (which appears twice in the song [in the middle and at the end]) is 10 / 6 / 1 / 8 repeated six times followed by (once) 10 / 6 / 8 / 3 and finished off with 3 bars at the 1st fret and a bar at the 3rd (before returning to the 5th fret to either start the verses or finish the song)
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