Robot Boy - tabbed by Astat Guitar 1 - D A D G B E (Clean w/heavy compression and slight chorus) Guitar 2 - D A D G B E (Clean w/heavy compression and slight chorus) Guitar 3 - D A D G B E (Clean w/heavy compression and slight chorus) *Note* All guitars on this track are Fender Stratocasters. Use the bridge pickup unless otherwise noted. The guitar is pretty buried on this one, but it comes in after the synth solo, when the "hold on..." lyrics reappear (the guitar is most obvious at the very end of the song after most of the other instruments drop out). While I was essentially correct in my original assessment of the guitar being comprised of 2-note powerchords plus a melody line primarily consisting of major thirds on top, I was surprised to discover that this was actually done with three separate guitar tracks in the studio! Guitar 1 plays the high notes, Guitar 2 plays the middle notes, and Guitar 3 plays the low notes. You could easily combine Guitars 2 and 3 into one guitar playing powerchords if you wanted. Not much to note except that Guitar 1 plays a different variation the third time through the progression (it almost sounds like there was a timing mistake on one of the chord changes and everything got shifted back by a beat, but they just left it alone because it still sounded cool). Also, the chorus effect on this one isn't very prominent, but it's very fast, each cycle of the chorus is essentially set to an eighth-note pulse that causes a cool "fluttering" effect as each note is picked. 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