How to play Green Day "Good Riddance Time Of Your Life" interesting details

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"Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" is a song by the American rock band Green Day. Although written by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong just after the release of the band's third album Dookie (1994), the song was not released until Green Day's fifth album, Nimrod (1997), and was the second single released from that album. An alternative version (in a different key, with a faster tempo and sparer arrangement) did appear as a b-side to the 1995 German import single for "Brain Stew/Jaded".[1] As of January 2012, "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" has sold 2,072,000 copies.
Billie Joe Armstrong wrote "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" in 1990 and did not show the song to his bandmates until the Dookie recording sessions in 1993.[3] During the sessions, the song was determined to be too different from the rest of the songs on Dookie, and producer Rob Cavallo was unsure of how to structure the recording.[3] When the time came to record Nimrod, Armstrong decided to use the song, and Cavallo suggested they add strings to the track. He sent the band to play foosball in another room while he recorded the strings, which took "like fifteen, twenty minutes, maybe a half an hour at the most."[3] Cavallo reflected on his decision to add the strings "I knew we had done the right thing. I knew it was a hit the second I heard it."[3]
In comparison to previous Green Day material, "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" features more mellow, contemplative lyrics with acoustic music. Band member Mike Dirnt went on to state that the release of this song was probably the "most punk" thing they could have done.[4] The song is more commonly promoted on the radio as "Time of Your Life", and it became a Billboard Country Rock chart-topper and an international hit, and was the only song from Nimrod that was a crossover success when released in single form.
The music video was directed by Mark Kohr, and features Billie Joe Armstrong singing and playing an acoustic guitar in a bedroom, intercut with "pull-in" shots of various people involved in mundane activities. All of the subjects are shown seemingly staring into space absent-mindedly. Band members Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool make cameo appearances in the video as a person pumping gas (Dirnt), and an injured bike rider being attended by paramedics (Cool). When the video came out, the name of the song was inverted, hence the video's title is "Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)", this name was also used on the single cover. In 1998 Green Day won their first MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video for "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" and they were also nominated for Viewer's Choice.
The video can be found on their music video compilation DVD, International Supervideos!.
TUTORIAL Green Day "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" (interesting details) TRANSCRIPT
This is a video on just a few interesting things I've noticed about how to play Green Day's "Time Of Your Life".
If you don't already know how to play the song, feel free to check out my tutorial by clicking the link on the screen.
[link for how to play "Time Of Your Life"]
First, a little history. A lot of people think this song's first appearance was on 1997's "Nimrod" album, but the song is actually a lot older than that. Billie Joe Armstrong actually wrote it in 1990, and didn't show it to his bandmates until years later, when they were recording "Dookie". The producer didn't think the song was a good fit for the album, so it was released a few years later as a B-side to the German import of the "Brain Stew/Jaded" single.
The original version is a bit different.
[link to original version]
It's a bit more up-tempo, it's in a different key, it's longer than it needs to be, and I think the chords are different. It's the same chord progression, but I think maybe the actual chords are different. But it's worth a listen.
There's a bit of a false start to the song. He accidentally strikes the 4th and 3rd strings when he means to strike the 3rd and 2nd. And oddly enough he makes this mistake twice.
In case you're interested in what he's playing, just form that ubiquitous G6no3. Strike the 6th string, then the 4th, 3rd, and 4th again.