Time Of Your Life Chords & Guitar Lesson

Welcome to my Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) guitar chord chart by Green Day. This is a fun song that was pretty popular when I was in high school. Yep, I’m dating myself. That’s OK!

This song has some picking in it at the beginning and end of the song. Here, I am going to discuss the strumming pattern that you can use for this son, not the picking pattern. I'll have to make an instructional video for the picking portion.

I will. Only so many hours in the day my friends,

As usual, you can always use four down strums per chord since each chord takes up a full measure (4 counts or 4 down strums).

Time Of Your Life Guitar Chords:

Time Of Your Life Strumming Patterns:

Strumming:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
D   DU    U DU

Time Of Your Life Guitar Lesson:

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Time Of Your Life Chord Chart:

Verse:
G               G                      Cadd9                    Dsus4   

Another turning point a fork stuck in the road
G                            G                     Cadd9                       Dsus4    
Time grabs you by the wrist directs you where to go
Em                  Dsus4           Cadd9                          G
    So make the best of this test and don’t ask why
Em               Dsus4               Cadd9                      G
    It's not a question but a lesson learned in time

Chorus:
       Em                            G                   Em                       G
It's something unpredictable but in the end it’s right
     Em                          Dsus4              G
I hope you have the time of your life

Verse:
G                        G                        Cadd9                        Dsus4
So take the photographs and still frames in your mind
G             G                   Cadd9                             Dsus4
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time
Em                       Dsus4                                         Cadd9               G
    Tattoos and memories and memories of dead skin on trial
Em                      Dsus4            Cadd9                G
    For what it's worth it was worth all the while

Chorus:
       Em                            G                   Em                       G
It's something unpredictable but in the end it’s right
     Em                          Dsus4              G
I hope you have the time of your life

Instrumental Verse:
G G Cadd9 Dsus4
G G Cadd9 Dsus4
Em Dsus4 Cadd9 C
Em Dsus4 Cadd9 C

Chorus:
       Em                            G                   Em                       G
It's something unpredictable but in the end it’s right
     Em                          Dsus4              G
I hope you have the time of your life

This file is the author’s own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It’s intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.

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