Song: Failure To Excommunicate
Band: Relient K
Album: The Anatomy Of The Toungue In Cheek
Written by: Matthew Thiessen
Copyright 2001 Gotee Music (BMI)-Admin. by EMI CMP


I omit all unplayed strings. DROP-D (just acoustic)for INTRO 1

Intro Part 1 (DROP-D acoustic only):

D----4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---5---5---5---5---4---4---4---4--
A--22--22--22--22------------------22--22--22--22--22--22--22--22---
D------------------00--00--00--00-----------------------------------

Intro Part 2 (play over Part 1) (electric)

e---10-10-10-10-10p9--9-9-9-9-9h12--12-12-12-12-12p11--11-11-12-11-9

Intro Part 3 (play over Part 2 without part 1) (electric)

e--xx2-xx2-xx2-xx2-xx2-xx2-xx2-xx2-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx2-xx2-xx2-xx2
B--xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3
G--xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4

e--xx2-xx2-xx2-xx2-xx2-xx2-xx2-xx2-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx32-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-
B--xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx3-xx33-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-
G--xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx4-xx44-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-

Verse: 

G--4---------------77777777------------------------77777777--------
D--4-------5-------777777777777777799999999555555557777777777777777-
A--2-------5-------555555557777777799999999555555555555555577777777-
E----------3---------------555555557777777733333333--------55555555-

Pre-Chorus: Palm mute from one V to the next V

G----V----V--V----V--V----V------------------------7----------------
D--5-5555557-7777778-8888889---7---5-------7-------7-------9---7---5
A--5-5555557-7777778-8888889---7---5-------7-------5-------9---7---5
E--3-3333335-5555556-6666667---5---3-------5---------------7---5---3

G-----------V----V-
D-------7---77--77-
A-------7---77--77-
E-------5---55--55- 

Chorus: (clean)

G--7-------------------------------7-------------------------------
D--7-------7-------9---7---5----7-77-------7-------9---7---5-------
A--5-------7-------9---7---5----7-75-------7-------9---7---5-------
E----------5-------7---5---3----5-5--------5-------7---5---3-------

Play intro Part2 once then the top section of Part3 3X and the bottom once
Play Verse but don’t hold out first 2 chords just strum regularly
Play Pre-Chorus 
Play Chorus 2X
Then it goes into that weird violin thing

This tab is very accurate. The only somewhat maybe not perfect part would
be the strum patterns in the verses. That’s just how it sounds to me. I
hope everyone understands the palm-muting in the prechorus. I tried to make
it comprehensible. Anyway this is a very good song. It’s pretty simple for

Later!