Chords for ''Avenged Sevenfold making the album'' Critical Acclaim

_ Hey kids, what's going on?
We're at a Venn 7-volt headquarters right now.
Mr.
Zacky V, Mr.
Sinister G.
_ [G] This place has _ _ become our home.
We're [Eb] totally in the middle of making this [D] album and it's just been absolutely [F] crazy.
It's gonna get crazier.
So [Bb] this is it, Big Blue Building.
[G] Check it out.
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_ _ _ [Eb] See, _ [D] _
[Em] I'm making my airtime.
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_ _ He's sitting down too.
Oh, really?
_ _ _ [Em] Alright, I'm gonna put the mic down to work.
_ Are you gonna sit for [Ab] this one? _ _ _
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Critical Acclaim was the song that was probably one of the first ones that we'd written for this [Am] album.
The first song we had an [C] idea for, [Bb] and it was just completely [C] mapped out in its entirety
before [D] we even [Dm] wrote any riffs or anything, so it was definitely a departure from how we usually do it.
And at first I was a little bit [Am] skeptical, because it's always weird to [C] hear what your band members are coming [Bb] up with
that's new and a [C] different direction, and we'd been playing [Dm] the songs from City of Evil for so long.
And so we wanted to make a song that was sort of like very riff-driven, very [C] simple.
So I think I remember picking up some guitar and just [Bb] laying down this simple_ Simple.
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_ [C] Matt saw the demo all along and knew how it would turn out, [C] but it wasn't until we got in the [D] studio
and started adding layers and just making it [Eb] huge and really working on the lyrics.
It was one of [D] my first times [Eb] _ really collaborating with him on lyrics,
and we just wanted to get a really good message across.
[D] How does it know?
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[D] How does it feel to know that someone's kid in the heart of America has put on their hands
defending your rights, maintaining your lifestyle, so you can damage families' existence? _
_ _ [Gb] _ _ Yeah, dude.
We [C] wanted it to just set the mood for the entire record.
We wanted it to be in your face, [A] powerful, [Eb] _ mean something, say something.
That's cool. _ _ _ _
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[Ab] Kind of one of those songs that you just kind of have to be in your face,
but it's one of those songs that you can be driving around and it'll [G] just really slam right off the bat.
Critical [C] Acclaim turned out to be the heaviest, fucking _ craziest song we've ever laid down.
[A] Right there. _
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_ It's just really cool [D] to have all these different_
All the different vibes turn out to be successful and so powerful.
[Eb] Now this part of the song, the piano comes in and these nice lyrics come in.
It gets like this swaying type of feel.
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_ [Bm] _ _ _ [F] It's [Fm] like a jet. _
_ Very moving, you know?
[Am] It's got to be floating.
[A] And then you kind of _ do_
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And you dive bomb into the fucking_
Yeah.
[G] That song really, the magic really happened here in the [Cm] studio.
We were writing for weeks and weeks and one of the [F] last days I was like,
well, we have this song, [Bb] Critical Acclaim, and it's grooving,
but the [Ab] chorus isn't [Bb] anything to be really desired.
In this record, [Ab] throughout the whole thing,
we wanted to bring a lot of the live [G] elements that we have of [Ab] everyone singing.
[A] Everyone has a great voice in the band, so we [Dm] decided to split all the backup parts
and shit [N] like that amongst ourselves rather than just having Matt [E] sing everything. _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ You [E] _
like this?
[Ab] Cool, let's move on to the second verse.
When we were [G] demoing the song, [Cm] the rev _ [D] sang the vocal melody to the chorus.
And the [G] rev had this very simple chorus with a couple chords,
which is the chorus you hear today, and he's letting me lay it down.
When it came [Cm] time to actually track it,
it was definitely an element [F] that we wanted to have in the song
was the rev coming up in [Bb] the chorus, something that we haven't done before.
He laid it down, sang this [D] thing, and I was like,
dude, you sound awesome singing it, you should sing the chorus.
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[E] _ _ _ That was cool, dude.
[C] We have this kind of cool intro, [Bb] and it's kind of [C] supposed to be a fake-out,
you know, like you think [Dm] you're going to get a typical Avenged Sevenfold song
with some dueling guitars and stuff, and it just kicks in, it kicks your ass.
And it [C] kind of sets the stage for the rest of the record,
_ [Bb] that we're still [C] Avenged Sevenfold,
but this is a very much more [Dm] groove-oriented, groove-based record.
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