Chords for making of critical acclaim

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Critical Acclaim was the song that was probably one of the first ones that we'd written for this [C] album.
The first song we had an idea for, [Bb] and it was completely [C] mapped out in its entirety [Dm] before we even 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 skeptical, [C] because it's always weird to hear what your band [Bb] members are coming 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 the [C] simple_
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Matt saw the [D] demo all along and knew how it would turn out, [Eb] but it wasn't until we got in [D] the studio and started adding layers
and just making it huge [Eb] and really working on the [D] lyrics.
It was one of my first [Eb] times _ really collaborating with him on lyrics, and we just wanted to get a really good message across.
[D] _ No, no, no, no!
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I want everyone to have to do this, because this is going to [D] suck.
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Am] We [E] wanted it to just set [A] the mood for the entire record.
We wanted it to be in your face, [Eb] powerful, _ mean something, say something.
It's cool. _ _ _ _ _
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Kind of one of those songs that you can be driving [G] around and it'll just really slam right off the bat.
[Ab] Critical Acclaim turned [Db] out to be the heaviest, fucking _ [C] craziest song we've ever laid [D] down.
Right there!
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It's just really cool to have all these [Db] different_
all the different vibes turn out to be [C] successful and so powerful.
And this part of the song, the piano comes in and these [Gb] nice lyrics come in, it's like this [Fm]
swaying type of feel.
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Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, [G] _ _
do, do, do, do. _ _ _ _ _
Like moving, you know.
[A] It's gotta be floating.
And then you kind of do that, [N] do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, [Em] do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
And then the _ [Eb] meow.
_ And you dive [A] bomb into the fuckin' yeah.
_ [G] That song, really, the magic really happened [Cm] here in the studio.
We were writing for weeks and weeks, and [F] one of the last days I was like, well, we [Bb] have this song, Critical Acclaim,
and it's, you know, it's grooving,
but [Ab] the 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 [Cm] elements
that we have of everyone [A] singing.
Everyone has a great voice in the band,
so we [Dm] decided to [A] split all the backup parts
and shit like that [F] amongst ourselves
rather than just having Matt [E] sing everything. _ _
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You 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.
[G] And the rev had this very simple chorus
with a couple chords, which is the chorus you hear today,
and he's all, let me lay it down.
When it came [Cm] time to actually track it,
it was definitely something,
an element [F] that we wanted to have in the song
was the rev coming up in the chorus,
something that we haven't done before.
He laid it down, [Ab] sang this thing,
[D] and I was like, dude, you sound awesome singing it.
You should sing the [Em] chorus. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [C] That was cool, dude.
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 gonna get
a typical Avenged Sevenfold song
with some dueling guitars and stuff.
It just kicks in, it kicks your ass.
And it [C] kind of sets the stage for the rest of the record
[Bb] that, you know, we're still [C] Avenged Sevenfold,
but this is a very much [Dm] more groove-oriented,
groove-based record.
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