Breakout Chords

KeyE CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays620

Breakout by Foo Fighters is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords B, E, C#m, C, G, Em and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			B           E             C#m            C  
You make me dizzy running circles in my head   
              B          E         C#m  C   
One of these days I'll chase you down   
B                     E  
Well look who's going crazy now   
      C#m             C   
We're face to face my friend,   
        B   E   
Better get out   
            C#m  C   
Better get out   
   
                         B  G   
You know you make me break out   
           B   E   
Make me break out   
G                         E   
I don't want to look like that   
G                         E   
I don't want to look like that   
                          B  E   
You know you make me break out   
            B   E   
Make me break out   
G                         E   
I don't want to look like that   
G                         E   
I don't want to look like that   
                           B   
You know you make me break out   
   
B                         
You can see this on my face   
              Em   
It's all for you   
B                      
The more and more I take   
                  Em  
I break right through   
G               
Therapy still scares me   
                       E   
Putting me on my back again.   
B        E              C#m                C   
I may be crazy, little frayed around the ends   
             B          E        C#m C   
One of these days I'll phase you out   
B                         E   
Burn it in the blast off, burn it in the blast off   
C#m               C   
Watching me crawl away   
          B  E              C#m  C  
Try to get out, try to get out   
   
                         B  G   
You know you make me break out   
            B  E  
Make me break out   
G                         E   
I don't want to look like that   
G                         E   
I don't want to look like that   
                          B  G   
You know you make me break out   
            B   E   
Make me break out   
G                         E   
I don't want to look like that   
G                         E   
I don't want to look like that   
                               E A C#m E E      
You know you make me... BREAK OUT   
       E A C#m E E  
BREAK OUT  
       E A C#m E E   
BREAK OUT   
       E A C#m E E   
BREAK OUT 
       E A C#m E E 

    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante