Baby Loves To Rock

artist: Cheap Trick

song: Baby Loves To Rock

album: All Shook Up

key: D/b

tuning:

this song can be done in standard tuning on a four string,

granted, it will sound stupid as hell merely because of one low D.

I personally am too lazy to tune down, although it only requires doing

the E and A's down a whole step, or the E down a whole step for some

(I tried this and can't play a scale where the open A is an A and the 5th

fret on the E is a G.) Here is the tab in standard tuning for a four

string; if you tune down your E and A, just move the numbers up two

frets, and play the bass solo an octave lower, starting on the 7th fret

of the A string, which'll be a D. Here we go:

(N.C.) More and more I'm thinking about love

A--4-5-5-5---4-5-5-5----4-5-5-3-5

(N.C.) Lovin' ain't all I'm a thinking of

A--4-5-5-5---4-5-5-5----4-5-5-3-5

(N.C) Some people do and so people don't

E--4-5-5-5---4-5-5-5----4-5-5-3-5

(N.C.) Some people will and say they won't

A--4-5-5-5----4-5-5-5---4-5-5-3-5-

But my (G)baby (D) loves to (A) rock

My (G)baby (D)loves to (A)roll

My (G)baby (D)loves to (A)all night long

My (G)baby (D)loves to (A)rock

second verse

More and more I'm thinking about S-S-S

The more I think, the better is gets

More and more I'm a thinking about se-se-se-

The more I think, the worse it gets

repeat chorus

in the last line of the chorus, instead of the A, go to

an E (second fret D string/7th fret A string) and do an E major scale

descending one octave to low E.

She loves to rock (another scale)

She loves to rock (another scale)

She loves to rock (another scale)

third verse

(guitar solo in D, bass and drums silent)

A--4-5-5-5----4-5-5-5----4-5-5-3-5

(bass solo!)

standard tuning tuned down full step

G--7-6-4---4--------------- | G--7-6-4---4-

D--------7---7-5-4-5-4----- | D--------7---7-5-4-5-4-2-0

A----------------------7-5- |

A---4-5-5-5---4-5-5-5---4-5-5-3-5

(guitar solo in A)

E---4-5-5-5----4-5-5-5--4-5-5-3-5-

(guitar solo in D)

A---4-5-5-5----4-5-5-5---4-5-5-3-5

repeat chorus, and do the descending scale part again

(D) In the morning in the evening

(A) In the summer in the winter

(G) in my car in the night

(D) in an airplane not in Russia

do the descending scale part of the chorus 4 times

then do the first two lines of the first verse and there you have it

this was a bitch to tab, and I hope I didn't confuse anybody TOO badly

question, comments, feedback to senomar@bach.udel.edu

-I'm here, I'm queer, I play 5 string bass