Thats Life

"That's Life" from Nektar's album _Down To Earth_

Written by Nektar, transcribed by Christopher C Heckman.

This is a personal interpretation of that song and is in no way are

connected

with the actual music, other than the fact that it may bear a striking

resemblence (at some future point) to the contents of these files.

Also, all songs are for private study alone; making money off of them

would violate various copyright laws.

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This song is pretty much centered around the bassline, except for the

guitar

parts during the break (which I have yet to figure out). The appropriate

basslines are:

Part 1 Part 2

G:--------------|--------------||--------------|--------------|

D:--------0--2--|--2--0--------||--------------|--------------|

A:--0--3--------|--------3--0--||--------0--2--|--2--0--------|

E:--------------|--------------||--0--3--------|--------3--0--|

Part 3 Part 4

G:--------------|-----|-----|-----||--------------|

D:--------------|-----|-----|-----||--------------|

A:--0--2--3--5--|--%--|--%--|--7--||--0--2--3--5--|

E:--------------|-----|-----|-----||--------------|

Part 1 gets played over the verses and chorus; Part 2 over the first set

of dit-dit-dit-dit's (4 times)(then 2 times without any lyrics); then

the

guitar goes crazy and plays a rapidly-strummed Am chord while the bass

does

some walking (all this 4x; I don't have the parts for this yet); then

Part 3

is played with the second set of dit's; the guitar goes crazy in Am

again for a

short while; then Part 4 is played twice. Now, after the first verse,

the

second verse is played along with Part 1, and the whole sequence

(described

here) is repeated. After the second verse, the song runs out with Part

2.

(Listen to the recording; then this description will sound natural 8-).)

This

is actually the live version; on the album, P. P. Arnold sings a _very_

fast

lyric over Part 4 (I think), and I haven't checked how it goes out. But

this

is more than a start. Incidentally, each line of lyric is played under

one

repition of Part 1, as written below:

It's not the way you do it, it's more the way you try,

Life is just confusion, and that's the reason why.

Take away the killer, take away his knife,

Take away his reasons, give him back his life.

Oooh, la-la-life. <-- (repeat this line

3x)

Dit dit dit dit. <-- (repeat this line

4x)

That's life. <-- (sneak this bit in)

Dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit yeah, <-- Part 3

Dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit yeah. <-- Part 3

Now he feels his heartbeat, doesn't have a chance,

All the many people, drying in their hands.

He could see the nightmares, now he sees the light,

Giving him no reasons, aggressiveness or fight.

Oooh ... <-- (repeat what you did

for

the first chorus)

transcribed by checkman@math.gatech.edu.

--

Christopher Heckman, checkman@math.gatech.edu

Internet: http://www.math.gatech.edu/~checkman/homepage.html

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