Tablature baba oreilly - The Who

          



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  Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:19:13 -0500

  Subject: (Crd) The Who--Baba O'Reilly

  From: lancelot@pipeline.com (Andrew Paul Cherry)

  

  The Who--Baba O'Reilly 

   

  Starts out on a synth, but using two guitars: 

   

  Guitar 1: 

   

  Finger  

  e  x 

  B  x 

  G 10 

  D 10 

  A   8  

  E  x 

   

  Pick quickly A-A-D-D-G-G-D-D-A-A-D-D-G-G-D-D (all sixteenth notes) over and

  over  

  (Technically, this is until the end of the song, when the violin comes in.)

  

   

  Guitar 2: 

   

  Finger: 

  e  13 

  B 13 

  G 10 

  D  x 

  A  x 

  E  x 

   

  Pick quickly G-G-B-B-e (The G and B strings are played as sixteenth, the e

  is picked as an eighth) 

   

  After 5 repetitions, the piano enters, after four piano and synth parts,

  the drums and bass enter.  The piano and bass play a simple 

  F-C-Bb progression 

   

  For guitar in place of piano, it is played 

   

        F                                            C     Bb 

  e    5                                             3      1 

  B    6                                             5      3 

  G    5                                             5      3 

  D    x                                             x      x   

  A    x                                             x      x 

  E    x                                             x      x 

   

  The first verse is played the same way: 

   

  F               C     Bb 

  Out here in the fields 

  I fight for my meals  

  I get my back into my living 

  I don't need to fight  

  To prove I'm right 

  I don't need to be forgiven 

  (yeah yeah yeah yeah ye-ah!) 

  NOW Townshend throws in the power chords along the same rhythm (F-C-Bb) 

  Play that pattern 5 times, then it softens for the bridge: 

  Play C5 three times, then softly strum a first-position C chord 

  (With the opening F5 synth pattern only:) 

  Don't cry 

  Don't raise your eyes 

  It's only a teenage wasteland 

   

  The chords ring in again, with bass and drums, the synth still rolling 

  Sally take my hand 

  We'll travel south cross land 

  Put out the fire but don't look past my shoulder 

  The exodus is here 

  The happy won't come near 

  Let's get together before we get much older 

   

  A soft guitar solo, in the same key, but one I can't figure out yet. 

   

  Hitting a few F5 chords, the drums and bass ring back in and the bar chords

  return in the F-C-Bb pattern: 

  Teenage wasteland! 

  Teenage wasteland! 

  Teenage wasteland, oh yeah! 

  Teenage wasteland! 

  They're all wasted! 

   

  F-F-C-C-Bb-Bb-C-C 

   

  Tab: 

  F chord: 

  e: -12-13-15--12-13-15-1213-15 

  Repeat, over a C then Bb chord, then, over C 

  e: -15-13-15-13-15-12--15-13-15-12-13-15-12-----15 

   

  The violin comes in over the synth part, which fades out as the violin

  plays until the end, when the synth returns for a crescendo up onto yet

  again the F5 chord. 

   

  A classic, a masterpiece--only Pete Townshend (although any group doing

  this without Keith Moon on drums loses something!) 

   

  Kevin Cherry 

   

  lancelot@pipeline.com 

  00cherry@cua.edu 

   

  "Fletch, this time you goofed big. . .in the story of yours we ran  

       Wednesday, you have recent quotes from a man who's been      dead two

  years. . . ." 

  "At least give me a chance to check my sources." 

  "Like who?  Saint Peter?  You get him on the line, I want to know." 

   

  __Gregory Mcdonald, "Fletch and the Widow Bradley"

  

   


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