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Let’s See Action – bass tab

Let's See Action | bass tab
by The Who, 1971
>From Thirty Years Of Maximum R&B, 1994
Written by Pete Townshend ©1971 Towser Tunes, Inc./Fabulous Music Ltd.

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Tabbed by Colin

2012-01-28                                       Whotabs www.thewho.net/whotabs/


This may not be 100% accurate, but it's close enough. Entwistle's too good of a 
bass player for me to hit every single one of the notes spot-on.

Verses
|-----------------------------------3-------------------------|
|---------------------------------------3-3-------------------|
|-3-3-0---3-3-0---3-3-0---3-3-0---1---1-----0-3-3-0---3-3-0---|
|-------3-------3-------3-------3-------------------3-------3-|

Play this during the guitar solo
|-------------------------------------------3-------------------------|
|----10-10\----10-10\----10-10\----10-10\-------3-3-------------------|
|-3-3-------3-3-------3-3-------3-3-------1---1-----0-3-3-0---3-3-0---|
|-----------------------------------------------------------3-------3-| x2

Then repeat the verse part only twice

This is the "Give me a drink, boy, wash my feet..." part
|-17-16-14----------17-16-14-------------|
|----------17-15-17----------17-15-17----|
|-------------------------------------15-|
|----------------------------------------| x2

Then here is the "I don't know where I'm going..." part
|--------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|
|----------3-2-0-----------------------------------|
|-1-1--3-3-------3-1-2-6-6-3-3-3-3-3---------------|

Repeat the verse part four more times after this

This part goes on throughout the whole rest of the song, during the "Nothing is 
everything..." part that fades out at the end of the song
|-------|
|-8-----|
|---8---|
|-----8-|

That should be it. It's one of the Ox's more simpler bass lines from the 
Lifehouse/Who's Next era, so it shouldn't be too hard to learn (it wasn't too 
hard to transcribe, either). Enjoy this tab and get some use out of it.

Long live rock! (I need it every night)


#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#
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#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
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