Do You Feel Loved Bass Tab

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Here's the version I firgured out for 'Do You Feel Loved' by U2.

(Standard Tuning)


D|----0--3-3--5-5----5-5--3-3--0-0----
(play X 10)


D|----0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---------------------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5

A|-----------------------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-
(play X 3)

D|----0--3-3--5-5----5-5--3-3--0-0----
(play X 2)

Rest for 8 measures

D|----0--3-3--5-5----5-5--3-3--0-0----
(play X 2)

D|----0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--------------------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5

A|-----------------------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-
(play X 3)

D|----3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5


D|----0--3-3--5-5----5-5--3-3--0-0
(play X 10)

D|----0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--------------------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5

A|-----------------------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-
(play X 2)

D|----3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5


D|----3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--5-5-5-5--/12
(play X 2)

D|----0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--------------------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5

A|-----------------------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-
(play X 2)

D|----0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-
A|-----------------------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3


D|----0--3-3--5-5----5-5--3-3--0-0
(play X 6)
FADE OUT



That's my interpretation...hope you find it useful....

Aaron Jauch
marchwolf@geocities.com


This is the main bass riff to "Do You Feel Loved":

(might want to tune down 1/2 step...)

E (low E): ---0-0--3-3--5-5----5-5--3-3--0-0--------
this is pretty much the whole song!

corrections, etc... to:
Mark Greenberg at mark80@microtec.net


This is an addition/correction to the bass tab for Do You Feel Loved?
Rhythm409@aol.com

Tuning: D A D G 

Verse:
Low D-------0-3-3-3---5-5---5-5-3-3---0-0

Chorus:
D--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-------------------------------------------------
A-------------------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--------------------------------
D-----------------------------------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5

So basically the verse is D F G F
and the chorus is D C F G 

Note: This is not a complete transcription. I'll post more when I finish.

-Rhythm

-Correction-

Do You Feel Loved
tabbed by LiNsAi oksenberg@globalserve.net
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/9185
This is the main bass riff :

G------------------------------------------------
D---------3-3------5-5-----5-5-----3-3-----------
A--5-5-------------------------------------5-5---
E------------------------------------------------
First I played the song the way it was posted, it sounded okay, but this I
figured
out sounds better!
If anyone knows the rest of this song, e-mail it to me please! 


Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/u/u2/113029.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture James Wanna Be	#1 by James Wareing at Jul 29, 1970 at 6:00 PM EST
	it is indeed a fantastic song, and POP is a great album, that is always overlooked by achtung and the Tree.

No Picture Jared Wanna Be	#2 by Jared at Oct 11, 1976 at 12:13 PM EST
	and one more thing..."it looks like the sun, but it feels like the rain" reminds me a lot of a mirrorball. which is an enduring icon in the album!

No Picture Evans Average	#3 by Evans at Feb 1, 1982 at 12:47 AM EST
	i think you guys are failing to see the big picture and sadly enough i mean taking the song for what it really is... Bono declared that this song is the 2nd part to discotheque which according to him is about the drug Ecstasy. We all know Ecstasy give people a euphoric sense of love of everyone around them hence "do you feel loved?" whether its true or drug induced. also, the drug is assosciated with clubbing and disco "heavy rhytthm taking over" and "pushing and shoving" are all reminders that this scenario takes place in a night club of some sort. all that symbolic ranting in the song about "turn it into your own prayer" just relates to how collectivelly people behave when in such an evirnonment. its not a personal song, its probably the most generic song the band have ever written. just think of how people at a rave party almost behave like a congregation at a church

No Picture Kubota35 Professional	#4 by Kubota35 at Feb 24, 1984 at 7:56 PM EST
	bono said this against the fans who make him and and the band out to be their kind of god, he is saying enjoy our music but dont worship us.

No Picture Sarah Wanna Be	#5 by Sarah Reiske at May 9, 1988 at 2:12 AM EST
	I love this song, the sound of it is just awesome.. it was such a stretch for U2 to make something like this. But anyway, this song is either about two people caught up in a very lustful relationship, or two people who are in a volitale, lustful relationship.. Either way, sex is an obvious element in the story.

No Picture Danyboi Average	#6 by Danyboi at Jun 11, 1992 at 4:27 PM EST
	certainly an interesting theory, and well backed-up, eire, but I think it overlooks a few things. "Stick together, a man and woman" is too firm a bond for a fan-rockstar relationship, I think. Then there's the final line, "There's heat in the sun to see us through the rain." What metaphorical rain could there be in a relationship of a fan-rockstar?

No Picture Lee Professional Badass	#7 by Lee the bass player, known as blacktooth90™ at Aug 16, 1993 at 4:21 PM EST
	It seems to be about the ups and downs of a relationship 'theirs heat in the sun to see us through the rain' - its about sticking together.

No Picture PalaNIN Wanna Be	#8 by PalaNIN at Jan 3, 1998 at 2:23 AM EST
	i think this song is still about the relationaship between two lovers. in the first verse and chorus he kind mocks the woman becausehe feels she is mistaking love as acquiring things from the man. his tone is apathetic and numb, saying that his possessions are useless. he is saying that love is not about giving or receiving. he's asking, what good does smelling his scent do to the woman? nothing, in terms of love. that's my 2 cent. i love this song for both its lyric and music.

No Picture Ben Average	#9 by Ben G. at Aug 29, 1998 at 8:20 PM EST
	I completely agree with eirenightshade, she actually nailed it. Bono is singing to a fan who worships him, he says that she can take his hands that she appreciate so much, but they actually never done anything for her, and it is true that Bono never worked a day in something that it's not music. The boots, the shirt, etc. represent those objects that the fans worship so much just because they belonged to a rock star. Then, he ask himself, or maybe he asks the fans: do you feel loved? Is this somehat sick relationship really love? The metaphor "it looks like the sun, but it feels like the rain", well... when you see Bono everyone would like to be in his place, you see a rock star, you see someone famous and rich, but those things that people would envy him, he feel tired and sick of them, and they have their prize, they feel... like the rain. "There's heat in the sun, to see us through the rain" hmmm... not sure about this, but maybe that beneath that rock star, if "take a look inside" you can see the real thing about being a rock star, but I'm not so sure. There's a chance that maybe even Bono doesn't know what it means but the line sounds great, LOL. All in all, it's a song about fame but mixed with a sex song, or maybe about sex with a fan...

No Picture matthew Rhythm Player	#10 by matthew robinson at Jan 19, 2002 at 10:37 AM EST
	once again, i keep on refering to my son, in a year or so i will play this song to him and just look at him during the line " DO YOU FEEL LOVED" thats what matters... if the love you send to anybody is being received. but than again grat to see that evrybody has its own itn. of lyrics thats what makes bono's lyrics so universe!!!

No Picture Duncan Musical Genius	#11 by Duncan Jones at Nov 19, 2004 at 1:02 AM EST
	yup, i heard this and thought 'yahweh' straight away.

No Picture Prince Alex Lead Player	#12 by Prince Alex at Jan 21, 2005 at 4:59 PM EST
	It's a heavy question to pose to anyone, even yourself: "Do YOU feel loved?" It's a very underappreciated song, like somebody said.

No Picture mike Wanna Be	#13 by mike ballard at Oct 28, 2005 at 6:25 AM EST
	This is a very sexy song but at the same time, I feel that it has very little if anything to do with sex as the lyric might suggest. I think that this song isn't about a man and a woman at all but about U2's relationship with their fans. I've always had a suspicion "Do You Feel Loved" was sort of written to the die hard fans who idolize U2. Every line in this song deals with the idea of someone having a love affair with the lyricist in their imagination. I think the message he's trying to convey in this song is that he feels somewhat violated by the people who worship him and who always want of piece of him. He's sort of taking a look into the minds of his die hard fans and seeing how obsessed with him some people really are. "Take this tangle of a conversation and turn it into your own prayer" meaning that he's realizing what it means to some people just that he's spoken to them. In this song he's kind of mocking the idea of how some fans actually are to a point where they worship him. In their minds, he's objectified and made to be a puppet where the specific fan is pulling the strings. I think this song is a light hearted way to laugh off how obsessed people have become with him. He's trying to say he enjoys that people like him but he doesn't want to be worshipped.