After Hours Bass Tab

The Velvet Underground Tabs:

After Hours »

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Song: After Hours
Artist: The Velvet Underground
Album: The Velvet Undergound
Tabbed By: HamburgerSchool

Riff 1 (=Verse)

G|---------------------------------
D|---------------------------------
A|-3-3-3-3----------5-5-5-5--------    
E|---------5-5-5-5----------3-3-3-3     


Riff 2 (=Chorus)

G|--------------------------------------
D|--------------------------------------
A|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3----------------------    
E|------------------1-r-r-r-1-----------    r = rest for a few seconds  

then play this

G|--------------------------------------------
D|--------------------------------------------
A|-3-3-3-3----------5-5-5-5---------3-3-3-3---    
E|---------5-5-5-5----------3-3-3-3-----------


Riff 3 (=Bridge)

G|-----------------|----------------------|-----------
D|-----------------|----------------------|-----------
A|-0-0-----0-0-----|-0-0-----0-0----------|-----------    
E|-----0-0-----0-0-|-----0-0-----5-5-4-3--|----------- 

"Dark Party Bars..."  "..trains"

G|--------------------|-----------------------------
D|--------------------|-----------------------------
A|-5-5-----5-5--------|-----------------------------
E|-----5-5-----5-5----|-1------------------------3---  

"Looking grey..."   "...people look well in the dark       
  

Riff 4 (=Last Chorus)

G|--------------------------------------------------------------
D|--------------------------------------------------------------
A|-----5--5--------------------3--3--3--------------------------    
E|-----------------3--3---------------------5-------------------

"I'll never have to see the day again"


The Order of the Song

Riff 1 x2
Riff 2 x1
Riff 1 x2
Riff 2 x1
Riff 3 x1
Riff 1 x1
Riff 2 x1
Riff 4 x3

Thats it, i think its pretty accurate, at least it sounds right.

Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/v/velvet_underground,_the/121682.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Brandon Average	#1 by Brandon Dunzer at Apr 26, 1977 at 5:34 PM EST
	"If you close the door, the night could last forever" if you shut me out of your life, i don't think i can fall asleep "but if you close the door, I'd never have to see the day again." you can let me die, no more pain

No Picture Bass Rhythm Player	#2 by Bass Master Kid at Oct 18, 1987 at 5:00 AM EST
	oh, can't get enough of this song....and i don't want to sound ignorant...'cos i love this band and don't think i'm totally ignorant, but does Nico sing this one? i just can't be sure.

No Picture Dan Wanna Be	#3 by Dan Temple at Jan 11, 1988 at 9:43 AM EST
	one of my favorite songs ever! I think the song meaning is pretty self explanatory so I won't get into it cause everyone else pretty much hit it head on, but yea great song!

No Picture GRIM Professional	#4 by GRIM at Oct 26, 1988 at 12:58 AM EST
	i think this song is about suicide and loneliness. 'If you close the door, the night could last forever' (if you kill yourself, youll be dead forever) Keep the sunshine out (being alone from everyone 'sunshine') 'Say hello to never' (nothing when your dead) All the people are dancing and they're havin such fun I wish it could happen to me (envying other people lives) but if you close the door, I'd never have to see the day again. (if you kill yourself, youll never live again) or this song could be about sex. self explanatory- 'if you close the door, the night could last forever)

No Picture zakk Wanna Be	#5 by zakk at Nov 20, 1988 at 2:13 PM EST
	this song to me, is about never having to face the grim realities of life again, i think lou reed is taking the piss when he wrote(not sang) the line about someone looking into their eyes... hed rather drink and live in seclusion, than face the outside world, this is clearly a delicate matter for him, as he said tht he could never sing a song as innocent as that, moe tucker has a lovely voice

No Picture Kyle Average	#6 by Kyle at Oct 13, 1996 at 5:14 AM EST
	this song makes me think of the great gatsby and the parties that gatsby threw. i actually plan to incorporate this song into a powerpoint about fitzgerald.

No Picture Jesse Wanna Be	#7 by Jesse at Nov 18, 1998 at 5:13 AM EST
	This has always played as a bedroom scene to me until honey said "after hours bar" and suddenly the picture being painted clicked into place. Either way, it's the same kind of intimacy yr after--keeping the rest of the world outside and feeling like you could someday be someone's very special one. It's nice how the lyric switches from "but" to "and" to "cause." It's as if the idea is manifesting itself into reality throughout the song. She's willing the door to be closed. And the people look well in the dark.