Without Love chords by The Doobie Brothers

Chords with lyrics

Without Love
Doobie Brothers

Tabbed by: Art Abrahams
**this file is all my own work**

Here's the basic framework:
Play with a scratchy 16ths funk style with a lot of fret hand muting
between whole chords.

standard tuning:

riff 1:             riff 1.2
  Gm7Gm7                Am7Am7
  *   *   *   *       *   *   *   *  🏷Legend:
[--9/10-10-------10-----9]   [--17-17-17-17-17-17-17-]
[-10/11-11-------11----10]   [--18-18-18-18-18-18-18-] / - slide
[--9/10-10-------10-----9]   [--17-17-17-17-17-17-17-] h - hammer on
[-11/12-12-------12----11]   [--19-19-19-19-19-19-19-] * - beat marker
[--9/10-10-------10-----9]   [--17----------17-------]
[------------------------]   [-----------------------]
  *   *   *   *
 riff 1a (for guitar 2):
[-10-10-10-------10----10]    Intro: (riff 1)   X 4
[-10h11-11-------11----10]    Verse: (riff 1/1a) X 3, (riff 1.2) X 1
[-10-10-10-------10----10]       or (riff 1b/1c) X 4
[-12-12-12-------12----12]    Chorus: (riff 2)   X 1, (riff1/1a) X 2
[-10-10-10-------10----10]        (riff 3)   X 1, (riff1/1a) X 2
[------------------------]    Fade out on verse...

 riff 1b             riff 1c
  *   *   *   *       *   *   *   *
[-10--------------------9]   [-10----10----10----10--9]
[-11-------------------10]   [-11----11----11----11-10]  (in both cases
[-10--------------------9]   [-10----10----10----10--9] drop the Am7Am7 chord
[-12-------------------11]   [-12----12----12----12-11] (riff 1.2)and playX4)
[-10--------------------9]   [-10----10----10----10--9]
[------------------------]   [------------------------]
(sub this riff for the     (sub this riff for the
"illanoan central" verse)    "pistons keep on turnin'" verse)

 riff 2:
  Cm7Cm7
  *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
[--3-----3--------3-----3--3-3---3--------3-----3]
[--4-----4--------4-----3--3h4---4--------4-----3]
[--3-----3--------3-----3--3-3---3--------3-----3]
[--5-----5--------5-----5--5-5---5--------5-----5]
[--3-----3--------3-----3--3-3---3--------3-----3]
[------------------------------------------------]
 riff 3
  G minorGm           F# minorF#m     F minorFm
  *OR: *   *   *   *OR: *   *OR: *
[--3---X-------------------2---X-------1---X-----]
[--3---X-------------------2---X-------1---X-----]
[--3---X-------------------2---X-------1---X-----]
[--5--12-------------------4--11-------3--10-----]
[--5--10-------------------4---9-------3---8-----]
[--3---X-------------------2---X-------1---X-----]

This part of the chorus (riff 3) the bass walks the G, F#, FF on the A augmentedA string.
You can double this with the guitar (as above) or with a F#5, F5F5 or play
an arpeggio anywhere on the fretboard with a m, m7, 7, 5 chord; however it
fits into your arrangement.