Stray Cat Strut bass tab by Stray Cats

Bass tabs

Song:  "Stray Cat Strut"
Artist: Stray Cats - "Lee Rocker/Bassist"
Album: Built for Speed

Transcribed/Tabbed by: Phillip Trujeque
Any comments, questions, jokes, threats, corrections, thoughts or concerns,
please email me:
[email protected]


Moderate 4/4, Acoustic Bass:
          Gtr. Intro
G|-------|---------|---------|-------|-------|-------|-------||
D|-------|------1--|--| 2 |--|-------|-------|-------|-------||
A|-------|--------3|--|  |--|3-3-1-1|-------|3-3-1-1|-------||
E|8-7-6-5|4-3-1----|---------|-------|4-4-3-3|-------|x-4-3-3||

(Play 4x's: w/"Ooh's")
 Cm Bb7 Ab7 G7
G|-------|-------||
D|-------|-------||
A|3-3-1-1|-------||
E|-------|4-4-3-3||

Verse 1. (Play 2x's)
 Cm Bb7 Ab7 G7 Cm Bb7 Ab7 G7
G|-------|-------|-------|-------||
D|------3|4-5----|-------|-------||
A|3-4-5--|----6-5|3-3-1-1|-------||
E|-------|-------|-------|4-4-3-3||
Black an'
   orange...

G|-------|-------|-----|---------||
D|------3|4-5----|-----|------0-2||
A|3-4-5--|----6-5|3\---|----3----||
E|-------|-------|-----|---------||

 (Play 3x's)
 Fm Eb Db C7
G|-------|-------||
D|3-3-1-1|-------||
A|-------|4-4-3-3||
E|-------|-------||
Stray cat
   strut...

        Cm Bb7 Ab7 G7 Cm Bb7 Ab7 G7
G|-------|-----|-------|-------|-------|-------||
D|3\-----|-----|-------|-------|-------|-------||
A|-------|-----|3-3-1-1|-------|3-3-1-1|-------||
E|-------|-----|-------|4-4-3-3|-------|4-4-3-3||

(Guitar solo I:)
G|------|------|-------|-------|------|------|-----|-----||
D|-0-1-3|4-5---|-------|-------|-0-1-3|4-5---|-----|-----||
A|3-----|---6-5|3-3-1-1|-------|3-----|---6-5|3\---|-----||
E|------|------|-------|4-4-3-3|------|------|-----|-----||

(Pre-chorus:)
 Fm       Cm       Fm      Cm
G|-1-0--|-------|-------|------|-1-0--|-------|-------|-------||
D|3----3|1-1-0--|--1-0--|-0-1-2|3----3|1-0----|-------|-------||
A|------|------4|3-----1|3-----|------|----3-4|5------|--2-5-2||
E|------|-------|-------|------|------|-------|--8-7-5|3------||

(Chorus:Play 3x's)            (Play 2x's)
G|-------|-------|| ||-------|-------|| G|------|-------||
D|--5---3|-------|| ||-------|-------|| D|------|-------||
A|3---1--|-------|| ||3\-----|-------|| A|3--1--|-------||
E|-------|4-4-3-3|| ||-------|-------|| E|--3--1|4-4-3-3||
           I got cat class...
(Bridge:Walk time)
G|------|-------|-------|4-3-0-3|5-3-0--|------|------|------||
D|-0-1-3|4-5-1-0|--1-5-1|-------|------1|-1-0-3|------|-1-0--||
A|3-----|-------|3------|-------|-------|3-----|3-1--1|3----2||
E|------|-------|-------|-------|-------|------|----3-|------||

(Guitar solo II:)
G|------|-------|------|-------|-------|-------||-------|-------||
D|-0-1-3|4-5-1-0|------|-------|-------|-------||-------|-------||
A|3-----|-------|3--1--|-------|3-3-1-1|-------||3\-----|-------||
E|------|-------|--3--1|4-4-3-3|-------|4-4-3-3||-------|-------||

(Pre-chorus:)
 Fm       Cm       Fm      Cm
G|-1-0--|-------|-------|------|-1-0--|-------|-------|-------||
D|3----3|1-1-0--|--1-0--|-0-1-2|3----3|1-0----|-------|-------||
A|------|------4|3-----1|3-----|------|----3-4|5------|--2-5-2||
E|------|-------|-------|------|------|-------|--8-7-5|3------||

(Chorus:Play 3x's)
G|-------|-------|| ||-------|-------||
D|-------|-------|| ||-------|-------||
A|3-3-1-1|-------|| ||3\-----|-------||
E|-------|4-4-3-3|| ||-------|-------||

 Outro:                 {///trem. pick///}
G|-------|---------|----------|------------|-----------||
D|-------|------1--|--|gtr.|--|------------|-----------||
A|-------|--------3|--|lick|--|--0-2-3--{3}|{3}--------||
E|8-7-6-5|4-3-1----|----------|3-----------|-----------||

The End.

This was originally tabbed by [email protected]
I re-tabbed this bass line since the last version was incomplete.
I had to learn this bass line and program it on my Zoom 234 Drum Machine.
While learning it I went through each measure and jotted note-for-note (which was pretty tough) as tabliture so it'll be easier to program to the Zoom.