Monday, May 6, 2024

"That's All I Ever Want from You Baby"

This morning, I transcribed a couple more lines of the bass part in "That's All I Ever Want from You Baby" (I've been slowly writing it out since I learned it a few months ago), and I realized something about the choruses.  The bass part is different every time, but the first two iterations are something like this:


The lyrics also vary, but they're something like:
That is all I ever want
That is all I ever want
That is all I ever want from you, baby
In the first two iterations of the chorus, the bass plays diatonically ascending phrases spanning an octave (F to F), and these phrases highlight (and even literally underline) the "all"s in the lyrics because every note in the song's key is included.