• Song:

    I Want It To Be

  • Artist:

    Tonic

  • Album:

    Tonic

Tonic - 'I Want It To Be'
From the album 'Tonic' (2010)
Standard tuning, capo first fret on both guitars
tabbed by jjhand

Intro/Verse (Lead part, with fast echo) 0:00 - 0:37
    Ab (xx1114@1)        Cm (x3101x@1)                     BbF (x1333x@1)|-------7-----------7----|-------7-----------5----|
C |-8-----------7----------|-7-----------5----------|
Ab|----7-----7-----7-----7-|----7-----7-----6-----6-|
Eb|------------------------|------------------------|
Bb|------------------------|------------------------|
F |------------------------|------------------------|

Verse (Rhythm part) 0:15-0:37

|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-----------------|
|---------------------------------|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|
|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3/7-7-7-7-7-7-7-5-|-----------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|



Chorus - Rhythm Part (Lead plays Verse)
|--3---------------2--------------|-2-----------0--------------|
|--0---------------3--------------|-3-----------2--------------|
|--0--*8x*---------4--*8x*--------|-2--*8x*-----2--*8x*--------|
|--0---------------4--------------|-0-----------2--------------|
|--2---------------2--------------|-0-----------0--------------|
|--3------------------------------|----------------------------|

Verse 2 - Lead keeps playing same part, Rhythm strums chords in Chorus but muted

Play Chorus Again

Bridge - play 2x
|-------------------|-------------------|------------------|------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|------------------|------------------|
|-----9~~-------9~~-|-----9~~-------9~~-|-----9~~------9~~-|-----9~~------9~~-|
|-------------------|-------------------|------------------|------------------|
|-------------------|-7~~-------7~~-----|------------------|------------------|
|-7~~-------7~~-----|-------------------|-3~~------3~~-----|-2~~------2~~-----|

Before Final chorus, Guitar 1 plays:

F |-------7-----------7----|-------7--------------|
C |-8-----------7----------|-7-----------5--------|
Ab|----7-----7-----7-----7-|----7-----6-----------|
Eb|------------------------|----------------------|
Bb|------------------------|----------------------|
F |------------------------|----------------------|



Play Chorus Riff Again 2x, then strum these chords with similar rhythm:

play this 4x                                                   end
|-0-------------3-----------|----------------------------|   |-----|
|-0-------------0-----------|----------------------------|   |-----|
|-0-------------0-----------|-7--------------------------|   |-----|
|-2----*8x*-----0----*8x*---|-7----*8x*----7---*8x*------|   |--5--|
|-2-------------2-----------|-5------------7-------------|   |--5--|
|-0-------------3-----------|--------------5-------------|   |--3--|

Hold out last chord while intro plays again

KEY
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| /   slide up
|    slide down
| h   hammer-on
| p   pull-off
| ~   vibrato
| +   harmonic
| 8x  strum eight times
| b   Bend

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