Chords for Alter Bridge: Livestream Q&A (Part 1)

All right, so we just kick in we just started with the with the questions from [A] you all here and
The first one is from Nancy Dietrich.
Hi, Nancy
_ _ Question is from me miles.
How are you holding up vocally and [F] otherwise with these back-to-back [G#] tours? _
Okay, so far.
I wasn't I wasn't sure at first but
Things are things seem to be going [Gm] well unless I get a cold or a flu [F#] or something that that kind of derails it
for a few days, but
[G#] _
_ It's holding up question _ _
So Corbett four four four four s will alter bridge continue to make albums in the future
_ _ _ [Em] _
_ Of course we're gonna make albums in the future _
[F#] _ we we love working together [C#] and
You know, we'll keep on trying to make it on trying to make every record
something a little different than the last and hopefully a little better than the last and
_ I'm [A#] trying to not make it three years this time
_ next [G] question is from
_ _ Andre Paulin, I believe.
Hey guys
What's one thing you've learned from the past from past experiences with other bands that you feel is now contributing to the success of altar bridge?
_ _ _ _ _ _ Let's see, _ _ _ _ I guess _
What would be one thing that we've learned?
I don't know you have any ideas there.
I think the more you [F] perform
live the more you
[D] _ _ [F] _ Develop as a [Em] songwriter or a or a musician
_ _ You know the more you're challenged the better you're going to get so the more experience you have
You're gonna get you're gonna get better.
Hopefully and that's what I think staying busy on all the fronts that that
We are at this moment.
I think helps us
Be better.
Yeah, definitely.
I think it's like a muscle the more you use it
You know the stronger it gets I know for me even as a singer it seems like [G] I'm
_ [F] kind of uncomfortable with [F#] downtime because generally
[C#] _ I feel like the the [F] strength of the instrument kind of diminishes if I [E] sit around [F] and it's like really kind of relearning how to do [G#m] it
_ so [Gm] constantly touring and [F#] performing and recording just just keeps it I think keeps the keeps I
Guess [Fm] from [Cm] getting cold [F#] and kind of [B] warming down _ _ _
Let's see here
_ [A#] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Chuck's revenge miles.
[A#] Do you think you'd be where you are now if you hadn't studied music?
I
_ don't think so I think that the fact that [F#] I
_ went to [F] school and and studied [G] I
_ Studied jazz and I studied [F] popular music and [G] and learned [F#] theory and did all that stuff _
[A] That was really really useful.
[G] It's been useful for me [E] for the last, you know, [F] 20 years.
[G] _ I
think that the
The saying that I I learned actually I [F] think Billy Sheehan I heard this [E] from Billy Sheehan
Great bass player.
He said, you [G] know, you got you got to know the [E] rules before you can break them
[F#] And I always thought that was a very true.
[F] You know, it's it's good just to have that [D#] foundation
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
Question I know you guys have wives and kids back home.
How do you deal with being without them so much?
Are you [F] with them often on the road?
Well
_ Yeah, I have two kids and it's the hardest [E] part about doing [F#m] what I do is being apart from them
When we just did the Creed tour last year, they [F] were out there the whole time
So that wasn't that wasn't bad.
But this last altar bridge tour over in Europe.
We did eight [D#] weeks _ [E] and
You know, I flew back in the middle for my two-year-olds birthday and
Got to see him which was a big
big moment for me to be able to spend those few days it really helps out but
[A] _
you know, it's
We're not [G] nine-to-five kind [F] of dads that that the kids only get to see at nighttime, you know
when we're at home, we're 24 [E] hour day dads and
[F] I'm just I'm about to have [E] three months off here and in about a week or so
I'll be spending [F] plenty plenty of [E] time with my kids and I think it all evens out in the long [A#] run
_ _ [A] _ Next question is from Alex J.
Sopp, I believe
_ Miles who are your major influences when it comes to [G] singing?
_ There's so many _ I think that
Stevie Wonder [F#] and Stevie [F] Wonder in particular was was was huge for me starting out because I used to just sit in my car and
And in [G] practicing with him
_ Marvin Gaye
_ _ Jeff Buckley was a huge [F#] influence _
[F] I consider him to be one of the greatest singers in the last 20 years for sure
_ [G] _ Robert plant was definitely an influence, you know, I actually I think
_ [G] because I listened to so much Zeppelin when I was [Fm] growing up and I
Was learning a lot of Jimmy Page's guitar parts because I started as a guitar player and I think that through listening to that
that Roberts _
Approach definitely [F] was was was an influence just because I absorbed [A#] so much of that [G] so many of those records
_ _ [F#] Yeah, there's so many that's that's a you [G] know another guy I don't I actually don't bring up enough is a guy named [F] Chris Whitley
[F#] who actually was a
Passed away a few years ago, but [G] he recorded one of my favorite records [F] of all time.
It's [E] called dirt floor
[D#m] It's just him and a resonator [F] and it's brilliant.
If you haven't
[E] Haven't heard him definitely check him out a huge influence [A#] on me _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ Just beats Jonas asks, how do you guys [F] deal with writers block?
[E] _ _ _ Me [G] personally if I'm [F] feeling like I'm having writers [E] block I will tune my guitar differently and usually that _ _ _
Gives me a fresh slate to work with and it's usually inspiring for me, you know, just starting over and
And _ [F] then if I run into another wall with [E] that tuning
I'll find another tuning until I write something if I [F] don't write anything [N] after that.
I'll just quit for the day _ _ _ _ _
_ _ this is from
Maran Reba or I believe that's that's what it is miles.
What are you doing to warm up your vocals before show?
[A] _ _ _
It's it's very
Marking a test this it's it's it sounds horrible.
[F#] It's very disturbing.
So I'm sorry.
Show us a little no
_ _ _ I do [G#] about an [G] hour's hour to an hour and a half's worth of [E] like _
All sorts of [G#m] scales and [G] arpeggios and and [F] things basically just to get things and get things moving, right?
_ [F#] it's a [A#] it's not very
[G] It's not very pleasing to the ear
So I try [F#] and find a room somewhere where nobody can hear me because it's kind of embarrassing
But I find that if I don't do it
And the show definitely suffers and I can just put more strain on my voice and it can affect the it actually will affect
_ You know, not just that show but you know subsequent shows so
_ [F] It's it's it's it's definitely very important for me and part of my nightly ritual to to do the warm-up
I'm almost superstitious if I [E] don't do it, then you know, I get kind of frazzled.
[F] So _ _
_ _ [E] Laura not Croft says if you could tour with any band, who would it be?
_ _ _ _ [A#] _
_ _ _ I
Could list plenty, [E] _ you know, I'd like to tour with Metallica.
I'd like to tour with _
Iron Maiden a
_ [F#] _ _
Lot of a lot of the old-school bands that that we were fans of growing up I'd like to tour with _ _ you mouth _
Um
_ _ That's a good question.
I [G] mean, I'd love to tour with Mastodon [C#] just so I could watch him every [Dm] night. _
[D#] I
Definitely would want us [G] to open so that I after we're [F#] done.
I could go just sit there and take notes.
[A#] Yeah, those guys are great
[G] _ _
[E] _ _ What other questions we got here let's do I _ _ think we've got all these on this page, yeah
[D#] _ _ I'm gonna play another song
Should we play another song while we wait?
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, in fact
_ Leading to this song if we have [Fm] a question from Jordan and [Gm] he's asking or she's asking
[F#] _
[G#] what [G] model tailors are you playing right now and which is your favorite [D] and
_ [A#] The wonderful life I [C#] used the 614.
I think mark did too.
I'm not sure _ _ _
714 714 and
And _ we're about to play in just a few minutes here
Here's another 714 right here.
So I think the 714 are
[D#] _ _
Cedar tops and [E] and
[A] Rosewood backs and I think that those are [G] I should really know this but [D#] yeah, they're great guitars
They sound they sound awesome
[N] _