Chords for Amos Garrett - Part 1

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[Dm] _ I've [Bbm] been hearing the [G] sounds of your guitar without realizing that they're [Am] guitars, [B] largely
because they often don't sound like [C] guitar.
[G] Since before [C] I was aware [B] of what it [Gm] was, I was a little kid, my parents had 10 [G] excellent
records in [Am] their collection.
[G] That's the only records they had, they had 10.
And Maria Mulder with Midnight at the Oasis, of course, [E] I'm sure you're sick of hearing
about this, but that [C] was one of the ones.
[D] Never sick.
Never [G] sick of hearing about the hit.
Right.
_ I guess not.
[Gb] So [Em] I've been aware of that sort [Gm] of slippery, mysterious [Bb] Telecaster stuff [D] since before I
knew that it was even a guitar.
_ One of the things I find really interesting about your playing and about your career,
I suppose, especially [Em] as a band leader, [D] is that although your music is really colorful
and you're probably, to [Bm] those who are [C] aware of your playing, you're probably [G] among the
most colorful guitar players that have ever been and have ever banded a note.
You gravitate back to the blues frequently.
[Am] [D] Yeah.
Yeah, [Ab] I do.
It [C] permeates _ all the kinds of music that I [Ab] like.
[A] I mean, _ [Dm] _ what _ [Ab] I'm doing now, [B] for the most part, is [Gb] I've sort of [Eb] morphed into a jazz musician.
I [C] always was one.
[G] But I was kind of afraid to try to make a living playing [D] jazz.
It's got to be the most [G] difficult profession [Gb] in _ any kind of rooted music.
But _ I found _ my _ group's motto now, my new jazz group's motto, is bringing the blues back to jazz.
Because it's sort of sadly missing in contemporary jazz now.
But we're in the golden era of _ _ _ bebop.
It just permeated the music of Miles Davis and Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk and
[N] all the giants of that era.
So that's what we're sort of doing.
When I'm playing, if I'm warming up before a gig or if I'm sitting by myself or if I
decide I should practice my guitar, I find _ myself_
It seems to be blues first and foremost.
In fact, I have to force myself to think outside of that.
And I find myself always thinking, okay, I need to find a more interesting way to play
around the five chord, [C] to navigate my way through the turnaround.
And it seems like it's three chords, and I've been noodling on these three chords and this pentatonic scale.
I mean, it's not just that fundamental necessarily, but for a long time.
And there's still a lot of [G] mystery in that.
Like, how do you_
There's still a lot of_
I still scratch my head when I find a cool way to play around the five chord or those turnarounds.
And there's a lot of mystery in those [Ab] simple three chords.
Yeah, that's a fun area to get into to find out ways to play a [A] five chord [G] like _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ an _ _ _ _ eleventh
chord, which is sort of [G] a_
It's like a ninth chord with a sus four.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ So where can you be in now if you're in G?
So you're thinking of that as a five chord?
Yeah.
_ Yeah. _
[Bm] _ _ _ [D] Yeah, I'm thinking of this as a D chord.
A D chord, okay.
[C] _ _ If you were [G] playing_
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Yeah.
[G] And you just walked over jump changes.
You just did a one, six, two, five kind of thing at the end.
Okay.
Yeah.
_ _ Or [A] a one, _ [B] two_ _ _ _ _
No.
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[B] You might come down from a three chord that's played like this, _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [E] _
flat five, [Am] _ two, and then
that [D] sus'd _ _ _ _ like that.
_ [Am] _ [Bb] You just [G] resolved it like that?
_ [D] You just resolved it by taking this?
Yes, I did.
And [Am] just dropping that one note?
Yeah.
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Awesome.
[Gb] _ _ _ There was an R [D]&B instrumental, I think it was called Rollercoaster, that was [C] a_
_ Whoops, [D] hangnail. _ _ _
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And then there was [Bm] sort of a_
Three, [Em] _ real [Am] minor, two_
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_ [Fm] Yeah.
_ Cool.
Wow.
There you go.
There's a chord [E] I've never played. _ _
It's a beauty.
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