Chords for Bruce Forman - Play Something or Say Something

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_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ We don't need a bunch of copycats.
We need you playing your music and going out and making the
world a better place.
So decide now before you go too deep.
You want to play something or you
want to say something?
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[F] To be brilliant you got to be functional first and if you want to play with
great players you [Bb] got to be functional.
[E] So you got to have a great [Bb] vocabulary [D] of tune knowledge,
of just understanding what's [Gm] possible so that you can hear what's going [Dbm] on around you and [C] you can
complement it.
Instead of playing F sharp half diminished, right?
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_ _ I [Am] can play D9. _ _
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_ Just a whole
other way of working my way through it.
And there's no reason you should ever play licks.
It should always be phrases and if it is a lick here's the problem.
If I use that thing as a lick,
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now I'm done.
Now I have to start a whole new solo.
I've completely finished.
I don't even
have a story I'm telling.
You're given this golden opportunity.
It's called a solo and you need to
figure out what has happened before, what do you think is going to happen after, and how your
statement needs to fit [G] in there.
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