Chords for Chet's Ramble | Tommy Emmanuel
Tempo:
133 bpm
Chords used:
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C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret

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Hi, Tom Emmanuel here.
When the great Chet [G] Atkins and I [F#] were [N]
recording together and songwriting
our songwriting was mainly through the mail in those days.
tapes to each
Melbourne, Australia at that time and Chet was here in Nashville.
ideas to each other, some we finished, some we didn't.
And a year after
When the great Chet [G] Atkins and I [F#] were [N]
recording together and songwriting
our songwriting was mainly through the mail in those days.
tapes to each
Melbourne, Australia at that time and Chet was here in Nashville.
ideas to each other, some we finished, some we didn't.
And a year after
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Hi, Tom Emmanuel here.
When the great Chet [G] Atkins and I [F#] were [N]
recording together and songwriting
together, _ our songwriting was mainly through the mail in those days.
We sent tapes to each
other.
I was still living in Melbourne, Australia at that time and Chet was here in Nashville.
We sent a lot of ideas to each other, _ some we finished, _ some we didn't. _
And a year after
his passing, he died on the 29th of _ _ June 2001, _ and a year later I was in my house in Suffolk
in England _ and I got up really early and I came down to my office and put on some of
[A#] Chet's music and I thought, what can I do to celebrate his life today, to celebrate _
_ _ [G] his influence on me and so many people.
_ [N] _ _ I started digging through some of these tapes
that we'd sent to each other and you know I found this little melody that we didn't
even get to. _
_ He says on the tape, this is my idea for like a fiddle tune, you may want
to write another part and finish it.
But we never did get to do that and I thought, that's
what I can do.
I can write a song with him a year after his passing.
So this is what
was on the tape.
It was like [A] this.
_ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
Sounds like a typical [N] Appalachian _ _ simple melody but
it does sound like it came from a fiddle and Chet was a fiddler.
So I thought, okay, I'll
see if I can make this into a complete piece and I used all the tools at my disposal which
were, if it has a repeating melody, then I change the chords underneath, the bridge
needs to lift off and go somewhere else, we need a key change, we need a surprise somewhere,
we need a good beginning and a good ending and stuff like that.
So I got to work on it
and a couple of hours later I had this finished.
So here it is and I played it for some friends
of mine _ at the Chet Atkins Convention _ when I first had written the song and they both
said, oh it sounds like a ramble, so I called it Chet's Ramble.
Here it is.
It starts out
[G] with the sound _ of a mandolin. _
_ Here we go. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [A] _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _
[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [A] _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ [A] _ _ _
[G] _ _ [F#m] _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [E] _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _
_ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [A] _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [B] _ [A] _ [E] _
[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [A] _
_ _ _ [G] _ [F#m] _ [E] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _
[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [A] _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[D] _ [G] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _
_ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[G] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[A] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ [A] _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ [A] _ _ _
_ [G] _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Dm] _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
When the great Chet [G] Atkins and I [F#] were [N]
recording together and songwriting
together, _ our songwriting was mainly through the mail in those days.
We sent tapes to each
other.
I was still living in Melbourne, Australia at that time and Chet was here in Nashville.
We sent a lot of ideas to each other, _ some we finished, _ some we didn't. _
And a year after
his passing, he died on the 29th of _ _ June 2001, _ and a year later I was in my house in Suffolk
in England _ and I got up really early and I came down to my office and put on some of
[A#] Chet's music and I thought, what can I do to celebrate his life today, to celebrate _
_ _ [G] his influence on me and so many people.
_ [N] _ _ I started digging through some of these tapes
that we'd sent to each other and you know I found this little melody that we didn't
even get to. _
_ He says on the tape, this is my idea for like a fiddle tune, you may want
to write another part and finish it.
But we never did get to do that and I thought, that's
what I can do.
I can write a song with him a year after his passing.
So this is what
was on the tape.
It was like [A] this.
_ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
Sounds like a typical [N] Appalachian _ _ simple melody but
it does sound like it came from a fiddle and Chet was a fiddler.
So I thought, okay, I'll
see if I can make this into a complete piece and I used all the tools at my disposal which
were, if it has a repeating melody, then I change the chords underneath, the bridge
needs to lift off and go somewhere else, we need a key change, we need a surprise somewhere,
we need a good beginning and a good ending and stuff like that.
So I got to work on it
and a couple of hours later I had this finished.
So here it is and I played it for some friends
of mine _ at the Chet Atkins Convention _ when I first had written the song and they both
said, oh it sounds like a ramble, so I called it Chet's Ramble.
Here it is.
It starts out
[G] with the sound _ of a mandolin. _
_ Here we go. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [A] _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _
[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [A] _
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ [A] _ _ _
[G] _ _ [F#m] _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [E] _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _
_ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [A] _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
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[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [A] _
_ _ _ [G] _ [F#m] _ [E] _
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _
[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [A] _
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[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[D] _ [G] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _
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_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _
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_ [G] _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[G] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[A] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Em] _
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_ [G] _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
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_ [Dm] _ [A] _ _ _ _
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