Chords for Christina Aguilera - At Last Masterclass (Etta James)

_ At last, in particular, I chose for this particular class because the vowel sounds in it are actually
really great to work with and explore.
To have the opportunity to really _ elongate and figure out your tone and vocal approach
because it's a slow moving song and it builds and it has its opportunity and its freedom
and space to _ figure out how you want to place your rhythm, your pace, your timing, and you
can just have fun with this song.
This song allows you the freedom to move and work your way through it, weaving in and out
and feeling your own interpretation out with it.
Let's listen. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [C] At _
_ [F] _ _ _ last, [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] my love has come [F] along.
_ _ [Dm] _
Okay, so just that alone, _ listening to At Last, My Love Has Come Along, right?
So that's something that's, it's so powerful to even feel that statement.
So _ just to feel _ rejoiceful and empowered and alive.
The way it's structured too, it has those long slides that,
_ At _ _ _ [G] last, _ _ right? _ _ _ _
And it's kind of more simplified, but the way I have interpreted it over the years and
for stage purposes, _ my personal style with it is to hone in on those slides and really
draw them out more because it's just a more dramatic feel for me to embody it, right?
So [C#] it would be,
[G] _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And we usually have a drum.
Brrrah, dah, [F] dah, dah.
_ Go ahead.
_ [C] So,
Hey.
_ _ _ At [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] last, _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ [D#] my _ [C] _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [Dm] love has come _
[Gm] along.
_ _ _ _ [C] My [F] lonely _ days are _ over.
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [C] _
And life is _ _ [F] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [C#] over.
_ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [F] At last.
So, [E] _ it has so many different dynamics and ways and variations that you can sing it.
Over the years, I've just interpreted it because I love to play.
I'm like, I like to take opportunity to play and _ _ explore certain ad-libs and routes and
really have fun with exploring what all the soul components of a note can vary.
I mean, I love that.
That's the way I like to have fun with it.
_ But, there's also, if you don't want to even belt it, right?
The song itself is great and you can interpret that in a [C#] soft way, in a gentle way.
I don't know.
You want to play what that would be like?
[C] I feel like a really staccato, like as if we were doing with an acoustic guitar.
[G]
Just get right into it.
[Em] At _ last, _
[Am] _ my _ [D] _ love _
_ [G] has _ [Em] come along. _
_ [Am] Ooh.
_ _ [E] My lonely _ _ [G] days are [Em] over. _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ And [D] _
_ life [G] is like a [Dm] song.
[G#] _ [E] Mmm.
_ [D#] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [D] _ _ [C] When she sings, at last, the skies above are blue, my heart was wrapped up in clover.
So, as far as timing is concerned and pacing, _ _ there's so many ways to interpret, my heart
was wrapped up in clover.
But, she has a timing with it where she says, my heart.
You know, it's not a way that I would normally phrase, but it was a lesson to me in how you
can embody somebody else's spirit.
And I've incorporated it in my shows every time.
So, my heart _ was wrapped up.
You kind of [F] throw that away.
[Cm] Was wrapped up.
Right?
So, make it your own.
Make it a conversation.
My heart.
[C] And you're sort of bending the ends of those notes, too.
My heart _ was wrapped [F] up in.
[C]
And she [Dm] says, she holds her ends, right?
[Em] In clover.
In.
So, these are just little inflections to really pay attention to details, to hone your craft,
to figure out what you want to use, what you don't.
But it's so