Chords for Eric Johnson Tests Out the American Vintage '56 Strat | Fender

[Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Am] _ [F] _
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[G] _ _ They've got a brand new reissue [N] strat they're doing now, which is really amazing.
I'm pretty impressed with the way it sounds.
I think it's the closest that anybody's ever gotten to trying to capture that magic and sound of some of the old vintage instruments.
What I have right here is one of my original _ 57s, and what I thought maybe I'd do is just play a few licks on it,
and then I'd pick up this new _ reissue maple neck strat that Fender's coming out with,
so you can hear how _ amazingly close the tones are.
_ This is the clean tone on the 57 [Am] here.
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[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ And then if it wanted to have the [C] rhythm thing, _ [F] _ [Em] _
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_ [Em] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [D#] _
[G#m] _ _ _ [C#] _ [G#] _ _ _ _
_ full out lead [F#] sound, it'd be _ [G#] _ [D#] _
like_
_ So [C#] _ _ _
_ _ [G#] _ _ _ [N] what I thought I might do is just _ _ _ show you what I'm kind of excited about,
is having a brand new instrument that has that sound.
_ So you've got this _ new reissue guitar by _ Fender,
which is the feel and the sound seems to be amazingly a replica of the original.
_ And just to demonstrate that for you, I'll show you that.
This would [E] be that _ [Bm] original sound, which we were doing, which is the [E] clean tone. _ _ _
[D] _ [A] _ _ Or _ [D] _ _
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_ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ the rhythm [C] tone, _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [F] _ _ [Cm] _ _ a little bit of fuzz on [A] it. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Bm] _ _ [E] _ [B] _ _ _
_ Or the full out lead tone like I was doing on the other [A] guitar.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [C#] _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ Or_
The [E]
feel and the sound seems to be amazingly a replica of the original.
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_ And the more and more there is of that, the more the instrument feels like an [A] inspiring piece of yourself.
I think the [G] ultimate thing is feeling so comfortable with an instrument
that [Dm] you forget you're playing _ the [Cm] instrument, and you're just making music.
[Bm] _
What I noticed immediately picking this instrument up is it's been designed to do that.
I think it's the people at Fender _ putting _ [Em] _
_ repetitive painstaking detail
and looking at something until you capture all those little microscopic nuances
that all add up to a big difference.
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_ [G] _ I'm kind of digging it, it's pretty [D] good. _
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