Chords for George Benson Weekend in LA.Tuition By Errol Earl

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[C] _ Hello people!
That's the way George Benson [Em] answers his phone.
We're going to go to the end of the song, Weekend in LA, and I'll show you things [D] over
the 11th chord, D11.
Crazy stuff and some very simple [C] things that probably you might not have thought about.
_ _ [E] You [G] can play normal things over that, your normal G scale.
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_ _ _ Then I'm going to play the blues of the G [G] scale, G [G] blues over that.
We play stuff like this.
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Then I'm going to play D blues, yeah that's right, D blues, over [G] that.
Then we're going to play this here.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] I'm going to play you some stuff from there.
And check out_
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Now just when you [C] thought it couldn't get any more interesting, check out this chord
and melody that I'm going to play over the 11th chord.
It goes like this.
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ Now let's look at the chords in the solo.
You can play it like this.
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_ _ I'm going to play you the solo from the live version without any backing, just to show
you how [Em] much sense it makes. _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] Oh, you heard that?
_ _ _ [Gb] And that's the difference between George Benson and other guitar players.
[C] Otherwise you're playing your major 7th.
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_ _ _ _ [Gb] And a little bit more from the live solo.
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_ _ [C] _ _ There you go, a whole lot of wonderful phrases that you can learn.
Now call me if you're seriously interested.
Talk to you soon.