Chords for It's All About the Blues with Eddie Daniels

Well, I'd like to just start talking and just saying what I feel and then I'll play.
Instead of intro, of course you have all those other intros.
I could do a little talking intro.
_ But I want to talk about the blues and feeling.
So is that going to be a separate thing?
Let's do the intro and then launch _ _ into_
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Rhapsody in Blue, I love it.
_ So you know in life sometimes you have a bad day, sometimes you have a good day.
You're happy, you're sad.
You know you could be ten minutes, you're down and you say, what am I going to do?
The clarinet has saved my butt.
_ _ Because it is a place to go into your feelings and go from sad to happy.
So I might be feeling bluesy and kind of blue.
Let's say I feel blue.
And you could play two notes and express that feeling.
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So that C on the clarinet going to the E flat.
That E flat is the sad note or the blues note that can get you into the feeling of sad.
And you do want to express it.
So if you are sad, you want to just find a note on the instrument that corresponds with
how you are feeling.
So let's say I'm not in a great mood.
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_ [Bbm] _ _ So really I played three notes, the C to the E flat and I added the G at the very end.
It's just like a C minor triad.
And that kind of expresses when you hear that I'm very loose with my lips instead _ _ _ _ _ of_ _ _ _ _ _
That's very different then. _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ So once you express your feeling of kind of being sad and you play it on your instrument,
you've actually kind of passed through it in a way of expressing it in a new genuine
way on your instrument.
And let's say now you feel better.
[Bb] So you could take that one note, that one E flat.
So we were going from the C to the E flat.
And you could make that E flat now a happy note and make it an E. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Now doesn't that feel a little bit more up?
And now that I'm feeling like a little more happy, you can just play back and forth between
those two feelings, the E and the E flat, and feel the significance of how it feels
in your body that resonates with you.
You say, okay, I'm feeling better.
Eddie showed me how to go through my sad feelings and play the E flat and do the blues, which
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And okay, but I'm not feeling that way anymore.
I'm kind of feeling a little better.
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[Ab] _ _ [Abm] _ _ [Ab] So that's a train going by, and I think that's good.
And the [F] train is playing _ the G that I wanted to add to the video.
So as before, when we played the C and the E flat, and then I added the G, the train
added the G for me.
So you have now in the happy feeling the C, the [Bb] E, and the G. _ _
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[F] And maybe you feel better.
And you've actually connected your emotions to the clarinet just based on three different notes.
The major third, which was the E, the C, and the G, or the minor third, which was the E
flat, the C, and the G.
And now automatically you are more connected with your instrument. _
_ So there's a difference in the clarinet embouchure when you're playing classical, _ [Bb] _ _ _ [C] _ _
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play something more jazzy.
I open my mouth, I relax. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ As opposed to, again, closing my mouth a little bit. _ _ _ _
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So it's a different kind of feeling on the reed, where you're a little bit closer to
the reed, you're feeling the reed through your lip with your teeth, and you get a sense
of the reed.
When you play a little bit more jazzy and looser and bluesier, you just relax more.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I feel much better.
How [Eb] does the air support change?
I'm not thinking support, I'm thinking feelings.
And even if I lost my air support, it would be part of the feeling.
So if you're choked up, _ _ you want to express that through the instrument.
You don't want like perfect air support, perfect embouchure, perfect anything.
You know, it's not important.
Air support, yeah, why do I want air support?
You don't play the clarinet, do you?
You do.
Well the tongue position is what gives you more of the speed of the air, with the high tongue. _
Instead of the low tongue.
Big mouth opening of a lot of air just going, _ instead of _ without even blowing [F] water.
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