Chords for Jack Bruce - White Room Tutorial (The Cream of Cream DVD, 1998)

_ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ It doesn't go any [D] higher than that. _ _
[C] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [E] _
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_ [F] _ _ [Gb] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [B] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
D minor, _ _ [C] 7th, then a G chord with [B] a B in the bass, _ [Bb] B flat, [C] C.
_ [D] _ _ But it's also [Gm] really just
one big D minor thing with passing notes.
You can look at it in that way.
It's a D minor, _ 7th, [C] _
_ [B] G with B in the bass, [Bb] B flat, [C] _ _ C, [D] D minor again. _
_ [G] What I enjoy is the fact that since I'm singing and playing also the bass part, you can have
these two, these counter melodies going on at the same time, which is a kind of nice
thing to be able to do.
You've got this descending line. _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [F] _ _
_ [G] You've got the two elements combined _ _ going counter motion, which is nice.
_ Important to make sure the chords are always there, though that's an important thing.
Because often if you're playing in a trio situation, the guitar player, he can't always
be playing the chords.
He sometimes wants to go off and play some answering lines or whatever.
The bass has got to keep that covered.
[Abm] At the same time, you can make it melodic, which is nice.
_ If you have a trio, it's kind of nice to fill out the sound just [E] by having _ that pedal note.
And then you can do the descending line _ [Ab] on the G string.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[C] _ [Bm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ Something like that.
_ [Ab] _ Anything like that is coming _ _ from _ studying jazz bass, really.
I think that's a good thing.
Even if you don't want to be a jazz bass player, I _ think it's very valuable to listen to those
great players, people like Charlie Hayden, Charlie Mingus.
Anybody [E] called Charlie, that's all.
_ Very good.
_ [Gb]
But just any of those, Ray Brown, what a classic kind of musician he [Ab] is.
You can learn so much that you can then apply to other _ kinds of music if you wanted to. _ _ _
_ _ You can get a lot of stuff from any_
We were talking earlier about _ Bach.
I started off playing cello.
_ I think Bach was a pretty great bass player, actually.
_ _ You could do a lot worse than to study some of his bass parts.
They're kind of furiously good. _ _ _
Those passing notes and all of that, that kind of stuff you'll [N] find there.