Chords for Joey Alexander (10 year old Jazz pianist)

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_ [D#m] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] [F#m] If you haven't seen him live and heard him [G] live [C#] [D] and you just hear that there's a young kid who can play [C#] jazz
There's there's no [Fm] way to prepare you for [Dm] what you're going to experience
[A] _ _ [E] _ [C#] Until you actually [G#] see it [Cm] happen
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[G] _ [E] He's listening to everything that's happening.
[G#] He plays with [C] dynamics
[G#m] _ [C#] _ [G#] He comes in with [D#m] fully [G#] formed arrangements of tunes that he's thought of and he [A#] also comes [D] in totally open to
[Fm] _ Changing or forgetting those arrangements _ and coming [Em] up with new ones
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_ [F#] _ first thing that [F] blew my mind was we were sitting in [C#] the studio [D] _ [Bm] [A#] and
There [Bm] was the choice to [G#] have headphones or not
and during that period of time I [B] said, you know, man the kids need [D#] headphones [F#] and
[G#] He said no, I [C] think I'll be okay and [Em] we did a take and it [E] was one of [G#] the most musical things I'd ever heard
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[C#] _ _ [D] _ _ [F] And I said wow, [Bm] this kid is listening to me [A] and Larry [Fm] through glass, you know and [Gm] [D] isolated in studio booths
I said, [D#m] okay I get
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_ [E] We [C#] really [D] got the [Gm] essence of [C] the music [Bm] together [Cm] beyond [A#] [G#] the
mechanics and the [G] notes and the technique [C#] which he obviously has
_ _ Everything that Ulysses and [F#] I [A#m] played [G#m] he was [Gm] reacting
_ [Em] Which is what I get [C#] from the greatest [D] musicians.
_ It's so [C] natural for him.
[F#m] He hears it the way we [D#m] _ hear like
_ English [E] vocabulary.
We're like [C#] you learn a [C] new word.
He learns that he doesn't only just [Em] learn material
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Joey understands then how [Fm] to use the material in [C] a musical [Em] way
It's [G#m] amazing when we [G#] play like I hear [Cm] so [E] many different [C#] influences
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_ [C#] _ [B] _ _ love [F#] Monk.
That's my strongest [C#] influence and Herbie Hancock [F#] John _ Coltrane _ Algarve [C#] Armstrong
_ _ _ _ [F#] Howard Silver [C#m] I like
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Wynton [C] [Bm] Marsalis, T.
[A#] Corey I like, [B] McCoy [F#] Tyler [G#] and Kenny [D#] Curtin I like [Am] and _ [Bm]
that's
_ Becomes [F#] part of me [A#] _ [C] _
playing piano
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_ _ _ [Em] mean, it's really kind of hard to comprehend
I [C] got it digested a bit, you know, because I [Em] started out playing music [G] fairly young too, you [C] know
but this is a whole [D] other [C] thing, you know, I feel like to [D] have the
_ The [A] completeness of the so it's so [G] coming together.
So so well and [C] so organically
_ Doesn't sound [Bm] like it.
There's been a real method
[C] From the love of the music and listening to [Em] it that to me
[A] Connects him with the whole history of this [Em] music that was really taught by playing it not by going to [B] school to learn how to Play [F#] it _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [G] _ That's a really [Em] important thing about jazz music [D] is that it's a it's an [C] oral tradition the way that the masters learned were
From playing with each other being on the road being [Am] mentored and he didn't even [G] have that
He was just mentored by the records [C] listening to the records over and over [G] again
and he reached a level [C]
far higher [Am] than you know, Matt people [F] who have masters and [E] doctor degrees and
Jazz, you know
_ [Am] _ _ _ That's [B] that's amazing [Em] to see and that's an amazing story about how powerful [F#] jazz music is _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bm] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] Maybe I'd have [F#] a mentor.
[Em] I'm still learning _ every [G] day
[E] But that's music
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You [E] have to keep doing what you [D] do _
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_ We [C#m] were [Fm] all just [D] turned around and inspired [A] by
[Bm] _ [D#] By Joey and not [Cm] only as an incredible musician and [D] artist [Bm] but as a human being
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_ He's been such an [D] [Bm] inspiration to
_ _ [F#m] to me as a [C#] musician and [F#m] a person _ [D] he's one of the most kind and
[G#] focused people [D#] I've ever met
_ _ [F] _ [D] Joey [E]
that's a [Bm] person you're gonna know in the future [C#] _
and
for many [D#] years to _ [Bm] _
come
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_ _ _ I'm playing
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[Bm] my friend cost [B] from [C#] my heart platform _
_ _ _ _ Technique or [D] anything is from the heart _ _ _ [F#] and [G#] that's jazz is from the groove
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