Chords for Joey Alexander - My Favorite Things (Behind the Scenes)

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