Chords for Mastodon Interview from Download Festival 2017
Tempo:
105.4 bpm
Chords used:
D
Dm
Gm
Eb
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Hey, this is Bron from Mastodon.
We're backstage here at Download.
[Bb] We're on the pit.
We're in the pit.
[Ab] We're near the pit.
You're on the pit, [Ab] in a couch, at Download.
[D]
[D]
[Dm] [N] I'm a big fan of melody and cool guitar solos and a [D] nice hooky chorus.
Those are the songs that I tend to repeat in my head days and days after I've heard
a specific song like that.
So if we create something like [Ab] that in our practice space and it turns [Gb] out to be a short
and sweet [Gm] song that kind of pulls you in, easy to take a bite out of, then I'm in big
favor of it because the next day we'll come in and we'll start diving into [Cm] a song that's
like nine minutes long.
And [Dm] so [Gm] I'm glad that the four of us embrace the idea of short, sweet and [D] long and [Eb] epic
at the same time.
So it helps [Gm] the ebb and flow of each and every record.
[Db]
[Gm] There's more ladies [Eb] in the audience these days, I think.
We should start introducing some [D] melody, I guess.
Who knows [Bb] why people like what they like?
They just hear it and either like it or they don't like it or they like it later or place in time.
But I'd say stylistically, we always look to [Gm] every album we do, we [D] try to make it sound
a little bit different [E] just because we don't want to get bored [Gm] of ourselves and we don't
want [G] to tread water and stay in the same spot.
And [Gm]
so we know that doing that comes [Cm] with a little bit of a change in the audience [E] as well.
People are going [A] to drop off and [Gm] come on.
[G] We have a little control over that.
[Eb]
[Gm] [D] My [Gm] bandmates like the record, so that's what made me happy from the get go.
It's like, [G] you guys like it?
You love it?
Okay, then let's call it.
Let's call this recording [G] session done and get [Gm] some artwork going so we can put this thing out.
What do we have [Eb] control over?
That's all we have control over.
The four of us need to love it because we [D] were the ones married to it [Eb] forever.
If we were to ever [D] try to please a certain genre of fans or our old school fans or try
to [D] write something to create new fans, [A] might as well just shoot all my bandmates in [D] our
feet and just blast their fucking legs off.
[Eb] What's the point of that?
It would hurt.
[D] [Eb] Yeah, feels good.
I mean, [D] when you're lucky enough to [Cm] have sheets of paper in front of you that shows [Cm] your entire
year of tour [A] dates, that's [D] a good thing.
That means that we have gigs and [Gm] there's people going to come [E] to those gigs.
[Dm] Whether it's a couple hundred or a couple thousand [D] or fortunate to play on a [Dm] stage like
this for many, many thousands.
[F] So I would say that the world of rock and roll [D] is in a very healthy [F] spot [Dm] because we
see it [G] about six nights a [Dm] week.
[F] We have our [D] hour and a half long set that we have together for our headlining gigs.
And so we just whittle away at that, you know, to make a 50 minute set that we [Dm] think will
please every [C] faction of our [D] audience.
And the people that don't know who we are that are here just kind of standing [Dm] in the sun, bewildered.
Like, [C] who are [Dm] these bots?
Something like that.
Should I throw my beer at [Bb] them?
[Dm] Nah.
[C] [Bb] Leave it clean.
[E]
Bill has a few notes because he's got some sample stuff that [Dm] he needs to take care of
with his foot.
So he's got little [D] numbers down there.
An ever so slight cheat sheet.
Yeah.
That's OK because we're [Dm] at a high school, man.
It's summertime all the time.
[N]
We're backstage here at Download.
[Bb] We're on the pit.
We're in the pit.
[Ab] We're near the pit.
You're on the pit, [Ab] in a couch, at Download.
[D]
[D]
[Dm] [N] I'm a big fan of melody and cool guitar solos and a [D] nice hooky chorus.
Those are the songs that I tend to repeat in my head days and days after I've heard
a specific song like that.
So if we create something like [Ab] that in our practice space and it turns [Gb] out to be a short
and sweet [Gm] song that kind of pulls you in, easy to take a bite out of, then I'm in big
favor of it because the next day we'll come in and we'll start diving into [Cm] a song that's
like nine minutes long.
And [Dm] so [Gm] I'm glad that the four of us embrace the idea of short, sweet and [D] long and [Eb] epic
at the same time.
So it helps [Gm] the ebb and flow of each and every record.
[Db]
[Gm] There's more ladies [Eb] in the audience these days, I think.
We should start introducing some [D] melody, I guess.
Who knows [Bb] why people like what they like?
They just hear it and either like it or they don't like it or they like it later or place in time.
But I'd say stylistically, we always look to [Gm] every album we do, we [D] try to make it sound
a little bit different [E] just because we don't want to get bored [Gm] of ourselves and we don't
want [G] to tread water and stay in the same spot.
And [Gm]
so we know that doing that comes [Cm] with a little bit of a change in the audience [E] as well.
People are going [A] to drop off and [Gm] come on.
[G] We have a little control over that.
[Eb]
[Gm] [D] My [Gm] bandmates like the record, so that's what made me happy from the get go.
It's like, [G] you guys like it?
You love it?
Okay, then let's call it.
Let's call this recording [G] session done and get [Gm] some artwork going so we can put this thing out.
What do we have [Eb] control over?
That's all we have control over.
The four of us need to love it because we [D] were the ones married to it [Eb] forever.
If we were to ever [D] try to please a certain genre of fans or our old school fans or try
to [D] write something to create new fans, [A] might as well just shoot all my bandmates in [D] our
feet and just blast their fucking legs off.
[Eb] What's the point of that?
It would hurt.
[D] [Eb] Yeah, feels good.
I mean, [D] when you're lucky enough to [Cm] have sheets of paper in front of you that shows [Cm] your entire
year of tour [A] dates, that's [D] a good thing.
That means that we have gigs and [Gm] there's people going to come [E] to those gigs.
[Dm] Whether it's a couple hundred or a couple thousand [D] or fortunate to play on a [Dm] stage like
this for many, many thousands.
[F] So I would say that the world of rock and roll [D] is in a very healthy [F] spot [Dm] because we
see it [G] about six nights a [Dm] week.
[F] We have our [D] hour and a half long set that we have together for our headlining gigs.
And so we just whittle away at that, you know, to make a 50 minute set that we [Dm] think will
please every [C] faction of our [D] audience.
And the people that don't know who we are that are here just kind of standing [Dm] in the sun, bewildered.
Like, [C] who are [Dm] these bots?
Something like that.
Should I throw my beer at [Bb] them?
[Dm] Nah.
[C] [Bb] Leave it clean.
[E]
Bill has a few notes because he's got some sample stuff that [Dm] he needs to take care of
with his foot.
So he's got little [D] numbers down there.
An ever so slight cheat sheet.
Yeah.
That's OK because we're [Dm] at a high school, man.
It's summertime all the time.
[N]
Key:
D
Dm
Gm
Eb
G
D
Dm
Gm
Hey, this is Bron from Mastodon.
We're backstage here at Download.
[Bb] We're on the pit.
We're in the pit.
[Ab] We're near the pit.
You're on the pit, [Ab] in a couch, at Download.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ [N] I'm a big fan of melody and cool guitar solos and a [D] nice hooky chorus.
Those are the songs that I tend to repeat in my head days and days after I've heard
a specific song like that.
So if we create something like [Ab] that in our practice space and it turns [Gb] out to be a short
and sweet [Gm] song that kind of pulls you in, easy to take a bite out of, then I'm in big
favor of it because the next day we'll come in and we'll start diving into [Cm] a song that's
like nine minutes long.
And [Dm] so [Gm] I'm glad that the four of us embrace the idea of short, sweet and [D] long and [Eb] epic
at the same time.
So it helps [Gm] the ebb and flow of each and every record.
_ _ [Db] _
_ [Gm] _ _ There's more ladies [Eb] in the audience these days, I think.
We should start introducing some [D] melody, I guess.
Who knows [Bb] why people like what they like?
They just hear it and either like it or they don't like it or they like it later or place in time.
But I'd say stylistically, we always look to [Gm] every album we do, we [D] try to make it sound
a little bit different [E] just because we don't want to get bored [Gm] of ourselves and we don't
want [G] to tread water and stay in the same spot.
And [Gm] _
_ so we know that doing that comes [Cm] with a little bit of a change _ in the audience [E] as well.
People are going [A] to drop off and [Gm] come on.
_ [G] We have a little control over that.
[Eb] _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [D] _ My [Gm] bandmates like the record, so that's what made me happy from the get go.
It's like, [G] you guys like it?
You love it?
Okay, then let's call it.
Let's call this recording [G] session done and get [Gm] some artwork going so we can put this thing out.
_ What do we have [Eb] control over?
That's all we have control over.
The four of us need to love it because we [D] were the ones married to it [Eb] forever. _ _
If we were to ever [D] try to please a certain genre of fans or our old school fans or try
to [D] write something to create new fans, [A] might as well just shoot all my bandmates in [D] our
feet and just blast their fucking legs off.
[Eb] What's the point of that?
It would hurt.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [Eb] Yeah, feels good.
I mean, [D] when you're lucky enough to [Cm] _ have sheets of paper in front of you that shows [Cm] your entire
year of tour [A] dates, that's [D] a good thing.
That means that we have gigs and [Gm] there's people going to come [E] to those gigs.
[Dm] Whether it's a couple hundred or a couple thousand [D] or fortunate to play on a [Dm] stage like
this for many, many thousands.
[F] So I would say that the world of rock and roll [D] is in a very healthy [F] spot [Dm] because we
see it [G] about six nights a [Dm] week. _ _
[F] _ _ _ We have our [D] hour and a half long set that we have together for our headlining gigs.
And so we just whittle away at that, you know, to make a 50 minute set that we [Dm] think will
please _ every [C] faction of our [D] audience.
And the people that don't know who we are that are here just kind of standing [Dm] in the sun, _ bewildered.
Like, [C] who are [Dm] these bots?
Something like that.
Should I throw my beer at [Bb] them?
[Dm] Nah. _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ [Bb] Leave it clean.
[E] _
Bill has a few notes because he's got some sample stuff that [Dm] he needs to take care of
with his foot.
So he's got little [D] numbers down there.
An ever so slight cheat sheet.
Yeah.
_ That's OK because we're [Dm] at a high school, man.
It's summertime all the time. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
We're backstage here at Download.
[Bb] We're on the pit.
We're in the pit.
[Ab] We're near the pit.
You're on the pit, [Ab] in a couch, at Download.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ [N] I'm a big fan of melody and cool guitar solos and a [D] nice hooky chorus.
Those are the songs that I tend to repeat in my head days and days after I've heard
a specific song like that.
So if we create something like [Ab] that in our practice space and it turns [Gb] out to be a short
and sweet [Gm] song that kind of pulls you in, easy to take a bite out of, then I'm in big
favor of it because the next day we'll come in and we'll start diving into [Cm] a song that's
like nine minutes long.
And [Dm] so [Gm] I'm glad that the four of us embrace the idea of short, sweet and [D] long and [Eb] epic
at the same time.
So it helps [Gm] the ebb and flow of each and every record.
_ _ [Db] _
_ [Gm] _ _ There's more ladies [Eb] in the audience these days, I think.
We should start introducing some [D] melody, I guess.
Who knows [Bb] why people like what they like?
They just hear it and either like it or they don't like it or they like it later or place in time.
But I'd say stylistically, we always look to [Gm] every album we do, we [D] try to make it sound
a little bit different [E] just because we don't want to get bored [Gm] of ourselves and we don't
want [G] to tread water and stay in the same spot.
And [Gm] _
_ so we know that doing that comes [Cm] with a little bit of a change _ in the audience [E] as well.
People are going [A] to drop off and [Gm] come on.
_ [G] We have a little control over that.
[Eb] _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [D] _ My [Gm] bandmates like the record, so that's what made me happy from the get go.
It's like, [G] you guys like it?
You love it?
Okay, then let's call it.
Let's call this recording [G] session done and get [Gm] some artwork going so we can put this thing out.
_ What do we have [Eb] control over?
That's all we have control over.
The four of us need to love it because we [D] were the ones married to it [Eb] forever. _ _
If we were to ever [D] try to please a certain genre of fans or our old school fans or try
to [D] write something to create new fans, [A] might as well just shoot all my bandmates in [D] our
feet and just blast their fucking legs off.
[Eb] What's the point of that?
It would hurt.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [Eb] Yeah, feels good.
I mean, [D] when you're lucky enough to [Cm] _ have sheets of paper in front of you that shows [Cm] your entire
year of tour [A] dates, that's [D] a good thing.
That means that we have gigs and [Gm] there's people going to come [E] to those gigs.
[Dm] Whether it's a couple hundred or a couple thousand [D] or fortunate to play on a [Dm] stage like
this for many, many thousands.
[F] So I would say that the world of rock and roll [D] is in a very healthy [F] spot [Dm] because we
see it [G] about six nights a [Dm] week. _ _
[F] _ _ _ We have our [D] hour and a half long set that we have together for our headlining gigs.
And so we just whittle away at that, you know, to make a 50 minute set that we [Dm] think will
please _ every [C] faction of our [D] audience.
And the people that don't know who we are that are here just kind of standing [Dm] in the sun, _ bewildered.
Like, [C] who are [Dm] these bots?
Something like that.
Should I throw my beer at [Bb] them?
[Dm] Nah. _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ [Bb] Leave it clean.
[E] _
Bill has a few notes because he's got some sample stuff that [Dm] he needs to take care of
with his foot.
So he's got little [D] numbers down there.
An ever so slight cheat sheet.
Yeah.
_ That's OK because we're [Dm] at a high school, man.
It's summertime all the time. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _