Chords for SOUNDCHECK: Noam Pikelny // The Bluegrass Situation
Tempo:
104.45 bpm
Chords used:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Jam Along & Learn...
[G] Playing this type of music has always been [F] something I've [G] been doing,
something I find the time to do while I'm off stage.
the music of Kenny Baker really gave me this springboard
hat in the ring and just kind of make a bluegrass record.
I knew that a song like Wheel Hoss or Big Sandy River,
songs like that that people have recorded for years,
really brilliant versions of banjo players playing those songs,
that if I kind of stuck to this concept and strict in the interpretation
something I find the time to do while I'm off stage.
the music of Kenny Baker really gave me this springboard
hat in the ring and just kind of make a bluegrass record.
I knew that a song like Wheel Hoss or Big Sandy River,
songs like that that people have recorded for years,
really brilliant versions of banjo players playing those songs,
that if I kind of stuck to this concept and strict in the interpretation
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[G] _ _ _ Playing this type of music has always been [F] something I've [G] been doing,
whether it's on stage or something I find the time to do while I'm off stage.
And the _ music of Kenny Baker really gave me this springboard
_ to kind of throw my _ hat in the ring and just kind of make a bluegrass record.
I knew that a song like Wheel Hoss or Big Sandy River,
songs _ like that that people have recorded for years,
and there are really brilliant versions of banjo players playing those songs,
that if I kind of stuck to this concept and strict in the interpretation
of where I have to place _ these _ melodies on the banjo exactly as Kenny did,
it would be something entirely new.
And it would in some [G] ways sound progressive because of the _ [D] techniques involved,
and it would [Gm] hopefully sound like me because everything I've worked [G] towards
_ _ with Punch Brothers really has kind of given me this [Gm] approach to the banjo
where I'm not _ _ [G] shying away from playing something on the instrument
just because it's [C] inconvenient [G] or technically daunting. _
[D] _ _ _ [G] I was kind of brainstorming ideas as far as my next record,
and I knew I wanted to get into the studio this year,
and I had a very small window where I could record.
I was trying to think of, well, if I wanted to do a bluegrass record,
how [D] would that _ _ manifest itself?
What would the concept be [G] behind it?
I remembered that I had jokingly texted the mandolinist Ronnie [D] McCurry _ a few years back
saying, could I ever [D] get away with [G] making an album and calling it
Nolan Kirkelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe,
and I just texted it to him as a joke.
It was just a play on the title.
And I started thinking, you know what, that's actually a valid _ _ album concept. _ _ _
I'm not familiar with anyone who has taken a [F] classic bluegrass record like [G] that.
And we made it from start to finish with the exact same 12 songs in the same order.
And I knew it would be something for me _ _ that would be a challenge,
but it also would be a real opportunity [G] for me to showcase my voice as a bluegrass banjo player.
_ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ Playing this type of music has always been [F] something I've [G] been doing,
whether it's on stage or something I find the time to do while I'm off stage.
And the _ music of Kenny Baker really gave me this springboard
_ to kind of throw my _ hat in the ring and just kind of make a bluegrass record.
I knew that a song like Wheel Hoss or Big Sandy River,
songs _ like that that people have recorded for years,
and there are really brilliant versions of banjo players playing those songs,
that if I kind of stuck to this concept and strict in the interpretation
of where I have to place _ these _ melodies on the banjo exactly as Kenny did,
it would be something entirely new.
And it would in some [G] ways sound progressive because of the _ [D] techniques involved,
and it would [Gm] hopefully sound like me because everything I've worked [G] towards
_ _ with Punch Brothers really has kind of given me this [Gm] approach to the banjo
where I'm not _ _ [G] shying away from playing something on the instrument
just because it's [C] inconvenient [G] or technically daunting. _
[D] _ _ _ [G] I was kind of brainstorming ideas as far as my next record,
and I knew I wanted to get into the studio this year,
and I had a very small window where I could record.
I was trying to think of, well, if I wanted to do a bluegrass record,
how [D] would that _ _ manifest itself?
What would the concept be [G] behind it?
I remembered that I had jokingly texted the mandolinist Ronnie [D] McCurry _ a few years back
saying, could I ever [D] get away with [G] making an album and calling it
Nolan Kirkelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe,
and I just texted it to him as a joke.
It was just a play on the title.
And I started thinking, you know what, that's actually a valid _ _ album concept. _ _ _
I'm not familiar with anyone who has taken a [F] classic bluegrass record like [G] that.
And we made it from start to finish with the exact same 12 songs in the same order.
And I knew it would be something for me _ _ that would be a challenge,
but it also would be a real opportunity [G] for me to showcase my voice as a bluegrass banjo player.
_ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _