Chords for Sweet and Fancy Acoustic Blues Chords - Steely Dan style blues

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[B] OK, some of you might recognize that.
I wanted to kind of move into the future.
We've been exploring some of the older blues stuff.
This is, I promised you, some more sophisticated chords
and some alternate chords.
And that's what we're going to get into right now.
This is a song by Steely Dan called the Pretzel Logic Shuffle.
_ And I recently have been called upon to do
an acoustic arrangement of it.
I do a gig with [A] a friend of mine back in San Francisco
_ [Ab] every now and again, every [G] third [A] Sunday or so.
[D] [A] And we do acoustic blues most of the night.
And we wanted to try some different arrangements
of some more modern stuff.
So this one, I want to show you these chords
because they're different than a lot of the shuffles
that you'll hear.
We've been doing more basic stuff,
sort of right down the middle of the alley stuff.
But this one's got some interesting changes.
And let me show you how they go.
[D] _ _ [A] So you know an A minor shape, obviously, by now, right?
So if we move that up two, and you still keep your,
it's in the key of A minor, but you keep your A _ root _ note, _
but you do this sort of B minor shape [Bm] over it. _
_ _ [Am] _ _ That looks [Ab] more like an [Am] A minor there, obviously.
You're coming off of this [D] note.
_ [Am] _
[Bm] So if you can see those notes there, it's an F sharp, a B,
and a D. _
_ _ But if you add that to a low A note,
it sounds like this. _
It's almost like a [A] piano chord, isn't it?
[D] _
[Am] _ And this is just flat out, _ _ _ [C] right?
You've got your G, and your C, and your E. _
_ This is like a C [Bm] chord, really. _
[Am] Well, the A in the bass is what makes the difference.
[A] So it sounds like this.
_ [D] _ [Am] _ _ _
[A] _ _ [D] _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ [Am] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
And then the next [Abm] passage is an F [F] note.
_ [G] _ [F] _
And you're hammering on what looks like an A minor,
but it actually makes it an F major seventh.
But don't worry about that stuff.
You just know that you go to the F note,
[G] _ _
[F] _ [Fm] and all open strings, right?
[F] _ [G] _ _ [Am] Come [Ab] down on it like an A [F] minor [G] _ [Am] _
with an F note in the [F] bass.
[G] _ [Am]
And then back to [G] your [A] little [D] _
[Am] same _ voicing.
[Bm] _ _
[Am] _ Now, in the verse form, it goes [A] like this.
_ Well, I [Bm] loved [Am] it to the Southland _ [F] _ [G] _ [F]
in a [Am] traveling missile [Bm] show.
[Am]
And we're going to do [A] a four chord.
[Bm] _ [Am] _
And we do the same move [D] with a D string.
_ _ And you know how you make a D minor down here, right?
Move it up two, [A] _ _ [D] and hit your D string [Em] _
in [D] an F [Dm] position here,
if you can see what I'm [G] doing.
[Dm] _ _
[E] So it looks just like a D minor chord, [B] but up two.
So you've got a B, an E, and a G.
[Em] _
_ _ [F] And then _ an F position here. _ _
_ _ C, and an F, and an A.
_ _ _ [Em] So [F] _ _ [Em] [F] a _ little bit tricky, a little bit of a finger bend there.
Some of you are adamant about using picks, which is fine.
But in this one, I find to get the voicing right
and to get the sort of almost piece of the puzzle
piano quality to it.
It helps to use your finger style technique.
And maybe it's a good way for you to practice that.
So you're going to hit very simply a D chord down here.
We all know that.
But this is different.
You hit an E on your bass note.
So it sounds like [D] this.
_ _ Really nice chord.
And then [E] you just move that D chord up two, right?
One, two, to an E.
_ Now, this one, you
hit an A on the bass note.
_ _ _ [Am]
So [Ab] that's a lot to take in in one passage.
So I want to spend a little time on this,
because I think it's important for you to understand
these are different kinds of voicings.
These are almost like piano chords,
where you have the luxury of working both hands.
And you can do alternate notes, alternate bass notes.
Gets a whole different kind of voicing going.
Of course, Steely Dan is famous for that.
But I really enjoy this one, because it's
a straight up shuffle, which is something
they don't do a lot of.
They do a few.
I'm going to do one more before we're [A] done, too.
[D] _ _ [C] So let me play this in context with a song.
I'll sing, and it's a little high for me, so bear with me.
But I'll just try and sing around it.
And you'll understand why I play what I play.
_ [D] _ _ [A] And I'll kind of open it up, and I'll do some little dynamic
things as well.
So _ [D] you [Am] _ _
[D] can just start hanging out there.
[Am] _ _
[D] _ [Am] By [B] the way, it's [Am] a fun song to solo on.
_ _ [D] _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ [Am] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
Well, I'd [Bm] love to [C] do the _ [F] Southland,
_ [G] _ [F] and a traveling minstrel [D] show.
_ [Am] _ _
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ [C] Yeah, _ [D] I'd love [G] to do [Dm] the _ Southland,
[G] _ _ [Dm] _
traveling minstrel [Bm] show.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [Am] _ _