Chords for The Gloaming - An Introduction

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_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ So I mean it's an unusual _ make-up of a band, [Cm] like with vocals, two [F] fiddles, a guitar and a [Bb] piano.
It doesn't sound like [Dm] a traditional [Bb] band really.
It doesn't sound like [Gm] it should even sound good.
_ _ _ And I [F] wasn't even thinking about the [Gm] instrumentation or thing, but I think _
the main thought I had about this was [C] that the people here [Bb] would have enough _ [F] musical empathy
[Bb] and enough musical kind of _ _
[F] _ [Gm] understanding.
And I thought, [F] sure, you just do it.
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I mean I remember the first time I heard [G] Martin play, there was something that happened to my [Bm] body
that I hadn't experienced before where I actually [G] felt kind of, I [D] felt like my heart would expand
and contract with [G] the way he was playing.
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You can be sitting there thinking, oh this music is astonishingly beautiful and oh what a
[G] what a nice variation to the melody he did and you don't [D] realize that he's actually, he's just
kind of like slowly circling you with this net until he's got you in a place that you didn't
[G] think you were going to get to, you know, [Bm] and he can do that every time.
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These tunes are [Dm] so well written, it's amazing.
[Gb] I mean they are really gems of music that any composer would be just [F] delighted to come up with.
[E] And [Am] it's the mark for me, a mark of a great piece of music [D] that you can, it's bendable
and it doesn't lose its integrity and I think [C] that the tunes are just spectacular like that.
They can be, they can be played in a lot of ways.
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_ [C] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] Cuibhinn was part of a new generation of musicians [Am] like, _
_ [Em] young and thoughtful.
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It's not so easy _ in a [Am] traditional [C] music form to find [E] your voice.
_ [D] It's a tricky thing _ [A] and he did and he found [F] a unique voice [B] and a very unique way of playing
[Am] _
_ [G] and [Am] I just thought that's fantastic. _
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_ _ [Am] _ The music you make [Gm] is [B] a reflection of [Am] _ what's happening inside your head
and that's [D] probably where to look.
For myself I suppose the sound that's [Gb] inside my [C] head would have been influenced by pipes.
There's always _ more than maybe just the melody _ _ happening.
[D] There was a lot of drones _
_ [Gb] that I was trying [E] to let out.
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One of my favourite parts of this is, [A] I guess Dennis [E] is a real minimalist in a ways
[D] and I guess [Gbm] I am in my own [A] way.
So I [B] love the kind of [D] the space that Dennis leaves. _ _
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_ _ _ _ [D] Maybe as why [A] this band is working well is that I _ [D] _
don't [Am] recognise the lines that to them,
to the rest of this band, they see those lines and clearly would,
are very happy to get outside of them but it's hard when you're [G] so
aware _ of what is meant to be done and the fact that I have absolutely no idea of what's
meant to [D] be done maybe like [A]
makes them disappear.
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And [Ab] there's something about [A] unaccompanied voice I really like and then I heard Earla.
Well I'd heard [G] him before kind of on some [D] records and stuff but then when you really
got to hear him just doing [G] the hardcore stuff it was quite amazing.
[A] He has a stunning voice.
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_ Slow airs _ are, [Am] you can't figure out a slow air.
You [Gb] just have to listen to it and [F] one day you wake up and [D] you know how it goes.
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_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ I _ _ _ _ _ _ _
heard _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ Earla singing when he was about [D] _ _ 10 or 12 _ _ and to my father who was not an Irish
speaker and to me who was not an Irish speaker, [E] when we heard [D] Earla _ [G] we heard something magical [D] straight off.
[Ebm] It had nothing to do with the [E] lyrics of what he was singing.
[D] It [Dbm] had all to do with the soul and [D] the feeling of it and the fact that he was connected so
deeply to that at such a young [Gm] age.
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just [Dm] live from moment to moment in the music really _ and _ _ I, you know, [Bbm] whatever monkeys were
on [Gm] my shoulder, like her back, [Dm] whatever, you know, I've gotten them all off one by
one, you know, and I, you know, I suppose many [Bb] of my heroes are probably dead and gone
but nevertheless _ [F] _ I wouldn't be [Dm] worried what they thought.
I mean [Gm] at some point I had to play music and not be worried what my closest mentor, [D] my father, thought.
I had to play music that I knew he couldn't like.
[Gm] _ I had to play music that I [D] knew other people couldn't like.
I had to [Gm] approach it in ways [F] that I knew some people would actually [Bm] find offensive
like in that it [Dm] didn't follow the normal [Bm] patterns of music.
I mean even this thing with the gloaming that [D] we're doing is [G] something that's not, [A]
[D] you know,
[Bm] there's loads of people who wouldn't like it [D] but I don't [Bm] mind because I _ have all the
things I do that touch on different [Em] areas of the music, you know.
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