Chords for The Making Of Childish Gambino's "Redbone" With Ludwig Göransson | Deconstructed

I went over to Donald's studio, didn't really know what was going to happen that day or what was going to come out of it.
We were just chilling and then Donald started playing drums.
_ _ _ He was like, yeah, I have this beat, let's just play this drum beat.
And I was like, okay, yeah.
_ We had all the instruments spread out in the whole room in the whole studio and just went from one to another,
to [D] another, like hearing ideas and [G] then basically just recording a bunch of tracks on top of each other.
_ _ That was kind of the seed of the idea.
[E] That was the first idea of Redbone, kind [A] of started.
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[Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
There _ [Bm] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] was a time before we started on the album where I started listening to Donald's, I mean, a bunch of Funkadelic albums.
[F] _ I hadn't really [A] experienced _ _ [Am] Funkadelics.
I was more [Em] kind of raised up of _ jazz and blues.
I didn't really experience that 70s psychedelic music.
So it's [Ab] all very [G] organic.
Just how instruments [F] kind of sounded back then, [A] I think that was [Eb] something we just wanted to capture with our music.
_ _ The song structure, the pre-choruses are uneven bars.
So the first chorus is six bars.
_ Pre-chorus for the second chorus is seven bars. _ _ _
In my Ableton right now is just the drums that Donald did.
_ First sound that kind of opens up the song is this little Mellotron.
[Bm] _
_ _ _ So you have that and the kick.
_ And then we have [Bb] the Rhodes _ going _ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
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_ _ _ [C] _ into the pre [Dm]-chorus.
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Let it spooky.
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Bb] I always dreamt of slapping bass in a song and I finally got to do it. _ _
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_ [Dm] _ _ _ Air, _ _
[C] D minor.
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_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Then we go [N] to the synth bass.
_ _ _ Then we have a second bass sound. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Dm] _ So_ _ _ _ _
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_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
And then we have the synths playing. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Now [F] we get to the guitar part.
_ Playing this vintage _ _ _ Telecaster.
This is a guitar pedal that I got.
It's like a _ 1960s Maestro.
And it has these amazing sounds.
Here's the clean signal.
_ _ _ _ And then [Bm] for Redbone.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ To make it a little cooler I added this _ _ Echoboy _ [Bb]
8 note triplet delay.
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_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
I'm [F] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] going to record this. _
_ It's a little kind of like organ. _
_ _ Donald started singing out ideas for the verse.
[C] And he sang this line and then he stopped. _
_ And I kept hearing that.
It's kind of like a response to what he was [Bm] singing. _ _
_ _ _ _ I have this cool clavinet part.
It kind of reminds me of a _ brass thing.
[Dm] _ _
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_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
And _ _ _ _ then to the glockenspiel.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] _
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ [Bb] I added this kind of _ vocal thing for the bass.
It goes on with a slap on the bass. _ _ _
I _ _ was just like, I need to add this.
I need to do this sound when I'm slapping it. _ _
[F] You _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _
can't really hear it, [G] you know.
_ There was an idea of how to make the outro play around with this idea of having a major chord in there.
It's basically this _ choir note that holds just a major third and a minor third.
It goes _ _ between those two [D] intervals.
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Minor third.
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[Dm] _ The [D] melody that came out of that was a guitar melody.
Using the same, this Maestro pedal.
With [Bb] a fuzz tone. _ _ _ _
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_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Db] _ _ [Dm] There's also an [Gm] octave.
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_ _ There's _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ a little _ _ synth element in this.
This is actually _ _ Audity. _
It's just made by GeForce.
[Gb] _ _ _ _ _
It kind of sounds like_
I think _ it's mostly a Moog [Bm] sound. _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
Last thing.
Somehow this melody started showing up.
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_ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ [A] Put _ [G] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
[G] _ [F] _ _ _ a little [Gb] chorus _ on it.
And some distortion.
[G] _ [A] _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ [Bb] _ _
[A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _
Doubling it.
[Gb] _ [G] _ [F] _ _ _
Donald [E] was like, we should also add this little piano on the end to make it a little more fantastic.
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_ [C] _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
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_ [Gm] _ [Em] That's that. _ _ _
[Bm] _ [C] _ _ [D] There we go, guys. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] Why I really enjoy film scoring is that depending on different [Em] genres of the film, [G] I get to do [C] different genres of [Bb] music. _
[Dm] _ Before I met Donald, I hadn't really done a lot [Gm] of hip-hop [Bb] before.
It's [Am] such [Gm] a challenge.
[Em]
That's what I really love.
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