Chords for Tommy Emmanuel -A lesson in Harmony and Arranging, Toronto, 2009.

_ _ _ _ _ _ Into the chorus it [Eb] _ _ [B] goes_ _
[F] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ [G] Whatever_ _
_ Cool_
It goes up into G, right? _
[D] Ted did this most amazing [Eb] thing.
He did this thing.
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_ [G] _ _ _ So [Eb] he does like a cycle of fifths.
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[A] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ Isn't that cool?
[Eb] _
_ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ It's [F] like trying to rub your tongue against that [Eb] pack of hair. _ _ _
[E] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] A bit like that thing that I use on the end of Plastical Gas.
Which is a little thing that Chet [Gb] showed. _
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[Db] Isn't that cool?
_ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] I remember _ _ Chet used to practice stuff with it.
That's what he used to practice.
_ Difficult fingering. _
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_ _ _ _ [Ab] [G] Down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up.
And jumping six. _ _ _
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ What I did last night that _ you might have heard the influence_
Was it in [Bb] Moon River?
_ _ _ [Gm] _ Yeah.
Because there's a few [Ab] little things that I've [E] developed there.
Like for instance, _ _ everybody [C] knows the melody.
_ _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] But [Bbm] I heard this piano [Ab] player playing [Bm] it once.
And he played _ a [E] chord for every note.
_ _ We played one of these _ _ _ [Em] here. _ _ _
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[G] _ _ [G] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ Such a [G] beautiful sound.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] And _ [Eb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
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[Em] then_
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ I just like to find [Gm] ways of making it a little more fluid and interesting.
_ [Bb] _ _ Whenever I play a song, especially a song like that or Summer [Gm] Over The Rainbow, Mona [Bb] Lisa_
Any of those songs, _ _ [G] _ they're _ [Eb]
precious jewels in our life, aren't they? _
Those songs mean a lot to us.
[Bb] To everybody out there.
I don't know anybody [Eb] who the song Summer Over The Rainbow doesn't mean a lot to.
Because [G] it's such a song of [Eb] hope, isn't it?
_ _ _ Half of us in this room don't even _ [Eb] know where the song came from.
It was from a movie called _ The Wizard Of Oz. _
And _ _ _ that _ [Gb]
movie and that song have been a big part of [Eb] everybody.
_ So a singer [D] doesn't always sing right on the beat. _
And sometimes the singer will go [G]
ahead of the accompanist_
And [Bb] then the accompanist will change chords.
And vice versa.
Sometimes they'll hold a [Gb] note.
The accompanist will change and then the singer will move.
[Eb] So I try to think _ [Bb] in that way.
So when I'm playing the [A] melody_
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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_ [Dbm] _ _ _ [Em] _ [Gb] _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ [B] _ _ _
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_ [D] So you _ _ _
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_ _ [Dbm] _ _ _ _ see _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
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[Bb] _ how that works?
[Gb] The melody is _ [C] made_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
I'm trying my [Bb] best to give the melody its own [Eb] _ kind of space.
_ And _ _ sometimes _ _ _ _ _ _ I'll play the melody note and then [Gb] move a