Chords for Victor Wooten at His Teaching Best : (Groove) Music Lesson at Berklee 2012

_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [D] If you're a drummer, strip a beat.
[Cm] Then why did [F] you?
Okay, now let's me know you're thinking about [N] the bass.
Right?
Stay with the truth. _
Only think about the truth. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Okay. _
[N] _ _ Now_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Now he's answered his own question.
_ He's answered his own question because now_
[Bb] And think about this.
I [D] asked him to take attention off of the bass.
And [C] you heard it get better.
_ Right?
If you overthink something you can already do, you'll do it worse.
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Like if anyone read the music lesson, Michael said if a policeman walked in and [G] asked you to walk a straight line, you'd stumble.
Even though you've been walking your whole life. _
[C] There's no music in this [D] instrument.
If you listen to it right now, it's silent.
The music isn't in.
_ _ But if he puts his attention [Bb] into the instrument where there's no music, _ _ it's gonna come out more mechanical.
_ _ [G] But as soon as we take his [F] attention off of that and we [Eb] put his attention where music is, [D] right?
Now he's playing a long listen.
No one would imagine playing with a [Ab] drummer with bad timing.
_ You will imagine a drummer with good timing.
And now with his attention there, he's playing totally smoothed out.
It doesn't sound like he's banging the bass [G] anymore.
_ Even if he tries a technique and messes up, the [Ab] tempo does not waver because his imaginary drummer doesn't waver. _ _
Also, things got a hair quieter.
[D] Not as much as I had hoped.
But when you're talking with someone, you don't yell at them.
So for him to hear that drummer, he has to pull back [C] a little bit. _ _ _
And within just a moment, all of a sudden his playing, [G] in my opinion, has gone from here to there.
[D] And it didn't take practice.
It barely took time.
He's playing with metronome perfect timing without practice.
That's because it's already there.
_ You've been spending your whole life learning and listening to good music.
[C] What's stopping us from playing it?
It's the fact that we're not even thinking of it when we play.
You're thinking of an instrument that has [D] no music in it.
We just heard wonderful drum set, but as soon as he gets up, the drums are silent.
_ Let you know there's no music in those drums.
There's no music in that bass.
The music's in you.
_ And you'll play music better the same way [Ab] you communicate better when you do it with people.
And if you [C] don't have people to talk to, imagine them.
[Ab]
That's what kids do, right?
_ [C] Kids don't have anyone to talk to.
So they make up [G] imaginary friends [D] and they learn and always will learn much quicker than us because they [Bb] have an imaginary friend.
So when I'm playing that song, I'm playing with a drummer.
[Cm] That's the main reason that my [Bb] timing is good, is that I'm not playing by myself.
[Gm] Even in [Db] the midst of all that [C] craziness I started with, I'm [Eb] never alone.
_ [N] That means I'm not nervous.
[Ab] Because you're less nervous with your friends, right?
I'm not nervous.
My timing is good and I don't care what you think.
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_ _ _ [F] So I have an answer and [G] I think the answer's better than if I had answered it.
I let him answer it.
[D] But the thing I'll add is if you want to play with a [N] group, play with people that you know.
_ Isn't that simple?
Right?
Good, thank you. _
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