Chords for Alchemist - Secret Sauce (Behind The Beat Video + Alchemist Drum Kit)

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_ _ But I would just sit and try to figure out my formula, _ [Dm] just figure out a way that I could
make it work for me.
[C] I didn't know what some of the things [Dm] meant, words, [Eb] quantize, _ transpose. _ _ _
_ I didn't know what any of it [Db] meant.
I [Bb] just knew when you press this button [D] it does that.
_ I made that work for me.
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My process, _ I basically get up very early.
_ [Dm] _ I don't like sleep.
[C] I try to get sleep out of the way.
When [B] I'm working, if I [Gm] feel like I'm starting to get tired, I get mad.
I genuinely get upset.
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_ _ I just want to keep [D] working.
I wish I could just never [A] sleep.
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_ _ _ _ [Ab] Now, _ _ I'm going to put you back to violence.
_ _ I'm _ _ a hunter.
_ In this world you have gatherers and you have hunters. _ _
I'm a hunter.
_ _ _ _ We're all looking for that one record that's the greatest record on the planet [Gb] Earth.
We never [Eb] find it, but [Bbm]
that's the whole idea.
[F] Keep looking. _ _
_ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [Bb] I usually have a nice checklist in [Fm] my head as I'm looking at the records.
_ A _ [Ab] naked girl in a cover is an instant bot.
Always.
[Eb] Naked women, cover.
_ Fire.
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100%.
[G] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
Sometimes I'm listening to records in the store [Ab] and I'm _ _ feeling [Abm] the inspiration and I'm hearing things on the records.
Then I [Ab] go home, put the records back on in a different environment.
_ The [F] records don't sound the same.
[Gb] _ _ _ Sometimes I wish I just had a drum machine right there sitting next to me [Ab] in the record store. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ A record should give you an idea.
It should spark you. _
It's source material. _ _ _ _
I'm doing work.
[B] This is my source material. _ _ _
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[Ab] My [D] production style is probably _
[G] well _ described as _ _ scatterbrain.
[Gbm] I [N] like the mystery _ of grabbing a bunch of things [Db] and samples and not knowing where it's [D] going to go.
_ _ _ _ Usually what I'm starting with and what I'm finishing with is just completely [Bm] different.
_ _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _
You [Db] got to do the same thing over and over _ until you really get _ _ _ a technique or become precise.
There really is no method to the madness.
_ _ I try to get inspiration.
I try to reach _ for some inspiration that's beyond me.
I just try to be the circuit, the conduit where the energy travels through.
_ _ I try to reach up for some energy that _ will go through me because it's got to be bigger than me.
_ Whatever I'm going to make has to be somehow _ _ _ something more than what I could have created just as a mortal human being. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ How do you finish [F] _ _ _ [A] a beat?
When do you say, alright, _ this is it, that's it, the beat is done?
To me that's the hardest part is how to let go and pull the trigger. _
_ There's nothing [Abm] worse than an overcooked meal. _
[Bbm] _ Something with too much flavor.
You can actually have too much flavor.
_ Just every fucking spice dump is _ hot.
_ What is this?
_ _ I think [Bb] with all the options and work [Db] on music now, it's possible [Cm] to [Fm] just _ _ [Bbm] free fall down the [Cm] rabbit hole of [Dbm] endless possibilities. _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Dbm] _ _
_ _ _ People always ask me what machine I use and it's like, _ _ whatever. _
Just make it sing.
_ [B]
When I came up I started it was all ASR 10.
I used to sit with the ASR 10 and just try to master it.
[Abm] _ To this day still there's things in the ASR 10 that I don't know about.
I [Bb] kind of [E] found my way with it and just started cooking.
_ [Abm] _ _
_ [E] I never looked at myself as a drum guy.
_ But I feel like there were a bunch of [Abm] sounds that I used over the years that kind of gave you a feel for what I was going for.
With the way the snare might have sounded or kicks.
_ So the idea was to go back to the old discs.
The floppy discs, zips, went back to the ASR 10.
And I just [F] loaded up all the old beats, _ soloed the drums _ and [Am] giving them to the people.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ My [C] friends don't [Gm] call me.
_ They don't call me.
They just show [Eb] up.
Show up at 6 [Gm].30 in the morning.
_ [Dm] _ Bang on the door.
[Gm] _ _ [Am] That's how I work.
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ I can remember [C] the day that I made the beat for We Gon' Make [Gb] It.
I had it up on the ASR 10 and DJ Premier came by my crib.
I [E] was afraid to play it for him [G] because _ [C] I used a clap instead of a snare.
_ _ _ I said, you [G] know what, fuck [C] it.
He just played it and it [Dm] came up.
I [E] played it for him.
He was like, [G] yeah, I like this [Fm] man.
I can rap to it.
_ _ _ The [C] Ensoniq ASR 10 is like the good trusty old pal.
_ Always comes through.
[F] It's got its quirks.
[Eb] _ _ [F] It'll shuffle some data. _
[B] It might error [F] reboot or something like that.
[Bbm] In the end, we always made it work.
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_ [F] Being safe is whack.
That's like a _ [Eb] false sense of security. _
[Abm] This _ is safe.
This will work. _
Safe is [E] corny. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Gb] _ _ _ _ [C] Never be afraid to save a beat.
_ _ [E] Never be afraid to erase a beat. _ _ _ _
Did _ you make the track or did the track make you?
_ _ _ _ That's a good [Eb] question.
We've got to ask ourselves.
_ _ [C] _
We hold on to things that are great that we [E] created sometimes and it can stunt our growth. _ _ _
As if that one beat or that one verse _ makes you. _ _
_ _ [Gb] Music is therapy.
It's spiritual.
[C]
Way beyond _ something that I could even put words to.
It's [E] something that I probably need. _ _
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_ _ _ Thank you. _ _ _
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