Chords for Artist Interview - Dallas Holm
Tempo:
86.5 bpm
Chords used:
G
D
C
E
Em
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[D] [C] [D] [G]
I got started in music pretty [D] early on, fourth grade, started to [C] play the trombone.
I [G] actually went to college on a trombone scholarship, little known [C] fact.
Who would want to know that?
I began to play [G] the guitar probably [Am] about sixth grade, seventh grade, somewhere in there.
I have a brother three years [D] older and he played the guitar and I'd [G] kind of watch him
and go back to the room when he was gone and try to remember where his fingers were on the guitar.
I started to learn to play.
I was playing probably several years [C] before I knew there were actually names [F#] to the chords,
but that was the [D] beginning of my guitar playing.
And then [G] 1965, became a Christian at that time and decided to take, along with my life, my music into the realm of ministry
and started to write and sing songs about my faith.
1970, I started full time and the rest is kind of history as they say.
I'm coming up now on 40 years of traveling, touring, recording, writing, and God has been so faithful.
It's been a great blessing and still doing, kind of like the Energizer Bunny, I just keep on going.
[E] [C#]
[E] [Am] About four [Em] or five years ago, I [B] started to see the MacPherson guitar.
[Em] In fact, I remember flying into Minneapolis once and there was one in a display case there
and I looked at it and read about it and thought it was really interesting.
Of course, the hole caught my eye.
Why is that hole there?
And then I began to notice other people playing them on TV and concerts.
A very good friend of mine, Paul Balash, had a couple of MacPhersons.
So one day I called him and said, could I come by and play one of your guitars, just see what it's about?
He said, sure, come on over.
[E] He said, when I got there, why don't you just take one of these and take it home for a week, strum it, see what you think.
Well, I took it home, played it about ten minutes, called the Mac and said, I've [Em] got to have one of these.
I mean, it was just the [D] finest instrument I'd ever played.
[F#m] I liked the way it felt, [Am] I liked the way it sounded, I liked [G] everything about it.
And actually, just a couple of days later, [E] I had my first [Em] MacPherson guitar.
[E] And I'm sure that's [F] all I'll play from now on.
[Am] As a [G] songwriter, it really [D] has inspired me to [Em] write more, to work more, to deal with the [G] instrument more.
[E] I have to confess this, and I don't think it's unique [G] probably for singers and songwriters that have done this a long period of time.
When it becomes the thing you do, I'll confess that when I get off the road, I put my guitar in the closet.
I often don't play it too much until I go out on tour again.
I grab it the first night of the concert, I open it up and I play the guitar, and I get off tour and I put it away.
One of the things I realized with the MacPherson guitar is that I play it.
Some of that hunger, some of that excitement about music that I experienced when I was just starting out many years ago has returned because of this instrument.
And that may sound kind of funny to some people, but I think people that have played and toured and traveled a long time understand that
every once in a while you hear something or you come across something musically or an instrument that just rekindles the passion for the wonderful gift of music.
And it's done that for me.
And so, as I've said before, it's a delight to play.
Because I play more, because I find new sounds, new chords, then I begin to think in terms of writing new songs.
And it's been just probably the most incredible tool that's [D] been put in my hands in 40 years of doing this, honestly.
[G] [C] [G] [C] [C] [G]
I got started in music pretty [D] early on, fourth grade, started to [C] play the trombone.
I [G] actually went to college on a trombone scholarship, little known [C] fact.
Who would want to know that?
I began to play [G] the guitar probably [Am] about sixth grade, seventh grade, somewhere in there.
I have a brother three years [D] older and he played the guitar and I'd [G] kind of watch him
and go back to the room when he was gone and try to remember where his fingers were on the guitar.
I started to learn to play.
I was playing probably several years [C] before I knew there were actually names [F#] to the chords,
but that was the [D] beginning of my guitar playing.
And then [G] 1965, became a Christian at that time and decided to take, along with my life, my music into the realm of ministry
and started to write and sing songs about my faith.
1970, I started full time and the rest is kind of history as they say.
I'm coming up now on 40 years of traveling, touring, recording, writing, and God has been so faithful.
It's been a great blessing and still doing, kind of like the Energizer Bunny, I just keep on going.
[E] [C#]
[E] [Am] About four [Em] or five years ago, I [B] started to see the MacPherson guitar.
[Em] In fact, I remember flying into Minneapolis once and there was one in a display case there
and I looked at it and read about it and thought it was really interesting.
Of course, the hole caught my eye.
Why is that hole there?
And then I began to notice other people playing them on TV and concerts.
A very good friend of mine, Paul Balash, had a couple of MacPhersons.
So one day I called him and said, could I come by and play one of your guitars, just see what it's about?
He said, sure, come on over.
[E] He said, when I got there, why don't you just take one of these and take it home for a week, strum it, see what you think.
Well, I took it home, played it about ten minutes, called the Mac and said, I've [Em] got to have one of these.
I mean, it was just the [D] finest instrument I'd ever played.
[F#m] I liked the way it felt, [Am] I liked the way it sounded, I liked [G] everything about it.
And actually, just a couple of days later, [E] I had my first [Em] MacPherson guitar.
[E] And I'm sure that's [F] all I'll play from now on.
[Am] As a [G] songwriter, it really [D] has inspired me to [Em] write more, to work more, to deal with the [G] instrument more.
[E] I have to confess this, and I don't think it's unique [G] probably for singers and songwriters that have done this a long period of time.
When it becomes the thing you do, I'll confess that when I get off the road, I put my guitar in the closet.
I often don't play it too much until I go out on tour again.
I grab it the first night of the concert, I open it up and I play the guitar, and I get off tour and I put it away.
One of the things I realized with the MacPherson guitar is that I play it.
Some of that hunger, some of that excitement about music that I experienced when I was just starting out many years ago has returned because of this instrument.
And that may sound kind of funny to some people, but I think people that have played and toured and traveled a long time understand that
every once in a while you hear something or you come across something musically or an instrument that just rekindles the passion for the wonderful gift of music.
And it's done that for me.
And so, as I've said before, it's a delight to play.
Because I play more, because I find new sounds, new chords, then I begin to think in terms of writing new songs.
And it's been just probably the most incredible tool that's [D] been put in my hands in 40 years of doing this, honestly.
[G] [C] [G] [C] [C] [G]
Key:
G
D
C
E
Em
G
D
C
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[D] _ _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ I got started in music pretty [D] early on, fourth grade, started to [C] play the trombone.
I [G] actually went to college on a trombone scholarship, little known [C] fact.
Who would want to know that?
I began to play [G] the guitar probably [Am] about sixth grade, seventh grade, somewhere in there.
I have a brother three years [D] older and he played the guitar and I'd [G] kind of watch him
and go back to the room when he was gone and try to remember where his fingers were on the guitar.
I started to learn to play.
I was playing probably several years [C] before I knew there were actually names [F#] to the chords,
but that was the [D] beginning of my guitar playing.
And then [G] 1965, became a Christian at that time and decided to take, along with my life, my music into the realm of ministry
and started to write and sing songs about my faith.
1970, I started full time and the rest is kind of history as they say.
I'm coming up now on 40 years of traveling, touring, recording, writing, and God has been so faithful.
It's been a great blessing and still doing, kind of like the Energizer Bunny, I just keep on going.
_ [E] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
[E] _ [Am] About four [Em] or five years ago, I [B] started to see the MacPherson guitar.
[Em] In fact, I remember flying into Minneapolis once and there was one in a display case there
and I looked at it and read about it and thought it was really interesting.
Of course, the hole caught my eye.
Why is that hole there?
And then I began to notice other people playing them on TV and concerts.
A very good friend of mine, Paul Balash, had a couple of MacPhersons.
So one day I called him and said, could I come by and play one of your guitars, just see what it's about?
He said, sure, come on over.
[E] He said, when I got there, why don't you just take one of these and take it home for a week, strum it, see what you think.
Well, I took it home, played it about ten minutes, called the Mac and said, I've [Em] got to have one of these.
I mean, it was just the [D] finest instrument I'd ever played.
[F#m] I liked the way it felt, [Am] I liked the way it sounded, I liked [G] everything about it.
And actually, just a couple of days later, [E] I had my first [Em] MacPherson guitar. _
[E] And I'm sure that's [F] all I'll play from now on.
_ [Am] _ As a [G] songwriter, it really [D] has inspired me to [Em] write more, to work more, to deal with the [G] instrument more.
[E] I have to confess this, and I don't think it's unique [G] probably for singers and songwriters that have done this a long period of time.
When it becomes the thing you do, I'll confess that when I get off the road, I put my guitar in the closet.
I often don't play it too much until I go out on tour again.
I grab it the first night of the concert, I open it up and I play the guitar, and I get off tour and I put it away.
One of the things I realized with the MacPherson guitar is that I play it.
Some of that hunger, some of that excitement about music that I experienced when I was just starting out many years ago has returned because of this instrument.
And that may sound kind of funny to some people, but I think people that have played and toured and traveled a long time understand that
every once in a while you hear something or you come across something musically or an instrument that just rekindles the passion for the wonderful gift of music.
And it's done that for me.
And so, as I've said before, it's a delight to play.
Because I play more, because I find new sounds, new chords, then I begin to think in terms of writing new songs.
And it's been just probably the most incredible tool that's [D] been put in my hands in 40 years of doing this, honestly.
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ I got started in music pretty [D] early on, fourth grade, started to [C] play the trombone.
I [G] actually went to college on a trombone scholarship, little known [C] fact.
Who would want to know that?
I began to play [G] the guitar probably [Am] about sixth grade, seventh grade, somewhere in there.
I have a brother three years [D] older and he played the guitar and I'd [G] kind of watch him
and go back to the room when he was gone and try to remember where his fingers were on the guitar.
I started to learn to play.
I was playing probably several years [C] before I knew there were actually names [F#] to the chords,
but that was the [D] beginning of my guitar playing.
And then [G] 1965, became a Christian at that time and decided to take, along with my life, my music into the realm of ministry
and started to write and sing songs about my faith.
1970, I started full time and the rest is kind of history as they say.
I'm coming up now on 40 years of traveling, touring, recording, writing, and God has been so faithful.
It's been a great blessing and still doing, kind of like the Energizer Bunny, I just keep on going.
_ [E] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
[E] _ [Am] About four [Em] or five years ago, I [B] started to see the MacPherson guitar.
[Em] In fact, I remember flying into Minneapolis once and there was one in a display case there
and I looked at it and read about it and thought it was really interesting.
Of course, the hole caught my eye.
Why is that hole there?
And then I began to notice other people playing them on TV and concerts.
A very good friend of mine, Paul Balash, had a couple of MacPhersons.
So one day I called him and said, could I come by and play one of your guitars, just see what it's about?
He said, sure, come on over.
[E] He said, when I got there, why don't you just take one of these and take it home for a week, strum it, see what you think.
Well, I took it home, played it about ten minutes, called the Mac and said, I've [Em] got to have one of these.
I mean, it was just the [D] finest instrument I'd ever played.
[F#m] I liked the way it felt, [Am] I liked the way it sounded, I liked [G] everything about it.
And actually, just a couple of days later, [E] I had my first [Em] MacPherson guitar. _
[E] And I'm sure that's [F] all I'll play from now on.
_ [Am] _ As a [G] songwriter, it really [D] has inspired me to [Em] write more, to work more, to deal with the [G] instrument more.
[E] I have to confess this, and I don't think it's unique [G] probably for singers and songwriters that have done this a long period of time.
When it becomes the thing you do, I'll confess that when I get off the road, I put my guitar in the closet.
I often don't play it too much until I go out on tour again.
I grab it the first night of the concert, I open it up and I play the guitar, and I get off tour and I put it away.
One of the things I realized with the MacPherson guitar is that I play it.
Some of that hunger, some of that excitement about music that I experienced when I was just starting out many years ago has returned because of this instrument.
And that may sound kind of funny to some people, but I think people that have played and toured and traveled a long time understand that
every once in a while you hear something or you come across something musically or an instrument that just rekindles the passion for the wonderful gift of music.
And it's done that for me.
And so, as I've said before, it's a delight to play.
Because I play more, because I find new sounds, new chords, then I begin to think in terms of writing new songs.
And it's been just probably the most incredible tool that's [D] been put in my hands in 40 years of doing this, honestly.
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _
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