Chords for Black Orpheus tutorial

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E

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G

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Black Orpheus tutorial chords
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Hi, Raleigh Brown here, and I'm sitting here at the breakfast table [Am] with my old Gibson and thought I'd do a very short
[Gb]
little tutorial about [A] Black Orpheus.
Somebody on YouTube had asked for one.
And what I want to do is talk you through the chords,
but I [E] want to explain that really the
infrastructure that you need to work out in a way of playing the tune like this
has to come from having a supply of chords at hand and
understanding melodic organization, so
arpeggios and [Gbm] scales
[Bb]
[D] [Ab] and
and then being able to relate them to the chord shapes.
And
that's all the stuff that I tried to make available on my nuts and bolts videos
for melody and chords that are available at Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop.
So just a little shameless self-promotion, and then you get this free tutorial in return.
So, Black [Bb] Orpheus, you [A] have an A minor [C] and
[B] then B minor 7 flat [E] 5 into an E7, [Am] A minor, [B] [E] [Am] A minor
D [A] [Dm] minor 7, G7, so that's a 2 [G]-5,
G7, another [C] G7,
C major 7, [G] then you have a C sharp diminished that [A] leads you to the [Dm] D minor,
[G] then a G,
[C] then a C, [F] all very simple.
F,
[B]
B minor 7 flat [E] 5,
[Am] E7, then this little [A] figure, [F] A minor, [Bm] F, B minor [E] 7, E7, [Am] and it does that again.
[Dm] [E] E,
[Am]
[F] [B] F, B [E] minor 7 flat 5, and
then it goes into a different [G] key for a second.
It does a [E] minor 2-5-1, E minor 7 flat [A] 5,
[Fm] A7, [Dm] [A] D minor [Em] 7, [Dm] A7, D minor 7.
[D] D minor,
[C] with [Dm] a C bass,
[A] [E]
[B] B minor [E] 7 flat 5 into E7,
[Am] A minor,
[F] [Am] [Em] [E] you have [B] an E suspended, B [E] minor 7 flat 5 into E, [A]
and
[E] that's your E.
[A]
And so if I played it the [G] way I would play it just sitting here at home,
I might doodle around [Am] with it a little more, have a [Abm] little bass [Dm] line.
[C] [E]
[Ab] [Am] So there's my A minor with a 9th added to it,
and an F major 7, and then [Em] I could do an [B] arpeggio
[A] for the B minor [Dm] 7 flat 5, [E] [Em] and
[B] then maybe [Bm] take my [Bb] E7, E7 flat 5 [A] to lead me back to the A minor.
[G]
There's a little scale,
[D] [Em] [Dm] and that's D [Fm] minor [E] [F] [Dm] into
G9, [G] and this could be thought of as a C, or it could be thought of as an E minor.
And then I need that [Db] diminished
[C] to [Db] lead me from [D] the C up to the D minor.
[G] [Dm] [G]
[Am] [F] [Am]
This is an [G] F major [F] 9,
[G] [Dm]
[D] [B] [Ab] B minor 7 flat [E] 5,
E7,
[D] [Abm]
and [Ab] that's an A harmonic [Eb] minor scale against that.
[C] [E]
[A] [C] [A] [Dm] [C] [E]
[Am]
[F] [E] [F] [E]
[Am] [Abm] [Bm] [D] [F]
[E] By [Em] having a lot of chords in [Gb] your vocabulary, [Em] you can get all these different sounds.
[E] [Bb] [A]
[Dm] [Dbm] [F] [Dm] [Am]
[G] [A] [Dm] [E]
[D] [Bm] [Bb] [Am]
[Em] [F] [A] [E]
[D] [C] [E] [A] [Am]
[Dm] [A] [B] And then just some [Fm] little intervals.
[E] [Am]
[Em] [Bm] These are [D] octaves.
[E] [A] [Abm]
[E] [A] And I love this [E] figure.
[Am]
I [E] learned that from Otis [Am] Fuller in San Francisco in 1975.
[C] So I just want to remind you, as I said earlier, that all the tools that you need to do an arrangement like this
are available on these videos I've put together for Stephan, and you can find those at
www.guitarvideos.com, and then you can search for my name.
And we're working on more videos, too.
There's also one called Owning a Jazz Standard that's on there, a DVD, and which
kind of goes into this kind of material in a much more detailed way.
This little tutorial
is a teaser, let's face it.
And you get something out of it to get to hear a little bit of the way
I'd play this just sitting at home.
But to do the work,
you have to really get with the program and learn your chords and scales, and how to relate them in a simple way
without having to do too much mathematics.
And that's what I aim to teach.
Okay?
Key:  
E
2311
A
1231
Am
2311
Dm
2311
G
2131
E
2311
A
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_ _ _ Hi, Raleigh Brown here, and I'm sitting here at the breakfast table [Am] with my old Gibson and thought I'd do a very short
[Gb]
little tutorial about [A] Black Orpheus.
Somebody on YouTube had asked for one.
And what I want to do is talk you through the chords,
but I [E] want to explain that really the
infrastructure that you need to work out in a way of playing the tune like this
has to come from having a supply of chords at hand and
_ understanding melodic organization, so
_ arpeggios _ and [Gbm] scales
[Bb] _ _ _ _
[D] _ [Ab] and
and then being able to relate them to the chord shapes.
And
that's all the stuff that I tried to make available on my nuts and bolts videos
for melody and chords that are available at Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop.
So just a little shameless self-promotion, and then you get this free tutorial in return.
So, Black [Bb] Orpheus, you [A] have an A minor [C] and _ _
[B] then B minor 7 flat [E] 5 into an E7, [Am] A minor, _ [B] _ [E] _ _ [Am] A minor
D [A] _ [Dm] minor 7, G7, so that's a 2 [G]-5,
G7, another [C] G7,
C major 7, [G] then you have a C sharp diminished that [A] leads you to the [Dm] D minor,
_ [G] then a G,
[C] then a C, [F] all very simple.
F,
[B]
B minor 7 flat [E] 5,
_ _ [Am] E7, then this little [A] figure, [F] A minor, [Bm] F, B minor [E] 7, E7, [Am] and it does that again.
[Dm] _ _ [E] E,
_ [Am] _
_ [F] [B] F, B [E] minor 7 flat 5, and
then it goes into a different [G] key for a second.
It does a [E] minor 2-5-1, E minor 7 flat [A] 5, _ _ _ _
[Fm] A7, [Dm] _ [A] D minor [Em] 7, [Dm] A7, D minor 7.
[D] D minor,
[C] with [Dm] a C bass,
[A] _ [E] _
[B] B minor [E] 7 flat 5 into E7,
[Am] A minor,
_ [F] _ _ [Am] _ [Em] _ [E] _ you have [B] an E suspended, B [E] minor 7 flat 5 into E, _ [A] _
and
[E] that's your E.
_ _ [A] _
And so if I played it the [G] way I would play it just sitting here at home,
I might doodle around [Am] with it a little more, _ _ have a [Abm] little bass [Dm] line.
_ _ [C] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ [Am] _ So there's my A minor with a 9th added to it,
and an F major 7, and then [Em] I could do an [B] arpeggio
[A] for the B minor [Dm] 7 flat 5, [E] [Em] and
[B] then maybe [Bm] take my [Bb] E7, E7 flat 5 [A] to lead me back to the A minor.
[G] _ _
There's a little scale,
[D] _ _ [Em] [Dm] and _ that's D [Fm] minor [E] _ [F] _ [Dm] into _
_ G9, [G] _ _ and this could be thought of as a C, or it could be thought of as an E minor.
And then I need that [Db] diminished
[C] to [Db] lead me from [D] the C up to the D minor. _
_ [G] _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F] _ [Am] _
This is an [G] F major [F] 9,
[G] _ _ [Dm] _
_ [D] _ _ [B] _ [Ab] B minor 7 flat [E] 5,
_ _ E7,
_ _ [D] _ [Abm] _
and [Ab] that's an A harmonic [Eb] minor scale against that.
[C] _ [E] _
[A] _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ [Dm] _ [C] _ [E] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ [E] _ _ [F] _ _ [E] _ _
[Am] _ _ [Abm] _ [Bm] _ [D] _ _ [F] _ _
[E] _ _ By [Em] having a lot of chords in [Gb] your vocabulary, [Em] you can get all these different sounds.
[E] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [A] _
_ [Dm] _ [Dbm] _ [F] _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Am] _
[G] _ _ [A] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [E] _
[D] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Am] _ _
[Em] _ _ [F] _ _ [A] _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [C] _ [E] _ [A] _ _ [Am] _
_ [Dm] _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] And then just some [Fm] little intervals.
[E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ [Bm] _ These are [D] octaves.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ [Abm] _ _
[E] _ _ [A] _ And I love this [E] figure.
_ [Am] _
I [E] learned that from Otis [Am] Fuller in San Francisco in 1975.
[C] _ So I just want to remind you, as I said earlier, that all the tools that you need to do an arrangement like this
are available on these videos I've put together for Stephan, and you can find those at
www.guitarvideos.com, and then you can search for my name.
And we're working on more videos, too. _ _
There's also one called Owning a Jazz Standard that's on there, a DVD, and which
kind of goes into this kind of material in a much more detailed way.
This little tutorial
_ is a teaser, let's face it.
And you get something out of it to get to hear a little bit of the way
I'd play this just sitting at home.
_ But to do the work,
you have to really get with the program and learn your chords and scales, and how to relate them in a simple way
without having to do too much mathematics.
And that's what I aim to teach.
Okay?

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