Chords for Cakra Khan 'IRIS' (Goo Goo Dolls) Cover is a 'Try Not to Cry' Challenge (& I LOST!)

[A#] I have owed some of you this video for quite a while now and I've owed it to myself because I
hear that I have been missing out on an incredible rendition of a song that I remember very well.
I
think I was in high school when this song came out.
I absolutely loved Gugu Dolls and I love
Chakra Khan which is the singer we are checking out today.
If you don't know, now you know.
My
name is Liza Quinn.
[D#] This is the [Bm] channel where we check out some of our favorite artists so we could
learn from and become inspired by them.
Let's just go ahead and dive right into this because honestly
the anticipation is killing me. _ _
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I _ _ love him so much.
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So dope.
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I'm gonna cry.
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My eyes are watering already and he does that to me every time and in the comments section you guys
are often talking about how he does that to you.
I'm glad that we're in this together so that I
don't feel so silly but guys I don't know that I'm gonna be able to turn off the waterworks so
let me back it up a hair.
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[G] The breaths.
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The timing.
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_ [G] _ The _ _ _ emotion, _ the cries, the timing, knowing when to breathe, the pauses.
It's not stuff that's
planned.
It's sincere.
It's 100% being present in the moment and that's why it brings tears to
my eyes.
Aside from the fact that his tone is just [A] spectacular.
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[G] _ _ _ _ I knew _
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_ this was gonna be beautiful but I _ _ _ wasn't ready.
First of all, I haven't heard this
orchestral version in a really long time.
I had actually forgotten about it until I saw him cover
it.
Ah, it's so grand.
First of all, this is one of the most beautiful songs really ever written.
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it's really in the meat of like a tone for me as a female.
_ _ My natural speaking voice doesn't have that awesome rasp that his does.
If you kind of like
pull it back here a little bit, maybe fry it.
Oh, it just wouldn't be the same.
Oh, it's just so great.
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [C#m] And the cry.
[G] _ _ That _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [Bm] is so [A] great.
_ [G] His eyes. _ _ _ _ _
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I _ need a second.
The way he's able to let air go too.
You can hear that little sort of seep of air. _
That texture is just so phenomenal on the mic.
When you EQ it just right.
That is delicious.
Okay, let's hear this little run he does.
He's already going for it.
We're not even halfway through.
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_ _ _ I _ [A] _ _
_ did not see that coming.
And the cry too.
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_ That little sort of break at the end of that phrase.
Oh, he's just letting that go.
There is
a freedom.
And to get up here to this B. _ _
_ I'm wondering how much higher he's going to climb
up past that.
Just says a lot about what he's really able to do.
I love this part.
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What an [G] epic, epic arrangement.
So [Bm] _
beautiful. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ Oh _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bm] _ my _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ god, he's going up to the D.
Guys, that's like the top of my range.
I max out at about the
E.
I don't have those whistle notes past that.
I need to go back to some of his older repertoire
to see more or less where his range starts.
Usually it's not common for someone with that
kind of rasp to have that dynamic use into that higher tone.
Into that D.
I didn't know
it was possible to love him this much.
I love him even more now after [Bm] hearing this. _ _
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[F#m] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ What?
[D] _ _ _ _ This [Bm] is bananas.
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ Oh, [Bm] look.
He's so [A] in it.
He is _ [G]
just_
Okay, here we go. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ No, no, [G#m] no.
I was not ready.
I was not ready.
Hold on.
Hold on.
So this is over here. _ _
If you were to start on the melody, a whole step up would be_
_ And then he's here.
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_ _ Letting it go to that place too where it sounds like the chords are just_
Where it feels like the voice just cuts in and out like that.
That sincere cry.
That is just_
Oh, the ultimate.
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_ I _ [C#m] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [A] _ love _ _ [C#m] _
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_ _ that you guys share singers like this with me.
Let me know what else I should watch.
But_
[Gm] Oh, oh, a smudge.
How long was that there?
Okay, I'm gonna go [F]
blow my nose.
[Cm] I'll see you [D#] guys next time. _ _ _
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