Chords for Discover Undertones | Reputation

The second song on Undertones is Reputation and this song is a lot of fun to play.
_ _ This is the guitar I used to record _ _ _ the song.
This is a 63 _ Strat _ bass model, made in the Fender Custom Shop.
So it's not from 63, it was made like 5 years ago.
_ _ They custom built it for me, I specced it out, chose the colour Burgundy Mist.
_ It's a really cool looking guitar.
They relic'ed it so it looks old.
Bro wouldn't _ make that request again, but for the neck it really feels like it's been played in.
A really gorgeous instrument.
So I plugged this into a couple of simple pedals.
I think I used an Archer pedal, which is like a clone copy, and plugged into a Fender Vibro
Verb which belongs to my manager, Bob Burwell.
He loaned me an amp.
I borrowed quite a few amps when I was tracking guitars. _
_ I had such a great time recording this album.
We did the tracking sessions at The Castle, which is a studio not too far from where I
live in Franklin, Tennessee.
_ I knew I wanted to take my time to do the guitar parts and vocals.
_ _ What I would do is _ _ spend a day getting the guitar sound I wanted, and mic the amp.
I would experiment moving the mics and trying different pre's, _ pushing this little Burwell
unit hard and backing it off.
Really just trying to dial in the sound and experimenting with different guitars.
Once I found the sound I wanted, I would record three passes of the entire song.
This song goes for six minutes or so.
So I'd record three passes of the entire song.
Then I'd go to the gym.
I'd go to the YMCA and lift some weights.
I'd come home and take a shower and record three more passes.
Then I'd eat some food.
Then I'd record three more passes.
_ Then the next morning I'd wake up fresh and drink a cup of coffee and sit there and listen
to all 12 passes.
Sometimes when _ I was recording, I would make notes.
This was a good one.
This one had a good solo.
Usually I just pick the best take.
_ _ Sometimes I would take the first verse from this pass and then the rest of the song would
be from pass six.
_ More often than not, the first three or four takes had the best stuff in it.
But for the most part, this solo at the end of the song, which is _ _ a pretty cool solo I
think, it was just one take.
I was just really in the zone and nailed it.
_ It's pretty raw.
It's pretty crazy.
There's a lot of notes and a lot going on.
I remember I had _ Jason _ Hankey from my management come by the studio and I played it for him.
I think I recorded the night before.
_ I could just tell that it was an exciting feeling recording.
_ _ _ _ I'll play a little bit of it.
This is Reputation.
_ [Bbm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
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_ _ _ [G] _ [Gb] I got these kind of acoustic guitars going.
_ _ [Fm] _ There's only one going at that part.
[G] I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ _ [F] had a two [Ebm] _
_ [Bbm] _ _ [Ab] _ -step drum and an alto.
[Ebm] _
_ _ [Bbm] _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Db] _
_ [Bbm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Eb]
The [N] drums have the Al Green groove where Pete Averitt, who played drums on the record, did
a great job.
He's hitting the tom on the snare and getting that Al Green vibe going.
_ _ _ We didn't use a click track for this song.
I would say, _ _ _ we _ didn't use a click on the majority of the songs on the album.
We just went in the studio.
_ Pete has such a great feel.
It just wasn't necessary to lock us to the grid. _
_ _ _ _ _ I really like the way this song came out.
I wrote the song with Jason Estridge, who's a really amazing vocalist.
He sings backgrounds for Johnny Lang and a lot of people in town.
He's kind of a session singer for hire.
I thought about calling him to sing backgrounds on the track, but _ I really just wanted to
keep this _ production style _ pretty open.
I did not add any keyboards on the album.
I felt like the keyboards would just take up space from the guitars.
I'm a guitarist.
People want to hear a guitar record, I think, when they buy my album.
_ _ _ I came up with some interesting parts on guitar to sound like a keyboard.
In fact, this track is called the Imitation B3.
Let me find that one. _
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_ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Ab]
It's the Imitation B3.
[Ebm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [F] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ _ I think I have that going through a _ _ spring reverb plug-in.
_ I think there's some Cooper Time Cube on there, delay. _ _ _
I had a trem pedal going, maybe a little chorus.
I had fun creating _ some different layers for this song.
That's a little bit of the story behind Reputation. _ _
It's really a fun track to play.
When we made the video, I had to learn all the guitar solos I played for days.
I used the amazing slowdowner and sat there and played each bar and remembered what I
played because I just played the solo spontaneously.
_ _ Now when I play it on stage, I try and play _ the solo that I recorded because it's pretty
neat, I think.
Thanks for watching. _ _ _ _ _