Chords for Doyle Dykes: Guitar Lesson 5 (w/excerpts from What a Friend We Have in Jesus)

_ You know one of the greatest moments I think I've ever had playing a guitar was
_ I've had a lot of good ones
one of the greatest was with Tommy Emanuel and
We were playing on live sessions on the last sessions DVD.
We were all finished the guys were
You know taking down and putting away their equipment and everything and I said guys can we do just one more?
and
and so Jimmy Cass was there and John Gardner my brother a lot of people and they just kind of went over to the side and
Went in the control room and it was just Tommy and me and I just started playing _
_ [B] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _
Never played it [A] like that before but this was a [D] song _
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of course Tommy was playing the [D] lead _ _ _
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[Bm] _ _ [E] _ _ [C#m] _ [Dm] _ _ [Em] _
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[Am] _ _ _ [D] _ _ But can't always have Tommy
_ [Em] _ _ [Gm] _ [D] _ _ _
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[Bm] _ [A] But there's one thing we have is anointing the anointing [G#] of the Holy Spirit, which was all over that room that day
But the other thing is when I'm playing a song like this
the
The melody line has to be up [D] front
It's when I was playing with Tommy and there were two of us I was just going like
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ [D] like the
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [A#] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Like a piano player would play but you do the same thing if you're so of solo guitars
and so I
Usually use my my third finger on my first string
My second finger on the second string first finger on the third string and then the bass takes care of these now you deviate from
That quite a bit but at the same time there's a uniformity when you do that
_ _ _ Sometimes I'll hit two notes like this good as an arpeggio
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_ _ [Em] _ _ [Am] _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And then notice that the lead singer is always a little bit louder than the other guys
now if you had a person singing next to a piano and the piano player was playing just loud and had the you know
The loud pedal is that what you call it Adam the loud pedal on all the time, you know
And it's just like letting all those, you know
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_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
We'll [Em] chop hurt people
[G#] But you don't want that you want the lead singer [F] to be the dominant one and you want that melody [D#] line to be up front
[D] _ _ [A] so these guys
Train yourself to play the backup
_ _ [Am] _ [D] quieter
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [D] _ It's [Em] a voicing thing to me
[D] But not a not [A] notes not chord voicings
[D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] Dynamics [E] _ _ [C#m] _
[Dm] _ and also there I made a mistake but listen when I'm [D] playing
_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [D]
Let that let that note ring [Dm] out don't don't don't touch [G] it don't cut it off
[A] it's [D] hard not to sometime and
_ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ [Dm] _ _
Another thing when you're when you're playing course, there's a lot of ways to color a song, you know
_ [A] Maybe we'll get into this
_ [Em] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [Gm] With harmonics and that sort of thing
But if [F#] you if you allow the melody just to to remain in the forefront
It'll _ and it's not always the the chords and I'm playing I can play it real simple
[D] _
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_ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ But then nice, I mean it doesn't matter [D] if I like these
And [A] _
_ [Am] _ there's [D] always movement when I like when I'm playing so it's not always the chords.
It's like
_ _ [A] _
This [Am] is my backup guy
[A] _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] And the [G] base is going like
_ _ _ _ [Em] So
_ _ [D#] _ _ _ There's always
Counterpoints and movement all that that's the way I like it.
But the thing is
Even if you play a very simple course if you'll just keep that lead guy out play the other guys behind you that little arpeggio thing
a little quieter you can you can connect I think a little bit better with the audience you can
convey a song better or take articulated if you please through your fingers better and
_ _ You can sell it and that's the main thing get that song across get out of here through here and that's very important
But the way you do that is with your right hand
All right
till next time _ _ _