Chords for Duran Duran - Duran Duran - - “A View to a Kill" Bass Tutorial with John Taylor

[Bb] _ [B] _ [Bb] _ [A] _ [Bb] [B] Ooh.
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[N] Hi, I'm John Taylor.
Welcome to my Stone Love Bass Odyssey.
It's where we look at the evolution of a song
from the perspective of the bass man.
Today, [Db] A View to a Kill.
♪ [E] Dance into the [Abm] fire, [Dbm] let fatal [Ebm] tears be me.
♪
A [C] View to a Kill is more than a pop song.
It's a James Bond theme song.
A film series with a high bar for fantastic [Ab] theme songs.
Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever,
[N] Live and Let Die.
And it would be the first time that we would be joined
in [Ab] the writing room by another composer.
The legend behind so [C] many of those great songs,
John Barry.
_ _ [E] _ [C] _ _ _
[Dbm] ♪ [C] Goldfinger, _ _ [Bm] [E] he's the man, [A] the man with the mind.
[Eb] ♪
To show you what the bass does on A View to a Kill,
we [N] really have to listen to the chords.
We have to hear what the bass does within the chords.
And there are a lot of them.
A View to a Kill is deceptive in its simplicity
because never stop moving, building in intensity
and tension, pushing and pulling from major to minor,
darkness over light, will the good guy triumph over evil?
Let's look [Cm] at the opening section.
C [G] minor,
G,
_ [Bb] [Fm] B flat,
F [Cm] minor.
It's my [G] job to pick out a theme,
[Bb] something to add to the drama.
[Fm] I'm gonna do this. _
[Cm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Fm] _ [Cm] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Fm] _ _
[Cm] [N] Okay, I like that.
And we're gonna use that.
The next section we get to is when Simon comes in,
meeting you with A View to a Kill.
Nick is gonna change his inversion slightly.
And I am going to pedal, which is a new concept for us.
We haven't talked about it yet.
And I'm gonna play the same note for every chord.
I'm gonna sit on that C and by doing almost nothing,
it's gonna create as much tension
as if I was [Cm] doing something.
Let me show you.
Let's do it.
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[Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ [Cm] _ [Eb] Now _
[Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ [Cm] to add a little [Eb] rum punch to that,
we're gonna add [Bb] an effect.
We haven't been doing much in the [F] way of effects
in this series, but [Cm] we can't do A View to a Kill without it.
[Eb] We're gonna use a delay [Bb] echo, if you will.
[F] And it's gonna move things along.
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[Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _
_ _ [F] _ Okay, so far so good.
Now [G] what about the beat? _
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Something along those lines, but faster.
A View to a Kill is an ABC structure.
The B gets us from the A verse to the C chorus.
It's also an opportunity for a little doubt,
a little fear.
We're in A flat, which is a left turn [Bm] from where we [C] were
before we go to the E [Ab] major and the triumph, we hope,
of good over evil in the chorus.
The chorus has to be massive.
It has to be a Duran Duran chorus.
And it is.
More awesome chords from Nick.
Roger picks the beat up and I take it to the disco
with those octaves again.
Let's hear it.
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_ [E] _ [B] _ _ _ [Gb] _ [Dbm] _ _
[Ebm] _ _ [E] _ [B] _ _ [C] _ [Dbm] _ [Ebm] _
_ [E] _ _ [Bm] [Abm] Let's put it all together and take it [Cm] to the stage. _
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[G] _ _ [Eb] _ [Cm] _ [F] _ [Eb] _ [C] _ _
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[G] _ _ [Bb] You know, [Ab] the grass I'm making [C] of the sand
[C]
[G] Of the [F] sea
[Bb] Could be [E] the whole earth opening [Ab] wide
[Eb] A [B] secret what [Db] a mystery can bring [Ab] inside
[Eb] But [B] we can't lie [Db] until [E] we can
To [Abm] find [Dbm] the fatal kiss [B] is always
[N] An epic moment to debut a new song.
Now, A View to a Kill was produced beautifully
by Bernard Edwards, Niles' bass playing partner in Chic.
And my main inspiration as a bassist,
it was Bernard who taught me that the bass should tell
a story from beginning to end.
And it's something that I try to do with every song
that I record, but I tried very much to do it on this song
and I hope I achieved that.
Let's [Cm] string it all together and listen.
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_ _ [Ab] _ [Cm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [Fm] _ [Cm] _ [Gm] The old pedal, little
and [F] the _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ [F] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Eb] percussion gets [G] messy.
_ [Cm] _ [G] _ _ _
[Bb] Nick and I [Ab] going down.
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[B] _ [Db] And_
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[B] _ _ [Db] _ _ [E] [Abm] Ha ha ha! _ _
[Dbm] The [Ebm] _ _ [Dbm] _ [B] _ _ [Ab] _
[Dbm] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [E] mixture of dark [Abm] and light I find really [Dbm] intoxicating on this song.
[Ebm] It would be the last song for [E] Andy, Roger, Nick, [Abm] Simon and myself
that we've written together for [Dbm] 20 years.
But what a [Db] fucking song.
We [E] dance into [B] the fire
[Db] The fatal kiss [B] is always
_ [E] Into [Abm] the fire
[Db] To fail to [Abm] set the broken dream _ _ _
[Gb] The fatal kiss [B] is always
[E] Dance into [Abm] the fire
[B] _
[Db] We [B] sing
It's A [E] View to [B] a Kill
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[E] Yeah!
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Thanks for taking the audience with me.
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where I will be [E] talking to a spoken [Am] Englishman
and one of the greats.
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