Chords for Elise Trouw / Major Lazer Lean On / Behind the Scenes with Scary Pockets

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_ _ [F] _ _ _ It's pocket day!
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_ [A] Doing a [D] collab with Elise today.
I think she's 21 years old, which is just crazy to me.
I wish I was that talented when I was 21. _ _ _
One of my favorite things about the session was we finally got these plexiglass boxes
working which we set up the night before this time so that by the time we got to the studio
the plexiglass boxes were all set up.
Thank you Mike, who's our head of video.
Mike, she fucking crushed it!
The whole team [A] did it, it wasn't just me.
[D] Oh, it looks so sick!
_ _ She comes to the session with a bunch of ideas.
Hi Elise!
Which is awesome, it's amazing to work with a singer who comes with [Am] a sense of what they want.
[Dm] I actually came up with an idea for the arrangement for it.
Oh great, perfect.
But it's just like, I made a demo of it on my phone.
Great, can we hear it?
Yeah, yeah, it's kind of rough.
And some singers [Am]
don't come with ideas which is totally great and the band fills in the
gaps and it works.
Some singers come with ideas and the ideas aren't so [Dm] great.
Elise comes with ideas and they're really freaking good.
In the [C] original recording of Lean On, the chorus part is kind of building up with this.
[E] _ _ _ And [Ebm] in my demo idea it was kind of like this.
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_ _ [Em] That's sick, I [Bm] love it!
Okay, cool, cool.
And it was really great to have her back.
The last tune [Em] that we did with her, we only published just recently but it already has
over a million and a half views.
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_ _ _ _ So Elise and Ryan got together and chose to do [D] Lean On as the song.
And it's not a funk song, but the way Scary Pockets kind of works is [C] we take [Em] songs that
aren't funk [D] and then we kind of funkify them.
And that sort of genre flipping I think is one of the things that [Em] makes the band work.
It's kind of [Bm] applying something unusual that you wouldn't expect to [Fm] songs that [Eb] everybody knows.
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[Ab] Not _ [Db] _ _ [Eb] _ only is Elise a really good singer, but she's an amazing musician.
She plays everything and she also is just incredibly musical.
So she has an awesome sense of arrangement [G] and musicality and lyricism and narrative arc.
And the whole time that we were arranging, she was giving feedback and saying,
hey let's go to this section here, let's cut that section, let's try going to 4-4 here
instead of doing 6-8, let's come out of 6-8 there.
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really fun to work with somebody who comes with that much energy and creativity
and ideas because you feed off of it with each other, right?
She says something and then that gives me an idea and then I say something and it kind
of helps push the session forward.
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_ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ I guess right off the bat when I played the demo and then everyone just kind of started
playing and I was like, wow, that's awesome.
That's even better than what I [Eb] imagined.
And then yeah, we started dialing in each part, all the different sounds and I think
it just came together in a really unexpectedly cool way.
Are we going [F] to do the hits?
1, 2, 3.
I think we should.
Let's give it a shot.
[Fm] Oh my god.
So sick.
It's so good.
Yeah.
Alright. _ _
[Cm] _ _ [Db] _ _ [Eb] Woo!
Let's [F] go.
_ [Cm] _ [Fm] _ [Db] _ [F] [Ebm] Okay, so something like that.
Yeah, that's cool.
I love that, [Eb] right?
Boom.
Got it.
What about like this?
What do you think?
Should we do like [Fm] a, [Db] like, that _ kind of vibe.
1, 2, 3, and. _
[Bb] Locust, [F] fire, dance.
_ _ And now everybody come in.
[Ab] Right [Db] here.
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[F] _ [D] Because it's the middle of a pandemic, we've been having to wear masks and make sure that
we're not like spraying each other with potential coronavirus.
[A] So, so we [Gbm] tried some sessions with masks, but when this [D] half of your face is covered,
it hinders [Gbm] music making.
And it also hinders the fun [D] of music making because like half the fun is seeing your fellow
musicians and smiling at each other and signaling that, okay, we're going to the chorus right here.
Like you, you connect when you make music with each other.
At least we do at Scary Pockets.
And that's a lot of the fun of [Eb] it.
Like different ensemble vibe or would you be the same as the A section?
I think you just [Bb] help.
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[Bbm] To [E] have those boxes set up [D] so that when we get to the studio, we [Gbm] can just dive right
into music making and see each other.
We don't have masks on.
We get to look right at each other and [G] play music together.
Freaking dream.
Like I forgot that we were in the middle of a global [F] pandemic for a day.
It was [Fm] great.
[Db] _ _ [Eb] _ Locust Fire Gun
[F] _ _ [Db] _ _ [Eb] Locust [Fm] Fire Gun
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[F] _ _ [Db] _ _ [Eb] Locust [Fm] Fire Gun
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_ you haven't seen the full song, it's uploaded on the Pockets Channel.
Go check it out.
Link is right there.
It's really good.
I think you'll dig