Chords for Guitarist John Scofield on his creative process

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_ _ _ _ Yeah, I've done very, over the years I have, and we did a project, _ _ I did a project with
a composer named Mark Anthony Turnage, [C] _ [Dm] who's a contemporary classical music composer from Great [D] Britain.
[B] We did two albums together, one [Bb] called _ _ Blood on the Floor, which is his piece that incorporated
_ [F] some jazz elements with a [Dm] huge orchestra, a [A] symphony orchestra, and then [Dm] another piece
called Scorched, where he took some of my themes and [A] wrote them for orchestra and for
[Dm] me to play with too.
And yeah, it was a great [Bb] experience in both cases.
I mean, played with the LSO, [Dm] with Simon Rattle, _ _ and big, [A] real [Dm] first-rate orchestras, that was great.
We did some touring.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] Well, [Dm] at this point, maybe they wouldn't be that surprised, because I [G] just made a record
of country songs, and [A] that [Db] was supposed to be the big surprise.
I can't [D] think of anything more.
But [Dbm] [Dm] you know, as I get older, I _ realize _ _ that the music that you thought was cool when you
were younger, there were social reasons that you didn't even know about, [D] right?
And the other music that you [A] didn't think was [Dm] good, _ _ because it seems [Em] stodgy and [G] old,
it can be great, it can be wonderful.
And so one thing, you know, I never knew much [D] about classical music, but then as [Dm] a jazz
musician, I started to check [D] out, you know, [G] Ravel and Debussy and the [Dm] musicians that influenced
jazz that they tell you about, and [G] Bartok and Stravinsky and [Dm] 20th century music.
But lately, you know, I've been listening to Beethoven [D] and Brahms and Mozart and really,
you know, [Dm] classical music, [D] and really enjoying [F] that.
[Db] That might surprise some people.
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_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ Well, [A] the only process [Dm] I have is _ I'm addicted [E] to coffee.
So I wake up in the morning, and the first thing, [Dm] if I don't have things that I have
to do, [G] because I have another life and family and animals that need to be [C] fed and blah,
blah, blah, you know, [Bb] but [E] I mainly want to get to that coffee, you know, and then I [Dm] feel
like playing the guitar, because I'm, it's, _
[C] and so [D] it's terrible.
It's a [A] real [G] drug addict type thing, but I do the coffee and then immediately [Eb] get on
my guitar and [Ab] start to practice [A] or write something.
[Dm] And [Gm] I'm good earlier in the day, [Dm] later in the day, not as good.
[Gm] But that's about it, [G] you know.
[Dm] Other than that, I just _ slug it out.
I think you put in the [A] time, you'll see the _ results, [E] _
[Dm] that if I wait for inspiration, _ [E] it's
not good, because it [B] really only comes when [Em] I'm working on it, you know.
And then I [Bb] don't think, _ things that turn out [Ab] to be like a nice thing that I _ advanced [Db] myself
a little [Dm] bit, I don't even know when it happened and all, you [Fm] know, and I don't think we [D] do.
So [A] yeah, I don't go for a walk and, [Dm] although I do now that they [Ab] have iPhones, I [B] do when
I'm walking sometimes have a little, I'll sing something into my iPhone if I have [E] an
idea, _ but [Bb] I'm not sure how many [E] times that's really turned into a song. _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ Yeah.
You drink [Em] coffee now, okay.
[Eb] It's just drug inspired [Bb] music, you know.
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] That's a great drug.
[Bb] It's the only drug I have left, actually.
_ That and [B]
[A] Excedrin.
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[A] _ _ [Dbm] _ Okay, I'm ready. _ _