Chords for Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks Behind The Scenes

_ _ [Eb] _ My goal [G] when I started this band was to hold a piece of [Gm] music that I made in my hand.
And that [Fm] was my only goal. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ I never [D] thought about our music ever _ going out of Kentucky. _
I didn't care.
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I was in college and I just [G] wanted to [B] press [Bb] a CD that I made. _ _ _ _
Knock Blues first started as a garage band.
It was four friends [Gb] who came together _ [F] at our guitarist Isaac's house
and just kind of bullshitted around, wrote whatever,
and [Bb] _ didn't really know what we wanted to sound [F] like.
A lot of it sounded very different from each other's song, I [C] guess. _ _
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[Eb] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [B] Right about when I joined, we started [Ab] writing for this full length.
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_ Before me, [D] all [Ab] the other releases _ [E] were written and recorded without drummers.
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Everything was Isaac, Brian, and Kevin in Isaac's garage,
sitting at [Gb] his computer just hashing things out.
_ [D] So _ [Ab] as a band, it was the first time the band has written with a drummer [N]
and a second guitarist.
And it was pretty smooth.
[C] _ I joined back in May _ 2015.
And as soon as I joined, we started writing for [Bb] the new record.
_ _ _ _ _ We definitely wanted to have a different style than their older stuff.
_ _ _ _ [F] To write, we would all get into a room [Bbm] together and just kind of bounce ideas off of each other. _
Me and Isaac would come with the riffs and then [Bb] we would decide where we wanted to put the riffs in the song.
It was just a whole cohesive effort.
The writing for Laugh [Gm] Tracks _ started _ the _ [D] summer of last year.
We didn't even have a [A] second guitar player.
It was a whole new way of writing.
We wanted to try something completely different.
_ _ _ In the past, _ _ _ basically all the writing was just me.
It was just me in a room _ _ _ with a computer and a guitar,
plugging _ [D]
into the computer, [G] putting programmed [Bb] drums on everything.
And that's how we did our record.
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[N] That's in the breakdown.
And then the rest is [A] just the fact [Bb] that [B] _ [Eb] there is the_
Into the breakdown, [Ebm] we took out a [Bb] dissonant and a half-time riff.
_ Yeah.
[Em] We took _ _ _ [Bb] some time off to start writing the record and we'd get together [Gm] _ [D] twice a week, sometimes if we were [G] lucky.
I was living in Ohio [C] at the time, so I would [A] have [Bb] the two-hour commute.
But [G] sometimes I could pull it off and we would get together [E] twice a week.
_ _ _ Towards the beginning, it [Ab] felt like we were banging [G] one out every single time we got together.
A new song, new song, new song, new song.
It [A] was really cool.
It was a very productive time period.
And then it took one writer's block for us to just _ [Am] scratch _ everything.
[Bb] _ I didn't really know what to expect coming to the studio, since I've never recorded in an actual studio.
My other bands have just recorded at Isaac's house, which [Gb] isn't really a studio.
So coming here, it was really cool, because Will made us all feel comfortable [Bb] in the studio.
What really, really stood out to us about Will was that he [G] reached out wanting to do [Bb] our record,
which is something that really, really surprised us.
_ [Db] At this [F] point, we had_
At the point where Will did reach out to us, we'd [A] never even thought about [Bb] working with a producer.
We knew that we might have to, _ _ but it never _ really_
It never [Db]
got to the point where we were thinking about choosing a guy.
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_ We were [Am] in California, _ _ and we met Tom, [E] who plays in Straight From the Path, for the first time.
[Am] And we went out and got some food with him, and we were hanging out.
And he asked, like, have you ever heard of Will Putney?
And I was like, no, Isaac, of course I've heard of you guys.
Isaac is a huge dictionary. _ _ _ _
And they started telling me, [Gb] like, bands that he's done, bands that he's recorded, bands that he's produced, so on and so forth.
And _ he asked us if we would ever be interested in a [A] producer.
And I was like, no, we write our own songs.
[G] _ _
I was [A] very naive and uneducated in what [E] a producer actually does.
Tom kind of filled me in, and he showed me text messages from Will [Am] saying, I gotta work with these guys.
And we had a couple people in mind for the record, but once we [Ab] saw the enthusiasm [Am]
behind Will,
we had never had somebody _ interested in us that way.
We never [G] had somebody that was like, I have to work with these guys.
You [B] could just tell that it hit [G] him, and that's what I want. _
And after that, the decision was pretty easy to be made.
Like, that's the guy.
_ And we contacted him, we booked a time, _ and we did it.
Pretty much living here for two weeks.
We've [B] been [F] around _ _ _ _ solely music for two weeks.
There's music playing in every room. _
_ _ Randy or Steve, even Will, working on _ _ different bands.
Everywhere you go, [Ab] you hear a different band, pretty much.
We worked on the tougher songs first, the [N] faster songs, _ ones that would take the most out of me.
And so it kind of started difficult, and then _ slowly [Ab] got easier with the other songs that I was more comfortable [D] with, more familiar with.
_ [Db] And working with Will, we came in with these songs, [Bb] and _
_ _ _ [D] he would listen to them on his own time [G] over and over again.
And he would pick [D] out things that _ [G] he maybe would want to change.
So we are leaving with slightly different songs than we came in with, because of what he heard, what he [D] thought would flow a little better.
And so that was interesting to get an outside perspective on what we were working on. _ _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ It's a wrap.
[A] It's a wrap.
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ Yes!