Chords for Marcus Miller meets Michael League (Snarky Puppy), Basstalk #1, July 13th, 2018, North Sea Jazz

presents that first generation that was in jazz, that [G] was listening as closely [C]
to Ron Carter _ [Cm] and [G] Jimmy Garrison
and the greats of 1960s jazz as he was to people like James Jamerson coming out of Motown,
_ _ [D] Larry Graham from Sly and the Family [N] Stone, and finding that common ground.
And of course Michael is the inheritor of that as well, the idea of that groove feel in great jazz music.
[G] So they share this common root with that in mind, and _ show us how [C] do you _ [Ab] develop a [D] groove? _ _
[N] I'm going to ask Marcus that question.
How do you develop a groove?
I'm not about to answer that question in front of Marcus Miller.
_ _ _ Well guys, this is how I do it.
Don't worry about him. _ _
Man, _ I have no idea how you do it.
_ _ _ But whatever you do, you got to commit to it.
How about that?
You know some guys, they come up with a baseline and then halfway through they change it,
and then they change it again, and a lot of it is just commitment, right? _ _
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_ [E] That's going to get better right now, check it out.
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[Eb] I did it right?
_ I didn't change anything.
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[G] _ _ [N] _ _ _ If I do it again, it's going to be even better.
_ _ _ Oh, that's just my own.
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_ [G] Woo!
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you add [E] something, _ [D] make sure you get that to the beat quick.
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_ [Am] _ _ [Gm] the cocktail is coming. _ _
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_ _ I'm going to add something, maybe four bars. _
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_ [A] _ _ [G] _ You put that on bar one.
It's funky. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Gm] I got bar one this time.
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_ _ [Am] _ _ [E] Ah.
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I'm _ like_
And then that R&B, now that groove is so_
We call that like an earworm.
It just like digs its way [D] into your head and never_
Like already I feel like that's a hit.
Is that not a baseline?
That's not [Bm] a real baseline?
[Gm] Like a _ previously_
What [N] _ we added to highlight.
_ About an hour ago.
But I like it, it's in my_
It's earworm.
Oh man, that's such a great groove.
Earworm. _ _ _
I'm a lovely turd. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So check out the _ difference in sounds.
_ Michael's playing _ a_
And the strings are smooth.
Like an upright bass string.
_ _ And you hear the sound?
Bubbly.
_ _ And my strings have ridges.
It's called roundwound. _ _
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_ I'm a [E] little confused.
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_ _ [D] _ _ _ [N] _ that felt good on the whole R&B record.
That sound, right? _
And since I have these bright strings,
sometimes I'm in a situation where I need that.
And I don't have the bass.
_ So you find ways, right?
To like_
Check it out.
_ _ _ _ Oh yeah.
_ I'm [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
playing my mom [Am] on the strings to make them dead.
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_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ Then I can _ _ go_
[N] You get that? _
_ _ _ _ _ _ But you have committed to that sound.
I got a bunch of skills.
[Gbm] This is what I do.
Success or failure with [Bm] this one set.
[Eb] _ _ And I think a [Abm] lot of [N] bass players, a lot of musicians,
_ _ they get caught up in changing instruments.
You know, like you have some guy_
Man, what kind of guitar are you?
Well, I have a Mister Paul and I have a Stratocaster.
Great blumberer. _
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But all the people that I admire,
_ _ they play one instrument.
And they dedicate themselves to that one instrument.
And they find all the things that that one instrument can do.
Instead of going,
well, I know this instrument does that.
This one is really_
You need to do this.
_ They commit to a sound.