Chords for McPherson Guitars - Our Story
Tempo:
121.45 bpm
Chords used:
E
Em
C
Am
F
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Bm] [D]
[E] From the very beginning [F#m] my goal was always to make [A] the best guitars that have ever been built.
[B] Well, that's usually what every [F#m] guitar builder says, but we've literally built [D] hundreds of prototypes [A] over the years.
We put a ton of testing into designing what [D] we believe is a world-class system.
[F#m] What people [A] say all the time is, Matt, this is more [B] like a grand piano [F#m] versus an upright piano.
They just [D] ring longer, they're [A] dynamically much wider [B] frequency response.
We hear many times people [D] say, I can play any style on this that I want.
We've worked real hard at [F#m] kind of bringing all the best [A] different elements of a guitar [B] together and creating something we believe is very special.
[Am] [Em] The sound hole, first of all, the location.
[F] When you have a sound hole in the center of the guitar,
what you end up [Am] doing is really cutting out a [E] portion of [G] the top that has potential.
[C] Potential to vibrate, potential to actually [Dm] move air.
So when we move the sound hole over [Am] to the side, the
[F] soundboard becomes now much [Cm] longer.
So not only did we make the [F] soundboard
functionally longer, we literally
cantilevered the neck so the neck [Am] doesn't even touch the [G] top.
So now we have [Em] a much larger [F] surface area in the neighborhood of like 40% [C] longer.
Our [Am] neck is made with a [G] super high modulus carbon [Em] fiber.
[Am] Carbon fiber is organic.
When we put the [Dm] extremely stiff, very [Am] expensive carbon fiber
into the [F] neck as the truss rod, [Cm] now we have a neck that's so [F] stable it will never have to be adjusted, number one.
Number two, because [G] it's that stiff, the [G#] energy instead of being lost
to the neck [C] moving, more of that sound goes to the top.
You know what's [D] interesting about the [Dm] bracing that we do?
We actually mix two different types of woods together [C] and we cut these braces out in
such a way that one goes [F] over, one goes under, they actually don't touch [D] each other.
It is definitely a part [C] of the sonics of McPherson guitars.
When we put standard bracing in, they [D] sound great [Dm] still,
but they really don't have the ring that these
[C] brace kits produce for it.
And one of the most [Em] important things, they [F] need to play in tune.
So the intonation on our guitars, and you'll [Dm] find if you talk to anybody, they'll say it's [Am] second to none.
[G] Intonation on our guitars [Am] is amazing.
You can [G] just play these complex chords all [F] the way up the neck and
you'll find [E] the best probably intonation you've ever heard on a guitar.
You know, [Em] carbon fiber guitars are an interesting [E] new development for us.
Carbon fiber [Em] is an organic material and [E] there's no reason why you can't make it sound [Em] very good, very warm,
and [E] have a lot of sustain.
And we put it together with the resins in that.
[Bm] We can [E] build a guitar [Gm] that sounds
very much like wooden [F#m] guitars that don't [Em] have the same characteristics in a sense of
problems with humidity, problems with temperature.
We [E] have worked real hard to make them sound very natural,
[Em] very organic.
[E] You know, the build process on the carbon fiber guitars [Em] is in many [E] ways the same as the wooden guitars.
[Em] There's just a lot of hands [E]-on work and we've got [Gm] great luthiers that
also build [F#m] wood guitars that are working on these.
[C#] So they know how [E] to make these things play great, how to make them feel right.
And so it opens up the [Em] door for people to be able to afford to [E] buy a MacPherson guitar with that same great sound
[Em] You can literally go from a very dry climate to a very moist climate.
Pull it out,
it's probably going to still be in [E] tune or very close to in tune.
The carbon fiber is a [B] great
guitar in the sense of being able to just [Gm] handle a lot of extremes and yet
[F#m] we wouldn't put it out if we didn't [C] believe that it sounded very, very good.
[G] And we're excited to
call her [C] MacPherson Carbon Series.
It [G] really does what we hoped it would do.
[C] [G] [B] [C]
[E] [C] [N]
[E] From the very beginning [F#m] my goal was always to make [A] the best guitars that have ever been built.
[B] Well, that's usually what every [F#m] guitar builder says, but we've literally built [D] hundreds of prototypes [A] over the years.
We put a ton of testing into designing what [D] we believe is a world-class system.
[F#m] What people [A] say all the time is, Matt, this is more [B] like a grand piano [F#m] versus an upright piano.
They just [D] ring longer, they're [A] dynamically much wider [B] frequency response.
We hear many times people [D] say, I can play any style on this that I want.
We've worked real hard at [F#m] kind of bringing all the best [A] different elements of a guitar [B] together and creating something we believe is very special.
[Am] [Em] The sound hole, first of all, the location.
[F] When you have a sound hole in the center of the guitar,
what you end up [Am] doing is really cutting out a [E] portion of [G] the top that has potential.
[C] Potential to vibrate, potential to actually [Dm] move air.
So when we move the sound hole over [Am] to the side, the
[F] soundboard becomes now much [Cm] longer.
So not only did we make the [F] soundboard
functionally longer, we literally
cantilevered the neck so the neck [Am] doesn't even touch the [G] top.
So now we have [Em] a much larger [F] surface area in the neighborhood of like 40% [C] longer.
Our [Am] neck is made with a [G] super high modulus carbon [Em] fiber.
[Am] Carbon fiber is organic.
When we put the [Dm] extremely stiff, very [Am] expensive carbon fiber
into the [F] neck as the truss rod, [Cm] now we have a neck that's so [F] stable it will never have to be adjusted, number one.
Number two, because [G] it's that stiff, the [G#] energy instead of being lost
to the neck [C] moving, more of that sound goes to the top.
You know what's [D] interesting about the [Dm] bracing that we do?
We actually mix two different types of woods together [C] and we cut these braces out in
such a way that one goes [F] over, one goes under, they actually don't touch [D] each other.
It is definitely a part [C] of the sonics of McPherson guitars.
When we put standard bracing in, they [D] sound great [Dm] still,
but they really don't have the ring that these
[C] brace kits produce for it.
And one of the most [Em] important things, they [F] need to play in tune.
So the intonation on our guitars, and you'll [Dm] find if you talk to anybody, they'll say it's [Am] second to none.
[G] Intonation on our guitars [Am] is amazing.
You can [G] just play these complex chords all [F] the way up the neck and
you'll find [E] the best probably intonation you've ever heard on a guitar.
You know, [Em] carbon fiber guitars are an interesting [E] new development for us.
Carbon fiber [Em] is an organic material and [E] there's no reason why you can't make it sound [Em] very good, very warm,
and [E] have a lot of sustain.
And we put it together with the resins in that.
[Bm] We can [E] build a guitar [Gm] that sounds
very much like wooden [F#m] guitars that don't [Em] have the same characteristics in a sense of
problems with humidity, problems with temperature.
We [E] have worked real hard to make them sound very natural,
[Em] very organic.
[E] You know, the build process on the carbon fiber guitars [Em] is in many [E] ways the same as the wooden guitars.
[Em] There's just a lot of hands [E]-on work and we've got [Gm] great luthiers that
also build [F#m] wood guitars that are working on these.
[C#] So they know how [E] to make these things play great, how to make them feel right.
And so it opens up the [Em] door for people to be able to afford to [E] buy a MacPherson guitar with that same great sound
[Em] You can literally go from a very dry climate to a very moist climate.
Pull it out,
it's probably going to still be in [E] tune or very close to in tune.
The carbon fiber is a [B] great
guitar in the sense of being able to just [Gm] handle a lot of extremes and yet
[F#m] we wouldn't put it out if we didn't [C] believe that it sounded very, very good.
[G] And we're excited to
call her [C] MacPherson Carbon Series.
It [G] really does what we hoped it would do.
[C] [G] [B] [C]
[E] [C] [N]
Key:
E
Em
C
Am
F
E
Em
C
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[E] From the very beginning [F#m] my goal was always to make [A] the best guitars that have ever been built.
[B] Well, that's usually what every [F#m] guitar builder says, but we've literally built [D] hundreds of prototypes [A] over the years.
We put a ton of testing into designing what [D] we believe is a world-class system.
_ [F#m] What people [A] say all the time is, Matt, this is more [B] like a grand piano [F#m] versus an upright piano.
They just [D] ring longer, they're [A] dynamically much wider [B] frequency response.
We hear many times people [D] say, I can play any style on this that I want.
We've worked real hard at [F#m] kind of bringing all the best [A] different elements of a guitar [B] together and creating something we believe is very special. _
[Am] _ _ _ [Em] The sound hole, first of all, the location.
[F] When you have a sound hole in the center of the guitar,
what you end up [Am] doing is really cutting out a [E] portion of [G] the top that has potential.
[C] Potential to vibrate, potential to actually [Dm] move air.
So when we move the sound hole over [Am] to the side, the
[F] soundboard becomes now much [Cm] longer.
So not only did we make the [F] soundboard
functionally longer, we literally
cantilevered the neck so the neck [Am] doesn't even touch the [G] top.
So now we have [Em] a much larger [F] surface area in the neighborhood of like 40% [C] longer.
Our [Am] neck is made with a [G] super high modulus carbon [Em] fiber.
[Am] Carbon fiber is organic.
When we put the [Dm] extremely stiff, very [Am] expensive carbon fiber
into the [F] neck as the truss rod, [Cm] now we have a neck that's so [F] stable it will never have to be adjusted, number one.
Number two, because [G] it's that stiff, the [G#] energy instead of being lost
to the neck [C] moving, more of that sound goes to the top.
_ You know what's [D] interesting about the [Dm] bracing that we do?
We actually mix two different types of woods together [C] and we cut these braces out in
such a way that one goes [F] over, one goes under, they actually don't touch [D] each other.
It is definitely a part [C] of the sonics of McPherson guitars.
When we put standard bracing in, they [D] sound great [Dm] still,
but they really don't have the ring that these
[C] brace kits produce for it.
And one of the most [Em] important things, they [F] need to play in tune.
So the intonation on our guitars, and you'll [Dm] find if you talk to anybody, they'll say it's [Am] second to none.
[G] Intonation on our guitars [Am] is amazing.
You can [G] just play these complex chords all [F] the way up the neck and
you'll find [E] the best probably intonation you've ever heard on a guitar.
You _ _ know, [Em] carbon fiber guitars are an interesting [E] new development for us.
Carbon fiber [Em] is an organic material and [E] there's no reason why you can't make it sound [Em] very good, very warm,
and [E] have a lot of sustain.
And we put it together with the resins in that.
[Bm] We can [E] build a guitar [Gm] that sounds
very much like wooden [F#m] guitars that don't [Em] have the same characteristics in a sense of
problems with humidity, problems with temperature.
We [E] have worked real hard to make them sound very natural,
[Em] _ very organic.
_ [E] You know, the build process on the carbon fiber guitars [Em] is in many [E] ways the same as the wooden guitars.
[Em] There's just a lot of hands [E]-on work and we've got [Gm] great luthiers that
also build [F#m] wood guitars that are working on these.
[C#] So they know how [E] to make these things play great, how to make them feel right.
And so it opens up the [Em] door for people to be able to afford to [E] buy a MacPherson guitar with that same great sound
[Em] You can literally go from a very dry climate to a very moist climate.
Pull it out,
it's probably going to still be in [E] tune or very close to in tune.
The carbon fiber is a [B] great
guitar in the sense of being able to just [Gm] handle a lot of extremes and yet
[F#m] we wouldn't put it out if we didn't [C] believe that it sounded very, very good.
[G] And we're excited to
call her [C] MacPherson Carbon Series.
It [G] really does what we hoped it would do.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [N] _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[E] From the very beginning [F#m] my goal was always to make [A] the best guitars that have ever been built.
[B] Well, that's usually what every [F#m] guitar builder says, but we've literally built [D] hundreds of prototypes [A] over the years.
We put a ton of testing into designing what [D] we believe is a world-class system.
_ [F#m] What people [A] say all the time is, Matt, this is more [B] like a grand piano [F#m] versus an upright piano.
They just [D] ring longer, they're [A] dynamically much wider [B] frequency response.
We hear many times people [D] say, I can play any style on this that I want.
We've worked real hard at [F#m] kind of bringing all the best [A] different elements of a guitar [B] together and creating something we believe is very special. _
[Am] _ _ _ [Em] The sound hole, first of all, the location.
[F] When you have a sound hole in the center of the guitar,
what you end up [Am] doing is really cutting out a [E] portion of [G] the top that has potential.
[C] Potential to vibrate, potential to actually [Dm] move air.
So when we move the sound hole over [Am] to the side, the
[F] soundboard becomes now much [Cm] longer.
So not only did we make the [F] soundboard
functionally longer, we literally
cantilevered the neck so the neck [Am] doesn't even touch the [G] top.
So now we have [Em] a much larger [F] surface area in the neighborhood of like 40% [C] longer.
Our [Am] neck is made with a [G] super high modulus carbon [Em] fiber.
[Am] Carbon fiber is organic.
When we put the [Dm] extremely stiff, very [Am] expensive carbon fiber
into the [F] neck as the truss rod, [Cm] now we have a neck that's so [F] stable it will never have to be adjusted, number one.
Number two, because [G] it's that stiff, the [G#] energy instead of being lost
to the neck [C] moving, more of that sound goes to the top.
_ You know what's [D] interesting about the [Dm] bracing that we do?
We actually mix two different types of woods together [C] and we cut these braces out in
such a way that one goes [F] over, one goes under, they actually don't touch [D] each other.
It is definitely a part [C] of the sonics of McPherson guitars.
When we put standard bracing in, they [D] sound great [Dm] still,
but they really don't have the ring that these
[C] brace kits produce for it.
And one of the most [Em] important things, they [F] need to play in tune.
So the intonation on our guitars, and you'll [Dm] find if you talk to anybody, they'll say it's [Am] second to none.
[G] Intonation on our guitars [Am] is amazing.
You can [G] just play these complex chords all [F] the way up the neck and
you'll find [E] the best probably intonation you've ever heard on a guitar.
You _ _ know, [Em] carbon fiber guitars are an interesting [E] new development for us.
Carbon fiber [Em] is an organic material and [E] there's no reason why you can't make it sound [Em] very good, very warm,
and [E] have a lot of sustain.
And we put it together with the resins in that.
[Bm] We can [E] build a guitar [Gm] that sounds
very much like wooden [F#m] guitars that don't [Em] have the same characteristics in a sense of
problems with humidity, problems with temperature.
We [E] have worked real hard to make them sound very natural,
[Em] _ very organic.
_ [E] You know, the build process on the carbon fiber guitars [Em] is in many [E] ways the same as the wooden guitars.
[Em] There's just a lot of hands [E]-on work and we've got [Gm] great luthiers that
also build [F#m] wood guitars that are working on these.
[C#] So they know how [E] to make these things play great, how to make them feel right.
And so it opens up the [Em] door for people to be able to afford to [E] buy a MacPherson guitar with that same great sound
[Em] You can literally go from a very dry climate to a very moist climate.
Pull it out,
it's probably going to still be in [E] tune or very close to in tune.
The carbon fiber is a [B] great
guitar in the sense of being able to just [Gm] handle a lot of extremes and yet
[F#m] we wouldn't put it out if we didn't [C] believe that it sounded very, very good.
[G] And we're excited to
call her [C] MacPherson Carbon Series.
It [G] really does what we hoped it would do.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [N] _