Chords for MDBG Guitar Lesson: Tears by Django Rienhardt, Jazz Progression

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ Hi, [A] and welcome to Masters of the Delta Blues Guitar [G] with Kevin Duggan. _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Fm] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] Hi, my name's Kevin Duggan.
This is the Masters of Delta Blues Guitar. _ _ _
This song is not really a _ Delta Blues by a long stretch.
It's a jazz song, but it's a really nice one.
It's written by Django Reinhardt.
It's called Tears.
_ _ And, you know, it's just a beautiful song.
But this is a, _ _ _ _ like I said, a jazz song from, jeez, I think it's from around 1947 or something.
_ _ How it starts out is you're in a C minor. _ _
_ And the picking _ _ starts out with a single note, then two notes, [Cm] _ _ _ [Bb] then a single note.
So what you're doing is you're basically, you're doing like an arpeggio.
So what _ _ [C] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] you're _ doing is you're doing, _ _ [C] _ _ [Cm] so that's [C] a single note, _ _ _ _ then a double, two fingers, _ then [Eb] a single. _ _
_ And you're hitting that single note.
This is a C minor chord I have _ fretted.
[Cm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Then [Bb] you're going to, you're keeping the same [Cm] chord, _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ but you have to get up to this note.
So you have to change your fingering a bit.
_ So your bass note is going from here up to here, and all these notes are staying the same.
So you're in a C minor chord, and what's happening is [Cm] you have, you're starting off here.
_ And [C] your bass note's going from here, _ right here, [Eb] up to here.
But all the other notes are staying [Cm] the same.
_ _ So you go, what I do, _ [Eb] exact same picking pattern, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] then [Bb] to the fifth.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ So what we have down here, it almost looks like a D slid [F] up. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ So again, [Cm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ now to this part, which is, you have the B, you have your B bass note here,
and you have your D, and you [A] have a G sharp down here.
_ [Gm] _
It resolves, _ _ _ resolves like that, _ _ you know, to these bottom two strings.
_ _ [G] _ So what you're kind of almost doing is going to like a G chord.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] So another way you can resolve that too is this G seventh chord,
which is kind of a movable chord. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] So that would sound like this.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ Then this is the G seven.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I have my thumb over the top _ fretting [E] the, you know, what that chord basically is,
is a G seven, you finger [G] like this.
_ _ _ But a lot of people finger [Bbm] it like that, and go over the [G] chord.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ You [Gb] know, [Bb] that type of a, _ _ _ _ that [G] type of a chord. _
_ _ So [Cm] this is the beginning. _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ [E] _ _ _ [G] _ _ Then it goes into another part where you're fretting,
_ [Db]
your bass note is right up here, which is a C sharp. _ _
And you're doing a chord with your _ finger barring the third, you know, the complete. _ _
_ _ Any questions about this program?
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