Chords for Pat Benatar 6/27/16: 6 - We Belong + story on writing/recording (acoustic live) - The Egg, Albany,NY

_ I heard you was gonna contribute to this. _ _
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_ _ I was on the electric show. _
You'll do part A?
I'll do part B.
Okay.
_ Alright, so this next song, this happens to be one of the songs that you _ absolutely love.
_ Us two. _
It also happens to be part of the Holy 14. _ _
_ Do you know what the Holy 14 is?
No.
_ The Holy 14 _ are the 14 songs that we must try to play every night. _
I'm gonna give them a shot. _ _ _ _
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[Gb] Alright, _ [F] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[B] _ _ so [Abm] part B goes like this.
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Are there any aspiring _ songwriters and musicians out there?
_ Yep. _ _ _
_ Anybody out there that really loves music?
_ _ _ _ _ We're gonna get to the real behind the music on this one, okay?
So here's the deal. _
As a model for hit records, I always believed three things had to happen.
One is you had to have a great melody.
Number two, you had to have great words to connect.
And number three, you had to have a great treatment.
That's really important.
Treatment means a lot.
That's the rhythm, the structure, the [B] tempo.
All those things are really, really [Ab] important.
I'll get to that in another song later.
But that's really important.
But I also live by the model of this.
I [N] wanted to have a song, a hit song start with a very _ identifiable sound.
A note, a rhythm.
So every time you heard that song on the radio, you knew exactly what that song was.
I really tried hard to do it.
If you go back in the catalog of songs we have,
you'll notice a lot of those hits start a certain way.
And as soon as you hear them start, you know exactly what that is.
This next song we're gonna do, I'll give you a little insight on this.
Here's what happened.
I went in the studio, and I had a keyboard.
I played a chord on the keyboard, one [Ab] chord like this.
And then I let it sustain.
What I did is I had this thing called a super prime time.
It was a [Gbm] little box that had the lathes left and right on it.
So I started moving all these little knobs, and [Ab] I created this rhythm,
this crazy rhythm on this keyboard that [N] everybody thought was a guitar,
but it was actually a keyboard.
So I created this crazy rhythm.
I loved the structure.
I thought, oh, I could build a song around this.
It's gonna be phenomenal.
So I invited Patricia and the band into the studio to show them what I was starting.
And I played it for them, and they looked at me, and they went,
you're fucking crazy.
_ _ They said that a lot.
They said that a lot.
I said, but just hang with me on this,
I think it's really gonna work [B] out.
Just stay with me.
And they did.
We all did.
[Db] [N] And this is what the outcome was.
So you'll know that we did this as soon as the first concert.
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