Chords for Pat Metheny Introduces What's It All About

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[Ab] _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ Both One Quiet [Ab] Night and This Record were done at home, [Db] in between parts of my regular
life.
It's not like I went into a studio and was like, okay, [F] now I'm going to make a record.
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_ _ [Db] _ It's very intimate.
[Cm] I mean, it's really just kind of me playing in a very [Db] small place,
really to the [Cm] mic, which then becomes the audience.
[Ab] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Db] _ I just was kind of playing for fun
and doing stuff that I thought maybe I would enjoy hearing.
[Eb] So it's a real direct from
me to you [G] kind of recording.
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A lot of the tunes that I picked for this are [Eb] tunes that
over the ten years or so that I've been [Db] bringing the baritone [B] guitar out on the road with me,
that I would just play, you know, kind of at a sound check or something, and somebody
would say, wow, you know, where can I get your version of that song?
Where did you record
this?
And I was like, you know, I've never recorded any of these.
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[Bbm] _ [Db] _ _ [Dbm] _ _ [Bb] The list of tunes
that are represented on there are almost all from [Cm] the time before I ever wrote [Bb] a note of
my own.
[Bb] A lot of them are before I even played an instrument.
And just songs that for whatever
reason I've always loved and have always [B] kind of felt some connection to.
But what is interesting
as I [Gb] sort of got under the hood of each one of these songs [Eb] was to sort of see kind of
[Bbm] in more musician-y terms what it was [Bb] that really grabbed me about it.
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[Db] Each one of them
has something, has some kind of weird way of [Ebm] getting from here to [Db] there or something
odd [E] about the form or, you know, [Ab] none of them are just kind of straight up like regular
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_ _ In a conventional baritone tuning, it's a little bit [B] muddy.
And I actually had
a [A] baritone guitar for years and didn't really quite [D] know what to do with it until I remembered
this tuning that a guy from [E] my hometown in Missouri had showed me when I was a teenager.
Sort of taking the middle two strings and tuning [Dbm] them up an octave by putting really
high strings [A] on and you get a very different kind of thing.
And it's almost like [Dbm] three
parts of a string quartet.
The top [E] two strings are like a viola, [B] the middle strings are like
a violin, and then the bottom two strings become like a cello.
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_ _ _ I actually love interpreting
other people's music and in a [E] way that's the thing that I get to do the least [Gb] in my daily
life as a musician.
So yeah, it's the first record [C] of mine where there's none of my tunes on it.
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I really try to make, not [Gm] just in the solo record department, but in general, I try to
make each [Dm] record have a very distinctive [Gm] something about it, that it's really about [A] that.
And
in [G] the case of this record, it's certainly, [D] you know, about the playing and the performance,
but it's also [Bbm] about these songs.
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It's a very [Bbm] unusual instrument, obviously, this being
the 42-string guitar.
[Ab] And it's sort of got [F] a very particular kind of thing that you have
to [Bbm] find just the right kind of song to do with it.
[Fm] So somehow Sound of Silence sort
of started popping out and I did a [Bbm] version of it one night and [Db] that's what ends up leading
off the record.
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_ For me, each time that [Eb] I play, regardless of the setting, I [Fm] just try to find
things that I love and try to bring them out into the world.
That's sort of [Bbm] what I kind
of feel like my job is as a musician and this is another angle on that.
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