Smile Chords by Peter White

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_ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ [C] Is there _ [Dm] _
_ _ [C] _ [A] anything different about Smile?
I would say it's because there's [C] the inclusion of [D] vocals on there.
On the last two albums there were no vocals and I thought, you know, it'd be nice to have
some vocals on this new album.
And I had this song that was kicking around for a long time called [C] Smile.
And the only problem with this song was that I was singing it.
And it [Dm] just didn't sound that good.
[C] _ _ And one day I had an epiphany.
I thought, wow, I've been touring a whole lot with Mindy Abe and she has a [E] beautiful voice.
[Dm] I think she would be great on this song.
_ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] Smile is the shortest [D] distance between two people.
[C] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[A] My friend DC, who's a wonderful studio engineer [G] and producer, has actually worked on the last
three albums with me.
_ _ [C] He comes up with ideas that I never would have thought of.
[G] And that's why I like working with him.
[E] I'll come up with the melodies _ [E]
and the harmonies and he'll come up [Bm] with the salt and pepper
and the paprika, [A] the spice.
_ [C] _ _ _ [D] A lot of the original compositions on my album [B] start with a musical motif [G] that is not the guitar.
And [G] sometimes it'll be a long time [D] before I even [E] think of the melody [C] or even put them,
record the melody on the [Am] song.
I want to feel that the song is almost complete, that the bed is [Am] almost complete there [D] before
I start playing the guitar.
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[D] _ _ [E] I was [D#] very heavily influenced by the Mason Williams [Dm] song, Classical [Gm] Gats, when I was a teenager.
The fingerstyle guitar [Dm] was just [A#] very exciting for [D#] me. _ _
[Dm] When I wrote [A#] Don Quixote's Final Quest, I think I was [D] probably being influenced by [Bm] that song. _ _ _
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Here's [G] a song that [B] starts out to be a classical guitar and ends up with [A] almost a full [D] orchestra in it.
[F#] I almost left it off the album, _ [Bm]
but we worked [A] on it a lot and [F#m] I started to think, [F#] you know,
this is [Bm]
something a little different that people [A] might like to hear.
[D] It probably ended up [G] being my favorite song on the album.
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_ _ [B] _ [B] I have a lot of good friends who [F#] are also fantastic musicians, _ [C#] and so it was very [A] natural
for me to ask them to [B] play with me on my new album.
Mindy Hebert, who [C#m] I must have done easily over a hundred [A] shows with over the years.
Ute Groove [G] and Rick Braun _
[F#m] _ both have [G] little features on my [F#]
album, and [F#m] I've been touring
with [G] both of them this whole year, actually, [C#] the show called [F#m] Jazz Attack.
I [Bm] _ do a Christmas [E] tour every year, and I have done [Bm] for the last, what, 11 or 12 [E] years, and
it [Bm] features Rick [C#m] Braun and Mindy Hebert, so I [G#m] think it will [F#m] be, yeah, a [Bm] shoe-in that I'll
be able to do [E] some songs from the album that feature Rick [C#m] and Mindy.
_ Wow, [F#m] it's been four decades [B] since I started as a professional [E] musician.
I've had some [C#m] kind of a charmed life to be able to [F#m] play the music that I want to play.
[Bm] I think that's the dream of [F#] any musician.
I've been very, very [C#m] lucky.
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