Chords for Ron Trent presents - Prescription: Word, Sound & Power

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_ _ _ _ _ _ For [Gb] those of you that didn't hear it the [Db] first time, [C] _ [Gb] what is my mission?
_ [Db] _ _ [Ebm] You know when we hear a song we have a certain [Db] emotion, _ _ _ _ [Gb] a thought, a [Fm] feeling, _ [C] a memory, _ [Gb] _
and [Db] colors too.
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_ [Db] I mean you can hit a certain chord and it [Gb] might remind you of purple, _ or it [Fm] might remind
you of blue.
[Gb] _ _ What is my mission?
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_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Dm] _ [C] So when Shane and I got together was to change the scope of how people looked at _ _ Chicago _ _
music, or dance music, or [Db] tracks and that kind of thing.
[N] Like I said, it's more that we were interested in fidelity. _
Taking the [G] bedroom track to the next [Gm] level, if you will.
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Obviously, music [Cm] being organized _ _ [Gm] sound, sometimes organized sound and color together.
That's how I think about it. _
_ _ [Cm] We were very much [Gm] at that time studying [Dm] sound systems and things [Gm] of that nature.
We were going to sound factory in New [Cm] York in particular, and [Gm] shelter, things of that nature.
_ There's a certain level of quality _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
that's standard [C] for New York clubbing, and even Chicago
[Gm] clubbing back in the [Cm] day.
_ _ [Gm] The records were well [Bb] represented on [Gm] the dopest sound system you could possibly have at the
[Cm] time with the [Bm] technology that was available, analog [Am] technology that was available at the time.
_ Sound [Bb] factory being [Ab] a [G] highly _ [Gm] _
defined sound system.
_ We constantly referenced things _ [Eb] with that system.
[G] Like how would it sound on sound factory, sound [Am] system?
_ [Gm] You had sub bass, you had bass, [Cm] you had low mid, you had mid, [Gm] you had high mid, and then
you had high frequencies.
And then you _ had [Cm] _ high frequency.
[N] This was all being covered in the range of a system.
So when you have that level of fidelity, you can hear all different types of things. _
So we played with that idea.
We're like, okay, well, all right, well, we know that there's all these dynamic ranges here.
We're going to do stuff to plug that in here so it sits in the background here.
Because when it's put [Gb] on a real system, you're going to hear it's going to sound different. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ We came with the [Ebm] idea of just really kind of being ourselves and taking the energy of
all the things that we've learned and all the scales and colors and things of that nature
that we obtained and putting it on this canvas of _ various _ vinyl. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ We're guys that collect [Bb] music, a lot of different types of music, and [Ebm] into a lot of different
types of things.
We had teachers like Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy, and the era that we came up in,
which was very vast and musical selection.
It was not one type of thing.
[Eb] [G] So it was always an evolving [Ebm] process.
It was never, _ this is [C] the formula. _ _ _ _
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When _ _ I'm making or layering a song, it's like I'm making a painting.
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[C] _ _ [E] We started recording in Kevin Zonison's studio, which was a million dollar facility. _ _
So therefore, this gave us the opportunity _ to _ broaden the scope.
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_ _ [E] _ We more or less, _ with all good things, a lot of things are created out of experimentation.
_ _ So that's kind of like how we went in there.
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_ _ _ _ _ One of the things I wanted to say about prescription is that it's the element of ancestral power
[G] that kind of sparked it all too.
Prescription is more or less related to, as we say, Native American culture.
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_ _ [C] _ We call it doing medicine work.
_ _ And medicine work is work that _ is healing work. _ _
This is where the name prescription comes from, because it's a [Dm] prescription.
[C] It's a prescription to the healing work or to [G] the medicine work that we wanted to _ [C] create,
to conjure up [Dm] in music.
And that's what it's about. _ _ _ _
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