Chords for Sierra Hull - Daybreak EPK

_ _ _ _ _ _ Sierra has a natural ability that's just [E] extraordinary.
She's totally comfortable [G] on her instrument.
She has just amazing maturity.
_ [G] Sierra grew up in an environment where she was surrounded by music,
and so she absorbed music through her ears and through her environment.
And now she's in college, and she's trying to patch up the holes in her education.
I mean, everyone has things they don't know.
I was [A] switching tunes all the time.
Yeah, yeah.
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So Sierra Hall [B] came to Berkeley on a presidential scholarship,
and that's a special scholarship we created [Gb] to bring young artists of enormous [E] talent to Berkeley
[B] so they can really focus on their music [Dbm] and not worry about anything [B] else.
And Sierra is [E] one of those presidential [B] scholars,
and she's the first bluegrass [A] artist to come on a presidential scholarship.
[B] Well, it was definitely a hard [D] decision for me to decide to come [Gbm] to Berkeley.
I had pretty much made up my [B] mind to defer for a year.
I was going to just take a year off, go [A] out and play for a while.
The [E] day that I was going to [B] call [Gbm] and actually say that I [B] decided to defer, _ _
[Gbm] the dean actually called [E] me and said they [B] decided to give me this presidential award scholarship.
[B] You know, I was just like, oh no, I've got to think [A] about all this [Gb] again.
You could see her [B] weighing the choices,
because she [Gb] clearly had the option of [Bm] going out on the road and never looking [C] back. _
Well, today we dug into the music of Django Reinhardt,
and we explored some sounds that you don't [D] usually hear in bluegrass.
So [C] Sierra is very well-versed and well-rooted in what she can already do.
[B] So my quest is to [Bb] open up her [C] ears and help her [B] apply some of what [Bm] she's already [Gb] able to do in some new areas,
and also to lead her to some new tonalities.
[A] Not only is she a child prodigy, but [E] she's the perfect college student.
_ [B] _ We always say we wish we could [A] clone her.
She's an incredibly [Gbm] good person, and she also realizes [B] music is a very vast [D] thing,
and she's [E] going to want to be growing [A] and learning as a musician _ until she's an old [Em] lady.
It can definitely be difficult to try to juggle the two worlds.
You know, [D] it's like playing music, _ trying to [E] tour and keep [Gbm] up a career,
trying [B] to build on a career, and then also [D]
trying to keep up with [E] homework and all that sort of stuff.
She toured a lot, even as she was here.
[A] So we tried to put her in a position [D] where she wasn't [E] choosing between her [A] career and school,
but that school was a complement to her career.
So if I needed [B] to plan out time to go make a new record, they were behind it 100% and made it work,
so I'm really [Eb] thankful for that. _ _ _
_ _ It was [Bb] great working with Barry Bells.
[Eb] I think he really pushed me vocally and [Bb] instrumentally in a lot of [Ab] ways.
He's just really honest with what he thinks,
and it really takes that [Eb] kind of honesty to really make a good record.
I wouldn't want to work with a producer that sugarcoats everything.
You've got to have somebody out there with that outside ear that's going to go,
I know you can do better than that.
Keep going.
When I first heard Easy [Cm] Come Easy Go, it [Eb] was on a demo that Kevin MacLong had sent me,
and he actually wrote [Eb] Secrets.
I remember hearing the lyrics, you know,
I'm not a child [Bb] anymore, I'm [Ab] not afraid anymore,
and I thought, you know, this is a really [Eb] cool song,
and I think it would be one that [Ab] could really _ [Fm] apply to where I'm at right now.
[Bb] So I started playing around with it a little bit and changed [Eb] it up a little bit,
and _ it definitely [Db] became one of my favorites on [Ab] the record,
and I really felt like it [Bb] would make a first great track on the record to be [Db] the first song on there.
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_ _ _ [C] _ The [G] song Daybreak, [B] you know, I didn't really [C] think that would be a song that I would record.
I actually had [Am] written something in my [C] Bible.
I often just write things in there,
and the first verse _ _ is actually something [G] that I had written in my Bible,
[F] Take me to a place where love is all I feel when [D] I see your face.
All I need [C] to do is close my eyes and open my heart and let you move.
[Am] So, you know, that [C] was kind of a special first verse to [Gbm] me, and the chorus came about.
_ I was [Dm] trying to think of something to [Em] expand on with [C] the idea of the song,
and I look over and [G] my mandolin case was open,
and there was an [Am] old set list in the mandolin [C] case,
and the last song on it said [D] Daybreak, which was [D] Daybreak and Dixie.
The whole idea of [F] Daybreak, you know, coming into [G] the morning,
and sometimes [C] how that can feel to not really want [G] to wake up,
[C] because, you know, if [Am] you're going through something [C] hard,
sometimes you're just living day by day, and it's [D] kind of seeing the sun come up.
You know, you're going to face another day, [Dm] so it's just kind of where that [G] came from.
_ _ _ [C] _ Oh, daybreak, [Em] _
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[C] daybreak, it's all [D] that I can _ take.
_ _ _ [Dm] _ Well, Ciara has a very [G] strong identity.
One thing I always dislike is when a student comes in and it's very much all about their career.
How [A] am I going to make it?
How am I going to [E] get famous?
To me, that's a very toxic kind of mindset.
Ciara is the opposite of that [E] mindset.
She's a very [D] grounded person.
[A] She's [G] grounded in what she knows to be important [E] in her life and in the world,
and _ [A] she doesn't get easily [E]
blown aside by whatever wind is blowing.
I think Ciara has gotten exposure to [A] lots of different styles of music and other [E] musicians
and the way other musicians [Am] think.
I've just heard of her playing some new ideas, a little bit more maturity, maybe a little more risk-taking.
She is by leaps and bounds grown musically, and _ just grown as a person, you [E] know, growing up as teenagers do.
[A] You know, in the next [G] few years, I look forward to just hopefully being super busy, playing a lot,
you know, [A] traveling with the band.
I love being able to go out on [G] stage and feel like people are enjoying what [E] you're doing.
So, you know, [A] I'd just love to _ [D] go out there, [Em] and I look forward [A] to playing these new songs.
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