Chords for SNAMM '17 - Martin D-18 Jason Isbell Demo

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_ _ _ [D] _ _ Hey [E] everybody, Jason Shadrick here with PremierGuitar.com.
We're here with Jason Isbell, who [A] has a great first name.
Yes, the best.
To talk the best, I would say, yes.
I've [C] looked it up _ [E] on Urban Dictionary and it says good things about Jason's.
Jason's are like the coolest people in the world.
Me and you and Jason [A] Statham.
_ _ [E] That's a band.
That's a band.
That guy's so [D] cool.
He's like that new Bruce Willis. _ _ _
[D#] If we had to power rank Jason's, he'd [A] be top five.
Yeah, Jason Lee is really awesome too because he can [D] skateboard. _
He's famous for being funny, but he's actually a very good skateboarder.
_ _ _ But anyways, we'll talk Jason's later.
Let's talk more about our name later.
We're here with your new signature model, [E] Mark.
Which I would imagine, _ growing up in Alabama, having [G] your name on a guitar that you really
[B] like has to be [E] a big deal for you, man.
It's a huge [Am] deal.
It really [B] is.
I can't [D] overstate how big a deal it is.
Yeah, I never really thought that it would get to the point where I could have my own
signature Martin [G] guitar.
So I'm very excited [E] about it. _ _ _ _
We designed it, _ myself and Michael [Em] Bethencourt, my guitar tech, with the [A] folks at Martin,
Fred Green and [E] the people there at Martin.
_ We [B] really wanted to make it as loud as possible.
That was the whole purpose of getting this guitar.
I was going to say, when you picked it up and hit a chord, just standing [G#] this close,
I don't know if it'll come [C] across in the video, but you didn't [E] hit it that hard and it sprung out.
Yeah, that's what we're [G] trying to do, is make it just out [D] of the box a very loud guitar.
[E] Because when I grew up, my granddad and his brothers [A] played Martins, and [B] whoever had the
loudest one had the best one.
That's just how they judged it.
I think that's kind of a good way to judge, because it [A] means all the parts are functioning
like they're supposed to.
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I think it's beautiful, it's kind of understated, [Em] it's not too flashy, I'm not too flashy [D] myself.
It's something I think you can take out on the road and feel alright [Em] with playing and
using [A] like you're supposed to use it as a tool.
I think it'll probably [E] appeal to people who don't care who I am, [Em] which is sort of, I think
my [E] goal with this was to maybe sell some of [D] these to folks [Cm] who just like really good [Em] guitars
and [A#] aren't interested in having something [G] with my name on it.
_ [F#m] So [D]
when you were growing up, were you like a [G] D18, D28 guy?
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_ [A] _ We had [E] a lot of Martin copies, [D] and I [E] remember my great uncle had [Dm] a D28 that he was very
[Em] fond of and he would bring it over to my [Dm] grandfather's house.
We were pretty broke, [Em] I didn't have great guitars [C] until I [A] started playing professionally.
So my granddad's brother would [Em] bring his D28 over and sort of rub it under everybody's
noses that he had the good Martin of [C] the family.
That [B] was your first taste?
That was my first taste, yeah.
You know, I always, always [Em]
appreciated the Dreadnoughts, and that's what I gravitated
toward just because I was a [D] big person and I liked to handle a big guitar, you know.
I [F] love the way they sound, [F#] and I don't mind the way they play, I [C] don't mind having to
wrap my arm around it.
[D] _ Was there [N] much reasoning behind the no pickguard look? It's louder.
[Am] It's [B] five decibels louder without a pickguard on it.
Yes, they did the test at Martin, and yeah, up to five decibels, which seems like a lot,
but it's true.
It is.
Yeah.
So no aesthetic considerations, just, we need to make this thing a [D] canon.
We wanted it to be loud, you know, and I think it [Em] looks good just [B] by default, especially
with that, the [E] rosettas from the Ditson _ guitars [G] that were the earliest Dreadnoughts, the Depression
era Ditson [E] out of Boston.
He came down and had Martin [F#] make some guitars with his name [Dm] so he could sell them at his
music [E] store, and that was the rosetta that was on those guitars.
[B] And _ yeah, we went with a small [E] bridge, [Dm] trying to keep the [B] vibrations moving on the top as
much as possible.
We re-shifted the braces and [D] used hide [Dm] glue.
_ So yeah, we just tried to make it [D] loud.
We didn't put a whole lot of finish on it.
_ [C#] The mahogany, [D] you know, it doesn't get too [Dm] covered up with a whole bunch of stuff.
I think it [D] looks great.
It's super lightweight.
What electronics did [G] you put in it?
Fishman.
It's just got an [A] undersaddle.
Yeah, and I use [B] the Aura Spectrum Fishman DIs and have them do [D] images of, you [E] know,
my guitars there at Fishman.
But [Em] _
yeah, it's a pretty simple machine, but I think it really works.
And so do you have [A] one of these out on the road with you already?
Yeah, I've had it out [D] for a few months, and [E] I really like it.
It's similar in a lot [C#] of ways to the [Em] Authentic series, but it has a truss rod, [F#] which makes
it easier to [E] adjust.
I mean, before, you have [Em] to take this out and you've got to shave it down.
Authenticity to a point, you know, over convenience.
Yeah, and I love the Authentic series [D] too, but I wanted something that_
[A] I didn't want to ruin my guitar [E] tech's day every time I [C] made him change the action [E] on something. _
_ [B] [Cm] Cool.
Well, Jason, congrats on the [Em] new album.
Thanks for everything, man.
Thanks, man.
I appreciate it.
[B] This is Jason Shadrick [F#] and Jason Isbell for