Chords for Victor Wooten - Groove Workshop Video Preview

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[Fm] Hello, my name is Victor [A] Wooten and I'd like to first thank you for taking the time to
be here with us.
Today is going to be something different, a different type of video.
[G] We're going to explore music in a different type of way, a different way that I think
it's ever been explored in public before.
[G#] [F#] And first let me ask the question, what is music?
Okay, now to me music is a language.
So that raises the next question, what is a language?
A language serves a purpose.
A language helps us describe what's inside of us.
It helps me communicate to you what I'm feeling, [Am] what I'm thinking, or what I want to convey.
So in understanding that we have to realize that what's important is not the language
but what it is I want to convey.
It starts with having a [D] feeling, a message, an emotion.
And a language helps us convey that.
Now [G] music to me does exactly [A] the same [N] thing.
So that brings us back to even with music, what's most [D] important is having something to say.
The message that [Am] we use or the instruments that we use to convey that [G] message are secondary.
So [A] we need something to [C] say.
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_ [G] _ [C] _ _ [Fm] _ [G] there's seven [C] right notes and only five [G] so-called wrong [A] notes.
That means even if I guess, I'm going to hit a right note more than half the time.
So if I'm looking at a piano where I have the white keys and the black keys, if I'm
in the key of C major, seven of those white keys are in that key.
[E] Only five are not.
But let's say what happens if I happen to land on a wrong note.
If I happen to land on a black key and I'm only supposed to hit the white keys.
[C] If I'm standing on this black key, what's on [D] either side of me?
[B] A white key, [A] absolutely.
All the time.
There is no black key on the piano that doesn't have a white key on either side.
What is that telling you?
That you are never [Am] more than a half step away [C#] [E] from a right note. _ _
[G#] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [N] There's a lot of books out there that teach [F] you scales, [C] [A] chords, and for whatever reason,
we've studied them too.
But we're still only comfortable with the root.
[G] So in a sense, it's not working.
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[C] Let's be point blank.
It's not working.
[Fm] So my goal today is to get you comfortable with, or [Em] give you a tool to get you comfortable
with all 12 notes.
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