Chords for Victor Wooten Introduction

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_ [G] _ _ you [Bm] ever been told by someone there's a person you should [Em] know?
By someone that is genuinely surprised, you don't already know that [A] person.
[E] Victor Wooten is someone you need to [G] know.
Tiger Woods was playing golf at two.
And what were you doing?
I was playing bass at two.
I am the youngest of five brothers that all play music.
And my oldest brother Reggie, he's eight years older than me.
And he realized at an early age that if we had a bass player, we'd have a full band.
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[Am] _ [N] _ _ I was learning to play by imitation.
But the people I lived with weren't playing bass.
So I had a brother playing guitar, you know.
Had a brother playing drums, brother playing sax, and a brother playing keyboards.
[Am] So I was learning their vocabulary.
_ I was learning to strum, use my [Abm] thumb like a pick, you know.
_ _ [E] _ [G] Playing [F] chord.
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[D] _ [G] Playing _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ just drum rhythms, you know.
And with chords on one hand, _ _ _ bass line on the other, it's piano, right?
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[G] Victor has an impressive list of credentials, including four Grammy Awards with the Fleck
Tones and two nominations for his solo projects.
He is the only three-time winner of the Bass Player Magazine's Bass Player of the Year.
He has been called the continuation of bass legend, Jaco Pistorius.
For me, musically, it kind of [N] started by listening to James Brown. _ _ _
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[Ab] Then I started broadening out [F] and hearing [E] people like Stanley Clark.
You know, Stan [A] _ [E] who's_
[D] _ [E] _ Hearing people like Larry Graham who were really slapping [D] the bass.
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People like that, Jaco, _ _ _ who brought a whole other sound out of the bass, you know.
And so in learning what they did, and then just putting myself to it, it just kind of turned into my own.
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_ _ Playing music is [E] something Victor Wooten has been doing from before he remembers [B] doing it.
_ _ _ [Bm] He has [Dbm] developed an impressive [C] vocabulary [E] of musical styles [Bb] and influences [Gb]
[G] that have resulted
in him [F] being one of the greatest bass players of our time.
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] Victor Wooten, the bass player, is only one tangent of Victor Wooten, the extraordinary man.
His awareness of [Em] the environment we live in, his unique [G] philosophy on music, and his ability to synthesize
his perspective into a workable plan for living his life broadly, all make [D] Victor Wooten someone you need to know.
English is my first language.
Music is my second.
But I learned [G] them at the same time and in [Dbm] the same way.
So what [C] I found is that my approach to music [E] is different.
This is not a collection of notes, scales, theory, and [C] techniques.
[Eb] Music to me is fulfilling.
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[A] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ Victor Wooten's newest CD, Palm Mystery, on the Heads [Gb] Up label, releases next month,
along with his first book, [Ab] The Music Lesson, with Penguin Publishing.
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