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Baby I'm A Fool Tutorial (Melody Gardot)

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Uploaded by on Aug 23, 2010

It's a happy tune with sad lyrics, it has nice guitar chord work going, it's another Melody Gardot tune! Those of you blessed with longer fingers will find this easy. Those of you who are new to jazz will soon discover that many jazz tunes are in these rather obscure keys (Eb, Bb, Ab), where suddenly the under-used frets come alive!

Watch out for the subtle key change from Ab to Db. It happens when the song switches to a 2-5-1 in the key of Db (Ebm, Ab7, Dbmaj7) in the last line of the stanza. Get the hang of this "sound" of key changes, and you're well on your way to tackle harder jazz standards!

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For your reference:

Ab6 4x354x
Ab(add13-) 4x254x
Bbm7 6x666x
Eb9 x6566x
Ebm7 x6x676
Ab7 4x454x
Dbmaj7 x4656x
Dbm x4x45x

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  • Is Dbm really x4x46x?

    

  • @opelousas3 Whoa, thanks for pointing the typo out! My bad! It's meant to be x4x45x. Sorry!!

  • Thank you so much! you don't know how much this helped me! it'd be 10 times helpful if you tabbed it also o; It's alright though i can figure it out from listening to this video (:

    Could you though, put the tabs of the chords in the "more info" so i wouldn't have to replay the video over to check if i'm doing it right XD Thank you for the help!

    -C

  • @applewack14 Hi there, so sorry I've taken this long to reply. I've added the chords as requested. :) You're most welcome! Glad I was of help.

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  • Obscure keys? Lol.. only to a guitarist. Beautiful work, love the structure.

  • This is the bomb. You are the man. Thanks so much! :)

    Cheers,

  • It's great! But you cut it off before you let her finish the song. Please put up the complete song.  Nice work!

  • thx great tutorial!! great job

  • Thank you very much for the chords, chanBP! what a beautiful song...Perhaps you could help with other songs from Melody.. :-)

  • thanks!!! 

  • thanks a bunch! i don't know this doesn't have that many views! this is a great song!

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