Learn to play Steve Lacy's "Amber" from Gemini Rights. The song uses a four-bar loop of jazz chords (B over D♭, B diminished over D♭, G♭maj7, B7) with a steady strumming pattern. The voicings follow the piano's top notes, and chords land on beats 2 and 4.
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Now. Welcome to my channel. Welcome back. If this is not your first time, today we're going to be looking at Steve Lacy's Amber off of Gemini Rights. This was one of those songs where I heard it for the first time and man, it just hit. It hit. And so I'm glad to be bringing it to you guys today. Enjoy. Okay, let's get into it. It's based around this four bar loop that's pretty simple. So it's going to start with B over D flat. If you've ever played inside, he uses the same chord.
And then to form our next chord.
Which is B diminished over D flat, we're going to take these top two notes with your middle and your index finger and you're going to move them down a fret. And here's going to be your rhythm.
So it's going to go 1, 2, 3, 4 and 2, 3, 4.
Follow that.
So 1, 2, 3, 4. And 1, 2, 3, 4.
You don't have to catch the. The one on the second time. And then that strumming pattern is going to continue for the next chord, which.
Is g flat major 7.
And I'm choosing these voicings because that's the top note that the piano plays.
On the recording followed by a B7.
And the strumming pattern is going to be the same, the rhythm is going to be the same, which is this.
1, 2, 3, 4 and 2, 3, 4.
So the first part sounds like this, the main loop.
1, 2, 3, 4 and 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, four and 2, 3, 4.
And then that is going to repeat two times for the intro and then three times on the verse. And the third time, I mean the fourth time that we do it on the verse, it's going to be different. So that's going to be. So we're going to do this three times.
And then when we get to.
The fourth time, we're gonna go, I.
Wish I never met you no more.
And then it starts over again. So the chords for that little pre chorus part is a b flat minor 7. Same exact voicing chromatically down a minor 7, a flat minor 7. The exact same voicing. We're just gonna move it down one fret at a time. So this is the third time. Now here we go.
I wish I never met you no more.
And then he's gonna do a screaming thing. And that happens twice. And Then the sequence starts over. So then we're going to do it three times and then on the fourth time it's going to change, but after that it's going to be a little bit different. So when we get to our second chorus, which is the chorus is the part that goes after the I wish I never met you it's going to go like this.
I wish I never met you no more F minor.
And I'm only playing the bottom four strings because it's kind of ambiguous what he plays on the record. I would not recommend you just let this whole thing ring out. So then this rhythm is going to be going to the next chord, which is going to be E flat minor 7. It's going to be just like we were doing before. It's going to happen on the and of four. So it's going to go. But actually it comes in on beat two. So we're going to go.
I wish I never met you no more.
Once, two, three, four.
And catch that. It's very precise. I'll do it one more time.
I wish I never met you.
2, 3, 4.
1, 2, 3, 4.
And so basically, after you do the break, this. This F. F chord is not going to come in until beat two. And then this E flat chord is going to come in on the end.
Of 4, 2, 3 and 2, 3, 4.
And then it starts over one more time. But this time it's different than we did it before. Instead of starting on this B minor chord, we're going to start on the B7.
I wish I never met.
So B7.
Nev. Which is the same chord that we were using before the B flat minor 7.
I wish I never met you no more.
And then we're gonna go back. Well, actually, we're not gonna go back. It's gonna go to a D flat.
Major chord now for two bars.
So let me just get to that part.
I wish I never met you no more.
1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 3, 4.
And then we start our sequence again.
1, 2, 3, four. And 2, 3, 4.
Done.
2, 3.
And it just. This just loops out for the end of song. Or whatever he says. I think that's basically it. I hope this was clear. I tried to make it as accurate as I possibly could to the record. The best way to practice this is literally just, first of all, make sure you have all your chord shapes down. And then just play the record and play along to it and just make sure that you're playing with the piano the whole time. Thank you, guys. So much for watching. As always, my channel's small leave requests in the comments. This one was left by this person. Thanks, bro. This is something that I want to learn anyways. And yeah, have a nice day, guys.
