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Hey y'all!!!! Newest lesson is up and its all about my new obsession, Thundercat!!! I cannot get enough of this guy's stuff, y'all!! You HAVE to check out the live stuff too, his band is UNREAL! Watch these:

NPR Tiny Desk show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhVgbZdMdb0

And this BBC live that is just NUTS. Watch Them Changes at 11:20, his playing plus that drummer.... just unreal!!! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrAHZ-vJKA&t=226s

Hope you all enjoy! There's some really deep harmony in these chords, get em under your fingers! 

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The Curious Chords of Thundercat

This week you get TWO WAYS to access all the TABs and charts to go along with this lesson! 1: make ANY KIND of donation to my good buddy Brandon's fight with cancer: https://www.gofundme.com/f/lets-help-brandon-suttles Take a screenshot with proof of your donation, and email it to me ( benellerguitars at g mail dot com) with "GoFundMe Thundercat" as the subject, and i'll mail you the charts and TABs! or 2: support my channel over on https://www.patreon.com/BenEllerGuitars , and gain access to a TON of bonus lessons, backing tracks, my original tunes, and more! Hey kids, its your good buddy Uncle Ben Eller here with an in-depth lesson on the chord vocabulary of my latest obsession: THUNDERCAT! As a fellow bass boy, people had been telling me for years to check out his work with Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus, plus his solo albums.... but it wasn't until his song "Them Changes" popped up playing in the background of a TikTok video my wife was watching that i ever did, and now, i am HOOKED! He's got the chops, the band, the groove, and ALL the expensive chords! You can expand your chord vocabulary like crazy by learning tunes like his, and thats exactly what we are doing today. I will show you guys how to play the guitar chords to "Them Changes", "A Fan's Mail (Tron Song Suite II)", and "Tron Song", plus we will do some serious analyzation of what makes these big jazzy chords tick. Seriously, these chords are amazing! Playing my PRS SE Hollowbody into the Fractal Axe FX III, using an MXR Micro Flange for some sonic texture. No DOD Grunge Pedals were harmed in the making of this lesson. Dragonball Durag not included. Be sure to check out Thundercat live at BBC and his Tiny Desk concert, you'll be blown away! Let me know what player's vocabulary you'd like to see broken down on a future episode of Weekend Wankshop in the comments below!

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William Hernandez

Thanks for sharing. This dude is doing a jazz informed version of pop. Very cool.

Marshall

Im so happy you introduced me to this fried gold nuggetry!!! I friggin Love this omg!!!! 🤘🌀🐺🔥