These are standards with lots of chord changes, trunkfuls of harmonic information.
His songs often feature angular melodies and modal passages, and he plays emphatically, almost like a percussionist, with lots of chord clusters, some containing hints of dissonance.
There were a lot of chords to be struck, and a rugged old bass line to hold it all up.
Then, referring to the demolition of Giants Stadium, he added, it "was certainly an emotional moment that struck a lot of chords".
Years later I learned that it had always had a lot of chords – both T-Bone Walker's original and Bobby "Blue" Bland's later version – but the Allmans seemed determined to cram into its 12 bars as many chords as I had ever known and several I hadn't: ninths, minor sevenths, augmenteds.
Whatever pianists and vibraphonists play together onstage, they probably should not play a lot of chords at the same time; unfortunately, it happened too often with Mr. Hill and Mr. Hutcherson -- too bad, because some well-defined, beautifully played ideas of Mr. Hutcherson's got drowned.
When asked about whether he had begun as a rhythm guitarist, he stated: No, I play a lot of notes, but I also play a lot of chords.
You can find websites that play chords for you if you don't have an instrument to work with or you don't know a lot of chords.
Crucially, the rhythm-section players followed Dr. Smith's example by ducking and diving, changing up tone and rhythm, keeping the music bubbling through slow numbers and fast songs with not a lot of chord changes.
Almost -- not quite, but almost -- as energized as its leader, this band could be easily manipulated; most of the songs were played as chorus after chorus of the same basic idea, without bridges or a lot of chord changes, so it was easy for Little Richard to stop on a dime and start up something new.
OT: I get a lot of shit for not having a lot of chord changes, believe me.
