Chords for Cluck Old Hen - Basic Fiddle Lesson

Fiddlehead, Fiddlehead, Fiddlehead, Fiddlehead, Fiddlehead, [G]
Fiddlehead, Fiddlehead, Fiddlehead. _ _ _ _ _ _
Oh hello there, welcome to another Fiddlehead Fiddle lesson.
I'm going to show you the tune Cluck Old Head.
I'm gonna play the whole thing [G] first and then teach it to you in a step-by-step manner.
So here [E] goes. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[A] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ Alright, so before starting the tune, play the A Dorian scale.
If you don't already know it, I'll show it to you right now.
_ Starts on A string, open, [B] one, low [D#] two, three.
[E] _ Open on E, [C#] one, low two, [Dm] three. _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ Master that, [B] make sure you know that before doing the tune.
Okay, starts with this [D#] phrase, open E to three [A] on E. _ _ _ _
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[Fm] Then we do, add low two. _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Okay, adding more. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ That's a good little piece, let's do it a few times. _
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
Here it is one last time.
_ _ _ [D#] _ _ _
_ [N] Alright, and now, that's the first quarter, _ and the third quarter.
Here's the second quarter of the tune.
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ Starts the same as the first, but, so it starts open, three, then it goes to three [D] on A, back to [G#] first on E.
I think that's pretty hard if you're a beginner, so let's practice it a whole bunch right now, in a [A#] loop.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G#] Good, that's the second quarter, so let's do the whole first [F#] half.
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B]
Third quarter, same as first.
_ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ [E] Fourth quarter, starting on open E, kind of walking down.
_ [D] _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ Show you the fingers up close, _ _ [C] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [B] so it starts on E and then goes to [A] third on A.
_ [Cm] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [Fm] _ Okay, so [B] here's the whole A part to Cluck Old Hen. _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [B] _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [A] One more time, _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ [D#] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ one more time, fingers up close.
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
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_ _ _ Let's move on.
B part, I think it's a little simpler.
Starts like this, open A to low [A] two on A.
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_ _ [A] Here's that up close, _ followed _ [C#] _ _ _ _ by A down [A] to D3.
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_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ So here's the whole first [D] half of the A part, _ B [A] part, sorry.
_ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ [F#m] _ Second [Gm] half of the B part starts like [A] this.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [B] _
That's the third quarter.
Listen to it up close, let's see it [G#] up close.
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[B] _ _ And that's followed by the fourth quarter, same as the fourth quarter of the A part.
_ [C] _ _
[A] _ _ So [G] the second half of the B [A] part of Cluck Old Hen is this.
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_ [A] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [A] _ _ _
So now I'll play the entire B part. _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Cm] _
_ [A] _ _ _ Alright, [B] well let's just do the whole thing.
You'd normally do maybe two A's, two [D#] B's.
Because we're doing it so slow, I'm just going to do a single A, single B.
And I'll count it in so you out there in fiddle headland can play along.
Alright, [F#] here goes.
One, two, _ ready, go.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [F] _
That's it, that's Cluck Old Hen.
More videos for that to follow.
For each song that I do, each tune I do, I try to do an intermediate version which adds something.
Some kind of fiddle technique is added to it.
And then an advanced version which is even harder.
So we're constantly building [F#] on these tunes and learning more from them.
Keep returning to them like they're old friends.
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Okay, bye.
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