Chords for Da Slockit Light (Air): Scottish Fiddle Lesson by Hanneke Cassel

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So this is one of my favorite airs from Scotland.
_ It's actually written by a Shetland fiddle
player named Tom Anderson.
He's really well known and he's a great influence on the Scottish
and the Shetland fiddle scene.
It's called The Sluck at Light _ and it's just a really
beautiful air and I actually learned this originally from my first fiddle teacher, Carol
Ann Wheeler, who is a great fiddle player from Oregon who plays Texas style and Scottish
music and every style of music.
So here's the basic melody.
I'll play the A part first. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ So right at the beginning we're in the key of D.
We're going to start on our F sharp
_ and you can kind of totally just melt into these first few notes. _ _ _ _
_ _ Starting on F sharp,
walking down the scale _ _ _ and then you will do a D major arpeggio _ _ _ all _ _ _ the way up to the F
sharp then walk down the scale. _
_ _ _ _ _ So that whole first opening phrase sounds like this. _ _ _ _ _
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I use a mixture of single bows and slurs.
_ I actually switch it up quite a bit so I'm
not going to go.
So we're going to play The Sluck at Light with a lot of added grace notes.
So while we're learning these grace notes, keep in mind that we're playing the grace
notes and doing bowings and all of those things to be expressive and to be lyrical with this
tune.
_ Airs are just one of my favorite things to play because I feel like you can really
express emotions through music very clearly with a slow air.
So right at the beginning,
_ _ _ _ _ let's play a waterfall.
And if you don't know how to do any of these grace notes that I'm
mentioning here, just take a quick look at the grace note tutorial and they're all explained
there.
_ _ _ _ So we fall into that D with this waterfall from the E. _ _ _ _ _ _
And when we do that, it's not
just a grace note in the left hand, but there's also a swell that's happening from the bow. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ When you get to that D, you can do a really soft hammer-on.
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You could even flick that
A before you came up. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ There I flicked the F sharp.
_ _ _ And I also put it down both slur.
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