Chords for Dot The Dragon's Eyes - Free Scottish Fiddle Lesson by Hanneke Cassel

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_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ We're going to learn a tune called Dot the Dragon's Eyes.
And I wrote this tune after I had been living in Shanghai, China for three months.
So the tune actually has a Chinese name, _ which I will say _ rather poorly here, but I'll try my best.
It's Huā lóng diǎn jīng.
And that is translated to Dot the Dragon's Eyes, which comes from a story of a painter
painting the picture of a dragon.
And the last thing the painter does is dot the dragon's eyes.
And so the Chinese use this as a four-word phrase to describe putting the finishing touches on something.
_ And I ended up calling my last album Dot the Dragon's Eyes, which was a good way to put
the finishing touches on the album.
_ So here it is.
It's a reel.
_ _ _ And it's very Scottish-y, but it has a couple moments, I think, of kind of my American _ fiddle
style that I started out in kind of coming through.
I think there's a couple little old-timey parts in it.
So here's the first part.
We're going to start with a cut right off the bat.
And make sure to check out the Scottish tutorial _ on Grace Notes so you can see how to do the cut.
But we'll do the basic version.
We'll go through slowly, and then we'll go through in the advanced version and work on
some Grace Notes. _ _
[A] You start with big open E down to the B and a cut.
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Together those go.
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[Bb] Then the next phrase sounds like this. _ _ _
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Slowly those notes go.
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[G] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ And there's going to be some kind of [Bb] complicated bowings we will do that really set up the
groove of this tune, but I will save those for the advanced version.
From the beginning so far, _ here we go with Dot the Dragon's Eyes, the advanced version. _ _
So we're going to play lots of slurs, so get ready.
Lots of weird kind of up-bow slurs, especially.
_ Starting out, [B] we have our cut.
[G] _ _ And that's pretty much [Ab] just the same as before.
You can give it a little lift at the end.
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_ _ _ Kind of like to lift the first one and [B] then the second one.
_ Hold it.
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_ _ [B] The second phrase that you play, _
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[Gm] _ this is [D] that shuffly ending.
This is our first ending.
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_ _ So [Bm] the bowing that's going to be a little tricky [Gb] right here is that you're shuffling.
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