Chords for Farewell To Erin (Reel): Trad Irish Fiddle Lesson by Kevin Burke

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[N] _ _ So, Farewell to Aaron is a _ _ very popular tune, kind of an exciting tune.
_ _ It's one that I recorded with the great Buffy band _ _ and that popularised the tune.
I can't remember where I heard it first, but it's not to be confused with a tune with a similar title, Farewell to Ireland.
There's Farewell to Aaron, which is the tune I'm going to deal with now, and another one called Farewell to Ireland,
which is quite a different tune, has a very different mood. _ _ _
_ This one has four parts.
_ _ It's in the key of A, so it's kind of bright and exciting.
And the four parts make it a fairly involved, complex kind of a tune.
But I'll go through it _ in a fairly basic manner and hopefully _ that will give you a chance to _ grasp all of the nuts and bolts of this tune,
and we can dress it up later.
_ So, here we go.
It starts on a big low A note. _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [Gm] _
_ [A#] _ _ _ So that would be the first phrase.
[A] And _ [Cm] _ then [Gm] _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ [A#m] the second phrase. _
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[A#] _ _ _ I'll do that again. _ _
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[A#] _ So the first half of the first part.
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[A] _ [Cm] _ _ [A#] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[A#] _ And then the third phrase. _ _
Farewell to Aaron.
_ We've been through the basic version, so I'll give you a few more suggestions now _ to flesh the tune out a wee bit
with some rolls and triplets, etc. _ _ _ _
And I start off usually with that long bass A, and I usually try to make it sound [G#] rich.
So at the very start I probably wouldn't play a roll or anything, just a nice big fat A [Am] sound.
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_ [G] _ [Am] And I do my little triplet there.
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[D] follow that up with another [A#] triplet, _ [A] _ _
_ and I draw through the A _ _ _ with a nice long [D] full bow stroke [A] _ _ [F#m] _ [G] to give it a [F#] frat rich [D] sound.
_ And I get [E] the rhythm by tapping the string _ [F#m] with probably [G] the third finger.
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] That's where the beat comes in. _ _ _ _ _
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