Chords for FORKED DEER - Bluegrass Fiddle Lesson by Ian Walsh

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Hi folks, welcome to OnlineLessonVideos.com.
I'm Ian Walsh.
Today we're working on a tune that has two parts
and has a big key change in it, which is a lot of fun.
Personally, one of my favorite key changes too.
The first part's in the key of D,
second part we jump up into the key of A.
It's a nice change.
D is great on the fiddle, you have your open D and A string
and you have your open A and E string for the key of A.
So those two keys work really well for the fiddle.
Let's get into it.
I'm gonna play it through for you, a little sample,
and then we'll get into the lesson.
Let's go with the Fork a Deer. _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ [A] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[D] _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [D] _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Okay, let's get started.
I'm gonna show you that little intro I did
before the tune even starts.
So leading up to it,
it's a shuffle bow pattern that some people call taters.
And we're gonna play a little double stop,
two strings with a little bit of a slide on the F sharp.
Here's what it looks like.
Here's the notes, you have a D on the A string
and an F sharp on the E string.
And you can hold this down as a double stop
and you can move this bottom finger, your index,
or your forefinger there, your first one, this guy,
and slide it up there to get a nice little,
kind of a country sound.
Gonna look like this. _
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[Bm] Okay, [E] I'm trying to move my middle finger out of there
so you [D] can see a bit better. _ _ _
_ So the way I count this in for the beginning of the tune,
there's two clicks before the four eighth note clicks.
And it goes one, two, [Bb] _ _ okay?
Just like that, just one of them.
For practice purposes, just spend some time going over that,
maybe starting off slow and speeding it up
until you get a nice, kind of a liquid bow shuffle there. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[G] Okay, all right.
So this tune starts off with a triplet on the A string.
We [B] play this.
[C] Okay, that D is actually the [B] downbeat.
So we just start off with one bow.
[Gm] _ All your notes there on the A string, A, B, C, D.
You have a little rest after that D quarter note
and we play D. _ _ _ _
[Gb] [D] Let me go through that again, a little bit slower.
One, two, three.
[Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ One, two, three. _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ And one more time, one, two, three.
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] Okay, and that D quarter note,
as you start playing this a bunch,
you might start leaving that out
and just treating it as an eighth note
and connecting it with an open E.
So it would look like [Bb] this.
_ _ _ [Gb] _ One more time, connecting that with an open E.
One, two, three.
[Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ [Gb] [Bb] Okay, now let's count it in and let's put in the taters.
So this count's gonna be a little bit different.
It'll go like this.
One, two.
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_ [E] [G] And what I did right there was make a very common mistake.
You need to, what I should have done
is counted that out much slower.
Those taters, that was a very fast tater or intro.
If you find yourself in that position
where you've started off a tune like that,
you're gonna have to stick with it
and just play it at speed.
But we wanna play, let's work backwards here.
We wanna [Bb] play, _ [G] we wanna play about that speed.
So I'll count us into there.
Here we go.
One, two.
[Bb] _
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[D] Okay, and that D is gonna start off
our next little measure of the Fork a Deer. _
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