Chords for How to Play Whiskey Before Breakfast | Melody | Key of D

Tempo:
84.025 bpm
Chords used:

G

D

F#m

Em

C#

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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How to Play Whiskey Before Breakfast | Melody | Key of D chords
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Hey guys, how's it going?
I am still getting over a cold, so forgive me if I'm coughing
or clearing my throat.
I'm going to show you a tune called Whiskey Before Breakfast.
It's
in the key [D] of D.
An old fiddle tune.
We're going to do it in an open position.
And what
I'm going to do is I'm just going to play it for you, and then if you're interested,
I'll just send you a PDF [N] file.
Normally, doing PDF files, I would ask for a small donation,
you know, a few dollars.
But this is one of those tunes where I think it will be more
helpful for you to have the tab slash notated music and hear the recording, or hear the
video, and use the video as a reference so you can see the rhythms in front of you and
not spend so much time trying to stop and start a video and learn it that way.
So, Whiskey
[D] Before Breakfast, key of D, open position, using the D major scale, open position.
[C#] [G]
[Em] [D] Alright,
here it goes.
[G] [F#m] [G]
[D] [G] [F#m] [D]
[Em] [D] [G] [F#m] [C#]
[D] [G] [F#m] [D] Okay?
[Em] [F] [G]
[F#m] [G] [F#m] [D]
[Em] [A] [G]
[F#m] [G] [F#m] [D]
These are fantastic tunes, not just this particular fiddle tune, but
fiddle tunes in general are a really great way to practice not only your scales and playing
in a certain position, but learning how to play melodically.
And melodically meaning
not just playing a simple three note melody, but playing phrases, melodic phrases.
The
second thing that's great about these tunes is once you learn them in a position, like
in this case we're learning it in D major open position, you can then learn it in, say,
a capo position.
So if I wanted to stay in the key of D, but I wanted to play using the
capo, I could capo at the second fret [N] and play out of a C shape.
What happens is you
get a different set of fingerings, and each fingering allows you to play, or I should
say it lends itself to playing different types of melodic figures.
It also becomes more challenging
in some ways because the way the notes now fall on the guitar, they're not nearly as
easy to play certain phrases in certain ways because the notes have changed location.
The
second thing is, without the capo, you can practice playing these songs anywhere on the
neck, and just challenging yourself to play only fretted notes, or maybe if possible incorporating
open notes.
And then of course after you've learned the song in one key, you can always
play it in different keys.
So instead of sitting around practicing your scales and practicing
your sequences, you know like D major, [C#] [D] [Em]
[G] [Em] [G]
[C#] [D] [Em]
[G] instead of doing that, which is good, it's very good
to practice that stuff, you can do that as say like a warm up, and then focus on really
learning this stuff through the scales being used in a song.
So these fiddle tunes are
to me the most musical way of practicing single note lines on the guitar.
Next being learning
solos, transcribing, things like that.
But if you're wanting to just learn a repertoire
of melodies that you can then use to increase your [D#] capacity to play over a song, that's
all over the fingerboard, in different keys and out of different shapes, this is definitely
the way to do it.
There are some guys you should check out too, there's a guy named
Jimmy Bryant, and there's a guy named Jimmy Rivers.
There's several jazz guys that have
used these fiddle tunes as well.
And then of course the flat picking guys, the bluegrass
guys, Norman Blake, Tony Rice, David Greer, Dan Crary, Brian Sutton, Donny Holt, and then
Doc Watson, Clarence White.
There's a lot of guys, I recommend checking out all of them,
there's a lot to learn from all these guys.
So that's it, so let me know if you have any
interest in the song, and I'll email you the PDF file, I won't ask for any kind of a donation
or anything.
This just happens to be one of those songs where I think you'll be better
off having the music in front of you and referencing the audio on the video, rather than spending
a bunch of time on the video itself.
Key:  
G
2131
D
1321
F#m
123111112
Em
121
C#
12341114
G
2131
D
1321
F#m
123111112
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_ Hey guys, how's it going?
I am still getting over a cold, so forgive me if I'm coughing
or clearing my throat.
I'm going to show you a tune called Whiskey Before Breakfast.
It's
in the key [D] of D.
An old fiddle tune.
We're going to do it in an open position.
And what
I'm going to do is I'm just going to play it for you, _ and then if you're interested,
I'll just send you a PDF [N] file.
_ Normally, doing PDF files, I would ask for a small donation,
you know, a few dollars.
_ But this is one of those tunes where I think it will be more
helpful for you to have the tab slash notated music and hear the recording, or hear the
video, and use the video as a reference so you can see the rhythms in front of you and _
not spend so much time trying to stop and start a video and learn it that way.
So, Whiskey
[D] Before Breakfast, key of D, open position, using the D major scale, open position.
_ [C#] _ [G] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ Alright,
here it goes.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [G] _
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [F#m] _ [D] _ _
[Em] _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ [F#m] _ [C#] _ _
_ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ [F#m] [D] Okay? _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [F] _ [G] _
_ _ [F#m] _ [G] _ _ [F#m] _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ [G] _
_ _ [F#m] _ [G] _ _ [F#m] _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ These are fantastic tunes, not just this particular fiddle tune, but
fiddle tunes in general _ are a really great way _ to practice not only your scales and playing
in a certain position, but learning how to play melodically.
And melodically meaning
not just playing a simple three note melody, but playing phrases, melodic phrases.
_ The
second thing that's great about these tunes is once you learn them in a position, like
in this case we're learning it in D major open position, you can then learn it in, say,
a capo position.
So if I wanted to stay in the key of D, but I wanted to play using the
capo, I could capo at the second fret [N] and play out of a C shape.
What happens is you
get a different set of fingerings, and each fingering allows you to play, or I should
say it lends itself to playing different types of melodic figures.
It also becomes more challenging
in some ways because the way the notes now fall on the guitar, they're not nearly as
easy to play certain phrases in certain ways because the notes have changed location.
The
second thing is, without the capo, you can practice playing these songs anywhere on the
neck, and just challenging yourself to play only fretted notes, or maybe if possible incorporating
open notes.
_ And then of course after you've learned the song in one key, you can always
play it in different keys.
So instead of sitting around practicing your scales and practicing
your sequences, you know like D major, [C#] _ _ [D] _ [Em] _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [D] _ [Em] _
_ [G] instead of doing that, which is good, it's very good
to practice that stuff, _ you can do that as say like a warm up, and then focus on really
learning this stuff through the scales being used in a song.
So these fiddle tunes are
to me the most musical way of practicing single note lines on the guitar.
Next being learning
solos, transcribing, things like that.
But if you're wanting to just learn a repertoire
of melodies that you can then use to increase your [D#] capacity to play over a song, that's
all over the fingerboard, in different keys and out of different shapes, this is definitely
the way to do it.
There are some guys you should check out too, there's a guy named
Jimmy Bryant, and there's a guy named Jimmy Rivers.
_ There's several jazz guys that have
used these fiddle tunes as well.
_ And then of course the flat picking guys, the bluegrass
guys, Norman Blake, Tony Rice, David Greer, Dan Crary, Brian Sutton, Donny Holt, and then
Doc Watson, Clarence White.
There's a lot of guys, I recommend checking out all of them,
there's a lot to learn from all these guys.
So that's it, so let me know if you have any
interest in the song, and I'll email you the PDF file, I won't ask for any kind of a donation
or anything.
This just happens to be one of those songs where I think you'll be better
off having the music in front of you and referencing the audio on the video, rather than spending
a bunch of time on the video itself.

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