Chords for Irish Fiddle Lesson - [The Basics] Bowing Your Fiddle

Okay, we're going to continue now with Twinkle Twinkle and develop the melody with some different bow patterns
and this again is just to get the bow going because this is the most important part as far as I'm concerned and
Once you get into playing Irish music a little bit deeper
It's the swing and the rhythm that gives us its kind of trademark sound and that all
Comes from the bow.
So what we're going to do is we're going to take the melody of Twinkle Twinkle
And we're going to add in a couple of different rhythm
Exercises to get the bow going.
So the first one we're going to do is four and twenty blackbirds
Four and twenty blackbirds.
Okay, so I'll just give you an example of what that's like on the D string
[D] _ _
_ So as you can see it's short bows and long bows together, okay, so four and twenty blackbirds
Okay, we'll try that [E] again _ _
_ So
For the short bows, they're really short.
You don't need to use a lot of the bow and so four and twenty blackbirds
With the melody of Twinkle Twinkle and this way we're going to get the bow going the fingers going
Intonation getting your hold right getting everything going at the same time
So we'll try that one with four and twenty blackbirds to the melody of Twinkle Twinkle.
So this is how it goes
[D] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [G] Okay _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[B] Good so that's getting your long bows and your short bows and how we use them together
To kind of develop the rhythm of a tune.
Okay, we're going to try another rhythm to Twinkle Twinkle now
And this is introducing the jig rhythm.
The jig is a very common tune type in Irish music
So the little rhyme we have for this one is rashers and sausages
Rashers and sausages.
Okay, and that's what we're going to use to play to Twinkle Twinkle
So again, it's about using the bow when you do a little push on the rashers and sausages
You push the bow a little bit more you make it a little bit longer and a little bit harder
And that's how you get the rhythm of it
So even though they're all through the same length you use more bow at the start of rash
and then again for
sausages.
This is daft isn't it?
Okay, we'll try it
You ready?
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
Good so again
that's about using the bow to create kind of light and dark and a bit of a push and a pull and the rhythms that are
Good for the jigs when you're playing Irish music
So we're going to do [D] one final rhythm for Twinkle Twinkle to get the bows really going and this one is
Black and Decker black and Decker.
So again, this is more or less the real rhythm for the tune
The real that's most common in traditional Irish music and again
It's all short bows this time, but you can still push the bow a little bit more [G#] to get a stress on
the black
black
Decker so every time you say black in your head you just push a little bit harder with the bow to get the swing and
the rhythm of the real rhythm, okay
So we'll try this
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G#] Great so the three ones that we have to remember there's black and Decker black and Decker
rashers and sausages rashers and sausages
and the final one is _
_ The final one is four and twenty black birds four and twenty black birds
And that's to get the short bows and the long bows working together
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