Chords for La Gigue de Terrebonne - Québécois Fiddle Lesson by André Brunet

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_ _ _ _ _ bonsoir, welcome [Am] aboard.
We're going to [G] go through a tune which is called La Gigue
de Terre Bonne.
And the word Gigue, so G-I-G-U-E in Quebec means _ basically a tune for step
dancing.
It's not a 6-8, which is a jig.
But it's a term that we use when you see a step
dancer around and he requests you to [N] _ play to make him dance.
So it's called Gigue de
Terre Bonne from a great accordionist.
We're going to play a tune from the accordion repertoire.
Alfred Monmarquette was the accordionist. _ _
He has lived in the beginning of the last
century.
And it's a great tune in D key, which is great for the little squeeze box,
the bottom box, one row. _
It's a really, really, really powerful tune, extremely simple.
But it's
great when you have _ _ more abilities to put into the tune.
So it's a kind of tune that we want
to learn.
So we're going to go through the tune phrase by phrase.
And hopefully, we're going to
take all the information we need.
Let's start with the first part.
I will play you slowly the
first part, just to make sure when you learn a tune to have it in your head. _
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to have the melody there.
It's going to be easier to bring it to the fingers and the bowing.
So
let's start with the first part.
I will play only one time through.
The first phrase, which I [D] love, _ _
starts with the D, third finger on the A string. _
_ If I do just the first [A] phrase, _ [D] _
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_ [Gm] it's kind of a
common _ tune.
The sound of this is really common to me.
So I'll do it again.
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open D.
So what I will [N] do this, I will only play the notes.
I won't add a second string to do
double stops, which is part of my playing.
It's a great color I love to add.
So on this exercise,
we will only play one string at a time.
So I'll do it again.
Let's [A] do it together.
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_ [B] _ _ _ So [N] that's the
first phrase.
And you need to repeat the beginning of that one again, one more time.
So welcome.
Welcome _ aboard.
We're going to go through La Gigue de Tarbonne.
La Gigue de Tarbonne,
_ _ _ _ _ it's mostly a tune for the step dance.
It's not a 6-8.
It's a jig.
It's really for a step dancer
who wants to step along with the fiddler.
Fiddlers stepping the feet, playing the tune,
and you have the step dancer just following. _
And it's a tune which has a lot of simple notes,
but the rhythm of the bowing is really important there.
Because you should imagine that you are
playing for the step dancers, and _ he or she needs good rhythm.
And it's a conversation you will have
with the step dancer.
And this tune is really good because it's not difficult to learn the tune,
but it's a great challenge tune [D] if you want to follow the rhythm of the step dancing. _ _ _ _ _
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So I add a lot of_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ It's an accordion tune, and lots of accordion players at home will add
triplets.
So I will do triplets with my left hand.
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