Chords for Le Batteaux - Québécois Fiddle Lesson by André Brunet

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Oh [A] excellent, let's go [D] for the drummer!
The drummer!
[A] _ _ _ Ok! _ _ _
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_ _ Welcome [B] to the next tune which is called Le Batteu.
Le Batteu, The Harvester.
So, a tune that I have learned from a big band home which is called La Bottine Souriante.
Big, big ten piece band.
I've been part of the band ten years.
And that's a tune I have learned in the_
In my first tune I have learned.
It's an A key tune.
Really great.
You can play it as well, cross-tune.
So, [Cm] in A.
Which is really fun.
There's lots of tunes in Quebec _ [C] which we play cross-tune as well. _ _ _ _ _
So, again, we should know the arpeggio of the A key.
Arpeggio, [F#] first, third and fifth degree of the scale of the A key.
So there, if we start the full thing, just a little exercise to do when you're going into an A or D or G key.
Just a good warm [A]-up. _ _ _ _
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_ _ So that's the arpeggio of A.
I have done two scales.
So from the _ _ [Gm] string of G _ [A] to the A, third finger of _ E string. _
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_ _ _ _ _ [G#] So, when we start a [A] tune. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] Really, really simple.
We go up the scale to go [B] to the E string.
What we're going to do now, I will only play the notes.
I won't add any double stops, open string.
So, let's try that. _ _ _ _
_ So, really easy, you start open A going _ through until you arrive on the E, open E.
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_ [B] _ _ _ So, it's the G sharp that we do there.
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So [B] that's the first kind of phrase, the first measure of the tune.
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_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ [D] Excellent, so here we [N] are to the advanced part of the tune, Le Batteu.
Le Batteu, it's the harvester, _ a great tune. _
_ Louis Boudreau, his nickname was Pitu.
Pitu is little dog, that we'll say.
His nickname was playing that tune.
I have put on my version of the tune, which I have learned from the band La Bottine Souriante.
La Bottine Souriante is still playing one of the oldest bands in Quebec music, with a brass section.
Ten piece band, now I think they are eleven.
I've been part of the band for ten years.
That tune was, _ _ if we go back in the year, one of my first tunes I have learned from that band.
[F] It's an A key tune, lots of fiddlers [Gm] at home will play the tune cross-tuned.
Codding cross-tuned, E, [F#] A, E, A.
So, that's the tuning we're going to use there.
Some _ players will use the lower one, so the D, G. _ _ _
But it's _ mostly the A, E, [A] A, E cross-tuned _ fiddling. _ _ _
Let's go on to the first part of that tune. _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ [N] As you can hear, I'm putting some bowing there.
_ _ _ Remembering to have seen a few videos of Louis Pitu Boudreau. _
He was _ putting a really nervous, not relaxed, really energetic and dynamic.
_ _ _ _ _ Also, when he was playing, the bow was always sticking on the fiddle, with the bridge really straight.
And he was like that, tapping the feet in four.
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