Chords for LIBERTY - Bluegrass Fiddle Lesson by Ian Walsh

Hello and welcome to OnlineLessonVideos.com.
My name is Ian Walsh.
In this video we're going to be working on a tune that has two parts and it's in the key of D.
This is an old tune and it's been played around a lot.
We're going to work on some double stopping in the first part and in the second part.
And I'm going to show you some ideas for improv
using the first part as a bass and playing it in the lower octave.
I'm going to do that in the sample you're about to see.
It's a great time to learn this tune with Fourth of July just around the corner.
It's a tune called Liberty.
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_ _ _ [G] Okay, I hope you enjoyed that.
This tune is in the key of D so let's get started by looking at some double stops
that you'll be using on the A and the E string.
To start off, let's look at our root.
We're going to use an F sharp [D] on the E string and an open A.
Play them together.
You can easily slide into this one.
_ Let's take a look at our next one.
This will be over the four chord,
which is a G in this case.
And that's going to be a [F] G and a B on the A string.
[G] So everything moves up a step.
_ _ Let's go [D] back to our first one, F and A. _
We have a G and a B.
_ _ _ _ [B] Now for the key of D, our five chord is an A,
so let's use a really easy one for now just to have something to practice with.
We're going to use an open A and an open E.
_ Now you can kind of [D] get the rhythm going with your bow. _ _
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Using different variations there, you can kind of get used to these double stops.
It sounds kind of nice just droning along there. _
[F#] We'll talk more about double stops a little bit later when we get into the second part
and the lower octave for the first part.
So the tune starts off here with some quarter notes.
We're going [D] to play them.
If you start right on the downbeat, you'll have an F to an A.
F to an A.
_ If we use some [F#] pickup notes, that's going to be a D and an E in this case.
And those are two [D] eighth notes, so we would come in like this.
One, two, three.
_ _ Now your first run of notes starts on the F.
_ [Bm] _ [D] Pretty simple there. _
[G] _ _ [D] F, G, F, E, D, C, B, D. _
[Bm] _ Let's go over that a few times.
One, two, [D] three. _ _
_ One, two, three. _ _ _ _
One, two, three.
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For our move up into the G chord here, it follows a similar pattern.
We play a G and a B.
Then we get a little tricky.
We go straight up to a high B, and we do a little run down of notes.
It looks like [D] this.
_ Let's do that a few times. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ That's setting us up to go back into the F and the A,
a little bouncing back and forth thing we have there.
Let's count it in, and let's cycle through this a few times.
One, two, three.
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_ _ _ [E] _ One, [D] two, three. _
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[D] One, two, three.
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_ [B] _ One other thing you can do, instead of using the D and the [F#m] E as a pickup,
try using the A and a G so it sounds and looks like this.
One, two, three. _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ We're going to take a little break here and move on into our next section.
It's pretty much the second half of the first part.
Here we go.
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