Chords for Maple Sugar - Canadian Fiddle Lesson by Patti Kusturok

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_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
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_ _ _ [E] _ [C#m] _ _ [A] _ _
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_ _ _ [E] _ [G#m] _ _ [A] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
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_ [A] _ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
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_ _ _ _ Maple Sugar is a tune written by Ward Allen and it's probably the [E] most famous fiddle tune
that Canada ever came out with.
Went to the top of the hit parade on Canadian radio apparently, not sure, I guess back in
the 50s, way before my time.
And everybody plays it, everybody knows it.
_ I'm going to show you the right way to play it and by that I mean there's one little part
that is actually the way it was written but everybody has seemed to get rid of this certain
part and just kind of play _ something else.
So I'll explain that a little more fully.
I'll teach you the right way right off the top.
The tune has three parts.
It's in the key of A, the third part is in the key of E but the beauty of that part is
it's the same fingering as the second part, almost exactly.
Although we do add some fancy things in which you will see in the advanced tutorial but
it's just a matter of moving your fingers starting instead of three on G for the second
part, they'd be starting on three on D and then you're just kind of playing the same
thing finger wise.
So back to the first part, let's do that first. _ _
I'm sure you've heard this tune a million times but here's the first little [A] bit. _ _ _ _ _ _
So I'm going to teach it [D#] to you with the drones just because that's the way everybody plays it.
Usually I add the drones in on the advanced part, on the advanced tutorial but we're going
to teach it with the drones because it's not maple sugar unless you do them.
So again, it's open two three four on A with open E, that [A] drone and _
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[E] _ then just climbing
down that [A] scale after that.
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ Now the [C] next part [C#m] we go, _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
so I'm playing on the A, _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D#m] two _ [D] octs, _ _ _ [B] two two [E] three two one A,
all in a down, that two one A and that's droned.
So here we are at the advanced tutorial for Canada's fiddle national anthem, Maple Sugar.
We talked about droning already in the basic tutorial, that's just a given.
In the first part you always should be droning this one just because that's the way it is.
And we also talked about _ how the second part and the third part are the same finger wise,
just moving your fingers over.
So we're going to throw in some, I guess you call fancy little licks in this one.
One thing you can add that I like to add a lot and I stole this from my son Alex, he
did this and when he did it the first time we were playing in a jam session and my ears
kind of perked up, I thought that is cool.
But it's just some shuffle bowing.
So it's right near the beginning I think, so not at the very beginning of the tune,
you wouldn't do it right at the start, the first time you play it, but maybe on one of
the repeats when you come back to the A, because we do come back to the A after each part.
So you can jazz it up [A] by going, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
so that's just one little thing just replacing, [A] _ _
_ [E] so you're replacing.
So it's shuffle bowing, straight up shuffle [A] bowing and you're going, _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ [A] _ [F#m] so you're playing
your two [G] on the [C#] A, _ [Bm] that's your low note all the time, that's constant.
And on the E. _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [N] _