Chords for Reel du Point au Pic - Québécois Fiddle Lesson by André Brunet

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_ _ _ _ And there you have it, Rille de Pointe-aux-Piques.
Let's go, all aboard!
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_ _ _ _ [E] Ready to go?
[N] Excellent!
Rille de Pointe-aux-Piques, watch out, we're going to eat meat! _ _ _
Hello and welcome, here we are with the tune, Le Rille de Pointe-aux-Piques.
_ Rille de Pointe-aux-Piques comes from _ _ Joe Bouchard, Joseph Bouchard.
Joe Bouchard was a great fiddler from the Charlevoix region, which is the region east of Quebec City.
He was a great player for the quadrilles, which is a specific dance of four, five or six parts.
And those dances are really, really slow.
_ Even if you play a rille, it will be, _ _ you know, it's a kind of official kind of dance.
_ It's always dance in a square.
But Joe Bouchard was a great _ _ _ _ musician and composer for these kind of dances.
He has a very, very specific _ _ vibrato on his fiddle, which was [D] really_ _ _
_ _ Maybe it was hidden some false notes, maybe not.
_ _ _ _ [N] So it's a really great, great, great fiddler.
If you have the chance to hear of his music, it's really, really joy, really smiley and really light.
And this tune is one of the famous tunes known across Canada.
Lots of contest players will know this tune and other people.
Home, in Quebec, sometimes you will play_
This tune is in C key. _
But home, you will hear it sometimes in D, because of the little squeeze box.
Home are mainly in D key.
So the accordionist will play the tune in D.
But here we're going to play it in C, which is the original key of the tune.
I will_
I play the square version, square, which means this one is 64 beats in the first part and 64 in the second.
It's a long rille.
_ But at the basis, if we go to listen to the Joe Bouchard version, he cuts two beats in the second part.
But with the time, especially if you play it _ _ _ with other musicians, you will need to play it square.
Let's go with the tune now from the first part.
It's always where we start.
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ It's a nice_
We're going down the stairs.
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Really a simple way.
_ It can be a really great exercise for you. _ _
[A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ So it's like you go [B] down two notes.
_ _ You go up one note and you go down another.
So it's like_ _
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_ First phrase.
You need to [Db] repeat it [B] again. _
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And changing the ending a bit.
So let's play those two phrases together.
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_ _ _ [Bb] So welcome to the advanced part of the rille, the pointe aux piques.
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I think the most important thing is the [A] vibrato.
If you want to add something _ and some double stops.
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[B] Like this, there.
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Open D there.
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