Chords for The Boys Of Bluehill (Reel): Trad Irish Fiddle Lesson by Kevin Burke

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So that was the Boys of Blue Hill, which is a hornpipe. _
And typically hornpipes are played at a fairly sedate pace.
That was probably a little bit faster than most hornpipes.
But for that particular tune, I like to play it _ at kind of the top end of hornpipes. _ _ _
But now I'm going to play it a little bit slower. _
_ And I'll play it in a much more bare-bones fashion. _ _ _
Maybe similar to what you might expect to see if you were looking at a piece of sheet music for this tune.
_ _ So it'll probably be something like this. _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Bm] So I'm going to break that tune down into smaller phrases now.
The Boys of Blue Hill.
_ The first phrase I would hear as_
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_ [B] And then the second phrase with _ _ a couple of pick-up [F#m] notes.
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_ _ _ And [Bm] perhaps the triplet.
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So the two phrases together.
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Then the next phrase _ with _ [G] the grace note to connect the two Bs.
So a few things that I would suggest you could add would be triplets and grace notes.
And then a few variations of the phrases. _ _
So at the beginning of the tune we have two Bs.
_ _ _ _ And I would normally play them in one stroke with a grace note _ dividing the two of them to give it the rhythmic sound.
The rhythmic impetus rather than using the bow.
So instead of playing, _ _ [Bm] I would probably _ play_
_ _ And make that extra beat _ _ become noticeable because of the grace note. _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
Now there, _ _ between the D and the B_
_ _ Sorry, the B and the D.
_ _ _ I would fill in that gap and put in a C sharp _ [Bm] and make it into a triplet.
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_ _ _ _ And right there I slurred it.
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But in the [Bm] horn pipes it's often quite typical to [F#] detach those triplets.
So [Bm] it could easily sound_ _
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