Chords for The Mountain Road (Reel): Trad Irish Fiddle Lesson by Kevin Burke

_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D#] _ _ [F] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
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_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
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_ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ The Mountain Road is a reel written by _ _ _ Michael Gorman.
Michael Gorman was a great fiddler
from County Sligo, _ from near Tubbrow Currie I think. _ _
_ _ _ He wrote the tune initially with
_ six parts, _ but most people play it as a two part tune.
_ _ _ _ I like the third part as well,
so I _ sometimes add the third part.
_ _ But in most sessions you'll find it played as a two
part tune.
_ And usually it's single, A B A B, but once in a while you'll hear people
playing it two A's, two B's.
_ _ _ _ So _ _ _ I go through the tune _ _ _ with _ _ _ the three parts that I usually
play, but be aware that when you're playing it in sessions _ _ _ you should probably presume
the other players are going to play it as a two part tune. _
_ _ Be ready to switch back into
the first part and ignore the third part.
_ If you've got _ _ players who know the third part,
then I'm sure they'll enjoy playing it with you, but it would be better to presume _ it's
going to be performed as a two part tune. _ _
_ So the opening few notes of The Mountain Road
starts on an F sharp, _ _ _ up to the A string, _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ back to the F sharp, then up to a B, and back to the
F sharp, _ [D] _ and _ then A F sharp again. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ And _ I tend to leave my finger on the F sharp, _ _ _ play that
note all the time during that phrase, and bring in the other notes _ _ on the second string _ _ as second
notes.
So often _ I'm playing two notes at a time.
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ [F#m] _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [E] _ _ _ So for the purpose of this demonstration,
it'll be easier if I _ _ separate the notes [G] out, [G#m] it'll be easier to hear them. _ _
[F#m] But be aware that when I
play this tune, I'm usually just _ _ hovering between the two strings, _ _ _ staying on the third string and
bringing in the second as necessary.
So the opening phrase again.
So _ _ if _ you _ _ _ _ arrive in Ireland
and you want to join in with a session, _ The Mountain Road is a tune that probably most people
will know.
I've mentioned _ _ _ _ before about the string crossing, keeping the drone note, the lower note,
_ constant.
In this case it's the F sharp.
_ _ So _ _ when I go over to those notes on the A string,
I'm also playing the F sharp.
_ _ _ And _ _
_ [E] _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] I usually put in a bold triplet here.
_ [F#m] _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ So I slow the F sharp and the A before the triplet, I slow them in a lot more. _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [N] _