Chords for The Sailor's Wife: Fiddle Lesson by Hanneke Cassel

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_ [Eb] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ [B] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [A] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
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_ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [A] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [A] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ Alright, so we're going to learn a jig called Sailor's Wife.
This is one of the most commonly
played Scottish jigs in jam sessions, and it's an old tune. _
I learned it from the playing
of Alistair Fraser, _ and _ it's in the key of D minor.
So just so you get a sense of what
that sounds like, I'll play a D minor scale here.
_ _ _ [E] _
_ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [Bbm] _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
There's your scale.
It's in 6-8 jig,
so you have this kind of feeling going [D] behind the tune. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ You can take a look at the Scottish
groove tutorial if you want to find out more about playing a jig and the rhythmic stuff
that goes along with that.
So here's the tune.
Let me play it for you slowly first so you
can hear what it sounds like.
Here's the A part of Sailor's Wife.
_ _ _ _ [E] _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ [Bm] So it's just one part
that _ repeats.
_ Your opening phrase walks up the scale and [E] _ [Bb] then back down again.
_ [Bm] _ And you
can put those last two notes in an up bow slur, like this.
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ [Gm] Then you're jumping up the
octave.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [B] So when you jump up that octave, you're actually going straight up the scale all the
way to the A.
But with this rhythm, _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Gb] _ _
down the scale, _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ [B] jumping down to the open A in a down
bow slur.
[A] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[Bb] And those last three notes make up a C arpeggio.
[Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ So [Bm] so far we have [D] _ that _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [B] right
there.
You've ended on a down bow.
And I want you to actually link into another down bow
to start that whole thing over again.
Okay, so here's the Sailor's Wife, _ the more Scottish
version.
We're going to put in a bunch of grace notes.
And all of these grace notes
I'm talking about, you can reference from the grace note tutorial.
So if you want a
little bit more in depth _ teaching on how to play these, check that out.
So from the beginning of the tune, [Dm] we have _ [E] that _ [Bm] _
slur from the E to D.
This time we're
going to add a little flick.
[C] _
[E] _ _ [D] _ You're just hitting your second finger.
And actually, this type
of flick, you'll learn this in the tutorial about grace notes.
But when it falls from
one note into another note, sometimes it's called a waterfall.
So you can think about
that.
_ [E] _
[Bm] _ _ Then you're going to skip up to the _ _
[Dbm] D, third finger on the A string.
And when
you hit that, hammer on from the C sharp, [G] _ _ maybe without the squeak. _
[D] _ And you can [Bb] hit
the open D at the same [B] time. _ _
[Dm] _ And then you could do an up bow [B] slur, _ [Bb] _
then a [B] down bow slur.
_ _ _ _ [G] _
_ And then here's your [A] down bow slur.
_ _ [C] _
_ [Gm] _ _ At the end of [D] that phrase, you're doing two slurs
as well.
You [G] end on the C, [D] and you're going into the open D.
[Gm] And I kind of kick it when
I go into the D.
_ _ _ _ Just [B] so you're kind of letting everyone know that's the down beat, even though
it's in the middle of a slur.
So for that first half of the A part, we have this with
all the grace notes.
_ [E] _
[Dm] _ _ _ Oh, [B] I forgot one. _
_ [D] When you hit that F right there, you can hit a
flick. _
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_ [A] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ The only thing I'm doing differently there.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [Gb] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gbm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
[A] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _