Chords for The Skye Boat Song (Outlander Theme) - Scottish Fiddle Lesson by Hanneke Cassel

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_ Here is a great song called Over the Sea to Sky and I say it's a song because it
actually has words you should check them out.
_ _ It's the story of Bonnie Prince
Charlie [C#m] escaping to the Isle of Skye and it's a really pretty little melody and I
always think about being on a boat going over to Skye.
Skye is actually the first
place I really got into Scottish fiddle music so I love it there.
So the form of
this song is actually A B A. _
You play the A part and then you play the B part and
then you play the A part again and that's the end.
_ In the performance video
I actually played A B A B A.
I went up high for the second time through but
we'll work on that in the advanced version of the tune.
Let's just learn the
basic melody right [D] now.
It's a waltz and it's in the key of G and since it's a
waltz it's in 3-4 and we're going to start on the open D. _
Here's the beginning
melody. _ _
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] Let's learn that much.
You can play your open D string and then just put your
first finger down _ _ [D] _ back to the D and then up to your third [E] finger [Gm] a G note.
_ _ Try that.
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And use nice long bows as you play.
This is a really beautiful waltz so you want
to kind of let your fiddle sing out.
[D] _ _ _
_ [G] _ Play one more G and [B] then do the same thing,
same fingerings but on the A string.
_ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ Then you come down to the first finger [E] and the
next phrase sounds like this.
Alright we're going to play a more advanced version of
Over the Sea to Sky now. _
I want to talk just a little bit about vibrato.
When I play vibrato
in Scottish music I like to think about it as an ornament rather than as something that
uniformly happens throughout the entire tune.
So in fast tunes like in reels I rarely use
vibrato _ but in slow tunes I actually like to use quite a bit of it.
I _ put it usually
at the end of a note rather than at the beginning of the note and all the way through and I
usually use it just as a means of a little bit extra expression.
Instead of using vibrato
at the beginning of the tune let's use some flicks and some hammer-ons and some swells.
Everything we've done with the flicks and hammer-ons in some of the faster tunes we're
going to use the same technique but we're just going to play everything a little bit
softer with the right hand.
[G] So instead of playing a hammer-on like that it'll sound
like this. _
_ Just think about how you're playing a nice beautiful waltz and everything is going
to kind of come down a notch and attack.
_ Make sure to check out the Grace Notes tutorial
so you know what you're playing. _
The Scottish Grace Notes tutorial there should be a link
on this page.
Right at the beginning let's play a flick _ _ _ _ [D] and you can kind of swell into
[G] that note _ and _ then that's [D] a hammer-on into that G.
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_ _ [B] _ A flick on that A, _ _ [D] hammer-on and then
at the end maybe just a little bit of [B] vibrato leading into the next note.
[A] _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [E] Then we're [F#m] actually
going to waterfall [G] out of that note _
[F#] _ from our E.
We'll play D, flick with the E and fall
down [Bm] to the B. _ _
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