Chords for Angeline the Baker- Melody Guitar Solos!

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We're in drop D [D] tuning today.
We're playing a fiddle tune in the key of D.
We're playing Angeline the Baker.
[G] I taught this song years and years ago.
It was one of my first videos.
It's still pretty popular.
But it was more of an advanced version.
I've had lots of requests to come back and teach the more straight ahead melody.
That's what we're going to do today.
We're going to learn it in a low octave and then we're going to take it up to a higher
octave and learn how to present it there.
So if you're watching on Facebook or YouTube, here in a moment I'll ask you to come over
to BanjoBenClark.com.
You can come over there and check out the, it's close to a 30 minute video lesson where
we cover both solos.
And then I have a three page tab here exactly as I played it.
I've got three different speeds of MP3 rhythm tracks that you can download and practice along with.
So I've got it all over there.
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Let's jump into the first measure of Angeline the [D] Baker.
Let's learn Angeline the Baker [C] in the key of [D] D on guitar.
Now I'm in drop D tuning today.
That just means that I took my lowest string, that sixth string, and I tuned it from an
E down a whole step to a D note.
So that's an octave below my D string there.
And we actually don't ever use this string in this particular version.
I just had it down tuned already because I was playing [G] _ some rhythm and I [D] thought it sounded good.
_ _ But we might get some cool overtones since we are playing out the key of D.
Now this is a fiddle [N] tune that has a typical fiddle tune structure.
That means [G] it has an A [A] part [D] _
that [G] goes on for eight bars, then it repeats that.
[G#] Then it does a B part that's eight bars and it repeats that.
Then we're going to learn a low [A] solo [D] and _ then we're going to learn a high solo. _ _ _ _
[A] So we'll learn how to [N] express this fairly straight ahead melody in both octaves.
Let's go ahead and throw up the first line of tab there.
A couple things I want to point out.
We're in 4-4 time.
That means there's four beats per measure and a quarter note gets a beat.
Also you see those little black arrows beneath each one of the notes.
Those are our pick stroke indications.
So down [D] arrow would be a down stroke.
Up would be an up stroke so that we get that alternate picking.
Down strokes on down beats.
Up strokes on up beats.
Now the [E] first two measures here is just an intro before we get into the first A part.
I'm just going to use that to establish the tempo.
_ If I'm playing with a group and I want to kick this song off, this might be something I do.
It [D] sounds like this.
_ _ _ [Bm] _ [A] Then we go into [D] measure three which is the first A part.
So there's any [A] variety of things you can do to kick it off but that's just a straight ahead one.
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_ _ _ [Bm] _ [D] Then we get into the first A part in measure three.
We're going to stay really straight ahead like I mentioned.
Really close to the melody.
[N] So we're going to use some big old quarter notes here just to throw that melody out there
where folks can really hear it.
So the [A] first three [B] notes [D] in measure three.
And then on that third note in measure [N] three that's a dotted quarter note.
So that gets a beat and a half.
So the counting for measure three sounds like [A] this.
[B] One, two, [D] three, [A] four.
_ And one [B] and two [D] and three and [A] four and.
[N] And then that's really the only syncopated type stuff that we have for a little while
for a few more measures.
This stuff's pretty straight ahead.
I'm just going to play measures one through five for you slowly and then of course we'll
have another video where I play it much slower than [C#] this later [D] on. _
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_ _ Okay, so [A] besides the [D] intro where we use [G] our ring finger, all we've used is our index finger
right on [A] that second [Bm] fret.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ Now as we get into measure six, it goes to a G chord and the [B] melody is a B note.
We're [D] going to hammer into that [B] B note.
Okay, I'm going to use my index finger again.
And then that melody note just hangs out through most of the measure.
So I'm going to add some filler [A] notes [B] here.
And what I'm [G] going to do is just pick through my fourth and third string since those are
notes in the G chord.
[A] It sounds really cool.
It sounds like this.
[G] _ _ And then I'm going to [A] come back.
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So it's important to get that [A] counting right.
[Bm] One and [G] two and three and four and.
So technically there's a rest [Am] on the downbeat of beat three.
[Bm] _ [G] _ Rest.
[Bm] But I'm going to leave that index finger down to get that tone ringing [G] out. _
And then here in measure seven we're going to walk up with some [A] more quarter notes.
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And then what's interesting about these licks that are coming up, we have some hammer-ons.
What's [Dm] interesting is that we're hammering on into the start of the next measure.
[G] Okay, into that melody, into the start of the next measure.
So it's somewhat some tricky pick strokes here, but I know you can get it.
Measure seven [A] sounds like this.
[B] One, two, [D] three, [E] four.
[A] _ So I'm going to hammer to that fourth fret on the downbeat of measure eight.
[B] One, two, [D] three, [E] four, four, [A] one.
Right.
[B] Two, [D] three, four, one.
And then I'm going to leave that ring finger [E] down [F#m] _ because I'm coming right back to it in
measure eight, [A] right?
[B] One, [D] two, three, [A] four, one, [D] two, three.
[A] _ [D] And then we repeat it again going into measure [B] nine.
[A] So in measure ten we land on that half note, which is just two beats, and then we're going
to go back into playing an A part, which is [G#m] exactly the same as what we [Am] just learned.
So let me play measures six through ten for you slowly.
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[D] Two, [Bm] three, four.
[C] So you may wonder why I do that hammer on, and that's one reason is it helps us [D] maybe
play a little faster, but the other reason is_ _ _ _ _ _ _
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