Chords for BLACK MOUNTAIN RAG - Bluegrass Fiddle Lesson by Ian Walsh

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_ _ _ _ _ Hi, welcome to Online Lesson Videos.
I'm Ian Walsh.
Today we're working on a tune called the Black Mountain Rag.
This is a request that came into the site, and I'm very happy to play it for you.
I'm going to do this in standard tuning.
It's in the key of A.
I hope you enjoy this sample you're about to see. _ _ _ _
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_ The Black Mountain Rag
Alright, let's get right into it.
To start off, I'll show you how I began that tune.
It's a thing called taters.
_ It's simply a bowing rhythm to set your pace.
It's just a double stop.
In this case, I used an E and an A on my middle two strings.
So it looks like this. _
_ _ _ _ Depending on the rhythm [Gm] that you want to play,
For instance, if I was at a slower rhythm and I was counting it in,
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_ Or [F#] if it was a little bit faster, it would be like this.
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Ending with an up bow, so you're ready to start your pickup notes with a down bow.
_ _ _ _ Putting that aside for a second, I'll show you the first part of this tune.
[G] We start with a little walk up to the C.
You're going to be using this pattern a lot.
A C, sliding up from a C natural to a C sharp.
And bouncing your bow between the A and the E string.
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[F#] Right now I'll show you it pretty [F] cleanly, and then we'll add in the double stops.
So we start with A, B, and then C is [A] the downbeat.
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Again, ending with an up bow on my B, so I have that down bow ready to go.
For the downbeat, the C.
And the first little _ sequence of notes,
_ [F#m] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
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Let's cycle through that a few times.
1, 2, 3. _
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_ [Gm] 1, 2, 3.
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_ _ [B] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [D]
Let's [F] start adding in a double stop.
We really don't have to think too much about playing chordal double stops right now.
We can just let the bow bleed across the A and the E string.
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_ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [Am] We can also take off our C instead of leaving it down there.
And we get a more different sound.
We get an open A and E sound.
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_ _ _ [Am] _ [F#] You cycle through it a few times.
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[D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ Again, what's very crucial to get that sound is sliding from a C natural to a C sharp.
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ A couple more times.
1, 2, 3. _ _ _ _ _
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_ I added in our ending right there.
It's very simple.
C, B, A, F sharp, back to the A. _ _
_ [F#m] _ And again, you can double stop everything by just blending the D and the A string there.
_ _ [Am] _ That's a tougher little move.
You don't have to [B] do it.
I'm using my fourth finger on the D string, sliding up to it, and blending it with the A to give me a double A sound.
_ _ _ _ That's pretty much the whole first part.
It repeats like that.
The second part of the first part is an alternate melody.
It's played a little bit differently. _
_ _ Let's play through it a few more times. _ _ _
[D] _ [Am] _ _ [F#] _ [A] _ _ _ [F#] _
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We're going to get in now to the alternate melody for the first part.
_ This tune is played A, A, B, B.
With the first A part we have just learned.
The second A part we're about to learn. _ _
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