Chords for Flute Lesson: The Foggy Dew

[E] I got the idea for this video from my daughter, actually.
I was showing her some of the other videos that I'd made, and she asked,
why don't you do a video on the song, The Foggy Dew?
It's one of the few songs, Irish songs, that she knows real well and she really likes.
So I thought, well, I haven't done a video on that song, I'd make a good one.
And so I kind of went through listening to some of the versions of that song that I had,
because there's a million recordings of it, and most people tend to play it as March.
So we'll kind of play it that way first, because that's the more common version.
But then I ran across a setting of it that I'm pretty sure it was the Chieftains who had done it,
and it was played as an Air, which I thought to be much cooler.
So I'm going to play it that way too.
So we'll start off with it doing just the basic melody in the March.
I'll put in some of the ornaments, because you can probably find the melody just about anywhere.
But I'll play it fairly basic in the March style, with a little bit of ornamentation,
so you can hear just how that works, and then we'll come back through,
and I'll kind of talk through how we do it on the Air version.
I'm playing on the flute this time, just because I haven't done a flute tutorial in a while,
so I figured I'd just give it a crack, because I like playing the flute.
So the fingerings are the same as on the whistle.
The only bit that I'll do that's a little bit different is I'm using a B-flat key.
I'll show you where that is, but certainly not a requirement.
It's just one of those things that I like to do, because I think it sounds kind of neat.
So here it is as a March, the Foggy Dew. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [E] _ [Dm] _ [E] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [Am] _ [Em] _ _ _ [Bm] _ [Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
[Bm] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _
So certainly a pretty nice melody, but as a March, to me it always felt kind of uninspired, I guess.
It never really did a whole lot for me as a song.
But again, I heard this cool version, I'm pretty sure it was the Chieftain's, I'll double-check that,
where it was sung as an Air, and I thought, boy, that really kind of gives it a lot more character.
So I'm going to play it the way that I would like to play it as an Air, if I were playing it out.
A little bit more ornamentation, and the tricky thing about Airs, if you haven't run across too many of those,
is that the rhythmic structure isn't very well-defined.
It's a lot more fluid, which makes it a bit tricky to mimic,
but that's the cool thing about Airs, that you can kind of do whatever you want.
You have a little bit more flexibility with it.
So hopefully the March is a good way to get a bit of the background on the melody,
and we'll go from there, if you want to try it as an Air, kind of mix it up a little bit.
So here's the same song as an Air. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [D] _
[Em] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [E] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [D] _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ [E] _ [Dm] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ [E] _ _ _
Air
It's a little bit different, and there again, like I mentioned earlier on,
the only difference between playing it this way on the flute and on the whistle is that I'm using a couple of the keys.
I used a bit of the G-sharp key and a bit of the B-flat.
So, for example,
_ _ [Bb] _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[A] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So, you certainly don't have to.
If you're playing it on the whistle, you can easily just roll off of those notes below it.
_ _ [A] _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ Something like that.
The keys just make it a bit easier.
But hopefully you enjoyed that.
A different take on that tune, which after I played it a little bit,
I realized it really is a nice song, and one I'm going to have to play a bit more,
because it's pretty slick.
I kind of like it.
So if you have any questions or comments about it,
or you want to hear something else, fire me up a comment down below, let me