Chords for How to Play "Scotland the Brave" (Guitar)

Hi, this is Canadian folk musician Jesse Ferguson and today
I'm bringing you another video in my series of tutorials on how to play popular and easy folk songs
particularly in the Scottish Irish English and North American traditions, so today's topic is
Scotland the brave which is an original melody you've probably heard it on bagpipes is the most popular bagpipe song I think
_ probably in the world and in the 1950s a gentleman by the name of Cliff Hanley wrote these lyrics to it
Which I'll post down in the description of the video so my chords and the lyrics I used for this version of the song
Are going to be found in the description of the video so you can follow along there
I also have a video that I've posted to YouTube of me playing the entire song from start to finish
So you can once you've learned this you can follow along with that video from start to finish and enjoy that
Hopefully enjoy it
So what are the chords used well [C] there are C _ _ _
_ [F] F, _ _ [C] C, _
[G] G
_ _ _ G7 C
[C] Technically [G#] you can get away without doing [D] the G7 if you really want to but it's just a little embellishment, so you go [G] to the G _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ It's a very [Em] common little sort of embellishment on on folk music [G] to go from G
_ G7 or to [D] go from D to D7
[F] But there's [B] no D in this song at least not in the in the key
I played and you can certainly transpose it to any key you want to
[C] so _ _ _
_ _ [N] What is the strum pattern well basically?
It's a very common strum pattern if you've seen my other videos in this series
you'll notice that recurring pattern is I play I play most of the upbeat songs anyway with the exact same strum pattern and
_ You can likely do the same you certainly could do different strum patterns if you wanted to but this is a simple way to play
Once you learn this strum pattern you'll be able to play thousands of songs in the folk traditions
So it involves knowing what a bass note is and if you've heard this again just bear with me
This is for you know absolute beginners
So a bass note on a chord is the lowest note that's sort of related to that chord so
To avoid the technical terms here, which I don't even know anyway
Every chord has one and it's usually going to be towards the the east the low E string or the a string possibly the D string
But generally speaking they're mostly at the the bassier range the base base here end of the spectrum obviously so bass notes
_ _ [C] So for C.
[G] It's on the a string the second [C] string from the top _
[N] Obviously you're playing a C.
There C major so your finger is already on [C] third fret
_ _ _ [G#] Now to go [F] to the F. _
I actually go to the D string.
That's the third string from the top _ _ _
[C] _ _ so for the C
_ [F] The F and _ _ then the G is on the E string the low E [G] string _ _
It's the same bass note or [N] or the G7 makes no difference
So those are the three chords well technically four chords that you use in this song very simple
_ So the the strum pattern that I [F#] use involves hitting that bass note first in a separate pluck a deliberate pluck down
[C] _
_ Then down up down up
Bass note down up down up bass note down up down up bass note
Down up down [F] up bass note down up down up bass note down [Am] up down
So you'll [F#] notice I plant my finger there sort of these fingers are on the on the pick guard
So it's a [C] deliberate down the pick stays there
I don't pull the pick away or put it anywhere else it stays between
The strings of the bass [G#] note and the remainder [C] of the chord that I'm going to strum _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] So to speed that up at [C] full tempo _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
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_ So [N] _ once you master that strum pattern you'll be able to follow along with most of my videos on this YouTube channel
At which I have almost 300 [C] now
_ _ _ _ [G#] You can also slow that down for slower songs like a waltz [F] song a song in waltz [C] time _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So anyway, let's run through it so
_ What C?
And an anana did you do that did you [F] do that?
_ [C] _ Back to see [G] in G.
Did he?
_ [C] _ Back to see so anyway, [G#] let's let's run through it for a [C] verse in a chorus
_ And you can you can pull up the cotton the chords and the lyrics in the description of the video _ _
_ _ Where the night's falling here hear the pipes are calling [F] loudly and [G] proudly
down through the glen
[C] Up where the hills are sleeping now fear the blood a [F] leap and I as a [C] spirits of the old
healing men
[G] _ towering in yelling [C] fame
Scotland my mountain name I mail brass [F] standards gloriously [A] wave
_ [C] Land of my hand ever land of the shining [F] river [C] land of my heart [G] forever Scotland [C] brave _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] You'll notice that occasionally I hammer [C] on
my middle [E] finger
_ _ [C] So moon base note, _ [G] so I'm technically moving from the bass note on the [C] a
To [D] the one that's hammering on on the D
_ [C] _ _ _
_ _ You [G] don't have to do that
But if you want to add the a little [C] embellishment you can do that
Just _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] adds a little bit of interest when you have to hold the C a little bit longer
[D] You can also do that with other courses _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
Anyway, [C] so it's the C
_ _ So that's [G] one option you can have so the rest of the song you can follow along with my [Fm] complete video where I play it
From start to finish if you have any questions about how to play it [N] feel free to put those in the comments section
It's a very simple song very popular
You can also use it to accompany someone who's playing bagpipe, but you'd have to figure out
I think you use a capo to make it to be flax.
I think that's what what
Most Highland bagpipes play in I think I've done it before but I can't recall that so you'd have to figure it out in bagpipes
The tuning is slightly sharp.
I think or slightly flat at any rate
It's a bit of a challenge to get a guitar to tune properly with bagpipes
[G] I'll put it that way but at any rate it can be done.
I'm sure
[C] _
_ [N] So I hope you like it stay tuned for other videos in the series if you have any requests for tutorials from the videos
I've already posted to YouTube.
That's my preference.
Please put them in the comments.
You can also [B] check out my music website _
_ www.jessefergusonmusic.com
_ And thanks for listening.