Chords for Irish Fiddle Lessons - The Silver Spear - Irish Reel

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Today we're going to learn the Irish Reel, The Silver Spear.
[C] It's in the key of D major and here's a sample of it.
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_ _ _ _ _ Let's start off by doing a little work with grace notes.
We're going to try to grace our first finger here on the A [B] string. _ _
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[G#] Let's slow this down.
You want to grace with your third finger _ and you want to just lightly touch the string
or come down on it and create a [B] percussive note. _ _ _
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_ [Em] _ [B] Let's try doing that with an open A leading into it so it'll sound like this. _ _ _
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_ _ _ [G#] Bring your third finger down right after you bring your first [B] finger down. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ Let's cycle through that a few more [B] times. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ We're going to put this right into our [G] first part of The Silver Spear here.
Here's where it comes [F#m] into play.
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_ _ It's a small grace note but it happens right there at the B on the A string. _ _ _
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ Some of those other notes there are F sharp on the D string _ and [G#] then some A triplets.
It's an A note followed by a triplet.
So F, A [F#] and then the A triplet. _ _
[B] We have our graced B _ [F#m] and _
[B] _ then A, F, A. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Let's cycle through that a few times. One, two. _ _ _
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One, two. _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ [B] _ _ _ One, two.
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_ _ [Bm] From there we play the D on our A string _ [B] and _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [C] then we put those two bits together.
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_ [A#] One more [F#m] time.
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Good.
From there we continue on with the rest of the first part. _ _ _ _ _ _
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