Chords for MAIDENS PRAYER - Bluegrass Ballad Fiddle Lessons taught by Ian Walsh

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Today we're working on a tune called Maiden's Prayer.
It's in the key of A.
It's all one part.
It's very slow.
We're going to be focusing on a high lonesome sound.
So we're going to be doing some heavy double stops in this video.
I've recorded a sample for you to listen to here.
And at the end of this lesson video, we'll be playing along together.
Hope you enjoy it.
Maiden's Prayer. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [D] Maiden's _ _ [E] _
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_ _ _ _ Maiden's Prayer
Okay, to start this tune off in the key of A,
there's a scale pattern in here that is very common.
It's called the arpeggio.
Let's take a look at this right before we get into the tune.
We're going to start on a low A.
We're going to play a C sharp.
Still on the G string.
Then we're going to play an E.
Then we skip the rest of the_
Any more notes on that string we skip.
We go to an open [D] A.
We play a [A#] C sharp.
[G] We play an E on the open string.
[A#] And then we play our high A.
Then we go back down.
We [A] play [Em] A, [C#m] E, C, [Dm] [E] A, E, [A] C, A.
Let's cycle through this about five or six times.
Two, three.
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_ _ Okay, to start this tune, we have a pickup note.
A couple of them.
In this case, these pickup notes are moving downwards.
I'm going to show you the straight way to play it,
and then I'm going to show you a bit of a variation you can do.
So if I count it in, it starts like this.
One, two, [F#] three.
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That's the straightest way we can play it.
The way I have it written out in your notes is with a bit of a chromatic downslide.
We go from a C sharp to a C to a B to an A.
So it's a little bit different.
It sounds like this.
One, two, three. _
_ [A] One, _ two, three. _
_ _ [C#] One, two, three.
[B] _
[A] _ _ Okay, now the third and final thing I do here sometimes is add in,
instead of starting on the C sharp, I kind of ghost a note here
and start on the C natural really quickly up to the C sharp and then back down,
[D] giving me this effect.
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_ [A] _ So it [C] sounds like this.
One, two, three.
_ [A] _ Okay, one, two, [C#] three.
[B] _
[A] _ [C#] Missed it that time.
One, two, three.
_ [A] _
_ [C#] And one, two, three.
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_ [A] _ Okay, take a look at that double stop right there.
It's an A and an E.
Now we have some of this arpeggio formation that starts to come in.
We do a quick—first I'll show you the notes,
then I'm going to show you how you bounce your bow and double stop.
You play a C, E, A, [C#] C.
And we're going to rest on that C sharp again.
So the notes in time sound like this.
One, two, [G] three.
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[D] And _ one, two, [C] three.
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_ [E] And one, two, three.
[C] _ [D] _ _
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ Okay, so now what we're going to do is add in a double stop to every note.
The low [A] A, _ you can [N] double stop with an E, make a fifth double stop right there.
Those are the same finger, two different notes, A [A] and E.
_ Our next one, the C sharp, you already have that [C#m] E in place, just leave it there.
_ _ [A] Then we get a C sharp and an E.
For this E, we're going to play an A. _ _
_ Okay, for the C sharp, we're going to play a high E, _ [E] like that.
So we've made it all the way across the four strings of the fiddle.
Here's what it looks and sounds like.
[A] _ _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ [E] One, two, three. _
[A] And _ _ _ _ _ I'm bouncing my bow, I'm down low on the bow, so [D] not _ [A] that high. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ Okay, this is one of those things where repetition is going to come in handy.
The more you do this, the more smooth your double stops are going to sound.
Let's do it three more times.
One, two, three.
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_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ All right, we'll move into the next segment and then we'll finish the rest of the tune. _
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