Chords for Pigeon On The Gate: Fiddle Lesson by Hanneke Cassel

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_ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] Alright, so this tune is called Pigeon on the [Bb] Gate, and this is the Scottish version
of Pigeon on the Gate.
Pigeon on the Gate is actually the name of three or four different tunes.
There's an Irish version, a Cape Breton version, this is the Scottish version, and I think
that I learned this version from a great fiddle player [Bbm] named Athena Turgis.
_ And I'm just going to play this tune through very simply one time so you can kind of start
getting it into your head.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
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_ _ Okay, so here's the A part, and before we play the A part, let me just play you the
scale that we're going to be working off of.
It's called A Mixolydian, and it sounds like this. _ _ _
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _
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_ _ _ It's important to know that scale because there are actually quite a few _ phrases that
are made up of that scale in this A part.
So your first phrase starts with, it has a grace note called the cut, and you can learn
more about the cut on the grace note tutorial.
[B] But it sounds basically like [Bb] this. _ _
_ And then right after that we're going to follow with a scale that starts on the A. _ _ _ _ _ _
So that first phrase [A] is, _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [N] there's one little bowing thing I'm doing there, [A] I'm going,
and then _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ the _ _ _ next phrase actually starts on that E, [A] and it has the cut [Bb] again, and it goes, _
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_ so those two phrases connected.
_ _ [Gb]
So here's some advanced ways of playing this tune, Fidget on the Gate.
_ _ We have that cut up front, _ _ and as I said for the simple lesson, you can really learn more
about this from _ the grace note tutorial.
But I'm going to start playing it in kind of the more Scottish-y percussive way as we
walk through this advanced version.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Right, so we're just throwing our bow down a little bit more there.
_ _ And on this up bow that we were doing, the slur, I want you actually to slap your bow,
_ _ [E] [Bb] so that instead of [A] it being smooth, _ _
[Bb] you're actually going to pick it up. _ _ _ _
When you get to this high note, you're going to do something called the hammer on. _
_ And one more time I'll tell you, all of these grace notes you can find on the grace note
tutorial, so I'll explain all of them there.
So you have the beginning, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
the first time I was going, [Gb] A, F sharp, E, you could actually
do a variation and throw that G natural in there from the A maxilladian scale.
_ _ And that makes a [Bb] kind of nice little snazzy way of playing this. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [Em] _ [Gb] So as we're walking up there_
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[G] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [N] _