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Here we go I'm going to teach you one of the most famous most outlawed at fiddle contests fiddle tunes there is. This is called Black Mountain Rag. And I'm going to teach it to you cross tuned G D G B. So G D G B is the same intervals as Calico tuning, which is A E A C#.
Both of them will lend to the same fingering. So you can tune A E A C# on this tune as well, and it's just fine. It'll work like champ. I kinda like the looser sound that you get with GDGB, but really you can do whatever you want either of those tunings work great for this tune. But you can hear it's an open tuning.
This is a cross-tuned song, so you will have to retune your fiddle to play this tune or have a second fiddle that you keep in this tuning. I have this fiddle that I generally use for cross tuning. I use steel strings on it. I use Prim G, D, and A. And then I use the wound Thomastic Dominant E, steel strings adjust a lot faster to cross tuning or to changing the tuning tha n Perlon or other nylon synthetic core strings. On my regular fiddle, I play with synthetic core strings. I play with Eva Pirazzi Golds, which I love.
I also really liked the D'Addario Kaplan strings and I liked the Eva Pirazzi Standards. So the Kaplan AMO is my favorite, but I like the Vivos as well in the D'Addario strings.
But here we go, I'm going to go ahead and play it for you. And then we'll break it down. Basically we have a melody and then we have variations on this tune. There are three parts to it. And when we play it like this, it's in the key of G if we tune up to AEAC#, also known as Calico. It is in the key of A well.
One, Two, Ready Go.
So that's Black Mountain Rag. Now let's break down the melody and how we're going to play this tune. So again, we are G D G B in our tuning. So our second finger is going to create a drone with the B string. So we're on what would normally be the A string. So I'm just going to call them by the normal string names, just so it's clear for you.
We're on the A string. So I'm going to take out the drones and just play the melody note.
So that's our A part, with the drone.
So we got 2 0 3 On the E string. 0 2 3 2 0.
And we slide in with that second finger into that drone.
Just practice that, get the groove of it and find a bowing that works for you.
So I tend to do a slur of three.
So I'll do it two and two
You can hear how that particular bowing pattern gives it a really kind of rhythmic groove to the bowing.
All right, so B part.
Alright. So that's our B part. It's pretty simple.
So what's cool about this is all the variations and the fact that it's cross-tuned makes it sound harder than it is, which is why they don't let you play it in a fiddle contest.
So, slide slide. 2 0 1 0.
Slide O 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 2 0.
Then Repeat.
Alright, so there's our B part.
C part, third part. So, we're on the G and the D string droning together.
2 2 3 2 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 3 0 1 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 1 0
Alright, and that's our B part. Sorry, our C part.
2 2 3 2 1 0 0 1 2 3 3 0 1 3 3 1 2 2 3 2 1 0 0 1 2 1 2 2.
2 2 3 2 1 0 0 1 2 3 3 0 1 3 3 1
Alright, so that's our three parts. Now let's look at a few variations. Let's look at the, A part. So variation number one for the A part is. So here's our melody.
So there's our regular melody, so we can do
So we can do a little triplet.
So we can also do a harmonic.
Now both of those variations could
could also be used as variations on the B part. This is a variation that only works on the A part.
So we're doing a diminished fifth, or actually...
It's actually a third, but it's, it's a third that includes the minor third of the melody which makes it or I'm sorry, a minor third of the key we're in. So if we're in G You know, we have a B flat.
A Bb against a D, which is just kind of weird for the key of G. So
We're just doing 2 1 0, 2 1 0, 2 1 0, 2 1 0, 2 1 0.
And on the A and the E first,
So, 2 1 0, 2 1 0 , 2 1 0, 2 1 0, 2 1 0...
So that's our pattern. 2 1 0, 2 1 0 , 2 1 0, 2 1 0, 2 1 0...
And it's a trip-a-let, trip-a-let, trip-a-let. It's kind of, we're, we're adding a syncopation to it. So, it makes a really have a bluesy, kind of flat seven sound to it.
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