How to Play Back Up Chords On the Fiddle (Part 4) - Technique Lesson

FiddleHed is the fun way to learn fiddling online! In this lesson we’ll learn how about power chords and we’ll also learn how to play easy F and B flat major chords.

If you haven’t watched the first three lessons on chords I strongly recommend you do that:

Power chords are useful chords because they can be major or minor chords. You already know how to play power chords. The first chord you learned with me was D major played as open D and open A. This same chord can be a D minor chord and so is a power chord.

In the same way, G0D0 is a G power chord and can be used as G major or G minor. And A0E0 can be A major or A minor.

If you place the first finger across D and A strings to play D1A1, you have an E power chord. So now you can play back-up to O’Keefe’s slide and Swallowtail in a different way:

Em/D is D1A1-D0A0

Using power chords you can now play any major or minor chord.

In a similar way, G1D1 is an A power chord. And so you can play back-up to “Growling Old Man And Woman” this way:
Am /G is G1D1-G0D0

An easy way to play F major is DL2A0. Now we can play the chord back-up to Shady Grove like this:

Dm -/C -/Dm -/Dm -
F -/C -/Dm C/Dm -

The hyphen “-“ means the chord is held for the duration of the bar.

Similar to F major, you an easy Bb major is GL2D0.

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Alrighty. Play every day, have fun 😀 and thanks for making music 🙏

Now, go fiddle with it...

Jason 🎻

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