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forstonc - Posted - 08/30/2008: 20:48:39
I am hoping someone can help me in understanding how one should go about leading from one chord to the next.
I don't know if I am explaining my question right or not. For instance, Orange Blossom Special, in the measure right before the shuffle bowing starts, what is the idea or concept used in the double stops in that measure to lead you into the shuffle?
Im just curious if there is something in music theory that someone knows, that could explain this, or if you just always have to keep trying until you get something that sounds right.
Hope this isn't too confusing of a question. Thanks for any help.
coelhoe - Posted - 08/31/2008: 07:07:54
I'm not sure I understand your question. In accompaniment, guitars, piano, (sometimes banjos) will play an ascending or descending line from the scale of the key of the song ending on the root note of the chord to which they are changing.
In "OBS" this is a descending line that ends on "A" the key of the tune, just before the shuffle. But in fiddle back-up. the use of such runs of several notes between chords is very common, both in playing open chords, and in playing harmonized scales with closed chords (so-called Texas, or big-band style). Such runs always end on the root note of the chord you are changing to. For example, if you are playing a G chord and you need to change to C, the run would be the notes G-A-B-C.
Hope that helps. Others here may have a better way of exressing this. I see you are from Bloomington, IN. I lived there for several years in the '70's. There used to be any number of good country fiddlers in the area. By "country" I mean fiddlers not connected to the university.
Dennis
"Not being able to play very well is a good substitute for not having good taste." -Eddie Adcock
forstonc - Posted - 08/31/2008: 21:50:44
Thank you very much for the response. That really helps alot in answering my question.
I keep hoping to meet some fiddlers in the area, but have not located any regular jams in this area, and just haven't made it to enough festivals.
Thanks again for you answer.
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