joeh4232 - Posted - 03/25/2017:  05:10:26

Need a little help, or for me probably a lot of help. Is there an easy way to put chords to sheet music Lake Dore Waltz? I have this piece alfwarnock.info/ofe/pdf/27.pdf  its a nice old waltz from the Ottawa Fiddle Ensemble.  I f I can get chords to it I can put it in my BIAB to play along. And for my backgound in music theory mine consists of turning the knob on the radio.

AZJohnB - Posted - 03/25/2017:  06:47:19

I play along with a recording until I learn them and then write the chords in.

martynspeck - Posted - 03/25/2017:  08:31:11

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Originally posted by joeh4232

 

Need a little help, or for me probably a lot of help. Is there an easy way to put chords to sheet music Lake Dore Waltz? I have this piece alfwarnock.info/ofe/pdf/27.pdf  its a nice old waltz from the Ottawa Fiddle Ensemble.  I f I can get chords to it I can put it in my BIAB to play along. And for my backgound in music theory mine consists of turning the knob on the radio.

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To some degree, you'll need to figure them out.

I don't see a source for the chords online. However, it looks like it's in D so you can probably get by with D, G and A. (That's the I, IV and V. All that means is D is the first note in the D scale. G is the 4th and A is the 5th). For some reason those chords 'work'.

I think my approach would be: in BIAB, give all the measures a D chord. Some of the measures won't sound right. For the ones that don't sound right try either G or A. 

Edited by - martynspeck on 03/25/2017 08:45:53

joeh4232 - Posted - 03/25/2017:  13:45:30

Hey thanks Marty. I will give that a try. I guess keep trying different chords to replace the D until it sounds right, makes sense.

FiddleBas - Posted - 03/25/2017:  17:34:26

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Originally posted by joeh4232

 

Hey thanks Marty. I will give that a try. I guess keep trying different chords to replace the D until it sounds right, makes sense.

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I think Marty is right it's just I/IV/V for this one (not a given for waltzes - they are prone to having other chords). Attached is what sounds about right to me. 

Lake Dore Waltz