three chord trick -for fiddle accompaniment

[@fiddlinang]

Love the efficiency of this

[@johntait491]

Really great information Chris. Well demonstrated. 👍

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Thanks John!

[@aranos6269]

Brilliant. I did a lot of comping in a wedding dance band and it never occurred to me to simplify it like this 👍👍👍😊

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Pretty neat, eh!

[@helengibb931]

Bit advanced for me. I’ll come back to it.

[@TheAtticradio]

Me too ! … interesting though .

[@neilbooker5045]

Excellent . Thank you Chris.

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Thanks Neil!

[@alandana]

Great! Thanks! Alan

[@untartelette7545]

Wow this is gold

[@dalepatton2738]

I have been looking for the info: 6 chords and 3-chord trick for the past 10 years that I have been making noise with my fiddle!! Thanks

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Glad you could make sense of this!

[@ЛешаЧупрыкин]

Will this technique also work with a violin? You do sliding when playing double notes. Is it just stylistic approach or also helps with intonation?

[@TheFiddleChannel]

The violin is the same instrument as the fiddle. But this technique isn't really relevant to classical music. I don't always combine slides with this technique, but it is a common aspect of country fiddle playing.

[@virtualmediateacher]

i know this is going to sound stupid but . . . . why not just get a mandolin chord book and look up pictorial representations of a fretted neck? i took out my scale book that has scale of sixths written for every key and i tried to label the chords for the key of a and come up with your revelation myself and couldn't. It just made my brain hurt.

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Hi Annette. With this method you don't need to look at the chords, or work out the relationship of the name to the key. Just find the first chord, and all the rest is automatic!

[@virtualmediateacher]

@@TheFiddleChannel automatic after you memorize the scale of sixths in common keys. I’m working on that now!

[@YankeeFiddler13850]

I once worked with a guitar player who insisted that I comp as low as possible since the fiddle is such a high pitched instrument, unless I was soloing. So I'd end up mixing my chord shapes, going from the major third to the fourth to a sixth or low third (C/E - C/F - B/G or B/D

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Generally I agree that lower is better, depending on what else is going on.

[@aranos6269]

I got a 6string electric for that reason in a wedding dance band, and this system would have worked a treat. I was just too dumb to think of it.