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Here is a finger style rendition of what has become Australia's unofficial national anthem. There have been a few attempts to make it the official anthem, but we're still stuck with the far less evocative 'Advance Australia Fair' anthem, that piece that gets a regular airing at the Olympics.
'Waltzing Matilda' is a beautiful tune, one that you hear on a daily basis down here. I think I've done about half a dozen versions of my own for TV jingles and the like, but I never get tired of it.
I've done it in G, our favorite key, and you will no doubt find all kinds of similarities with many of the other lessons I've done here in G. This piece stays pretty well in key for its duration, apart from one little deviation (a 'majorized' A chord) ... it probably wasn't written into the original version.
Let's have a quick look at the Roman numeral progression for this:
| I - V - | vi - IV | I - vi - | ii - V |
| I - V - | vi - IV
II | I - vi - | V - I |
... so other than the 'II' (shown in red) chord that takes up one beat, it consists purely of related chords. The only reason it's there is to provide the C# bass note, linking the C note that precedes it with the D note that follows.
There is really nothing to this one ... the movie clearly shows the fingering of both hands. There is just one little pull-off I do at measure
5 ... that's just an A note being pulled off to the open string G note. You can dispense with it altogether, of course, but it does add a little zest for the ear.
I'll do
part 2 next week ...
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