Irish Rhythm Guitar - Accompanying Celtic Tunes

Videolessons of ex-guitarist celtic band "Solas", he shares some secrets accompany Irish tunes on an acoustic guitar in drop-d (6-string I - 0.72 mm). The lessons describe a number of melodies and explains how to be different to play them.

John Doyle's style includes strumming patterns, moving bass lines, palm damping, backbeats, accents and syncopations that drive a tune forward. This exciting lesson shows both simple arrangements and complex rhythms, chord shapes and progressions to enable you to get a traditional band to really rock! Using dropped-D tuning, John teaches rhythmic accompaniments to reels, jigs, slip jigs and hornpipes. With John Williams playing the melodies on button accordion, he goes over each tune both slowly and up-to-speed, developing dynamic chord progressions and rhythmic flourishes as he goes. You'll learn the accompaniments to more than a dozen great tunes:

Basics

• Intro & Tuning (4:20)
• Basic Reel Strumming Pattern & Basic Chords (12:09)

Songs:

• Crowley's (4:13)
• The Mountain Road (3:13)
• Graig's Pipes (8:04)
• The Gooseberry Bush (3:38)
• Gallagher's Frolics & The Mist Covered Mountain (15:46)
• Langstrom's Pony (9:30)
• Humours of Whiskey (2:43)
• Banks of Loch Gamhna (2:15)
• Return to Camden Town (3:06)
• The Fermoy Lasses (3:20)
• The Girl That Broke My Heart (4:54)
• Chief O'Neill's Hornpipe (6:09)

Outro & Credits (4:13)

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