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In this week’s free Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend I’ll be showing you how you can use your new found knowledge of tetrads to invent loads of cool jazz chords to use in your Irish, Scottish and general trad guitar backing!
You can watch part 1 of this series here…
…And part 2 here.
This is the second free Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend covering tetrads or four note “jazz chords”. This week I’ll be demonstrating how to use the principles covered in part one with classic Irish tunes in each of the four modes used in north western european folk music, ionian, dorian, mixolydian and aeolian.
And part 3 here
I’ll be demonstrating with my playalongs for:
Fahy’s: Become a Folk Friend member now for access to this and 20 other playalongs, with guides to the theory and diagrams for all the chords used!
In today’s free Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend, I’ll be running you through the three families of 7 chords and how you can implement them to make your traditional folk guitar accompaniment sound more jazzy! We’ll be looking at major 7 chords, minor 7 chords and dominant 7 chords and discovering which ones fit with traditional tunes in certain keys and why.
My Celtic music theory for beginners videos can be found below:
The rest of my series on jazz chords in folk guitar can be found below:
This free Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend will show you how to strum waltzes and songs in the 3/4 time signature. I’ll be showing you two very simple strumming patterns that you can use to accompany songs in 3/4, and running you through how to use them with various different chord shapes.
In the second part of this video, I show you how to use these strumming patterns to play the classic Irish song Raglan Road, as famously recorded by Van Morrison with the Chieftains. Watch part 2 here.
In this free Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend I’ll be showing you how to play Raglan Road. Written by Patrick Kavanagh, this song was also famously recorded by Van Morrison and The Chieftains. Thanks to Barry for requesting this song- if you’d like me to cover anything particular then let me know in the comments down below!
You can watch Van Morrison and the Chieftains play the song live on BBC television here.
Here’s my free download of the chords and lyrics.
You can watch my complete beginner’s guide to strumming waltzes on the guitar here.
This free Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend covers partial capo-ing, the easiest way to get the classic sound of DADGAD folk guitar without retuning or learning a single new chord shape!
I recommend the Kyser partial capo as it is quicker and easier to move around. You can now support Folk Friend by buying one directly from me (cheapest price in the UK guaranteed). Click here to shop now!
I recently finished writing a complete Beginner’s Guide To Celtic DADGAD Accompaniment! You can find it here.
In this free Irish guitar lesson, I’ll be replying to a comment from Olivier Castel who wanted to know what I play in the intro to my clips. Here is a complete guide to the upside down strumming pattern, an extra percussive version of a jig strumming pattern, how I modify it to get the rhythm in the intro and how to add your own variations to it. I’ll be covering the chords in a future video.
In this free Celtic guitar lesson I’ll be showing you one really simple shape which you can move around to give you loads of great chord options for tunes in E minor type keys. This is useful for both E dorian and E aeolian. These shapes can also be used in lots of other keys with varying degrees of success so experiment!
In this free Celtic guitar lesson I’ll be showing you how to strum along with hornpipes and reels, two rhythms which are very popular in Irish and other Celtic traditional music. You can find a complete guide to rhythms, strumming patterns, chords (including more jazzy options), music theory, ear training exercises and everything else you need to become a great backing guitarist in my e-book, available here.
