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Beginners’ Guide To Celtic DADGAD Accompaniment – part 2 – The Kesh Jig and another handy slide-able shape!

https://youtu.be/LHt7rVuDJsc

 

Welcome back to part 2 of the Folk Friend Beginner’s Guide to Celtic DADGAD Accompaniment! This video series will be covering some of the material from my latest book, which shows you everything you need to know to become a great Celtic DADGAD backing guitarist and is available at the link below. This week’s installment will cover how to pick chords by ear for a very popular Irish session tune in the key of G major, the Kesh Jig.

Click here to open my free Playalong video for the Kesh in a new tab.

Here are the root notes I mentioned in this clip:

DADGAD root notes

Click here to watch part 1

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