In this week’s free Irish / Celtic guitar lesson from Folk Friend, I’ll be showing you a “quick change chord scale” for C major and its related modes, D dorian, G mixolydian and A aeolian. The idea is that using these easy Celtic guitar chord shapes you will be able to create fluid movements between chords in any of the above keys. Chord scales can be used to provide links between chords or even as ready made chord progressions in their own right.
There are two more videos in this series, dealing with:
This free Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend covers the “chord scales” for G and D ionian. These are super easy chord shapes for backing guitarists, which fit with Irish and Celtic tunes in these keys and can easily be played together at speeds. They also create nice runs of linking chords and will work in the other modes related to D major and G major; A dorian, D mixolydian and E aeolian for G and E dorian, A mixolydian and B aeolian for D.
You can learn more about the modes with an Amazing Mode Wheel, in my first book, Backing Guitar Techniques For Traditional Celtic Music, or on my free blog here.
There are two other videos in this series, dealing with:
This free Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend is the last in my series on easy to play chord scales for Irish guitarists and Celtic backing enthusiasts! I’ll be showing you my absolute favourite chords for my absolute favourite mode in all of Celtic music- A ionian (or A major). These chords will also fit with tunes in the common Celtic mode of B dorian. These are jazzier than the chords which I demonstrated in the first two videos in this series (linked below) but they are easy shapes to play and very quick and easy to change between by just sliding up and down the fretboard!
This free Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend covers one of the most popular tunings out there; drop D. This is a great tuning for beginner folk guitarists as it has the nice low, booming bass notes of a tuning like DADGAD but without the need to learn loads of new chord shapes!
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