Folk FriendThis week’s Folky Fridays free online guitar lesson live stream from Folk Friend will be covering a very simple way that you can write your own fingerstyle arrangements of tunes in G major or E minor. This technique can also be used to incorporate little segments from melodies into your chordal accompaniment.
My full jazzy arrangement of Tell Her I Am can be found in my first collection of fingerstyle guitar pieces, available here:
This week’s Folky Fridays free online guitar lesson live stream from Folk Friend will be all about drop D tuning. This versatile tuning is hugely popular amongst Irish trad guitarists and can be used in a huge range of keys for super low bass notes.
This week’s Folky Fridays free online guitar lesson live stream from Folk Friend is something special in honour of 50 episodes in the series- I’ll be welcoming my friend Theo to Finale Guitar to live stream some tunes! Theo is a man of many talents- as well being a fantastic banjo player, programming various useful bits of musical software (see below) and being a veritable library of music theory knowledge he also builds exquisite cellos and violins.
As well as playing tunes and drinking tea we’ll also be discussing approaches to harmony, the theory of Celtic music and all sort of other useful tidbits so join us on Friday 30th April 2021 from 5:30GMT!
Here are Theo’s various websites and social media profiles: Parmakis instruments
Theo’s Chord Generator (as used in all my books and lessons)
In today’s Folky Fridays free Celtic guitar lesson livestream, I will be running you through the basics of how to incorporate tetrads (major 7, minor 7, 7 etc) and more advanced jazz chords (9s, 13s, altered dominants, inversion etc) into your trad guitar backing for Irish and Scottish tunes!
In today’s Folky Fridays free Celtic guitar lesson livestream, I wanted to discuss my thoughts on what makes Celtic music sound Celtic, and how it’s different from more modern music or folk music from other cultures. I’ll also be relating this to guitar backing as much as possible and doing my best to show you how melodic conventions can influence your guitar accompaniment choices for traditional/ folk music.
In this week’s Folky Fridays free online guitar lesson live stream from Folk Friend I will be showing you how you can pick chords for the most popular Irish tune on Youtube, Swallowtail Jig. I’ll show you how to pick simple chords by ear, how to use substitutions to make them more interesting and then loads of cool variants and techniques to make your chords more interesting! If this sounds like something you’d enjoy then please join us from 5:30GMT!
In this week’s Folky Fridays free online guitar lesson live stream from Folk Friend I will be showing you how you can use the humble “power chord” as a super easy move-able chord option for Irish, Scottish and general Celtic guitar accompaniment in loads of different keys! If you’re looking for an easy way to super charge your chord armoury with just one shape (and maybe a few extras) then join us from 5:30GMT!
In this week’s Folky Fridays free online guitar lesson live stream from Folk Friend I will be having a look at some of my more unusual reel strumming patterns, including the dubstep inspired “half time” strum. These are a fun way to add variation to high-speed tune sets and can really enhance your rhythmic fluency.
In today’s Folky Fridays free Celtic guitar lesson livestream, I’ll be having another crack at streaming some tunes with my mum on the whistle!
In this week’s Folky Fridays free online guitar lesson live stream from Folk Friend I will be taking questions on any aspect of Irish / Celtic guitar playing. Whether you’re struggling with barre chords, can’t seem to get your ears tuned in, don’t know what to learn next or need to find ways to stay focused and motivated, I will be more than happy to help with your questions, whatever they may be!
