This week’s Folky Fridays free Celtic guitar lesson live stream will be on a topic which I absolutely love: borrowing chord progressions from Latin jazz music and using them to come up with unusual but cool sounding accompaniments for Celtic tunes! I’ll be talking about the 69, dominant 13 and altered dominant chord voicings (amongst others) which are in lots of south American music, particularly in bossa nova, and showing you some simple ways to integrate these peppery chords into you Celtic backing guitar!
Category: Jazz chord theory
In this week’s free Scottish and Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend, I’ll be looking at the playing of the amazing folk / gypsy jazz fusion artist Peerie Willy Johnson, a fantastic traditional guitar player from the Shetland Isles. In the first part of this video I’ll be showing you a set of guitar chords he used together often and some of the principles behind his chord choices. I’ll also be showing you how you can emulate his “La Pompe” strumming pattern (as borrowed from Django Reinhardt and other gypsy jazz guitarists). In the second part, I’ll be looking at his recording of the classic, traditional hornpipes Harvest Home and Ragtime Jane, taken from the amazing Willy’s World album, and showing you how he applies jazz theory to come up with outstandingly original chord progressions for folk music and how you can take his chord choice techniques and apply them to your own guitar playing!
This free Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend covers the music theory behind the amazing chord progressions of the amazing Shetland jazz / folk guitarist “Peerie” Willie Johnson. I’ll be analysing the chord progression he played on the track “Harvest Home, Ragtime Jane” from the Willie’s World album.