I have a special guest in this week’s Folky Fridays free Celtic guitar lesson from Folk Friend! My mum Alexa, from whom my love of Irish music stems, will be joining me to play some classic session tunes. I’ll also be showing you lots of ways to vary standard chord and strumming patterns and covering all the shapes I use for each set.
Here is a list of all the tunes we played (they are under the names my mum knows them by- some of them have several others!):
The Lonesome Jig – D ionian
The Roaring Barmaid – G ionian
The Mushroom Treatment – A mixolydian
Taylor’s Rambles – A mixolydian / A dorian (possibly not the standard version you would hear)
Reaping the Rye – E aeolian
The Butterfly – E aeolian
Light and Airy – A mixolydian
Christy Barry’s (?) – G ionian
The Donegal Lass – A mixolydian
The Old Flail – G ionian
Porthole of the Kelp – E aeolian
Unknown (recorded by Carty & Tully) – A dorian
The Old Bush – D mixolydian (starts on an Am chord)
O’Gallagher’s Frolics – E aeolian
Sean Ryan’s (widely known as The Castle- this is arranged in my Fingerstyle book available on the shop page) – E aeolian
The Spotted Dog – A ionian