In this week’s free Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend, I’ll be showing you how you can play the melody and the chords at the same time when accompanying Irish music in DADGAD! I’ll be demonstrating ways to practice accentuating individual notes when strumming, ear training exercises to pick out the melody notes relative to your key centre, shapes for easy scale incorporation on top of chords and much much more!
This lesson comes with a free tab download for all the exercises I’ll be showing you- you can get it here
I’ll be demonstrating using two tunes, my old demo favourite the Kerfunken Jig and the four part D mixolydian jig, Humours Of Ballyloughlin.
Here are some clips where the tunes are played slowly so you can get them in your heads:
Kerfunken:
Humours Of Ballyloughlin:
I recently finished writing a complete Beginner’s Guide To Celtic DADGAD Accompaniment! You can find it here.