Folky Fridays #50 - How to use jazzier chords in your Irish and Scottish guitar accompaniment

Folky Fridays #50 – How to use jazzier chords in your Irish and Scottish guitar accompaniment

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!

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