In this week’s Folky Fridays live streamed Celtic guitar lesson I’ll be teaching you how to play a popular Irish session tune! It’s a jig in the D ionian mode called “Connaughtman’s Rambles”. It is unusual in that the B part is in B aeolian. I’ll be showing you how you can use your knowledge of the mode shapes to quickly work out a tune by ear, discussing some of the theory behind backing an Irish dance tune like this on the guitar, and finally showing you a few different sets of chords we could use for this tune!
You can find free resources (including guitar tablature and fretboard diagrams) to accompany this lesson here.
And free guitar fretboard diagrams for the mode shapes here.