Folky Fridays #9 - modifying your strumming to recreate rhythms within a melody

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This free Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend covers how to modify your strumming to reflect the rhythm of a melody. This will lend your backing guitar playing some unique variations and prevent anyone from leveling you with that age old criticism of folk music; “it all sounds the same”!

Here are the example tunes I use in this video:

Jigs:

Out On The Ocean:

Banish Misfortune:

Slip Jig:

The Butterfly (recorded slowly by Conor O’Bryan):

Bonus jig:

The Monaghan

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