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How to pick Irish guitar chords for beginners – PART 3 – tunes in the mixolydian mode

Post author By Folk_Friend
Post date February 21, 2021
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In this week’s free Irish guitar tutorial from Folk Friend I will be running you through a very popular modern session jig called Donegal Lass, written by Brian Finnegan of Flook fame. I will be showing you how you can analyse a melody by ear and quickly pick out the best chords to accompany it! I will also run you through basic guitar chord substitutions that you can use to add variation to your Irish guitar backing. This is also applicable to Scottish and Welsh folk music (and that of most of north western Europe).

Here are the other videos in this series:

Part 1 (ionian)

Part 2 (dorian)

Part 4 (aeolian)

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Ear training

How to pick Irish guitar chords by ear for complete beginners PART 1- tunes in major keys

Post author By Folk_Friend
Post date February 21, 2021
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This week’s free Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend is for complete beginners who want to learn how to accompany Irish traditional music on the guitar by ear. I’ll be showing you which chords fit with a tune in a major key and how you can train your ears to recognise where those chords should fit. I’ll also be giving you some examples using my free playalong video with on screen guitar chords for a classic Irish reel called Maid Behind The Bar. You can find that video here: