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What is swing? A guide to hornpipes and reels for beginner folk backing guitarists

This free Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend covers “swing” and shows you exactly what is actually going on. It also shows you how you can copy the amount of swing a given melody player puts on a tune and reflect it in your own backing.

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If you would like a complete guide to folk backing on the guitar then you really need my book Backing Guitar Techniques For Traditional Celtic Music, which tells you all the music theory, strumming patterns, chord shapes and everything else you need to become a great backing guitarist and
My invention The Amazing Mode Wheel can show you all the notes and chords which fit in any scale used in Celtic music.

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