Irish Folk Songs & Ballads on Guitar
What you'll learn
- Learn all your favourite songs on guitar
- Learn all the fundamentals of guitar through the medium of Irish folk songs & ballads
- The quickest way to learn all your favourite Irish songs
- Learn how to read sheet music, play along with other musicians and be able to play a song by ear
Requirements
- No guitar playing experience is required. You will learn everything you need to know
- Guitar required
Description
Interested in learning the guitar through all your favourite Irish songs?
This is a 6 module video course will take you from complete beginner to advanced level guitar player. You will learn everything you need to confidently play all you favourite songs and music and become a great guitar player along the way.
Guitar fundamentals and techniques are applied to Irish Folk songs and Ballads throughout .
All material is available on downloadable PDF sheets and many of the songs include a full ballad group backing track.
Each module you'll learn:
CHORDS - Learn All Chords
RHYTHM - Jam in any Rhythm
SCALES - Solo over any song
FINGERSTYLE - Learn how to fingerstyle all your favourite songs
READING - How to Read Music
THEORY - Understanding music
SONGS & REPETOIRE - All your favourite Irish Folk songs and Ballads
What other students say about this course?
“If any of you are wishing you could play guitar and sing some of your favourite songs don’t hesitate…I guarantee you will not regret it. It was one of the best decisions I ever made. Within a month I was playing some of my favourite songs”
Paul Barrett
Co.Clare
“I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this course to anyone interested in learning guitar or for anyone who already plays but has hit a wall and wants to improve”
Dan Kennedy
Co.Kerry
“I found the course content excellent: you are developing a first class site and content”
Nessan Rickard
Co.Dublin
Who this course is for:
- Beginner to Intermediate guitar players who want to learn how to play guitar correctly and want to play their favourite Irish songs
Instructor
![Mike Varden](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 2 Reviews
- 58 Students
- 1 Course
Hi Mike here. Just a bit about my background.
I completed a diploma at 'The Guitar Institute' in London in 2002 after having qualified as a secondary school teacher from UCC (University College Cork) some years previously.
In 2003 I decided to go into teaching music full-time and combining my love of guitar with my passion for teaching, I set up the 'Ennis Guitar School' in my home town Ennis in Co. Clare, Ireland.
I have been playing and teaching guitar for more than 30 years now (having taught privately before opening my school) and I have taught thousands of students of all ages and all levels, both one-to-one and in groups.
During this time I also delivered guitar workshops on behalf of a wide range of organisations including Music Generation Ireland (set up and funded by Bono and U2) and taught guitar in several primary and second level schools throughout County Clare as well as running Adult workshops.
I am interested in and play many types of music including Folk, Rock, Blues, Country, Ragtime and Fingerstyle and I have played in bands, solo and other musical combos.
I grew up listening to Irish ballads and folk songs performed by artists such as the Dubliners, Clancy brothers, Mary Black, Christy Moore, Planxty and the Furey brothers to name a few and this music in particular has always been close to my heart.