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Foundation In Irish Trad & Folk Music Guitar - DADGAD Tuning
246 students
Foundation In Irish Trad & Folk Music Guitar - DADGAD Tuning
Solid Foundation in Irish Traditional & Folk Music Accompaniment on Guitar in DADGAD Tuning
Created byDavid Whelan
Last updated 1/2025
English
What you'll learn
- How to tune your guitar in DADGAD
- Learn the music alphabet and where the important notes are on fretbaord
- Learn essential theory that allow you to choose which chords sound best together
- Step by step system for selecting the best chords for a piece of music
- How to substitute/swap chords to create your own unique sounding accompaniment for music
- How to connect chords progressions together with Bass Line to create continuity & movement
- An easy to understand system for playing chords in 3 different voices/positions (low, middle & high)
- How to use the capo and play in different keys using the shapes you know
- How to play with both Irish traditional tunes and also folk songs in DADGAD tuning
- How to form 7th chords
- How to accompany music in the 4 modes used in Irish traditional music
- How to play fast triplet strums
- Strum pattern for reels, jigs & hornpipes
- How to play in the 4 different modes use in Irish traditional music
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Course content
12 sections • 89 lectures • 4h 5m total length
Requirements
- No requirements needed apart from a guitar and an interest to learn - You will learn everything you need to know
Description
A series of easy to understand lessons, teaching the essential theory and techniques on how to approach accompanying Irish Traditional & Folk Music Accompaniment on Guitar in DADGAD Tuning.
“If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
What makes this course unique from other courses is that students are not just told what to play in a specific piece of music rather they are taught the essential tools/theory which allow them to understand how to accompany any piece of music.
- Step by step system for selecting the best chords for a piece of music
- How to substitute/swap chords to create your own unique sounding accompaniment for music
- How to connect chords progressions together with Bass Line to create continuity & movement
- An easy to understand system for playing chords in 3 different voices/positions (low, middle & high)
No requirements needed apart from a guitar and an interest to learn - You will learn everything you need to know
Suitable for guitar players of all levels interested in learning how to accompany Irish traditional and folk music in DADGAD tuning on guitar
Taught by David Whelan (BA) Hons Music
Who this course is for:
- Guitar players of all levels interested in learning how to accompany Irish traditional and folk music in DADGAD tuning on guitar