Accompanying Irish Music on Guitar










Contents

1.0

The developing art of accompaniment

1.1

The emergence of the guitar in the accompaniment of Irish music

1.2

Profiles of leading players

1.3

Accompanying tunes effectively

2.0

Getting started

2.1

Guide to choosing equipment

2.2

Developing a practice equipment

2.3

Notation used in this book

3.0

Guide to tunings and accompaniment styles

3.1

The structure of Irish tunes

3.2

Strumming and picking patterns

3.3

Tunings

3.4

Tunes accompanied in standard tuning

John Brady's & Hexham races

Pretty Peg & The baker

Flogging reel & The whistling postman

Pigeon on the gate & The Shaskeen reel

3.5

Tunes accompanied in dropped D: DADGBE

Fred Finn's & Music in the glen

Julia Delaney & My love is in America

Cooley's hornpipe & The home ruler

3.6

Tunes accompanied in double dropped D: DADGBD

Eddie Kelly's jig & Jerry's beaver hat

Pigtown fling & Roly-poly

3.7

Accompanying tunes in DADGAD

3.8

Tunes accompanied in DADGAD

Mist-covered mountain & The rakes of Kildare

Doctor O'Neill & The mug of brown ales

The trip to Athlone & The rambling pitchfork

My darling asleep & Boys of the town

Shoemaker's daughter & Dinkie's reel

4.0

Appendix

4.1

Theory

Chord construction

Fretboard diagrams

Chord inversions & voicings, modal chords & modes, barre chords, slash chords, relative minors

4.2

Full listing of all chords used in the book

4.3

Transposition chart

4.4

Running order of the accompanying CD

4.5

Discography for recommended listening

 

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