Traditional Irish Music
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Hi !Probably a big challenge for most guitar players to find the right tuning and chords used in this brilliant piece of music by Cara, Mike's Ride :…Continue
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This is an interesting clip of Míchéal O' Domhnaill at the 1981 Milwaukee festival for you guitar playersContinue
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Would anyone have a good guide to guitar cords in DADGAD or Dropped d, by Key with good cord progressions, alternative positions etc. Can only find the Michael Eskin one's online. Most guides don't…Continue
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Started by Paul Dengate. Last reply by Paul Dengate Sep 5, 2012. 4 Replies 0 Likes
After playing backup guitar in sessions for quite a number of years, about a year ago I thought I’d start learning to play some of the popular session tunes at session speed. I had a number of…Continue
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I found out a nice chord that can be used in dorian mode recently.lets say d dorian,you can sub the tonic chord(Dm) for Bb major seventh(fingered x13231 on dropped d or standard tuning) .I know that there is an A and D present in this chord but shouldnt the Bb clash?its not in the d dorian scale.Maybe there is some name for this relationship?
Are there any specific keys you have in mind? DADGAD works pretty well uncapoed for all the typical celtic keys. E minor might not be as nice as in some other tunings.
If you know the basics of chord construction its pretty easy to come up with some nice ones in DADGAD. There are plenty of chord charts online, here is a pretty extensive one.
http://www.clintonhammond.com/Dadgad.pdf
Hope that helps
Hi all. I'm new here.... looking forward to catching up on discussions and such.
By way of introduction, here's a little recording I made a while back. I was just exploring what all I might do backing this tune. http://snd.sc/uFPpGN
Would anyone have the John Doyle tutorial online they could send on,
I'm DADGAD myself thanks to Sean Mclwain from teada, also it's my third instrument so the capo is needed when you dont have time to learn all the chords, if it sounds good thats all that matters.
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I play backup mostly in CGDGCD with a capo at II and in Drop D sometimes as well. I like a chunky sound with lots of roots and fifths and thirds sometimes as well. Don't really use sevenths at all. Like alot of other folks I enjoy John Doyle's playing and his rhythmic energy has rubbed off on me a bit.
I started using CGDGCD exclusively for fingerstyle work and later learned how to back in it as I didnt want to change tunings. Ged Foley uses a similar tuning CGCGCD.
Good point Bruce. I guess by newcomer I meant not appearing until the early 1900's, which to me is new in a tradition where some of this music is hundreds of years old, if not more.
Anton Emery
"Thought I would see if I could kick off some discussion on the guitar in celtic music. Its a relative newcomer to the tradition and there are such a variety of ways to play it."
I'm going to respond to your thought here in the group, Anton. I hope this doesn't seem like I am picking nits.
That the guitar was essentially nonexistent in Irish music in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries is undeniable. But as another thread here on the site recently noted, the session is a fairly recent event, becoming popular in the pubs only since then end of World War II. It was at this time that the Folk Music movement began to form in the U.S. and U.K. Indeed, groups like The Dubliners and The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem are in part responsible for the popularity the genre. The guitar was (and is) used heavily as a background for vocal music, and the style in which they play it is the defining style for much of the way the music is played today.
So, what is my point?
My point is, as an accompaniment to instrumental tunes where the melody is carried by a fiddle, harp, whistle, flute or pipes, the guitar is still very much a newcomer. But as a vocal accompaniment in sessions, it has been here from the very beginning of that tradition.
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