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DADGAD Guitar Week 4 (Fall 2010)
Thanks again to Sean Deighan for his guest appearance in our class. It’s important to recognize that melody players each have their own unique style. I actually find that my accompaniment will be different depending on whom I’m backing up. … Continue reading
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DADGAD Guitar (Fall 2010 Week 3)
This past week, we kept with the jig theme and talked about the use of the Em chord in a G tune. In our case we tried it in the B part of Mulhaire’s Jig. This is a fairly common … Continue reading
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DADGAD Guitar (Fall 2010 Week 2)
In last Tuesday’s class, we added some new fingering patterns to the basic D scale progressions we learned last week. Below are some of the fingerings for those chord positions. Note that although I didn’t include it in the above … Continue reading
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DADGAD Guitar (Fall 2010 Week 1)
My apologies for the long break. Still have some catching up to do with some tunes from Ireland, but will hopefully fill those in during the coming weeks. For now, it is back to BRIMS classes. So, a few notes … Continue reading
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DADGAD Guitar – Week 5
So today we reviewed the minor progressions using the key of Emin and also recalled the new chord progression moving up the scale (Em, Bm, C, D). After that we worked on two hornpipes. The first was “The Boys of … Continue reading
DADGAD Guitar – Week 4
Just to review what we covered on Thursday, I had two main goals for you. First was to think about how you might accompany tunes that had two parts in different keys where you can’t move the capo up and … Continue reading
DADGAD Guitar – Week 3
You all sounded great this week on the jigs. Keep practicing a little each day! The difference from the beginning of the hour until the end was really significant this week. You both really started to get a good feel … Continue reading
DADGAD Guitar – In between weeks 2 and 3
Once again, class was canceled due to weather. What a winter here in Virginia. Work got away from me today, so I wasn’t able to post a new practice tune and I’m now on my way to Michigan for two … Continue reading
DADGAD Guitar – Week 2
Last week we worked in D major on a reel, using the full fretboard. Today we will change all those dimensions and work in A minor on a jig (capo 7), which is the least amount of the fretboard you … Continue reading
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DADGAD Guitar – Week 1
Four main aspects to learn for guitar backing (applies to all tunings – DADGAD, Drop D, Standard): • Rhythm (jig, reel, polka, etc.) • Root Note or Tonic (D, E, B, G, A) • Mode (major, mixolydian, dorian, minor) • … Continue reading
