- 5 lessons teaching 5 Irish traditional tunes.
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Bouzouki Basics #2 is a follow-on course from Bouzouki Basics so it is very much recommended to have completed that course before pursuing this one if you are new to accompanying Irish music.
By the end of this course of five lessons, you will have a firm grounding in the basic techniques to accompany Irish music.
Course Structure
Bouzouki Basics #2 uses five tunes to demonstrate how to incorporate the techniques previously covered in Bouzouki Basics into actual tune accompaniment. These techniques include: the use of appropriate chord structures, strumming patterns, fingerpicking, counter melody and rhythm.
The tunes taught on this course are:
Rolling In The Ryegrass
The Otter’s Holt
Dennis Murphy’s
The Dusty Millar
The West Clare Reel
The Otter’s Holt
Dennis Murphy’s
The Dusty Millar
The West Clare Reel
Your Tutor
Billy Mag Fhloinn was born and raised in a musical family in Limerick City. He began playing traditional music in 1996, beginning on the bodhrán. He then progressed onto the bouzouki, after a chance find of an old Greek model in a music shop in Limerick. He learned much of his playing from musicians Mick Broderick and Tony Davoren when living in Dublin, and gained great experience playing the wild dance music of west Kerry when living on the Dingle Peninsula. He has recorded on several albums as an accompanist, and has shared the stage with a variety of performers, including Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Gerry O’Beirne, Éamon Doorley, Donal Clancy and Ross Martin. When not playing music, he lectures in Irish Studies at University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College. Read more.
Detailed questions and discussion on the course can be found in the Community Forum, available to paying members only.
