- Irish Bouzouki Skills: 13 lessons, PDF’s, MP3’s & practice tracks
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Are you eager to elevate your bouzouki skills and dive deeper into the world of Irish music? Our course, “Irish Bouzouki Skills” is an ideal next step for those who have completed Alan’s Bouzouki Progressions course and are familiar with the basics.
Course Structure
Irish Bouzouki Skills is ideal for players with a solid grasp of the bouzouki and has been designed to follow on from Alan’s Bouzouki progressions course.
In this course, Alan teaches a variety of techniques to bring out the best in your bouzouki playing. Left and right-hand muting, countermelody and hammer-ons as well as how to incorporate rhythmic and melodic motifs into your playing.
A key part of this is course learning how to accompany less common tune types like slides, polkas, and mazurkas. As usual, we have play along melody backing tracks available for each tune in the course.
The tunes in this course include:
The Legacy Jig (G Major)
The Monaghan Twig Reel (A Mixolydian)
Going to the Well for Water Slide (D Major)
John Brosnan’s Polka (D Major)
The Widow’s Daughter Reel (D Major)
Old John’s Jig (A Minor)
George White’s Favourite Reel (G Major)
Bill Harte’s Jig (D Mixolydian)
The Plains of Boyle Hornpipe (D Major)
Comb Your Hair and Curl It Hop Jig (E Minor)
Bríd Óg Ni Mháille Slow Air (G Major)
The Star of Munster Reel (A Minor)
The Boys of Tulla Reel (D Major)
The Glenties Mazurka (G Major)
Sample Sheet Music
Download The Legacy Jig sheet music & chords.
Download The Legacy ABC’s.
Sample mp3 of The Legacy Jig
Your Tutor
Alan Reid, from North County Leitrim in Ireland, is a highly-adept multi-instrumentalist. His banjo, bouzouki, mandolin, and oud playing has seen him work extensively in both performance and recording settings, as well as making a movie appearance in the 2014 movie ‘Noble’. Alan also featured on the compilation CD ‘Leitrim Equation 3’, where he recorded duets with highly-acclaimed Irish musicians Donal Lunny and John Carty. Read more.Detailed questions and discussion on the course can be found in the Community Forum, available to paying members only.
