L’Accompagnement de la Musique Traditionnelle Irlandaise en Accordage Standard

The guitar has well earned its place as a favoured accompaniment instrument for Irish music. In many ways this has opened the doors of the tradition to musicians of other genres to join in the fun that is an Irish traditional music session.

This course is for you if you are a beginner guitarist who is new to Irish traditional music and would like to learn how to accompany it.  It also suits established musicians who want to get an insight into this music genre and guitarists who have a good experience of Irish music accompaniment but wish to hone their craft.

By the end of the course you will have a repertoire of ten popular Irish session tunes that you will be able to accompany in style. You will have learned chords, structure and rhythms of some of the most typical tunes types and keys in Irish music, such as reels, jigs, slip jigs, hornpipes and waltzes.  The course has 13 lessons in total which are broken into 3 to 4 tutorials per lesson.

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Course Structure

Le but de ces leçons est de vous apprendre à accompagner la musique traditionnelle Irlandaise à la guitare en accordage standard. Vous pourrez étudier les accords, la structure et les rythmes de quelques types de morceaux parmi les plus typiques et quelques tonalités fréquemment utilisées en musique Irlandaise, tels que les Reels, Jigs, Slip Jigs, Hornpipes et Waltzes (Valses). Au cours de ces leçons vous aurez un aperçu de différents modes et styles d’accompagnement. Jean a rassemblé une sélection de morceaux très populaires afin de mettre en pratique les techniques enseignées pendant les cours, des morceaux tels que Gallagher’s frolics, Out on the Ocean, the Kid on the Mountain, The Man of the House et bien d’autres encore. Certaines des techniques qu’il a choisi d’approfondir incluent la manière d’accompagner en utilisant des accords simples, des structures rythmiques simples tels que le 4/4, 6/8, 3/4 ou le 9/8, ainsi que quelques rythmes syncopés et accords plus complexes. Ces leçons sont une source d’information très utile pour tout guitariste débutant, ne connaissant pas la musique Irlandaise et désirant acquérir des connaissances et compétences dans ce domaine ainsi que pour des guitaristes confirmés s’intéressant à ce style de musique. Ce cours s’adresse aussi aux guitaristes ayant déjà de l’expérience dans l’accompagnement de la musique Irlandaise et désirant développer leur style de manière plus approfondie.

Des morceaux pour ce cours sont:

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Sample Sheet Music

Download The Mountain Road Chord Chart.
Download The Mountain Road Standard Notation Sheet Music.

Sample mp3 of The Mountain Road

Advice Starting Out with Guitar Accompaniment

Enjoy the journey. It is highly recommended to be familiar with any tune you are learning before learning how to play accompaniment, so download the mp3 file and listen to it frequently first before picking up the guitar to learn to play accompaniment.

The Play Along Backing Tracks feature for paying members is an accompanist’s dream. In it are over 150 tunes that have the option of being played back at three different speeds 50/75/100%. You can choose to play back only the melody so that you can play your own accompaniment, or you can also select to play back both melody and accompaniment so that you can join in and feel part of the session and learn as you go. All tracks come with the guitar chords for accompaniment, that alone is worth the membership fee!