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If you’re looking to add more punch and groove to your guitar playing and have already mastered and are perhaps even growing a little weary of your standard tuning bag of tricks, then look no further, Drop D tuning may be just what you need. Or perhaps you already play in Drop D tuning and want an introduction to Irish music? If so, then pull up a chair. For those not already familiar, Drop D tuning is an alternative form of guitar tuning in which the lowest (sixth) string is tuned down from the usual E of standard tuning by one whole step to D. Would you believe it’s actually quite a popular tuning for electric guitar in heavy metal music and is also found regularly in blues, country, folk and classical guitar. This tuning system is particularly suited to the Irish traditional music genre as a beautiful drone-like effect can be created using the open D string.
Previous knowledge of standard tuning, at an intermediate level, is necessary to begin this course.
By the end of the course you will have a repertoire of twelve popular Irish session tunes, be familiar with strumming patterns, bass lines, blocked chords, jazzy chords and lots more. The course has 13 lessons, broken into 3 to 4 tutorials each, where tunes are taught phrase by phrase. Play along backing tracks are available for each tune to further assist your progress.
Course Structure
The aim of this course is to introduce you to a new tuning variation that will add some more colour to your Irish music guitar accompaniment. With Cillian Ó’Dálaigh as your tutor, you can be sure each lesson is packed full of technique tricks and styles from a guitarist rich in knowledge, experience and, the rarest of skills, the ability to translate that in an engaging way to others.
Cillian expertly demonstrates and teaches chords and chordal variations for typical traditional tunes using Drop D technique. Alongside chords for drop D technique, Cillian hones in on strumming patterns, bass lines, blocked chords, jazzy chords and lots more.
He picks well known session tunes to teach these techniques:
Gerry Beaver’s Hat
Báidín Fheilimi
The Kerry Polka
The Concertina Reel
Out on the Ocean
The Coach Trip to Sligo
Báidín Fheilimi
The Kerry Polka
The Concertina Reel
Out on the Ocean
The Coach Trip to Sligo
Lucy Farr’s Barndance
The Glass of Beer
The Ashplant
The Tempest
The Humours of Westmeath
The Spotted Dog
The Glass of Beer
The Ashplant
The Tempest
The Humours of Westmeath
The Spotted Dog
Sample Sheet Music
Download Gerry Beaver’s Hat ABC.
Download Gerry Beaver’s Hat Standard Notation Sheet Music.
Sample mp3 of Gerry Beaver’s Hat
Your Tutor
Cillian Ó’Dálaigh is a natural teacher who has been surrounded by Irish music from day one, learning from his father who played with Irish band, Cromlach. Cillian graduated with a BA in Irish Music and Dance from the University of Limerick and has toured extensively as both guitarist and flute player. He toured with the internationally acclaimed band, The Outside Track, up until about a year and a half ago, at which point, he opened up his own music production studio in Limerick called Temper & Flux on Windmill Street. As well as running the studio, Cillian teaches guitar courses and is also working on his own music. Read more.Detailed questions and discussion on the course can be found in the Community Forum, available to paying members only.
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