- 13 lessons teaching how to play 12 very popular Irish tunes.
- Progress at your own pace, pause & repeat videos.
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- PDF sheet music & mp3’s to download & keep for each tune.
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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:
Báidín Fheilimi
The Kerry Polka
The Concertina Reel
Out on the Ocean
The Coach Trip to Sligo
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

Detailed questions and discussion on the course can be found in the Community Forum, available to paying members only.
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