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Continue on Your Journey with Bouzouki Accompaniment

BOUZOUKI PROGRESSIONS - FOR IRISH MUSIC TRADITION

Continue your learning journey with the bouzouki with this powerful Progressions course for those who already know how to play and/or have completed the Bouzouki Basics course.

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  • 18 lessons teaching how to play 13 very popular Irish tunes
  • PDF sheet music & mp3’s to download & keep for each tune
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Alan Reid
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. In a more musically experimental setting, he can be heard as part of his 'Arum' project on their 2016 debut album. Now settled in the Burren in County Clare, Alan has released an album of…
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Course Structure

Bouzouki Progressions is for the player who already has the basics and is ready to progress into the more finer nuances of bouzouki playing.

This is a well thought out course; it starts with Alan demonstrating different voicing for common chords in Irish music along with strumming patterns. As the course progresses, he teaches how to play more quirky techniques: rhythmic embellishments, triplets, hammer on skills, how to use counter melodies and cross picking.

Play along melody backing tracks are available for each and every tune in the course, so students can practice the chords along with a melody player. Mute the accompaniment track, choose your speed and play along with the fiddle!

By the end of this course, the student will have a repertoire of 13 tune accompaniments, that can easily be transferred to other tunes in the tradition.

The traditional Irish tunes and corresponding techniques taught are:

  • The Mountain Road Reel (Voicing of the D Chord)
  • Tatter Jack Walsh Jig (Voicings for the Chords of D and C)
  • The Humours of Ennistymon Jig (Strumming Patterns for Jigs)
  • The Cock and Hen Slip Jig (Strumming for Slip Jigs)
  • The Copperplate Reel (The chord of E7)
  • The Earl’s Chair Reel (Barre Chords: Em)
  • An Gaoth Aneas Waltz (Strumming for Waltzes Voicings for G chord)
  • The Black Rogue Jig (Strummings for Jigs Voicings for the Chord of A)
  • Castle Kelly’s Reel (Counter Melody Playing)
  • Old Johns’s Jig (Cross Picking)
  • The Yellow Cow Reel (Cross Picking)
  • The Galway Hornpipe (Melodic Variation)
  • Headwood Crossing (m7 Chords)
Sample Sheet Music
Download Download The Mountain Road Reel ABC Sheet Music. Download Download The Mountain Road Reel Standard Notation Sheet Music.
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Bouzouki Progressions Lessons

1
Intermediate
The Mountain Road

‘The Mountain Road’ in the key of D Major. Alan will focus on the D chord and how to voice this in…

Accompaniment
D Major
Reel
2
Intermediate
Tatter Jack Walsh

Voicings for the Chords of D and C

Accompaniment
D Mixolydian
Jig
3
Intermediate
The Humours Of Ennistymon

Strumming Patterns for Jigs

Accompaniment
G Major
Jig
4
Intermediate
The Cock And The Hen

Strumming for Slip Jigs

Accompaniment
F # Minor
Slip Jig
5
Intermediate
The Copperplate

The chord of E7

Accompaniment
G Major
Reel
6
Intermediate
The Earl’s Chair

Barre Chords: Em

Accompaniment
D Major
Reel
7
Intermediate
An Gaoth Aneas

Strumming for Waltzes Voicings for G chord

Accompaniment
G Major
Waltz
8
Intermediate
The Black Rogue

Strumming for Jigs Voicings for the Chord of A

Accompaniment
A Major
Jig
9
Intermediate
Castle Kelly’s

Counter Melody Playing

Accompaniment
A Minor
Reel
10
Intermediate
Old John’s Jig

Cross Picking

Accompaniment
A Minor
Jig
11
Intermediate
The Yellow Cow

Cross Picking

Accompaniment
D Major
Reel
12
Intermediate
The Galway Hornpipe

Cross Picking

Accompaniment
D Major
Hornpipe
13
Intermediate
Headwood Crossing

m7 Chords

Accompaniment
C Major
Jig
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