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Concertina Progressions

Cuts, Grace Notes, Triplets, Chording and Variation

CONCERTINA PROGRESSIONS: MASTERING ORNAMENTATION

Concertina Progressions is aimed at those who already know the basics and foundations of anglo concertina playing but who want to progress with their ornamentation, repertoire and chording skills. If you’re new to the concertina you’re recommended to start with the Concertina Basics course, followed by Concertina Foundations before this course.

By the end of the course you will have a repertoire of thirteen tunes that sit well on the concertina, a better understanding of ornamentation and chords, and a deeper understanding of the Irish music tradition; not to mention a very good reason to head for the Willie Clancy Summer School in County Clare, in Ireland in July! The course has 13 lessons, broken into 3 to 4 tutorials each, where tunes are taught phrase by phrase.

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  • 18 lessons teaching how to play 13 very popular Irish tunes
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Liam O’Brien
2017 TG4 (Irish language TV channel) Young Musician of the Year Liam O'Brien is from Miltown Malbay. He was brought up in a very musical family. After starting on the tin whistle he later went on to take up the concertina and attended classes with Noel Hill for many years. Liam then went on to study Irish Music & Dance in the University of Limerick.Liam has travelled the world playing and teaching. He has been all across Europe, Africa and spent the summer of 2012 touring Japan. Liam has also been teaching concertina and banjo as part of the Brid…
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Course Structure

Most of the tunes taught on this course have links to the town of Miltown Malbay, Co Clare, birth place of uilleann piper Willie Clancy and home to one of Ireland’s largest traditional music festivals held in his name: The Willie Clancy Summer School.  The repertoire of  Willie Clancy features strongly throughout the course. 

In the first three lessons the tutor focuses mainly on ornamentation: cuts, grace notes and triplets.  In lessons four and nine the links between concertina chording and the drones and regulators of the pipes are discussed and demonstrated. Although the lessons are aimed at an intermediate level of playing, the more advanced player can pick up advanced techniques which can be heard when the tutor plays the tune in full at the opening of each lesson: namely chords, ornamentation, variation and speed. 

The traditional Irish tunes taught in this course are:

  • I Buried My Wife And Danced On Her Grave
  • The Hills Of Coore
  • An Suisin Bán
  • The Mountain Top
  • The Battle Of Aughrim
  • The Hardiman The Fiddler
  • The Morning Star
  • The Lark On The Strand
  • Frahers
  • Sonny Murray’s Hornpipe
  • Willie Clancy’s Reel
  • Tatter Jack Walsh
  • The Humours Of Scarriff
Sample Sheet Music
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Concertina Progressions Lessons

1
Intermediate
I Buried My Wife And Danced On Top Of Her

This tune is in the key of D mixolydian

Melody
D Mixolydian
Jig
2
Intermediate
The Hills of Coore

Rolls

Melody
D Minor
Hornpipe
3
Intermediate
An Suisin Bán

Ornamentation: Triplets, Rolls and Cuts

Melody
G Major
Hornpipe
4
Intermediate
The Mountain Top

Chords

G Major
Reel
5
Intermediate
The Battle of Aughrim

Ornamentation and Chords

Melody
A Minor
March
6
Intermediate
The Hardiman The Fiddler

Ornamentation: Rolls, Cuts and Triplets

Melody
D Major
Jig
7
Intermediate
The Morning Star

Ornamentation: Rolls, Cuts and Triplets

Melody
G Major
Reel
8
Intermediate
The Lark on the Strand

Ornamentation: Rolls, Cuts, Triplets

Melody
D Major
Jig
9
Intermediate
Frahers

Variation, Chords and Piping Trills

Melody
D Mixolydian
Jig
10
Intermediate
Sonny Murray’s Hornpipe

Chording Technique

Melody
D Major
Hornpipe
11
Intermediate
Willie Clancy’s Reel

Focus on Rolls

Melody
A Minor
Reel
12
Intermediate
Tatter Jack Walsh

Chords and Piping Effects

Melody
D Mixolydian
Jig
13
Intermediate
The Humours of Scarriff

Ornamentation – Rolls on Low and High ‘D’ / Alternative Fingering

Melody
D Minor
Reel
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