Clare Fiddle Styles Overview

  • 13 lessons teaching how to play 13 popular Irish tunes.
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Clare Fiddle Styles covers a lively collection of jigs, reels and hornpipes for the discerning Irish fiddle player who has a particular grá (Irish word for love) for the playing of Clare legends such as Frank Custy, Micho Russell, P.J. Crotty and James Cullinane.

By the end of the course, you will have a great variety of Irish traditional tunes to add to your growing repertoire. The course has 13 lessons, broken into 3 to 4 tutorials each, where tunes are taught phrase by phrase.

Course Structure

The tutor takes a progressive approach towards teaching embellishments, the use of chords and variation. He starts by introducing simple techniques in the first lessons and builds on them in subsequent lessons. In each lesson, he teaches the tune simply, phrase by phrase before demonstrating how to incorporate various techniques into the tune.

Tunes taught in this course:

Geese In The Bog
The Silver Spear
The Kilfenora Slide
Cloudy Day Naviagation
Fergus McTaggart’s
The Yellow Wattle
Miss Galvin’s
Up Downey
The Priest In His Boots
Leaba Síoda
Humours Of Ballyconnell
Gan Ainm
The Glen Of Aherlow

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Sheet Music and Mp3s available to Download for each Tune

Sample Sheet Music

Download The Geese in the Bog ABC Sheet Music.
Download The Geese in the Bog Standard Notation Sheet Music.

Sample mp3 of The Geese in the Bog

Download The Geese in the Bog mp3.
Your Tutor
Tola CustyTola Custy comes from Toonagh in County Clare. He owes his musical beginnings his father, Frank. He has, on occasions , had the opportunity to share stages with people such as Heidi Talbot, Donogh Hennessy, the group Gráda, Arty McGlynn, Blazing Bows and Edi Reader. Tola has also been a Primary teacher for many years and enjoys sharing and developing the process of music in both children and adults. For him music should be personal, practical and malleable! Read more.

 

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Clare Fiddle Styles Lessons

Level

Geese In The Bog

Clare Fiddle Styles Lesson 1

  • C Major
  • Level 2
  • Melody
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Focus on the ornament – the cut.

Jig

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The Silver Spear

Clare Fiddle Styles Lesson 2

  • D Major
  • Level 2
  • Melody
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Tola will introduce the ‘bowed triplet’ technique.

Reel

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The Kilfenora Slide

Clare Fiddle Styles Lesson 3

  • D Major
  • Level 2
  • Melody
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Chords and Double Stops

Slide

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Cloudy Day Naviagation

Clare Fiddle Styles Lesson 4

  • A Major
  • Level 2
  • Melody
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Ornamentation: Slides. And Chords!

Reel

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Fergus McTaggart’s

Clare Fiddle Styles Lesson 5

  • A Major
  • Level 2
  • Melody
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Ornamentation: Rolls

Jig

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The Yellow Wattle

Clare Fiddle Styles Lesson 6

  • D Mixolydian
  • Level 2
  • Melody
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Melodic Variation

Jig

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Miss Galvin’s

Clare Fiddle Styles Lesson 7

  • D Major
  • Level 2
  • Melody
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Rolls and Chords

Hornpipe

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Up Downey

Clare Fiddle Styles Lesson 8

  • E Minor
  • Level 2
  • Melody
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Melodic Variation

Reel

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The Priest in His Boots

Clare Fiddle Styles Lesson 9

  • G Major
  • Level 2
  • Melody
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Ornamentation: Rolls, Slides and Triplets

Jig

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Leaba Síoda

Clare Fiddle Styles Lesson 10

  • D Minor
  • Level 2
  • Melody
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Ornamentation: Slides, Rolls. Melodic Variation

Reel

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Humours of Ballyconnell

Clare Fiddle Styles Lesson 11

  • A Mixolydian
  • Level 2
  • Melody
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Runs, Half Rolls, and Melodic Variation

Hornpipe

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Gan Ainm

Clare Fiddle Styles Lesson 12

  • B Minor
  • Level 2
  • Melody
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Harmonic Variation through the use of Chords

Reel

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The Glen Of Aherlow

Clare Fiddle Styles Lesson 13

  • E Minor
  • Level 2
  • Melody
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Tola will continue his study of rolls, triplets and variation.

Reel

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