Advanced Accompaniment Skills

GUITAR TECHNIQUE (ACCOMPANIMENT)

Guitar Technique (Accompaniment) builds beautifully on the previous course Guitar Progressions and takes the art of accompaniment to a whole new level. A knowledge of how to play guitar in standard tuning is a prerequisite. This course is for you if you are serious about developing an extensive repertoire of guitar skills in general, and more specifically if you wish to become a master accompanist.

By the end of the course you will have a repertoire of thirteen popular Irish session tunes, be familiar with single string accompaniment, dampening and dead strum techniques and the use of more ‘jazzy’ chords in the accompaniment of traditional music. 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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Cillian Ó’Dálaigh
Cillian 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 B.A 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 a very progressive music production studio in Limerick called Temper & Flux. As well as running the studio, Cillian is also using this time to develop some of his…
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Course Structure

A wonderful selection of well known tunes from the Irish tradition are used throughout this course to demonstrate guitar accompaniment styles and techniques with a focus on varying rhythms, keys and modes. To spice things up, the tutor skilfully borrows from other genres incorporating Calypso rhythms, James Brown, Niall Rodgers, Pachabel’s Canon, and other popular riffs that really enliven a master accompanist’s repertoire. Single string accompaniment is also examined, as is dampening and dead strum techniques and the use of more ‘jazzy’ chords.  Each lesson is accompanied with practice mp3’s of the melody and PDF’s of chord structures and shapes.

The tunes taught in this course are:

  • The Silver Spear
  • The Cliffs Of Moher
  • The Tamlin
  • The Rights Of Man
  • The Dingle Regatta
  • Boys Of Malin
  • Fig For A Kiss
  • Bill Sullivan’s Polka
  • The Boys Of Bluehill
  • Castle Kelly’s
  • Connacht Man’s Rambles
  • The Golden Stud
  • The Man Of Aran
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Guitar Technique (Accompaniment) Lessons

1
Advanced
The Silver Spear

Grounding Rhythms and Basic Chord Patterns with a Twist

2
Advanced
The Cliffs Of Moher

Moveable Chords, Dampening and Advanced Chordal Structures

3
Advanced
The Tamlin

How Chords from Pop Music can be Applied to Irish Music to great effect

4
Advanced
The Rights Of Man

Moveable Chords, Bass Runs

5
Advanced
The Dingle Regatta

Capo Technique, Strumming, Down-Up-Down Plectrum Motion

6
Advanced
Boys Of Malin

Dead Strumming

7
Advanced
Fig For A Kiss (Guitar)

Rock Style Accompaniment!

8
Advanced
Bill Sullivan’s Polka

Strumming For Polkas

9
Advanced
The Boys Of Bluehill

Pachabels Canon Chord Progression meets Trad!

10
Advanced
Castle Kelly’s

Single String Accompaniment, Dampening and Moving Bass Lines

11
Advanced
Connacht Man’s Rambles

‘Kiss Me’ Chord Progression / Replacement Chords

12
Advanced
The Golden Stud

Bothy Band and Plenty Riffs Using Power Chords

13
Advanced
The Man Of Aran

James Brown, Calypso Rhythm and Dead Strums!

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