

The speed is slow enough for playing along but still fast enough to sound like music, which is perfect for its intended purpose as a learning tool. Tony's instrument of choice is the tenor banjo, but he is also an excellent guitarist familiar with accompanying Irish music, and he plays both instruments here.
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My Ireland - Volume I is available for download for the very reasonable cost of just $16. Reel, Hornpipes, Jigs, Polkas, and O'Carolan tunes. Played on Irish tenor banjo with guitar backup (in standard EADGBE guitar tuning). These are a lot less common in Irish music than they are in other forms of music you may be familiar with in the folk traditions.Īustralian Tony O'Rourke of the Irish Guitar Podcast has come out with a collection of 101 Irish Tunes complete with sheet music transcriptions, chords and mp3 audio files. Take it easy on the 7th (dominant 7seventh chords like G7, A7 etc.). If it sounds major but the V chord doesn't work, its probably because the tune is in Mixolydian for Dorian tunes with an A tonic, try G Major Try the major form of the flat seventh note of the major scale for whatever your root/tonic is. If it sounds minor, it is more likely to be Dorian than Aeolian (i.e. G Mixolydian : Base backing on I, VII, V. D major, G major : Base backing on normal I, IV, V chords Some tunes modulate to different keys so watch out! The only thing you can be reasonably sure of is that the I chord will be used a lot and will probably end each iteration of the tune's structure. There is no set chord pattern and no way to predict what chord order will work for any given tune.
