Intermediate
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The last in a four-video series on strumming techniques. This video demonstrates a ‘cheat’ that can help you to move smoothly and comfortably through chord progressions. Don’t Marry Her (by The Beautiful South), one of the examples I use in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xo80hR-QfQ (This is the clean version!) Full video series: Lesson one. Lesson two.…
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The second in a four-video series on strumming techniques. This video introduces more complex strum patterns, shows you how you can invent and practice your own patterns, and demonstrates one of the most common patterns, the ‘Ghost Strum’. Download the Strum Pattern Sheet that I use in this video HERE. Full video series: Lesson one.…
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I recently published my version of Hard Times Come Again No More, which I recorded in Luke’s studio in Grange. Here’s a video featuring a close-up of the fretless bass part, for anyone who would like to delve a bit deeper into it. Transcription to follow soon!
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(This is another one of the singalong videos I’ve been making for the Ballagh Choir of Ages, which features a short guitar lesson at the end of the song.) Fittingly, since it’s the first of July tomorrow, here’s the classic Irish summer anthem July by Mundy. The trickiest thing about this is probably getting used…
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Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War – Paul Simon Luke Devaney and I arranged a version of this beautiful Paul Simon tune for an online event called ‘Not A Theme Night’, which was put together by Kieran Quinn in early 2021. That’s me on bass and vocals, Luke on guitar and…
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Another song by Snow Patrol – Just Say Yes. (This is another one of the singalong videos I’ve been making for the Ballagh Choir of Ages, which features a short guitar lesson at the end of the song.) Original can be heard HERE on YouTube. Straightforward enough chords in this one (essentially C, Am, Em,…
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(VIDEO 2 in the Electric Guitar series for this song.) One of the most popular songs to come from this island in recent years, Run by Snow Patrol is quite straightforward to play. This video features multiple guitar parts from the transcription below: Guitar 1 (main guitar part throughout) Guitar 2 (tremolo fills & chorus…
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(VIDEO 1 in the Electric Guitar series for this song.) One of the most popular songs to come from this island in recent years, Run by Snow Patrol is quite straightforward to play. This video features just the Electric 1 guitar part from the transcription below. If you have an overdrive or distortion pedal, you…
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Advancing the Travis Picking technique, with this variation found in the song Dust In The Wind by Kansas. This video demonstrates the right-hand picking variation, and plays slowly through the introduction of the song, which is the first eight bars (Section A – Intro) of the tablature file. The tablature for Dust In The Wind…
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Here are the basic techniques for the fingerpicking technique known as Travis Picking. Tablature sheet for the examples used in the video below can be found HERE
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