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Fingerstyle Strathspey: “Hecla,” Part 1

This lesson is part of the course Celtic Guitar with Tony McManus.
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Learn to play reels, jigs, airs, and other traditional forms, both fingerstyle and with a flatpick. Celtic guitar master Tony McManus walks you through melodies and shows you how to bring tunes to life with the ornamentation that defines Irish and Scottish traditional music.
 
 
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DADGAD tuning is associated with Celtic guitar more than any other tuning. In this lesson, Tony talks about how the tuning originated, how to get into DADGAD, and what you can do with it. Tony uses DADGAD to play jigs, reels, airs, etc., and he demonstrates how the whole step between the second string A and third string G makes it easy to play melodies across the strings, for a harp-like sound. He shows you a D major scale played in such a way that no string is played twice in a row: every note of the scale rings into the next note. He even shows you how you can play a Bb major scale in the same way.
 
 
 
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Fingerstyle Strathspey: “Hecla”  
 
Fingerstyle Strathspey: “Hecla”  
 
Fingerstyle Strathspey: “Hecla,” Part 1
Fingerstyle Strathspey: “Hecla,” Part 1
 
The Scottish strathspey is a dance form that comes from the Spey River valley. In this lesson you’ll learn “Hecla,” a four-part strathspey in E minor written for the Highland pipes by Fred Morrison. Tony plays it in Csus2 tuning (CGCGCD) capoed at the second fret. Tony plays it through and then explains the tuning as well as the rhythm of the strathspey, which is in 4/4 but has a heavily accented feel with dotted quarters and 16th notes. before taking apart “Hecla” phrase by phrase. You’ll learn the first part of “Hecla” in this video.

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