Double D Diatonic Shapes, Part 1: Chord Shapes

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Learn to accompany jigs and reels and other traditional Irish dance tunes in the style pioneered by Irish guitar greats Paul Brady, Mícheál Ó Dhomhnaill, and Dáithí Sproule and used at Irish seisiúns. With chord voicings, rhythm patterns, and practice tracks.

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THE JIG RHYTHM

Jigs are the other most commonly played dance form in Irish traditional music. The 6/8 jig rhythm is unique and has a specific strumming pattern and a particular feel. Beginning jig players often use an alternating picking pattern, but to get the right feel, it’s usually better to use a down-up-down, down-up-down pattern. Flynn demonstrates the pattern and gives you a couple of exercises to help you get used to the pattern.

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DOUBLE D DIATONIC SHAPES

Double D Diatonic Shapes, Part 1: Chord Shapes

Double D Diatonic Shapes, Part 2: Exercises

Double D Diatonic Shapes, Part 3: Play-Along Tracks

Double D Diatonic Shapes, Part 1: Chord Shapes

In this lesson, you’ll learn movable chord shapes in the key of D using dropped-D tuning and how to harmonize the D major scale with a different chord shape for every note of the scale. Then you’ll learn to apply them to a couple of tunes in D and its relative minor Bm, and how to use them to walk from one chord to another. Flynn starts by showing you the D major scale on the low D string.

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