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Understanding 7 Chords

Understanding 7 Chords

by | Jan 22, 2024 | Guitar

There are three main kinds of 7 chords – Dominant 7 – usually just “7” Major 7, and Minor 7 Dominant 7 is the most common, but also the most complicated to explain, so we’ll start with the other 2! But first, a little chord theory. All the major and minor chords you...
Bowing for Irish Reels – St. Anne’s Reel

Bowing for Irish Reels – St. Anne’s Reel

by | Jan 22, 2024 | Fiddle

You want to learn a new reel, and look it up in a tune book or online.  The bare bones of the tune are here, but for fiddle players, a bit more information is needed to really bring it to life – to add that infectious rhythm that just makes you want to move.  That...
Playing Irish Tunes on Electric Guitar

Playing Irish Tunes on Electric Guitar

by | Jan 22, 2024 | Guitar

If you play guitar and love traditional music of the British Isles, then Traditional Music of the British Isles for Electric Guitar is for you.  With this book, you get to play the tunes themselves, rather than being stuck on chord duty. These arrangements work...
5 Great Tips for Drop D Tuning

5 Great Tips for Drop D Tuning

by | Jan 22, 2024 | Guitar

4 reasons I like drop D tuning   It makes the standard D chord sound amazing when you play all the strings It is somewhere between open D and standard tuning, giving you the rich open sound of the bass strings, along with the flexibility of standard tuning. It...
Bringing Reels to Life – Collier’s Reel 2

Bringing Reels to Life – Collier’s Reel 2

by | Jan 22, 2024 | Fiddle

This version of Collier’s Reel puts all the points mentioned previously into practice, as well as some variations.  The tune has been written out in full to give space for the variation ideas. Bar 1 – starts off with two slurred sets of notes and then, on the third...