Irish Rhythm Guitar: Accompanying Celtic Tunes w/ Booklet

Irish Rhythm Guitar: Accompanying Celtic Tunes w/ Booklet DVD VIDEO learn music! Type: Movie Platform: DVD Publisher: Hal Leonard Released: 2004 Media: DVD Irish Rhythm Guitar: Accompanying Celtic TunesLearn the fine art of backing Celtic tunes on guitar! The rhythmic center of one of today's hottest Irish bands (Solas) demonstrates the strumming patterns, bass lines, accents and syncopations that he uses to drive a tune forward. You'll discover how adding minor chords and other substitutions add interest to a basic three-chord tune, and will be playing both simple and complex accompaniments to more than a dozen great reels, jigs and hompipes. John demonstrates his complex strumming patterns using moving bass lines, palm damping, backbeats, accents and syncopations to drive a tune forward. Using dropped D tuning throughout, John shows how to add interest and depth to a basic three-chord tune by using minor chords and other substitutions to change the underlying harmonic structure.