Dvd Celtic Instrumentals 1 Dadgad Tuning

To Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar-The ideal chance to become familiar with the stirring and heart-warming world of Celtic music on the fingerstyle Guitar with award-winning performer Pat Kirtley. Kirtley teaches six traditional tunes from Ireland and Scotland inthe DADGAD open tuning. The arrangements are designed for guitarists that already possess a fairly confident playing ability but are looking to explore new worlds of tonality and musical heritage.You will learnThestructure and form of Celtic tunesHow to understand and play dance rhythms such as the Jig and ReelHow to identify different types of tune within the genreHow to play authentic Celtic ornaments fromfiddle and wind techniquesHow to embellish a melodyThe importance of the DADGAD tuning

Volume 1-Tony McManus is an adept master of Celtic fingerstyle guitar both in terms of adapting Celtic music to the guitar and in its performance presenting all it intricacies graces and frills yet at the same time maintaining thepace and drive which characterises this style of music. In this first lesson Tony discusses in detail the importance of ornamentations and triplets in Celtic music and importantly how this can be technically achieved. Scalesand fingerings and playing in the DADGAD tuning are discussed and then illustrated with several melodies played in this dropped D tuning. This is a challenging DVD lesson for intermediate fingerstyle guitar students but one thatwill be very rewarding as you learn to play Celtic Music from one of the finest players of this genre. Complete with a 40 page tab/music PDF of all the pieces included in the DVD.

This collection of traditional music from Ireland and Scotland arranged for solo guitar is the result of a passionate study of the tradition by some of the finest musicians playing in this genre. Compiled by Stefan Grossman thisbook includes arrangements by Pierre Bensusan El McMeen Martin Simpson Pat Kirtley Duck Baker Tom Long & Steve Baughman. Looking back less than a century you would find this music performed on fiddle pipes button accordion flutes and whistles in solo and ensemble settings but never guitar even in its basic role of providing rhythm. The challenge for those who attempt to translate Celtic traditional music for fingerstyle guitar is to preserve theunique qualities which are the essence of the style. The popularity of alternate tunings in this music tends to come from two different directions. One is in the desire for production of tonalities of droninginstruments á la the bagpipes and tunings such as DADGAD and EADEAE make this effect relatively easy. On the other hand there are guitar tunings which lend themselves easily to the melodic steps and fullness found in thediatonic Celtic harp such as DGDGBD (open G tuning) and the CGDGAD.

French-Algerian fingerstyle guitarist Pierre Bensusan is a unique talent. His sound and style confounds classification being both profoundly original and yet familiar and expressive. His fingerprint is on it whether it is hisearlier folk and Celtic-based renderings his free-form improvisational material or in settings solo or ensemble. Undoubtedly he is one of the world???s finest DADGAD players. His music reaches far beyond the idiom of a guitarplayed in a non-standard tuning living by the rationale that music is not made for a specific instrument but about musical ingredients and how you combine them. In this first DVD Pierre teaches 10 compositions exploring thetechniques and skills required to play them whilst also allowing an insightful glimpse into the mind of one of the world???s great guitarists.

This much-anticipated book presents favorite Irish melodies in stunning fingerstyle arrangements that blend traditional and modern influences. The majority of tunes are performed with the guitar in DADGAD or DGDGBD tuning. Theauthor offers an introductory section on fingerstyle technique as well as informative program notes and his thoughts on accompanying Irish music. In notation and tablature.