110 Irish Button Accordion Tunes Vol.1 (MUNNELLY DAVE)

This collection of jigs reels and polkas provides the beginning-advanced Accordion player with a wealth of traditional Irish music to play. 100 Irish Tunes For Piano Accordion features tunes that havebeen transcribed from recordings of the keyboard Irish button box and concertina Accordion alongside arrangements by the author David DiGiuseppe. This book features pieces by Jimmy Keane Phil Cunningham Alan Kelly Joe Burke Jackie Daly Tom Doherty Chris Sherburn Sharon Shannon and Tony MacMahon. With a basic guide to fingering and rhythm chord symbols included this book will allow even the noviceaccordionist to join in a traditional Irish session. The included online audio tracks feature the author's performance of medleys including 21 of the book's 100 selections.

The bouzouki is a vital part of the instrumental line-up of many Irish session and performing bands Zan McLeod one of the Celtic music world's most talented bouzouki players accompanists and arrangers has created a lesson that is comprehensive enough to be of great value to beginners and experienced players alike.With the help of button Accordion virtuoso Billy McComisky Zan explores the bouzouki through the study of traditional reels jigs and slip jigs. You'll learn to play in several keys using ringing drone strings moving lines chord substitutions harmonized scales and counter melodies all designed to enhanced your accompaniments. The tunes you'll be working oninclude 'Lady Anne Montgomery' The Galway Rambler' 'Kesh Jig' 'Barney Bralligan's' and 'The Butterfly'.Music and tab enclosed.

Séamus Connolly a 10-time All-Ireland fiddle champion from County Clare and Laurel Martin a former prize pupil of Séamus and a highly respected teacher of Irish fiddling herself have made Irish music thoroughly accessible to beginners and more advanced players alike in Forget Me Not: 50 Memorable Traditional Irish Tunes. The book's tunes are printed in basic and then in more ornamented notation one after the other and they are accompanied by two compact discs of playing also in simple and then more-ornamented settings. This refreshing approach by Connolly and Martin enables individuals to learn and master the tunes at their own pace and interest level by sight sound orboth with one reinforcing the other for maximum retention and refinement. Complete with background notes on the tunes and a foreword from famed County Clare button accordionist Tony MacMahon this impressive practical all-in-one package presents jigs reels hornpipes marches set dances and slow airs in a way that's distinct from any other collection that's available today. It's a handy source of great Irish tunes and an invaluable resource for developing technique something musicians can return to again and again for both instruction and enjoyment.