Aye,
I try to find a suitable access in backing-up in DADGAD. Playing after listening is a good thing but doesnīt take me very far. Has anyone figured out and wrote down some nice chord-runs in DADGAD that could inspire me? That would be a great help.
Thanks a lot,
St.Brendan
("Is it right or left to DADGAD"?)
Thanks to Steve and Olivier!
I know these sites: Han Speek delivers a bunch of DADGAD-Chords, Gueganton some flat picking pieces in DADGAD.
Iīm looking for a already-worked-out-DADGAD-specific-accompaniment (chord run, bass runs, etc.) as an inspiration/suggestion. I couldnīt find that by myself. Iīm still playing the normal chords in DADGAD, changing the positions sometimes ... thatīs not too contenting.
Anyway, I donīt stop listening, experimentalising and learning!
Check out Sarah McQuaid's book on DADGAD, published by Ossian. There are tunes arranged in the back, and that's a good place to start. Backing up Celtic music is a matter of knowing the tunes (at least in your head if not on the guitar). Knowing chords helps because then it's an elementary matter of using whatever chords fit. If you know the fretboard well, you can learn to back up ANY tune. Even if you're new to it, by having some patterns and chord scales in your pallette . . . that's often all you'll need. Han Speek's site has some good stuff. I learned a lot from the Homespun tapes of my teacher, Al Petteway, and from a tape by John Doyle (Solas). Though not in DADGAD, Doyle's emphasizes the rhythms used in most tunes, and how to learn to back them up.
It would be great to get some of these chord runs down in a book but I have learnt by watching other musicians, asking them to teach me etc. And most prople are very obliging. I also find that each time I play a DADGAD to a tune, I rarely play the same way twice. Thers so much to try. Go for it......
Access to DADGAD-guitar
Access to DADGAD-guitar
Aye,
I try to find a suitable access in backing-up in DADGAD. Playing after listening is a good thing but doesnīt take me very far. Has anyone figured out and wrote down some nice chord-runs in DADGAD that could inspire me? That would be a great help.
Thanks a lot,
St.Brendan
("Is it right or left to DADGAD"?)
# Posted on November 6th 2002 by St.Brendan
Re: Access to DADGAD-guitar
Han's (Han Speek) DADGAD guitar web site might help.
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.speek/dadgad/
Check particularly his material on chord scales.
Steve
# Posted on November 6th 2002 by SteveKendall
Re: Access to DADGAD-guitar
You can also try this web site: http://gueganton.chez.tiscali.fr/dadgad/
It's more for finger picking but there's some very nice stuff.
Olivier Longuet
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www.tradcds.com
# Posted on November 7th 2002 by olonguet
Re: Access to DADGAD-guitar
Thanks to Steve and Olivier!
I know these sites: Han Speek delivers a bunch of DADGAD-Chords, Gueganton some flat picking pieces in DADGAD.
Iīm looking for a already-worked-out-DADGAD-specific-accompaniment (chord run, bass runs, etc.) as an inspiration/suggestion. I couldnīt find that by myself. Iīm still playing the normal chords in DADGAD, changing the positions sometimes ... thatīs not too contenting.
Anyway, I donīt stop listening, experimentalising and learning!
St.Brendan
# Posted on November 7th 2002 by St.Brendan
Re: Access to DADGAD-guitar
Check out Sarah McQuaid's book on DADGAD, published by Ossian. There are tunes arranged in the back, and that's a good place to start. Backing up Celtic music is a matter of knowing the tunes (at least in your head if not on the guitar). Knowing chords helps because then it's an elementary matter of using whatever chords fit. If you know the fretboard well, you can learn to back up ANY tune. Even if you're new to it, by having some patterns and chord scales in your pallette . . . that's often all you'll need. Han Speek's site has some good stuff. I learned a lot from the Homespun tapes of my teacher, Al Petteway, and from a tape by John Doyle (Solas). Though not in DADGAD, Doyle's emphasizes the rhythms used in most tunes, and how to learn to back them up.
# Posted on November 8th 2002 by glygon
Re: Access to DADGAD-guitar
There's a DADGAD section with chord progression exercise and several tunes in the book/CD "Accompanying Irish Music on Guitar" by Frank Kilkelly.
Steve M.
# Posted on November 10th 2002 by SteveM
Re: Access to DADGAD-guitar
It would be great to get some of these chord runs down in a book but I have learnt by watching other musicians, asking them to teach me etc. And most prople are very obliging. I also find that each time I play a DADGAD to a tune, I rarely play the same way twice. Thers so much to try. Go for it......
Jamie
# Posted on December 9th 2002 by kiwi