Irish Guitar Podcast

Irish Guitar Podcast

By Tony O'Rourke, Gerry GaffneyEducationMusic
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Irish Guitar Podcast episodes

  • Lesson 51 - Paddy's Polka (No. 1)
    This tune is played in D Minor.

    This is an ideal tune for music teachers to teach their students as it is uncomplicated, and from an accompaniment viewpoint, is very basic - only two chords, D Minor and C.

    File size is 2.43MB.

    Duration is 7 minutes 4 seconds.

    8 min
  • Lesson 50 - Manorhamilton Jig

    This lesson is one of Tony's own compositions.On his regular trips to Ireland Tony spends time in the North Leitrim region, which is the ancestral home of the O'Rourkes. Manorhamilton is part of that region.File size is 5MB.Duration is 10 minutes 21 seconds.

    11 min
  • Lesson 49 - McDermott's
    This reel is normally played in D, but Tony's arrangement is in C, with a capo on the second fret.File size is 3.61MB.Duration is 10 minutes 32 seconds.
    11 min
  • Lesson 48 - Joe Bane's
    Joe Bane was a tin whistle and flute player from the Magherabaun area near Feakle in East Clare. Musicians such as Mary McNamara and Martin Hayes picked up a lot of tunes from him.This is a hornpipe, and Tony plays it in the key of F.File size is 3.49MB.Duration is 10 minutes 10 seconds.
    11 min
  • Lesson 46 - Flower of the Flock (in open D)
    This tune is a 16 bar reel, normally played in the Key of G.Tony's arrangement is played in an Open D tuning, so to play in G you'll need to capo the 5th fret.Details on the tuning, and on chord shapes for Open D, are provided in the booklet (Book 3). The tuning is D A D F# A D, from the lowest pitched string to the highest.File size is 3.43MB.Duration is 10 minutes.
    10 min
  • Lesson 45 - Fisherman's Jig
    The Fisherman's Jig is in fact a slip jig.Slip jigs comprise only a small percentage of the Irish Music repertoire and you can attend session after session and not hear them at all. Tony often plays this with Na Ceannabhain Bhána (which we had in Lesson 16 in Book 1).File size is 2.54MB.Duration is 7 minutes 25 seconds.
    8 min
  • Lesson 43-and-a-half - Danny Boy
    This is a bonus lesson, since it's not within the genre that we're studying. Rather, it's Tony's arrangement of Danny Boy, also know as The Londonderry Air.It may be a bit daunting for the newcomer. Sheet music and tab notation are provided in Book 3.File size is 3.79MB.Duration is 11 minutes 3 seconds.
    12 min
  • Lesson 43 - Crib of Perches
    Tony picked this tune up from the late Billy Moran. Billy was a button accordionist from Galway who migrated to Australia in the late 1940's and made an enormous contribution to the musical heritage of Australia. The A, or first, part is played using the D Mixolydian Mode and the B or second part uses a D Ionian (or Major) mode.File size is 4.88MB.Duration is 14 minutes 13 seconds.
    15 min

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Learn to play traditional Irish music on the Guitar with teacher Tony O'Rourke and Gerry Gaffney