Well to start the blog off I'm gonna stick a wee video up which a friend of mine who sings a lot of Irish traditional music brought to my attention. I've been playing guitar for about 18 years now and being Irish and all never took a blind bit of interest in playing trad music... Until now when I realise that it's actually feckin' class and I need to learn more of it. So I enrolled in a wee Irish trad guitar course a few months ago and have been strumming along happily in DADGAD since (I'll maybe explain this in a later post). Anyway, long story short if you want to see some amazing guitar playing and a great performance of a traditional song which the man himself has made his own, look no further. It's only feckin' Paul Brady singing 'Arthur McBride'! (or 'Arthur McBride and the Seargent' whatever it's called).....
For all you guitarist's out there notice his fantastic hybrid picking technique (meaning he combines pick and his fingers of the right hand to pick and strum) he surely is a master. I think its open G he is playing too so the strings would be tuned from the bottom up DGDGBD
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