Irish Music For Flatpicking Guitar Made Easy Book

An exciting collection of 29 traditional tunes from Ireland, arranged for easy flatpicking guitar. All tunes are written clearly in standard notation as well as guitar tablature. An accompanying audio download contains all the tunes, played at a manageable speed, with guitar accompaniment.The collection contains airs, well known songs, polkas, slip jigs, slides, double jigs, hornpipes and reels, all of which are specially arranged by the author with the beginning/intermediate guitarist in mind. On the audio download, the tunes are played 2 or 3 times, so you can really get into the feel of the tune, when playing along. The speed of the tunes is quite slow, but not so slow as totake away from the essential feel of the music.Irish music is rightly popular all over the world. The haunting beauty of the slow airs and infectious foot-tapping rhythms of jigs and reels are here to be discovered in this selection of great traditional music. Includes access to online audio.

CONTENTS

• Caliope House
• Carolan's Dream
• Factory Girl
• John Ryan's
• Kerry Polka
• Miss McLeod's Reel
• Oh! The Britches Full of Stitches
• Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore
• Planxty Irwin
• Sergeant Early's Jig
• Tatter the Road
• The Boys of Malin
• The Butterfly
• The Cliffs of Moher
• The Derry Air
• The Irish Washerwoman
• The Jolly Beggarman
• The Merry Blacksmith
• The Parting of Friends
• The Rakes of Mallow
• The Rakes of Westmeath
• The Rights of Man
• The Road to Lisdoonvarna
• The Rocky Road to Dublin
• The Runaway Jig
• The Star of Munster
• The Star of the County Down
• The Wren Hornpipe
• Whiskey in the Jar