In today’s Folky Fridays free Celtic guitar lesson livestream, I wanted to discuss my thoughts on what makes Celtic music sound Celtic, and how it's different from more modern music or folk music from other cultures. I'll also be relating this to guitar backing as much as possible and doing my best to show you how melodic conventions can influence your guitar accompaniment choices for traditional/ folk music.

If you are looking for a complete guide to learning to back Celtic music on the guitar, with chord diagrams, music theory instruction, audio examples and much much more, then you'll want to check out my book Backing Guitar Techniques For Traditional Celtic Music.
If you like jazzy fingerstyle arrangements of traditional Irish tunes then my book Irish Tunes For Fingerstyle Guitar is the one for you!
My invention The Amazing Mode Wheel can show you all the notes and chords which fit in any scale used in Celtic music...
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If you'd like to learn how to play by ear, jam along with tunes, learn new songs, understand music theory, improve your rhythm playing, use jazzier chords or anything else to do with Celtic backing guitar then there's really no substitute for learning from an experienced professional teacher.

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