Good man yourself Aodan. This is great. I've been playing this song for 30 years with standards chords and found myself getting board with it. This lesson is bring the song back to life for my live sets in the pub in Texas where I play. Fair play to ya. Have a pint there
Glad you like it Brian. Ya DADGAD has that magic quality that can change a song that you've been playing for years and give it new life. Good to hear the pubs in Texas have DADGAD and Irish songs going strong 🎸👍😃
Great channel I would love to learn the the song Sullivans John written by Pecker Dunne. If you can do a lesson of it please I will be chuffed to bits and bet it will be huge.
Cheers! I appreciate the kind comment 🎸👍 I just had a listen to your Bass cover of Cochise! Rockin! 🤘 Haven't listened to that Audioslave album in a long time.
Go for it! I made this free post on my website for people wanting to start playing DADGAD. It goes through everything you'll need to get started: aodancoyne.com/dadgad-chords/ Hope that helps 👍
Hi Troy, I'm glad you like this DADGAD song lesson. Send me an email to aodan@aodancoyne.com and I'll give you access to the courses 👍🎸 I know how it is to be broke-ass and dusty. I'm currently working on the 'old as the hills' part 😅
Great lessons man! Working on this one now. If you ever made a lesson for "Song for Ireland" that would be awesome. I would like to learn it also. Not sure if its in the dadgad tuning though 🤔
Great suggestion! I'll stick it on the to-do list. It's usually played in standard but I've also heard it being played in DADGAD so I'll look into it and try get a tutorial together at some point. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@aodancoynemusic that’s very nice of you, thanks very much. I’ve moved onto your version of ‘Red is the Rose’ now, another great interpretation of a classic tune (remember Liam Clancy😊), cheers
Ahh this is one of my favourite Irish waltzes and I haven't played it since shifting from standard to DADGAD a year ago. You're a great instructor. Instant subscribe. And I'm gonna show off my new skills when the rest of our trio barge in for rehearsal tonight. And since you welcome suggestions, how about Rocky Road to Dublin? Cheers from Norway.
Great job my man thanks I’m Gona try it fingerstyle in Dadgad I done it in ordinary tuning in fingerstyle but I’m not great with Dadgad I’m learning it’s much appreciated cheers lad
Hey Roberto, ya it's a really nice song. I just had a listen to your stuff. You've got a really great sound going on Sí Bheag Sí Mhor and The Battle of Aughrim 👌🎸 Keep the videos coming 👍
That is so good ! Thanks again for the incredible lessons ! Will you provide us guide to play Dadgad Guitar on any songs in Irish sessions ? It's getting kind of boring to always play the same chords ;).
I'm glad you're getting something out of the lessons Martin. Ya sure, just let me know what songs you'd like me to cover and I'll try my best to get it done for you 👍
@@hludovicus4478 I would suggest going for Aodhan’s DADGAD chord lessons if You haven’t already. Then once you’re familiar with the chord structures it wouldn’t be overly hard to improvise in DADGAD if you have the chords per song in your head in conventional tuning.
Ah cheers, DADGAD is a fun tuning to play around with stuff like that. I just had a watch of some of your videos. Great idea about following along with your songwriting journey! Nice stuff and the multiple camera angles editing are mighty. Keep them coming 👍
I've been playing around with DADGAD a little over the past few weeks and your videos are great! Thanks for checking out my channel and I look forward to your next videos 🎶👍
Hi Aodan, should we be aiming to keep that same steady 3/4 strum on the melody section or is it ok for it to get a little looser there? Thanks for the great tutorial.
Aidan. Thanks for all this guitar tuition on DADGAD. The Irish songs are great. Just a quick question on Spancil Hill. I want to go down to the key of A-minor to suit my voice but the chords don’t sound as good. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi Aidan, sorry about the long delay in reply. So if you want to play in the key of Am without using the capo and the chord shapes that I use in this video, you could instead play in the open position without a capo and transcribe the Dm chords to the key of Am. I've done that here for you - Here's how the chords would go in the key of Am: (Am, G, Em, Am - Am, Am, G, D - Am, Am, C, G - Am, G, Em, Am). I think that's correct off hand anyway 🤔🤞... On my website I also have the chord shapes and a full breakdown of the song and tabs: aodancoyne.com/spancil-hill/ I hope that helps! Cheers
@@aodancoynemusicThat’s great Aodan. I was playing around with the capo and different chords. But you are right it sounds great with open chords. I have visited your website and it is a fantastic guide to DADGAG. Thanks again.
Aodan, thanks for posting this! I noticed that the chord shapes in the video differ from the shapes in your DADGAD Guitar Cheat Sheet. The shapes in the video seem include open strings that the are not used in the cheat sheet. For instance, in the video: C -> open D strings Am -> open G and D strings G -> open A string F -> open D string Are you really playing these as open strings? Or are they actually muted? I was surprised, because these open notes are not typically part of listed chords. Is this used as intentionally as a droning effect?
Hi Brian, sorry about the delay in reply on this. I've been away on tour and just catching up on things now. Yes, nicely spotted. The cheat sheet has all the 'closed' chord shapes. So it just has the 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes of the scale included to create the tight major or minor chord. For instance the chord of F major would have the notes F-A-C. And that chord is played 3332XX in DADGAD. We then get to 'open up' that chord and add in the DADGAD tones. So we can play it 333200, adding in that high D as you point out. This makes the chord an F6. If we open up in the same way with the G chord, adding in the A note, it becomes a Gadd2 or add9. With an A minor chord the open G and D make it an Am add 4 or Am add11 These 'added' chords give the tone of DADGAD. You'll find the extra notes being played are still in the key, so it can sound nice. So then we as guitarists get to choose which version of the chord we want depending on the song or tune. If we want to close those chords and have a tight standard sounding tone, or open it up and have a wide DADGAD sounding chord. In most of my videos I don't make reference to those addded chords as it just confuses most people starting off. Just knowing that you can play a G chord with the muted strings or the open strings keeps things straight forward, and we can just call that chord a G chord either way. But thanks for bringing it up here. I hope that explains things. It's really about what tones you like to bring out in your music. And yes, it's often used as a droning effect when backing Irish tunes. By the way, I just listened to 'The Blackest Crow' you posted. Nice work. Keep the videos coming 👍
Wow, thanks for the awesome response! That makes sense! I am working through your tutorials, they are super helpful for a DADGAD beginner! Glad you liked my video as well!
This was always the opening song of every busking session I used to do! I absolute love how you play it in DADGAD. Only one problem, my voice is quite a bit lower than yours, I sing this in A. Is there any way to transpose this without capo?
Hi Jan, yes, If we transpose the song from the key of Dm to the key of Am the chords for each section become: Am, G, Em, A5 | Am, Am, G, D | Am, Am, C, G | Am, G, Em, A5. So we just have to learn six chord shapes without the capo. (I just tried it out there and it sounds great going to that big low D chord at the end of the second line 👌) It's a little awkward to show the chords shapes here in text form but I hope this helps - Here's how to play each: Am = X0223X, G = 500020, Em = 222000, A5 = X0220X, D = 050020, C =X3203X Have fun, and let me know how you get on with it 👍🎸😁
Good to hear James 👍 Regards packs for each song, I have made a playlist of all the song lessons I've made on this channel so far - th-cam.com/play/PLXeKkuE-o2H2oA3WD10wQHtvNHIoQ3EWa.html I'll be adding to that in the near future. I'm also thinking of creating a more in-depth all-inclusive song course. Something like "The 50 most popular Irish songs for DADGAD guitar"... I'm not sure yet though. Let me know what it is you're looking for, I'm always looking for advice on how I can make things better. Cheers
@@aodancoynemusic Aodan. The song course sounds a great idea. For us I would like to tackle, the curragh of kildare, cliffs of dooneen, The Galway shawl and the mountains of mourne to name but a few, nearly half way through the 50 songs. Thanks Jim
Doug! Thanks so much for this it means a lot. I'll keep the videos coming. And if you have any suggestions of songs you'd like to see me teach in DADGAD just let me know 👍 Thanks again! 🎸
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what a pleasure to learn your teaching......thanks.
So grateful you're doing these DADGAD lessons for our traditional music. Feeding my soul. You're a fantastic teacher and these are beautifully done.
Thanks for the kind comment Joey. I'll keep the lessons coming 👍
@@aodancoynemusic love this lesson super job …….
Good man yourself Aodan. This is great. I've been playing this song for 30 years with standards chords and found myself getting board with it. This lesson is bring the song back to life for my live sets in the pub in Texas where I play. Fair play to ya. Have a pint there
Glad you like it Brian. Ya DADGAD has that magic quality that can change a song that you've been playing for years and give it new life. Good to hear the pubs in Texas have DADGAD and Irish songs going strong 🎸👍😃
Great channel I would love to learn the the song Sullivans John written by Pecker Dunne. If you can do a lesson of it please I will be chuffed to bits and bet it will be huge.
Can't believe I'm only finding this channel now. Great content!
Cheers! I appreciate the kind comment 🎸👍 I just had a listen to your Bass cover of Cochise! Rockin! 🤘 Haven't listened to that Audioslave album in a long time.
BEAUTIFUL my brother from another mother!!
Thank you kindly! 😎
Brilliant lesson, such intuitive versions of these chords for this progression.
Cheers. Glad you like it 🙂
Thanks!
Wow. Thanks a million Brain! I really appreciate that. 😃 I'll keep the videos coming 👍
@@aodancoynemusic Please do Aodan
Beautiful chord progression. Made learning so enjoyable. Thank you, Aodan.
Glad you enjoyed it! 😀
Thanks from Moscow🤗
You're welcome. Glad you find the video helpful 😊
Great lesson! Makes me want to learn dadgad. Thnx!
Go for it! I made this free post on my website for people wanting to start playing DADGAD. It goes through everything you'll need to get started: aodancoyne.com/dadgad-chords/ Hope that helps 👍
Just great Aodan, as a beginner, my introduction to Melody in a song, to add to basic chords i learnt here for DADGAD Thanks so much
You're welcome Terry! 😀
This is just amazing - great job Aodan!!!
Glad you like it!
Dear Aodan, you open me a new world. Thanks :)
I'm very happy to hear that! Welcome to the club 👍😀🎸
Awesome playing and lesson 😁
Thanks! 😃 Glad you liked it Ross 👍
I'm broke-ass, old as the hills, and thrice as dusty so I can't afford to buy any of your stuff but I do wanna thank you for this tune.
Hi Troy, I'm glad you like this DADGAD song lesson. Send me an email to aodan@aodancoyne.com and I'll give you access to the courses 👍🎸 I know how it is to be broke-ass and dusty. I'm currently working on the 'old as the hills' part 😅
Great lesson,great song played well,iv never played DADGAD but il try it see how i go,
Glad you liked the lesson Paul. I hope you have fun trying out DADGAD tuning 🎸👍
Great video well done
Thanks 👍 Glad you liked it
Great lessons man! Working on this one now. If you ever made a lesson for "Song for Ireland" that would be awesome. I would like to learn it also. Not sure if its in the dadgad tuning though 🤔
Great suggestion! I'll stick it on the to-do list. It's usually played in standard but I've also heard it being played in DADGAD so I'll look into it and try get a tutorial together at some point. Thanks for the suggestion!
Your videos are great. Learning a lot about trad. How about a dadgad version of rocky road to Dublin please
I'm glad to hear Adam. Ya, I'll defo add it to the to-do list. That'd be a good one. 👍
Great video and lesson thanks mate😊🙏
Cheers Ronan, glad you're finding it helpful. I just had a listen to your music man, mighty stuff 👍🎸
@@aodancoynemusic that’s very nice of you, thanks very much. I’ve moved onto your version of ‘Red is the Rose’ now, another great interpretation of a classic tune (remember Liam Clancy😊), cheers
Ahh this is one of my favourite Irish waltzes and I haven't played it since shifting from standard to DADGAD a year ago. You're a great instructor. Instant subscribe. And I'm gonna show off my new skills when the rest of our trio barge in for rehearsal tonight. And since you welcome suggestions, how about Rocky Road to Dublin? Cheers from Norway.
Thanks very much for the kind comment Petter. I'll keep the videos coming and I'll add the Rocky Road to Dublin to the To-Do list 👍
I just subscribed to the course - there is an amazing amount of resources in there!!
@@GuitarBox9 Glad you think so! I'll be expanding it further in the coming months 👍
Great job my man thanks I’m Gona try it fingerstyle in Dadgad I done it in ordinary tuning in fingerstyle but I’m not great with Dadgad I’m learning it’s much appreciated cheers lad
Glad you found it helpful Dieselman! If there's anything in particular that you'd like me to cover in DADGAD just give me a shout. I'll try my best 🎸👍
Thanks a lot
No prob Thomas 👍
This is awesome! Where can I find the full playthrough?
Thanks! Glad you like the lesson. I actually haven't recorded the full play-though yet though. I must get on that! 🙈
cool that
I LOVE this song ❤️
Hey Roberto, ya it's a really nice song. I just had a listen to your stuff. You've got a really great sound going on Sí Bheag Sí Mhor and The Battle of Aughrim 👌🎸 Keep the videos coming 👍
@@aodancoynemusic thank you very much, your channel is great!!
Dude how u did this its like on original record!!! AMAZING JOB
Cheers DJ Cyber, appreciate the comment 😀
That is so good ! Thanks again for the incredible lessons !
Will you provide us guide to play Dadgad Guitar on any songs in Irish sessions ? It's getting kind of boring to always play the same chords ;).
I'm glad you're getting something out of the lessons Martin. Ya sure, just let me know what songs you'd like me to cover and I'll try my best to get it done for you 👍
@@aodancoynemusic You are so thoughtful ! I was talking about improvising on random songs, rather than on specific ones ! Just like during sessions !
@@hludovicus4478 I would suggest going for Aodhan’s DADGAD chord lessons if
You haven’t already. Then once you’re familiar with the chord structures it wouldn’t be overly hard to improvise in DADGAD if you have the chords per song in your head in conventional tuning.
Amazing tutorial, I thought "this seems easy" then you broke out the melody🔥
Ah cheers, DADGAD is a fun tuning to play around with stuff like that. I just had a watch of some of your videos. Great idea about following along with your songwriting journey! Nice stuff and the multiple camera angles editing are mighty. Keep them coming 👍
I've been playing around with DADGAD a little over the past few weeks and your videos are great! Thanks for checking out my channel and I look forward to your next videos 🎶👍
Iontach maith. Coinnigh le na ceachtanna seo. Go raibh maith agat.
Tá fáilte romhat Pol! I'll keep the videos coming 👍
Hi Aodan, should we be aiming to keep that same steady 3/4 strum on the melody section or is it ok for it to get a little looser there? Thanks for the great tutorial.
Aidan. Thanks for all this guitar tuition on DADGAD. The Irish songs are great. Just a quick question on Spancil Hill. I want to go down to the key of A-minor to suit my voice but the chords don’t sound as good. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi Aidan, sorry about the long delay in reply. So if you want to play in the key of Am without using the capo and the chord shapes that I use in this video, you could instead play in the open position without a capo and transcribe the Dm chords to the key of Am. I've done that here for you - Here's how the chords would go in the key of Am: (Am, G, Em, Am - Am, Am, G, D - Am, Am, C, G - Am, G, Em, Am). I think that's correct off hand anyway 🤔🤞... On my website I also have the chord shapes and a full breakdown of the song and tabs: aodancoyne.com/spancil-hill/ I hope that helps! Cheers
@@aodancoynemusicThat’s great Aodan. I was playing around with the capo and different chords. But you are right it sounds great with open chords. I have visited your website and it is a fantastic guide to DADGAG. Thanks again.
Aodan, thanks for posting this! I noticed that the chord shapes in the video differ from the shapes in your DADGAD Guitar Cheat Sheet. The shapes in the video seem include open strings that the are not used in the cheat sheet. For instance, in the video:
C -> open D strings
Am -> open G and D strings
G -> open A string
F -> open D string
Are you really playing these as open strings? Or are they actually muted? I was surprised, because these open notes are not typically part of listed chords. Is this used as intentionally as a droning effect?
Hi Brian, sorry about the delay in reply on this. I've been away on tour and just catching up on things now. Yes, nicely spotted. The cheat sheet has all the 'closed' chord shapes. So it just has the 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes of the scale included to create the tight major or minor chord. For instance the chord of F major would have the notes F-A-C. And that chord is played 3332XX in DADGAD. We then get to 'open up' that chord and add in the DADGAD tones. So we can play it 333200, adding in that high D as you point out. This makes the chord an F6. If we open up in the same way with the G chord, adding in the A note, it becomes a Gadd2 or add9. With an A minor chord the open G and D make it an Am add 4 or Am add11 These 'added' chords give the tone of DADGAD. You'll find the extra notes being played are still in the key, so it can sound nice. So then we as guitarists get to choose which version of the chord we want depending on the song or tune. If we want to close those chords and have a tight standard sounding tone, or open it up and have a wide DADGAD sounding chord. In most of my videos I don't make reference to those addded chords as it just confuses most people starting off. Just knowing that you can play a G chord with the muted strings or the open strings keeps things straight forward, and we can just call that chord a G chord either way. But thanks for bringing it up here. I hope that explains things. It's really about what tones you like to bring out in your music. And yes, it's often used as a droning effect when backing Irish tunes. By the way, I just listened to 'The Blackest Crow' you posted. Nice work. Keep the videos coming 👍
Wow, thanks for the awesome response! That makes sense! I am working through your tutorials, they are super helpful for a DADGAD beginner! Glad you liked my video as well!
This was always the opening song of every busking session I used to do! I absolute love how you play it in DADGAD. Only one problem, my voice is quite a bit lower than yours, I sing this in A. Is there any way to transpose this without capo?
Hi Jan, yes, If we transpose the song from the key of Dm to the key of Am the chords for each section become: Am, G, Em, A5 | Am, Am, G, D | Am, Am, C, G | Am, G, Em, A5. So we just have to learn six chord shapes without the capo. (I just tried it out there and it sounds great going to that big low D chord at the end of the second line 👌) It's a little awkward to show the chords shapes here in text form but I hope this helps - Here's how to play each: Am = X0223X, G = 500020, Em = 222000, A5 = X0220X, D = 050020, C =X3203X Have fun, and let me know how you get on with it 👍🎸😁
Thanks Aodan,, Anna will not know what hit her when I play spancil hill with such a full sound.
Do you provide packs for each song that I can get. Jim
Good to hear James 👍 Regards packs for each song, I have made a playlist of all the song lessons I've made on this channel so far - th-cam.com/play/PLXeKkuE-o2H2oA3WD10wQHtvNHIoQ3EWa.html
I'll be adding to that in the near future.
I'm also thinking of creating a more in-depth all-inclusive song course. Something like "The 50 most popular Irish songs for DADGAD guitar"... I'm not sure yet though. Let me know what it is you're looking for, I'm always looking for advice on how I can make things better. Cheers
@@aodancoynemusic Aodan. The song course sounds a great idea.
For us I would like to tackle, the curragh of kildare, cliffs of dooneen, The Galway shawl and the mountains of mourne to name but a few, nearly half way through the 50 songs.
Thanks Jim
@@jamesfussell6931 Great stuff James, I've added them to the 'to-do' list 👍
Thanks!
Doug! Thanks so much for this it means a lot. I'll keep the videos coming. And if you have any suggestions of songs you'd like to see me teach in DADGAD just let me know 👍 Thanks again! 🎸