G’day! In this Cooley’s Reel: Guitar Lesson, we’ll take a look at a fun arrangement of the melody for the intermediate/advanced picker, containing 2 variations of the melody within part A & B. Cooley’s Reel is a traditional Irish reel in the key of Em (Dorian). It has challenging left hand note combinations featuring chordal accents, arpeggios and triplets and is a great work out for your right hand with a lot of movement over the strings, but is super fun to play & sounds great!
Note the tuning used in the arrangement is ‘Drop D’.
The first video lesson is available free below.The full lesson is available to members, which:
- Includes 3 video lessons;
- Includes the PDF tab & notation for the entire break;
- Also includes MP3 play-along for 3 tempos.
Full membership gives you access to all video lessons, tabs & charts!
The PDF tab & notation only is also available to purchase separately below:
Lesson #1:
- Learn the first variation for part A;
- Exercises for the rhythm, left & right hands.
Lesson #2:
- Learn the second variation for part A;
- Exercises to improve fluency & speed.
Cooley’s Reel: Guitar Lesson #2
Lesson #3:
- Learn 2 variations for part B;
- Exercises to improve fluency & speed.
Cooley’s Reel: Guitar Lesson #3
Lesson #4:
Members Only- MP3 play-along & backing tracks at 3 tempos.