The Good Natured Man is a great traditional Irish Hornpipe. In the key of G, the tune moves along at a quick tempo & features many triplets within the melody. As part of this lesson, we’ll focus on the efficiency of the picking hand, specifically looking at the follow-through & alternating picking techniques, directly relating to the triplet. Go to lesson...
The Rights of Man is a traditional Celtic hornpipe in the key of Em. We’re in standard G tuning for this arrangement and the tune features the melodic technique, with a little single-string technique. Being a hornpipe, we’ll be swinging the 8th notes, with a feature triplet run that will get your finger’s moving! Go to lesson...
In this guitar lesson for the traditional Celtic tune, Bobby Casey’s, we’ll take a look at an arrangement that uses the floating technique. Often referred to as ‘harp’ like, the floating technique allows us to stack our melody notes over each other, creating a very pretty, unique sound to the guitar. Go to lesson...
G’day! In this Boys of Ballycastle: Flatpicking Guitar Lesson, we’ll take a look at a fun arrangement for the advancing intermediate picker, containing various ornaments within the melody. The tune is a traditional Irish hornpipe in the key of Em and the arrangement is played in both the open position & up the neck in the 7th position. Go to lesson...
Howdy! In this banjo lesson we’ll learn a melodic version of The Boys of Bally Castle, a traditional Irish hornpipe.
Learn to play the Celtic tune ‘Harvest Home’ on the guitar & mandolin (0.55 min) with this video & PDF of both TAB/standard notation.
Learn to play a melodic version of this popular Irish hornpipe. Arranged by Heath for the 5-string, it utilises a number of right hand techniques in the Key of D. Go to lesson...
A melodic banjo arrangement of the traditional Irish hornpipe “Harvest Home” for the 5-string banjo. Arranged by Heath Joyce, there are 2 breaks in this version, in the Key of D, in standard tuning except for string 5, which is capo’d at fret 7 (A). The first is down the neck, a fairly straight ahead take on the melody, while the second is up the neck and a little more intricate. Go to lesson...
Learn to play the traditional Irish Hornpipe ‘The Boys of Bluehill’ on the mandolin with the help of this video & tablature.