How to play jigs on the Irish Bouzouki (basic to advanced, with tabs)

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Here is a basic picking pattern for backing / playing chords to an Irish or Scottish jig on the Irish bouzouki, and some ways you can develop this pattern to add rhythmic or melodic complexity and variation.
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@Crowfeather-v5o Месяц назад

I replaced my second C & G strings on the Mandola with a Higher gauge and tuned them one octave higher ...kinda giving her a 12 string guitar effect .😊🎉 WONDERFUL Explanation & EXQUISITELY Presented Instruction .😊

@EamonCoughlan Месяц назад

Nice! My original bouzouki came with the strings in octave pairs but I swapped them for unison very early on. Greek bouzoukis are tuned with the bottom 2 strings in octaves like that, and most cittern players in the modern Swedish tradition have the low strings octaved too.

@MGWAIKIDOJITSU Год назад

Superb video my friend , have just bought my first bouzouki, aHora go get me started on Playing , after 50 years of guitar playing and getting back into Celtic/ Irish folk

@EamonCoughlan Год назад

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! That's great, good luck with it, it's addictive once you start 😁

@MGWAIKIDOJITSU Год назад

This is such a good lesson , could you do a extended lesson offering more of your skill ie tips And more chords if possible ..

@EamonCoughlan Год назад

Thanks Mike! Anything specific you are looking for tips on? And what are you looking for in terms of chords, just different ways of playing different chords?

@MGWAIKIDOJITSU Год назад

@@EamonCoughlan yess diffent ways to play chords I see many players using the top strings like power chords on a guitar . Also looking for ways to play scale patterns in different keys any pointers where to find this please

@EamonCoughlan Год назад

@@MGWAIKIDOJITSU Ok! I actually have exactly that planned for my next video - a really basic intro to music theory for bouzouki showing how chords are formed and how you can find different ways to play them all around the instrument.

@MGWAIKIDOJITSU Год назад

@@EamonCoughlan that would be amazing thank you 🙏

@Tyrannocaster 5 месяцев назад

Eamon, this video has a really high quality content to time ratio. Just got my first bouzouki so it's a good find; I've been playing guitar for decades so it's a reasonably painless transition, although I didn't expect the kind of awkward experience you get when playing it sitting down. BTW, I have used your sampled bouzouki on a few tracks now. More great value stuff.

@EamonCoughlan 5 месяцев назад

Thanks, glad it's been useful! For these picking videos I tried to keep things really brief and go into more broad detail in some of the longer ones like the theory video and the Merry Blacksmith comping one. I also don't like playing sitting down, even with guitars! Oud is even worse because its round-backed and wider than the bouzouki, and not readily amenable to a strap.

@clintgarrett9703 Год назад

Your posting of this video popped up right around the time I impulse purchased Trinity College TM-375 Bouzouki - now, if I can get my head around stumming the thing properly, let alone in the right pattern, I'll be off to the races!

@EamonCoughlan Год назад

Nice! You can always strum it like a guitar to begin with, and it works perfectly well like that! These patterns are just for more bouzouki/mandola style playing, which works particularly well if you're playing at the same time as a guitar or other rhythm instrument.

@PBTophie Год назад

No idea how this popped up in my recommended, but in my teens I wondered to myself what it would sound like if I went down, up, down, down, up, down, down, up, etc.. It sounded great, so then I thought about doing down, up, up, down, up, up, etc.. That sounded great too. So then I thought about mixing them up with down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up, up, down, up, etc., and that sounds absolutely brilliant. It is, by far, my favorite strumming pattern on any stringed instrument. Who would have known that that first I idea I had as an American teen playing rock music was actually an Irish jig fundamental? lol This also makes me want to buy a mandola or bouzouki even more. Which would you recommend for a more rhythmic-minded player who enjoys a deeper tone?

@EamonCoughlan Год назад

The RU-vid algorithm is a strange beast! Definitely Irish bouzouki for that, I had my bouzouki made exactly for those specs - rhythm playing with really resonant low notes. Mandola is normally tuned one 5th below mandolin (like viola to violin) so it's much more alto based, though confusingly people sometimes refer to octave mandolin / bouzouki style instruments as mandolas too. You could also look at something like a cittern (normally tuned something like DGDAD or CGDAE) or mandocello (CGDA), which has even more low end, around cello / drop D guitar register. I've been pining for a cittern myself for a while for that extra low range!

@kevinblakely4384 Год назад

Hello. Great Videos. Is there a place we can access or buy the tabs please?

@EamonCoughlan Год назад

Hi Kevin, unfortunately the tabs are only within the video for now. I might try to put pdf versions of the tabs from each video together in future. But in the meantime you can rewatch / pause the relevant video sections to use the tabs there!

@kevinblakely4384 Год назад

Thank you @@EamonCoughlan