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Ah, those modal(according to the exquisite Lady Sarah McQuaid) and open chords according to some other guy whose name I forgot. The 5th note has a nice dynamic flavour. Diolch yn fawr, mate! 😉 Tomos ps: I went yesterday to me first Irish trad seisiún in 4 years and a half. It felt good. I saw old friends and made new ones :) They sold Breton cider too there and it was in Schaerbeek near the place where I grew up when I was little. Felt special.
Yes phrygian is class! It's funny that it didn't find its way into Celtic music but at least Spain and eastern Europe got their money's worth from it haha.
E works particularly well as a power chord in this example because as well as the fretted notes there are also two unfretted E strings (root) and an unfretted B string (5th) which you can easily add. You could use power chords in place of either minor or major chords, meaning that an E power chord would work equally well as chord I in the keys of E major OR E minor... It just so happens that very few tunes are in E major, so E minor is where I generally use it. It would also work well as chord V in either A major or A minor. This can be broadened out to the following rule: if the open strings you are not fretting harmonise with the root chord of the current key, then a power chord shape can be used to replace any given from the current key. Hope that helps!
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@@folkfriend good man. Just got it their so looking froward to getting stuck in. Starting playing in an Irish ballads group with a few guys miles better than I am at this sort of thing. Covid has given me the time to catch up (I hope). Only came across your videos this week. Keep it up!!
@@kevingillen6640 ah that's great! Good luck with it- I give lessons over Zoom too if you'd like some one-on-one help. It's much easier to learn with someone guiding you along :)
