Irish Guitar for Beginners

You play a bit of guitar and you want to join an Irish session. This book gets you there. It teaches the 40 tunes that come up again and again, each with clear chords and a strumming pattern that fits its rhythm, whether it is a jig, a reel, a hornpipe or a polka. Along the way you learn how to count the tunes, how to keep your place when the band speeds up, and how to pick up a new tune by ear, the way players have always done. Standard and Open D tuning are both covered, and so is session etiquette, so you know when to join in and when to listen. Every tune has free play-along audio on the website that you can slow down and loop. You do not need to read music to start.