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28/11/2003 6:36 am
What can I do to practice for guitar rhythm accompaniment to Irish fiddle music? Is there a basic Irish scale that would ground me in accompaniment of Irish reels and jigs? It's often a repetitive chord/key pattern of D- G- A or Em-D or G-C-D, etc. so I think that there must be a basic Irish scale that would be like a 'axel' around which these slightly varied melodies rotate.
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29/11/2003 11:03 am
No, there is no "Irish scale". Most Irish music is simply in a major key (usually D or G major).
What distinguishes Irish folk music is the common use of a "drone note" or "pedal note" (often D).
Read this article by David Hodge:
A Celtic Air: https://www.guitarnoise.com/article.php?id=63
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