5 Things Online Guitar Lessons Don't Teach you

After the pandemic I fully expected to have to incorporate online teaching into my daily life, but as it happens, I didn’t. Thankfully.

Mar 2511 min read

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CODA Folk Day - Sun 27th April

Folk Orc Folk Days at Coda Music centre are back. It's all about getting together and playing music. There's a folk instrument try-out and song workshop in the morning followed by a songbook session in the afternoon.

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5 Things Online Guitar Lessons Don't Teach you

After the pandemic I fully expected to have to incorporate online teaching into my daily life, but as it happens, I didn’t. Thankfully.

Mar 2511 min read

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The Folk Orc Tune Book #5 - New York Girls

It's an Irish tune, in 6/8 which makes it a Jig and the key is G major. The rhythm for this tune is at first glance quite a standard jig but

Mar 162 min read

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Never play a Bm again!

Walk into any community band and hang around long enough you will undoubtedly hear the groans of realisation as a Bm chord pops its head up

Mar 99 min read

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The Folk Orc Repertoire #4 - Turtle Dove

note: A.I. pretty good at Turtle Doves sitting on yonder trees. You have been warned! I have occasionally been accused of leaning...

Mar 25 min read

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The Folk Orc Tune Book #4 - Girls of Belfast

First things first, it's traditional, it's Irish, it’s a jig, and pretty standard one at that. It’s 6/8 time.

Feb 193 min read

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The Folk Orc Tune Book #3 - The Arran Boat Song

The Arran Boat Song is an air or a slow jig with an extra skip in the rhythm which will join Highland Pibroch and Glenlivet in the Arran Boa

Feb 123 min read

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The Folk Orc Repertoire #3 - Turpin Hero

The song we have here though is about a man, a hero, a person whose handwriting was so off the wall it got him hanged.

Feb 57 min read

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