Charlie Hunter’s Jig taught by Tony McManus

Played in DADGAD tuning. Free PDF tab/music is available for this lesson at: http://www.guitarvideos.com/free-tabs... From the DVD lesson Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar – Volume One https://www.guitarvideos.com/#!/Celti... In this first lesson, Tony discusses in detail the importance of ornamentations and triplets in Celtic music and how this can be technically achieved. He illustrates these ideas with several melodies played in a Dropped D tuning. This is followed by a discussion of scales and fingerings and playing reels in the DADGAD tuning. This is a challenging lesson for the fingerstyle guitar student interested in learning Celtic music from one of the finest players of this idiom. Titles include: Dropped D tuning: The Islay Ranters Reel, Ye Banks and Braes, The Ewie wi’ The Crooked Horn. DADGAD TUNING: Hector The Hero, Catherine Kelley’s, Charlie Hunter’s Jig, Jackie Coleman’s Reel