Guest b-bert Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 Just wondering if anyone can give me some common chord progressions and scales/modes for folk music. or a good resource to find such things.cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flossie suvara Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 Can you narrow it down a bit? Folk music is a huge genre - do you mean singer/songwriter stuff, or traditional songs, or jigs/reels/strathspeys (also known in some circles as "diddly"?There are plenty of resources on the web for the latter (which is what I like to play):www.thesession.org - Irish traditional music site - lots of tuneshttp://www.btinternet.com/~troubleatmill/links.htm#chord - link page to singer/songwriter lyrics and chordshttp://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~ef//music/database.htm - database of folk dance musichttp://www.geocities.com/nacornett/tune.htm - page of links for tuneshttp://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/ - heaps of songs and tuneshttp://www.blackflute.com/music/tunes.html - more tuneshttp://www.cpmusic.com/tradmus.html - more tunes, with midi and sheet musicSome of the above sites use the ABC format - if you want to convert it into standard notation, then there's a resource which can do this at:http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html As a general rule of thumb, the majority of traditional Scottish and Irish tunes tend to be in the keys of C, G and D, and follow a three chord trick http://www.torvund.net/guitar/progressions/04-Threechord.aspHope that helpsRegardsFlossie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest b-bert Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 thanks thats a great help.i was particularly looking at sea chanty type stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Doubt Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 oh kate rusby i like her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 oh kate rusby i like her She's playing HMT in early October I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murphybridget837 Posted January 31 Report Share Posted January 31 On 5/8/2006 at 2:53 PM, flossie suvara said: Can you narrow it down a bit? Folk music is a huge genre - do you mean singer/songwriter stuff, or traditional songs, or jigs/reels/strathspeys (also known in some circles as "diddly"? There are plenty of resources on the web for the latter (which is what I like to play): www.thesession.org - Irish traditional music site - lots of tunes http://www.btinternet.com/~troubleatmill/links.htm#chord - link page to singer/songwriter lyrics and chords http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~ef//music/database.htm - database of folk dance music http://www.geocities.com/nacornett/tune.htm - page of links for tunes http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/ - heaps of songs and tunes http://www.blackflute.com/music/tunes.html - more tunes http://www.cpmusic.com/tradmus.html - more tunes, with midi and sheet music Some of the above sites use the ABC format - if you want to convert it into standard notation, then there's a resource which can do this at: http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html As a general rule of thumb, the majority of traditional Scottish and Irish tunes tend to be in the keys of C, G and D, and follow a three chord trick http://www.torvund.net/guitar/progressions/04-Threechord.asp Hope that helps Regards Flossie Thank you for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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