Podcasts

Our latest podcast begins a look at the Irish folksong, “The Star of the County Down.” Not to worry – we’ve prepared a “cheat sheet” for you.

In this podcast we’ll make use of rests, combining them with simple arpeggios to create space while strumming, especially in slower songs.

This podcast gives us an introduction to some very important strumming techniques – anticipation, dynamics, and using rests as part of a strumming pattern.

Let’s wrap up our work with the traditional song, “Streets of Laredo,” one that some of you may recognize from Johnny Cash’s “American Recordings IV.”

In this podcast we’ll look at creating walking bass lines from D to G chords. We’ll also start to tackle the “chorus” section of this song.

In this podcast we’ll start with a basic “bass / strum” in 3/4 timing and then add some fancier work to both the bass and the strumming.

In this lesson we’ll still be using “Handsome Molly” as an exercise to incorporate the various lessons we’ve picked up in our podcasts thus far.

Let’s take stock of the many things we’ve learned so far and, over the course of the next number of GN Podcasts, put them to use in song.