In this week's free Scottish and Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend, I'll be looking at the playing of the amazing folk / gypsy jazz fusion artist Peerie Willy Johnson, a fantastic traditional guitar player from the Shetland Isles. In the first part of this video I'll be showing you a set of guitar chords he used together often and some of the principles behind his chord choices. I'll also be showing you how you can emulate his "La Pompe" strumming pattern (as borrowed from Django Reinhardt and other gypsy jazz guitarists). In the second part, which will be out next week, I'll be looking at his recording of the classic, traditional hornpipe Harvest Home, taken from the amazing Willy's World album, and showing you how he applies jazz theory to come up with outstandingly original chord progressions for folk music and how you can take his chord choice techniques and apply them to your own guitar playing!
If you like the idea of learning to incorporate jazz chords into folk tunes then you really need my book Backing Guitar Techniques For Traditional Celtic Music, which tells you how to do just that!
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My invention The Amazing Mode Wheel can show you all the notes and chords which fit in any scale used in Celtic music and is available here:
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Here's the swing backing track so you can practice your la pompe strumming on guitar:
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