This morning I put together a little video in which I tried to explain my transitions of Matt Heaton's approach to accompanying tunes in A-Dorian. I hope this helps understanding my writings in the previous post.
3 Feb 2026
Matt Heaton - Accompanying Tunes in A-Dorian - My answer video A-Dorian on the Irish Bouzouki (GDAD)
2 Feb 2026
Matt Heaton - Tipps for Accompanying in A Dorian
Matt explains this matter for guitar, but it can be transferred to Bouzouki (GDAD) as well. These are my thoughts while looking at Matt's video. I wrote that in German, but I hope you can follow these thoughts. You may not understand my writings, if you don't watch the video, I think.
Rowan Piggott & Charlie Piggott - The Fairhaired Boy & Scatter The Mud (Jigs)
31 Jan 2026
Declan Plummer - Workshop in Accompanying the tune "Scatter The Mud"
Declan Plummer runs the "Top Score Music Academy" where he hosts a course for Irish Bouzouki. I mentioned it here before. Maybe you want to have a look at it here.
A few days ago he made a live session for his contributers on YouTube. He chose a YouTube video of a fiddler playing the tune and works out an accompaniment on the go.
15 Jan 2022
Charles Monod - Vincent Fogarty: The Nightingale Jig in Am - Capo 7
Some Jigs played by Charles Monod on Concertina and Vincent Fogarty on a large Foley Bouzouki. I really love Vincent's accompaniment style.
I tried to tab the second Jig: The Nightingale. It starts at 0:34.
If you want the whole tab in pdf form just write an email and comment.First line in tab is melody, second line accompaniment. I got the melody from https://thesession.org/tunes/1868, but changed it at little in two bars.
22 Dec 2021
The Cloonagrow - Vincent Fogarty accompaniment
I already posted the tab for the first tune in this set. Now here's the second tune, a reel called "The Cloonagrow". Here's the link to the tune in thesession.org:
https://thesession.org/tunes/5408
And this is the link to my tab:
21 Dec 2021
The Battle of Aughrim - Vincent Fogarty - Part 2
This is the second round through the tune as played by Vincent Fogarty tabbed by me. First the video again:
If you want the whole tab in pdf form just write an email and comment.
The Battle of Aughrim - Accompanyment by Vincent Fogarty
Here's a video of Charles Monod on Concertina and Vincent Fogarty on Bouzouki. The first tune is The Battle of Aughrim. But it is a slightly different version of this well known march. It refers to the playing of Micho Russell. Lovely playing from both of them. The other tunes are The Cloonagroe (Reel) and Micho Russell's Mason's Apron (Reel).
I tried to tab the first round through the first tune.
If you want the whole tab in pdf form just write an email and comment.
