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15 Dec 2020

Matt Heaton - Playing Counter Melodies

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 A new tutorial from Matt Heaton. A very in deep tutorial how to play counter melodies. Basic rule to this: you have to know the tune you...
8 Dec 2020

Daoiri Farrell - Live Online Concert for Festival of Oulu

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 Daoiri did lots of online concerts during the pandemic in the last months. Here is one he did for the Festival of Oulu which took place Nov...

Matt Heaton - Accompanying Tunes in Am with Capo 2 (Gm-Shapes)

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So Matt did it again. Another great tutorial for bouzouki. He explains how to accompany tunes in Am. He uses the capo at 2nd fret and plays ...
27 Oct 2020

Eoin O'Neill - Bouzouki Online Workshop

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 Well, I'm a bit late with this information, but better late than never ... Eoin O'Neill offers an online workshop for Bouzouki at t...

Andy Irvine - Live in Kuhstedt (Germany) 4th of November 2010

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 Found this now 10 years old Video on my hard disk. I filmed it at a concert in a small village in Northern Germany. The concert was sold ou...
1 Oct 2020

Matt Heaton - Bouzouki Workshop #3 - Accompanying in Em

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 Matt's workshop for this weeks is all about accompanying in Em without capo. He gives some ideas to play in Em which might be useful wh...
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22 Sept 2020

Matt Heaton - Bouzouki Workshop #2 - Chords in the key of G (mostly)

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 Matt just released the second workshop in his Backer Corner series. Here he gives an overview of useful chords in the key of G.  I made a c...
15 Sept 2020

Matt Heaton - Workshop Right hand technique

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Matt offers his first bouzouki tutorial. This one is about right hand technique. In this way he shares my opinion about accompanying tunes o...
9 Sept 2020

Accompanying in A: Matt & Shannon Heaton - Haunted House

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At the last Slow Session Matt and Shannon played the warmup jig first in G and then in A.  It's a nice idea to change the key during a t...
8 Sept 2020

Matt & Shannon Heaton - Jig in G - Haunted House

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 A new Slow Session from the Heatons last Sunday. The warmup Jig played on bouzouki. First in G, then in A. It's a nice idea to change t...
7 Sept 2020

Trials of Cato

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 For all lovers of odd rhythms and modern Folk here's a relatively new band from Finland. Alex, a reader of my blog reminded me of them,...
31 Aug 2020

Lord Mayo - March in Am - some ideas for Accompanyment

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 Today I tried to find out different variations to accompany the march Lord Mayo. Starting point was the video by Matt & Shannon Heaton....
30 Aug 2020

The Wren - An Dro - (Em) - Arrangement by Matt & Shannon Heaton (Capo 2)

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 Another lovely slow session by Matt and Shannon Heaton. This times two sets with bouzouki. One of them a beautiful An Dro called the Wren. ...
26 Aug 2020

Accompanying in G - Ger The Rigger (Polka) - Matt & Shannon Heaton

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 This is a slow Polka in G. Shannon and Matt are playing it nice and slow. The tune starts at 3:05.    This is the tab I made for the first ...
25 Aug 2020

Accompanying in G - Jig The Haunted House - Matt & Shannon Heaton

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From the Heaton's weekly virtual session from July, 25th here is a jig called The Haunted House. Matt uses several voicings for G, C and...