How I wish EVERYONE talked this way. Most people take so god damn long to actually get to the point. The world would be better if every spoke this fast and got to the actual point quickly like this guy.

Excellent lesson! I've been playing guitar for over 55 years and I love learning new things. You have a great teaching style. Thank you!

"Now I personally have a very complicated relationship with alternate tuning's" 😂 So profoundly true for many of us

It’s hilarious as an Irish guy to listen to you but you explain it so well. Love what you do man. I’m glad you celebrate your irishness. A few songs for paddy’s day would be great.

thank you love love love Irish music and the country. we went a few years ago and fell in love with Ireland and the people are so friendly and would come up to us just to gab.

Dude, I just found your channel and I'm so glad I did. You went straight to the point and explained everything beautifully, please keep these irish music tutorials coming! Best regards from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I've been looking for a while on KZfaq for a video like this... Someone to actually SHOW me some chords/tabs in DADGAD. Thank you for getting to the point, playing it & giving a detailed look, appreciate it! Now its time to make a jig.

Bam! You have become my hero. I have no musical training but I have been immersed in and playing American folk for the past several years and now I fell on my face big time with the song Kilkelly Ireland. I knew there was something going on with the rhythm but I could not figure out how to tackle it with a fingerstyle pattern. Whatever I did (obviously, based on a 4/4 pattern) it did not work out. One-too-three / Four-five-six ... and everything fell into place. Thanks a bunch, Sean! Zs

simply awesome great way to boil it down. loved the rhythm and dynamics part. your a good teacher

Excellent Sean! Especially your making sense of dadgad by breaking down those chords. I have seen the light! Thanks amigo! Stay safe, be well! Dave in the Adirondacks

Nice lesson Sean. No wasted voice all useful, concise. Well done.

Thanks for the vid Sean, this is a great way to think of it. Simple enough, yet providing the sound we're all after!

As an Irish musician, and guitar player in particular I'm glad this video exsists

I love the way you explained the theory, helped a lot

This is simply brilliant, thanks for the upload

I love your lessons man. Keep up the good work!

Very well done I can definitely picture this music playing in an Irish song

@ 05:42 "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion-"

These lessons are easy to follow. Thanks for the video

Thanks man i work at an Irish 🍀 bar, and I'm the bartender also the house musician. I'm trying to get some atmosphere appropriate music! Thanks man. I watch all of your videos, but this one helped pretty well. I'm gonna pick up a looper so I can play the scale on the 10th fret!

We're all grown ups trying to be serious and learn some music and then you say "look at how I'm hammering the D" xD Great video, man! Cheers!

You make the best guitar videos on KZfaq.

I was thinking about some irish/celtic music earlir and this was on my front page haha. Thanks!

Sweet video. I've never even considered Dadgad in my songwriting. Thanks for the inspiration.

I'm from Ireland and I approve. Well done.

Oh, a lot of Joni Mitchell's stuff, Tragically Hip's "Ahead by a Century", and Great Big Sea's "Boston and St. Johns" are played in DADGAD too.

Exactly what i was looking for! Thank you!! :))

realy nice tricks! gave me a new inspiration. thanks a lot

I'm from Dublin and this is so good

LOVE that "example" chord progression... never thought to use it with a jig technique though... I think I might rip it off and write a song tonight lol

Well done pal respect from dublin🇮🇪

Loving the witty opening phrases. Truly breaking the fine line between sophistication and childishness. :)

Anyone else hear "the lion sleeps tonight" at 5:27?

Your videos are always nice and chill. You can tell you really enjoy playing. Maybe a good reminder for your viewers is relaxing your hand a bit and getting a tad closer to the fret will help with a lot of the tuning issues. When you squeeze so tight it pulls the string out of tune.

This is so cool I’m SO gonna use this when I’m better at guitar! I’m a beginner

Great stuff...your channel is wicked..has helped me to progress.finally someone who intelligently and practically helps Have you tried -- Down/up// Down/Down/up/down/down/up/down/down/up....and so on..it feels more natural for the 6/8 strum pattern in irish music..its what i was thought in Ireland growing up! I use DADGAD alot..that an Open G are great for songwriting actually..ok, open D too

Thanks a lot! Sunday morning and finding a good guy for my guitar lesson:))

Hey I'm Irish and have a small gig tonight you just saved me 😂🍀🎸

7:35 Yes! I'm in the same mindset. Glad to hear I'm not alone

Awesome video. Informative.

Saturdays are for the boys!

Totally with you with the whole tuning thing. I really am Irish.

Great lesson.

Thank you so much for this amazing vid...I thought it was just me that was too lazy to de-tune a guitar ;)

Great video!

Awesome!! Thank you man.

great tutorial.. thanks

Thank's a lot! Very cool! Simpe and fum to play!

Fantastic!!!

Very helpful, thanks. Got a St Patrick's Day gig coming up - desperately need suggestions for some upbeat Irish songs for an acoustic duo (one/two guitars + harmonica and vocals, of course).

you got great intros man

Great video my Irish bro

good man Seán, fair play to ya man.

Great lesson. Hope you can return to time signatures again sometime. Thanks.

Very well explained

Awesome 😎

Hey Sean, just want to let you know that as an Irish person I appreciate the effort you put into this video. There seems to be a lot of angry gate keeping Irish people in the comments that dont seem to understand why you can't cover every nook and cranny of Irish traditional music in a single youtube video. Don't listen to them.

beautiful guitar!

bevvied up. Good man.

Thank you, Sean

You got a thumbs up as soon as you said "alcohol," Approximately 6 seconds into this video! ;) Time for me to go find a Guinness; be right back, mate. And it didn't take longer than 1:19 for the first punch to be thrown! haha

Bless your Irish heart of oak good sir.

12:51 is not a D major chord. It is simply a giant power chord made of D’s and A’s. The reason you cannot call it major is because there is no major interval in that chord (Major 3, Major 7, ect...). To make a major chord you need all 3 notes in a major triad (root, major third, perfect fifth.) In this case D, F#, and A. D major in dadgad would be 004200

I'm from Ireland and I love Ireland

Very cool 😎🎸

Very nice lesson, very well explained! Something that is even more common is to go: Down Up Down - Down Up Down for the 6/8 pattern. This makes it easier to accent beats 1 & 4. That said, your way is fine too, but maybe a little less the way to go if you get really deep into traditional music. Really important to try to lightly mute the strings while strumming for more sound control. I make videos as well if you want to check out what I'm talking about, I even got some DADGAD tutorials. Give it a chance! Nice video man! :)

hi could you please do a vid about the Irish roar song I have a talent show coming up with me singing and using the guitar and two friends dancing to it

It takes a Yank to teach me an Irish Man how to play rhythm to my music. Top video for people trying to learn this type of music.

luv it!

No other thing to say but The Best!!

BARNEY STINSON... What are you doing here!? I'm Joking, Great video man!

I'm notching out a capo to raise the A, D, G strings by 2 frets. EBEABE tuning; same sound, one tone higher, no retuning required. 'Cause I'm lazy too...

As an Irish man who plays trad, I was waiting to see what his first chord would be to see how familiar he is with the music, I expected a A minor

Awsome!

Flashback of listen to my mam playing guitar, that 6/8 timing does that

thanks man

Very enjoyable and informative .... cheers Sean!!! What are your views on the CAGED system? Are you planning a tutorial on the subject? Could prove interesting and popular ....

Hey Guitar fella, as an Irish person - that is, one born and reared here in Éire - I have to say your potentially fascinating and valuable contribution to the spreading of Irish culture was shot in the foot even before it got off the horse by your tired, cliché, and inevitable North American assumption that alcohol plays such a central role in the Irish cultural identity

Hi, plz can you do more celtic guitar tutorials? Thanks!

Good teacher

The Melody is basically the look sleeps tonight

Im litterally drink as in trying to play Irish on my standard acoustic... Is this beneficial or negative?

I never understood why sequencers like the Roland TB-303 have the 'accent' button. Now I get where that comes from

When my family moved from Scotland to Ireland in the 1600's they changed their name from Moore to O'Moore, cfant get more Irish than that! :D

awesome

Where did you get this jacket?? It is so nice

You're a very good teacher, and excellent musician.

Can you play Three sheets to the wind? Looks like you got it down.

Damn, i can all ready do this, i didnt know it was a thing, lol

Great stuff, as funny as it is informative!

I'm literally sitting down drinking a Guinness as I turn this video on

Can you do video of playing an Irish jig with only 3 chords?

Very helpful, would love to see more Irish music lessons. There aren't many Irish lessons out there and most of them aren't as helpful as yours.

OK . this is your best yet.. slainte

Almost sounds like the notes for Parting Glass...beautiful Irish song...but your explaination helps in understanding what makes it "Irish"

My R-M222 Irish heritage! Lol

I think your diagram for the G chord is showing fingers on the wrong frets. should start on forth fret not third if im not mistaken.But a great introduction to open tuning . learned a lot ,thanks.

You look and sound like a younger version of my old geometry teacher

Yeah!

I,ve studied celtic guitar at Trinity College. I' italian, but i live in Donegal, Ireland. Slàn buachaill.