How to Play the Irish Reel "The Silver Spear"

Hi, I'm Ian Walsh with Onlinelessonvideos.com. Today we’re going to learn the Irish Reel “The Silver Spear”. It’s in the key of D major and here's the sample of it. [Demonstration] Let's start of by doing a little work with grace notes. We’re going to try the grace our finger here on the A string. [Demonstration] Let's slow this down, you want to grace with your third finger and you want to just lightly touch the string or come down on it and create percussive note. [Demonstration] Let's try doing that with an open A leading into it, so that’s sound like this. [Demonstration] Bring your third finger down right after you bring your first finger down. [Demonstration] Let's cycle through that a few more times. [Demonstration] And we’re going to put this right into our first part of The Silver Spear here. Here's where it comes in the play. [Demonstration] So it’s a small grace note but it happens right there at the B on the A string. [Demonstration] Some of those other notes there are F sharp on the D string. [Demonstration] And then some A triplets, it’s an A note followed by a triplet. So F, A and then the A triplet. [Demonstration] And we have our grace B. [Demonstration] And then A, F, A. [Demonstration] Let's cycle through that a few times. One, two— [Demonstration] One, two— [Demonstration] From there we play the D on our A string. [Demonstration] And then we put those two beats together. [Demonstration] One more time. [Demonstration] Good, from there we continue on with the rest of the first part.