Skye Boat Song by Pat Kirtley Part 2/2

Skye Boat Song by Pat Kirtley Part2/2 Okay and then this melody, pull off and hammer on. And underneath of it, I'm just kind of strumming these strings from the A string up. [Demonstration] That phrase repeats again. [Demonstration] In Celtic Tunes, we talked about the structure of them sometimes as with letters of the alphabet. This tune has a structure A-A-B-B. So, that was the A part we played it twice so that’s A-A. Now, we go to the B part. And we do a walk up from D to G and walk up is like, okay, and so we go. In Dadgad, in general, an easy G chord is this chord right here which you have this finger on the sixth string of fret and another finger you could use these two fingers because we want fingers to play melody up here with. It makes a G chord, so we’re going from D to G and I'm playing the high strings while I'm doing that. So, I'm going on the high strings while I walk up on the base string. Now, this chord is a G. It’s a G6th actually. And I'm using three fingers to play that melody on the three strings like. One of the things we find that we can do in Dadgad and Celtic music a lot is use open strings to make melody notes. And that’s what we’re doing here. Now, this was G, this is F, two frets down from G is F like it is in standard tuning. So, while we’re holding that we hold onto this, we play this melody. And this is an A7 chord in Dadgad. That’s the melody that goes with it. Back to G. Same as before. [Demonstration] A7th and then back into A again, the A part again twice and then the B part twice. Now, some embellishments on doing on it are the next time I go through and play the melody, I add a little harmonic embellishment using a chime sound at the 12th fret like this. I'm just lying my finger across the fret not the space between but the fret itself and I'm not touching the fret at all. I'm just lightly touching the strings to make this chime sound. And if you can’t get a good sound with that, just keep working on it. It’s a really easy thing to do and it’s a useful technique on the guitar in all styles and all tunings we use this. So, the second time I play through the melody, I do this little embellishment, like that [Demonstration] And then I play to the A part again. I play through the B part again twice same as before. And then when I finished the song, I’ve repeat the melody, the ending phrase of the melody twice to end the song, so it goes like this. [Demonstration] Again, and strum. So, that’s the detail of the Skye Boat Song. Now, what we’re going to do is make a split screen so you can see both the left hand and the right hand at the same time. And follow along within the book and in detail. [Demonstration]