John Doyle's powerful accompaniment style includes strumming patterns, moving bass lines, palm damping, backbeats, accents and syncopations that drive a tune forward.  By using minor chords and other substitutions, he can add interest, movement and depth to a basic three-chord tune.  This exciting lesson shows both simple accompaniments and complex rhythms, chord shapes and progressions to enable you to get a traditional band to really rock!

Using dropped D tuning, John teaches rhythmic accompaniments to reels, jigs, slip jigs and hornpipes.  With John Williams playing the melodies on button accordion, he goes over each tune both slowly and up-to-speed, developing dynamic chord progressions and rhythmic flourishes as he goes.

You'll learn the accompaniments to more than a dozen great tunes, including:

• Crowley's
• The Mountain Road
• Craig's Pipes
• The Gooseberry Bush
• Gallagher's Frolics
• Mist Covered Mountain
• Langstrom's Pony
• Humours Of Whiskey
• Banks Of Loch Gamhna
• Return To Camden Town
• The Fermoy Lasses
• The Girl That Broke My Heart
• and more!

DISCS:	1 DVD
DVD REGION:	ALL
FORMAT:	NTSC
DURATION:	85 mins
BOOKLET:	YES