How to use jazz chords for V – I s in Irish / Celtic guitar
This blog contains the chord diagrams to accompany a video which was requested by a viewer of my Celtic guitar tutorials Youtube channel, Folk Friend! Watch the video below:
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Here are the diagrams for every chord I mentioned in the video.
Versatile D7 triangle (mute lowest pitched E string with middle finger which frets the D note on the A string)
Barre the index finger across the top three strings at fret 4.
The disco chord!
The E9, E #9 and E b9 shapes mentioned are the same as the D9… shapes shown above. Move them up two frets and you have their E equivalents! This also means you can now leave the lowest E string in the chord to give a bassy root note.
Loads to play with there!
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