Arran Boat Song 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Melody Tutorial & Play-Along

Alyssa teaches you how to play Arran Boat Song!

The melody was printed, as "The Arran Boat Song", around 1875 in James Kerr's first Merry Melodies volume.

Some tips for practicing:
Learn the melody at both the slow and fast tempo. Don't forget you can slow down and speed up the video too!
Play the melody along with the jam track. Can you keep the melody going when Eimear's part drops out?
Try to play the chords. Experiment with using different rhythms. There are a lot of chords in this song and a bunch of ways to play them. Attempt to play them in your lower register, using only the D and G strings, or only the G and C.
Improvise over the jam track. If you're new to improvisation, start by embellishing and altering the melody.

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