Christy Moore – Curragh of Kildare Guitar Lesson Info
Learn how to play Christy Moore – Curragh of Kildare note-for-note on guitar with our detailed step-by-step guitar lesson.
This lesson teaches Curragh of Kildare as a Christy Moore-style acoustic guitar accompaniment, following the shape and feel of his arrangement while adding some tasteful guitar embellishments to make the part fuller and more satisfying for solo playing.The main verses are Travis picked, giving the accompaniment a steady, flowing movement underneath the vocal. The added details help bring out more colour in the guitar part without taking it away from the character of Christy Moore’s version, so the result still feels authentic to the song and the artist.
There are no barre chords, although there is a thumb-over F chord. If you prefer not to use the thumb-over shape, this can also be played as a simpler four-string F chord, making the arrangement more accessible.
The lesson focuses on getting the picking pattern smooth and relaxed, while also showing how the extra embellishments fit naturally into the accompaniment. The download includes the full video lesson, a play-through performance, and detailed tab and chords so you can learn the arrangement exactly as demonstrated.
- Difficulty level: Intermediate
- Barre chords: No
- Thumb over chords: Yes
- Playing Style: Fingerpicked (predominantly Travis Picked)
- Tuning: Standard
- Separate Solo: No
- Separate Bass Part: No
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Christy Moore – Curragh of Kildare Download Details
The complete lesson contains a lesson video and a performance-standard play-thru video. It also contains the guitar tabs as PDF files and a songsheet with the chords and the lyrics of the lesson (if applicable), also as PDF files.
The videos are MP4 format and will play on PC’s, Macs and most mobile devices.
You’ll receive an email with a Zip file containing a total of 4 files as follows:
- Part 1: Guitar Video Lesson
- Part 2: Performance-standard Playthru Video
- Part 3: Songsheet with tabs & lyrics
- Part 4: Guitar Tab
Total Download size: 286.3 Mb
You’ll need to extract the MP4 and PDF files from the Zip file/s to be able to use them and you’ll need software to do so. If you don’t have a Zip program on your PC you’ll need to install one to open the file. I use Peazip which you can get free, here.
If you want to download to an iPad or iPhone you’ll need an app to do so, please read here to know more about it.
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