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Learn The 100+ Essential Session Tunes Of Ireland

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Unlimited access to all 100+ lessons, including the ‘Between The Notes’ series.

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Contact Caitlín personally if you have any questions about the tunes.

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The 'DRAÍOCHT'

Dozens of tips and advice on getting your music flowing with rhythm and swing.

Learn and Improve In Your Own Time, In Your Own Home

Are you ready to join a traditional Irish session? I’ll teach you the classic traditional tunes that you hear in every Irish session around the world, from marches and hornpipes to sets of reels and jigs.

Not only that, but I’ll show you how to play them – with good rhythm, flow, swing and sway – the things that make our music so special and infectious … that’s the music that comes Between the Notes

Am so pleased with the tunes list

My aural skills have improved enormously

I really love the slow playback session feature

The Lessons

What you’ll get

Video Lesson

A complete lesson taught by Caitlín. You can pause, rewind, fast-forward and watch it again. These video lessons are slow-downable and you can loop a section of the video for repeating – Very handy for practicing a particular phrase

Audio Track

Two slow-downable tracks of the tune where you can also loop a section for repeating – a great tool for practicing. I suggest listening to these tracks first, before starting the video lesson. It’s always good to have the tune in your head, before starting to learn it

Story Behind the tune

Every tune has a story! Here we learn the background to the tune: where it comes from, the composer, reputable recordings of the tune and who first recorded it. This gives the tune context and depth, and a direct link to a region, player or both

Sets of Tunes

Here is where you’ll find selections of two and three tunes, all of which are available to learn here on the website. These are sets of tunes that have been played together for years in sessions in Ireland and around the world. These tunes make up the core tradition and are well known as ‘going well together’.

Additional Features

Tips

This is where you get advice on how to learn better and how to be a better player, featuring tips for good practice and for aiming to achieve better rhythm, pulse and flow. Here I’ll also mention other tunes that might be commonly paired with it in a set/selection

Notation

Even though I teach the video lesson mainly ‘by ear’, and always encourage trying to learn Irish traditional music in this way, ABC and Staff notation is supplied and can be downloaded and printed

Plus

New lessons added all the time.Lessons are graded.
Competitively priced.

7 Day Free Trial

How Your Trial Works

TODAY

Enjoy unlimited access to 100+ tunes
100+ Audio Tracks at Slow Session Speed + Lively Speed
Explore selections of 2 and 3 reels, jigs, barndances +
Dozens of tips on rhythm, swing and flow
Learn on any device, at your own pace, in your own home
Learn the Story Behind the Tunes

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Testimonial

Happy Customers

‘This is very helpful to get the real swing and feeling of the tune. I like the tips you provide with the tunes and also the history of the tune which is seldom provided on tune books or sites.’

‘Signed up for this, and am so pleased with the tunes list, great mix of new tunes, tunes I half know and am longing to learn properly, and tunes I already play but hope to improve.’

‘As a fiddle player, I'm finding this useful. I've been playing most of the tunes for many years, but I'm getting a lot out of the rhythm and lilt you put into the tunes. That's probably the hardest part for me.’