Chris Smith's fantastic book "Celtic Backup for All Instrumentalists", available on Amazon from Mel Bay. To learn how to backup tunes, I suggest checking out Dr. My particular chord selections may be a reasonable starting point for learning the skill of backing Irish traditional music, but that is not the primary goal of these transcriptions. I also assume that to extend these skills to other tunes not in this collection, you either already know how to determine the appropriate backup chords from the melody or are willing to learn bass/chord arrangements by rote as a starting point. My assumption is that you already are playing the tune melodies on the treble side of your instrument and are looking to learn to include the bass and chord buttons in your playing. That is an entirely different skill than the physical challenge of dealing with the basses themselves. In these transcriptions, I am not attempting to teach how to backup traditional Irish music. When I started learning to play the basses on my B/C box, I found it hard to find such information anywhere, so I hope these transcriptions will be useful to other B/C players who are taking on the challenge of learning the basses.
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