Hi everyone - the Irish Bouzouki Course is NOW LIVE! 🥳 The course at the moment has: - over 12hrs of video (more on the way), - spread across 17 lessons, - with dozens of downloadable handouts and audio examples - more lessons/handouts/audio examples will be continuously added The course can be found on Zenler: topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/courses/bouzouki-lessons but check out the following link for a FREE VIDEO LESSON, which you can download right now: topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/f/free-irish-bouzouki-lesson If you have any questions or queries, email me anytime: info@topscoremusicacademy.com
Hi everyone - thank you all so much for the support. More videos will be coming. If there are any particular questions you have please leave a comment to let me know.👍
Hi everyone - it's taken a long time, but I think I've finally got to grips with all of the technology, including the software and hardware, to make better videos - so more will be coming to RUclips! I'm also offering online lessons on the bouzouki if anybody's interested. Check out my latest video for more information: ruclips.net/video/O0lnIqgfCVw/видео.html
My Irish Bouzouki, (a Fender) has 24 frets counting nut and the fingerboard is 20 inches long from the nut down to the sound hole. Body depth is 3 1/8 inches and width from left to right sides are 13 1/2 inches. Also it is an Acoustic Electric with great sound and projection with or without the amp. I bought it many years age and it is my primary instrument along with a tenor guitar (4-string) and a 5 string Viola and I toot my own horn on a Irish Whistle. "Player of many, master of none" but still having fun at age 79 and counting. Skip a day of practice and it's a day lost at getting better. Get up an hour earlier if needed on set days for practice but never go several days without. An old mans thoughts.
Hi Decky! Thanks so much. I'd love to see more of these bouzouki videos. They were really helpful to me and the format you are teaching in here is great, and not like any other bouzouki videos I've seen on you tube. It really helped me connect the chords with the idea of counterpoint and gave me a good base to bring to a session. I'd really love to see more videos of different tunes but in the same format(basic/advanced with counterpoint melody). Thanks again.
Thank you for teaching me how to play my new instrument. I´m playing guitar and mandolin, but I must get used to this mixture tuning first. Indeed you´re very helpfull and a real good teacher. grettings from the North of germany
Jockel Jo Here he uses GDAD tuning, more common for bouzouki than on OM (for which fiddle tuning is more common). If you already play mandolin you can tune it GDAE exactly as the mandolin, but an octave lower!
What an awesome post. You have inspired my direction as a player in a huge way. Subscribed and about to go back to video 1 and watch my way right through.Please keep posting. I have a lot I need to learn :-)
I'm saving this lesson like $$ in the bank for later in my skill building. First I'll toil away like I have to, in order to get even your first lesson to sound good.
If that's an irish bazouki as described in the video title, I'm a chinaman. It's a mandolin, and whilst I agree they can be tuned the same, they are not the same instrument. I play a bazouki. I can't play a mandolin, its too bloody small for my fingers! That said, thanks for the instruction.
@@conormaloney126 Terminology can be confusing. My understanding is that an octave mandolin (which is what I play and is what I would call the instrument in the video) generally has a shorter scale length, and all pairs of string are tuned in unison, while an Irish or "Celtic" bouzouki has a much longer scale, and the lower two pairs of strings are tuned in octaves, like a Greek bouzouki. But I guess the nomenclature varies from here in America to various parts of Europe. I've seen videos of Nordic musicians, for instance, where what they are playing is called a "mandola" in the credits, but is clearly what I would call an octave mandolin.
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Hi everyone - the Irish Bouzouki Course is NOW LIVE! 🥳
The course at the moment has:
- over 12hrs of video (more on the way),
- spread across 17 lessons,
- with dozens of downloadable handouts and audio examples
- more lessons/handouts/audio examples will be continuously added
The course can be found on Zenler: topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/courses/bouzouki-lessons
but check out the following link for a FREE VIDEO LESSON, which you can download right now:
topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/f/free-irish-bouzouki-lesson
If you have any questions or queries, email me anytime: info@topscoremusicacademy.com
Hi everyone - thank you all so much for the support. More videos will be coming. If there are any particular questions you have please leave a comment to let me know.👍
more lessons please
@@kathleenmccabe5151 yes they're on the way!🙂
@@topscoremusicacademy whoooo hooo!!! *doing a happy dance 💃 *
Hi everyone - it's taken a long time, but I think I've finally got to grips with all of the technology, including the software and hardware, to make better videos - so more will be coming to RUclips! I'm also offering online lessons on the bouzouki if anybody's interested. Check out my latest video for more information: ruclips.net/video/O0lnIqgfCVw/видео.html
A lesson to last a lifetime! Many thanks for this brilliant video.
Hi, to download my free Irish Bouzouki lesson, check out the following:
topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/f/free-irish-bouzouki-lesson
My Irish Bouzouki, (a Fender) has 24 frets counting nut and the fingerboard is 20 inches long from the nut down to the sound hole. Body depth is 3 1/8 inches and width from left to right sides are 13 1/2 inches. Also it is an Acoustic Electric with great sound and projection with or without the amp. I bought it many years age and it is my primary instrument along with a tenor guitar (4-string) and a 5 string Viola and I toot my own horn on a Irish Whistle. "Player of many, master of none" but still having fun at age 79 and counting. Skip a day of practice and it's a day lost at getting better. Get up an hour earlier if needed on set days for practice but never go several days without. An old mans thoughts.
Hi, to download my free Irish Bouzouki lesson, check out the following:
topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/f/free-irish-bouzouki-lesson
Hi Decky! Thanks so much. I'd love to see more of these bouzouki videos. They were really helpful to me and the format you are teaching in here is great, and not like any other bouzouki videos I've seen on you tube. It really helped me connect the chords with the idea of counterpoint and gave me a good base to bring to a session. I'd really love to see more videos of different tunes but in the same format(basic/advanced with counterpoint melody). Thanks again.
Hi, to download my free Irish Bouzouki lesson, check out the following:
topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/f/free-irish-bouzouki-lesson
This is just fantastic. Please do more videos!!!
Hi, to download my free Irish Bouzouki lesson, check out the following:
topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/f/free-irish-bouzouki-lesson
Фантастика!!! Спасибо Вам за прекрасный урок!!!👏👏👏👏👏
Hi, to download my free Irish Bouzouki lesson, check out the following:
topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/f/free-irish-bouzouki-lesson
Thank you for teaching me how to play my new instrument. I´m playing guitar and mandolin, but I must get used to this mixture tuning first. Indeed you´re very helpfull and a real good teacher. grettings from the North of germany
Jockel Jo Here he uses GDAD tuning, more common for bouzouki than on OM (for which fiddle tuning is more common).
If you already play mandolin you can tune it GDAE exactly as the mandolin, but an octave lower!
Hi, to download my free Irish Bouzouki lesson, check out the following:
topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/f/free-irish-bouzouki-lesson
what a lovely instrument and as a guitar player much appreciated.
Hi, to download my free Irish Bouzouki lesson, check out the following:
topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/f/free-irish-bouzouki-lesson
What an awesome post. You have inspired my direction as a player in a huge way. Subscribed and about to go back to video 1 and watch my way right through.Please keep posting. I have a lot I need to learn :-)
Hi, to download my free Irish Bouzouki lesson, check out the following:
topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/f/free-irish-bouzouki-lesson
Absolutely brilliant! PLEASE let us have more lessons! Many thanks.Soren
Hi, to download my free Irish Bouzouki lesson, check out the following:
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Hi Declan! Good work on this tutorial, I enjoyed it very much and think it's great for intermediate-advanced players :)
Hi, to download my free Irish Bouzouki lesson, check out the following:
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Go raibh mile maith agat. Bought an Irish bouzouki recently and learned off your counterpoint. Great video. Thanks again.
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Wonderful playing. More lessons please.
Hi, to download my free Irish Bouzouki lesson, check out the following:
topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/f/free-irish-bouzouki-lesson
Super! Thank you very much for this!
Hi, to download my free Irish Bouzouki lesson, check out the following:
topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/f/free-irish-bouzouki-lesson
I'm saving this lesson like $$ in the bank for later in my skill building. First I'll toil away like I have to, in order to get even your first lesson to sound good.
Hi, to download my free Irish Bouzouki lesson, check out the following:
topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/f/free-irish-bouzouki-lesson
Awesome!
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More lessons please! So helpful!!
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anyone else waiting on lesson 2 ?
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thank you Declan !
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Lovely playing.
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Do you have the TAB? I can read guitar TAB and it would be a lot easier than replaying, I think.
Hi, to download my free Irish Bouzouki lesson, check out the following:
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Declan, how do I reach you for private lessons?
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Ño visual?
Where do you make your home Mr. Plummer? ( city, country for eg.)
Where can I buy this instrument?
soy it's - diyn diyn diyn diyn up diyn diyn diyn diyn up diyn diyn
teaching tablature takes just a few minures lad....i dont know what you are talking about
If that's an irish bazouki as described in the video title, I'm a chinaman. It's a mandolin, and whilst I agree they can be tuned the same, they are not the same instrument. I play a bazouki. I can't play a mandolin, its too bloody small for my fingers! That said, thanks for the instruction.
It's an octave mandolin, AKA an Irish bouzouki - the Greek bouzouki has a longer neck.
@@conormaloney126 Terminology can be confusing. My understanding is that an octave mandolin (which is what I play and is what I would call the instrument in the video) generally has a shorter scale length, and all pairs of string are tuned in unison, while an Irish or "Celtic" bouzouki has a much longer scale, and the lower two pairs of strings are tuned in octaves, like a Greek bouzouki. But I guess the nomenclature varies from here in America to various parts of Europe. I've seen videos of Nordic musicians, for instance, where what they are playing is called a "mandola" in the credits, but is clearly what I would call an octave mandolin.
AWESOME! Thank you!
Hi, to download my free Irish Bouzouki lesson, check out the following:
topscoremusicacademy.newzenler.com/f/free-irish-bouzouki-lesson