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Now all I need is a guitar solo starting in the breakdown... Any suggestions?

Since one came from the other, it should be easy enough to fuse the two? Country - Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Outro Irish - The same 16-bar melody repeated over and over (drunken people dancing don't need complexity) Country is typically Ionian, Irish is Mixolydian. This song is called The Sligo...

First things first - Sleepy Maggie is NOT Irish, it's Scottish. It's the only Scottish tune in my Celtic Electric album. What's the difference between a Scottish and an Irish traditional reel? The Scots reel is more melodically complex over a greater span of time. So whereas an Irish reel...

I'm so very glad to have made you day, thank you :D

You're very kind - thank you.

You know, I think you may be right!

If they come bangin' on your door - just tell them that it's mastered to -8 LUFS, and they'll be fine.

So are my bones...

We've got a disco bass playing octaves, a Korg M1 piano knocking out a house groove, an electric guitar doing power-chords. Then we have an Irish Fiddle and Tin Whistle playing the melody. How does that lot work together? Let's find out...

There is no doubt that this is the most popular and famous of all the Irish jigs. My number one objective though was to not produce a cover of the amazing Corrs version of this tune, after all - I'm not remotely as pretty as those three Corrs colleens. In the absence of all that prettiness...

Thank you. I'd love to visit Shetland sometime and see what you've seen.

And there's the King of the Fairies... This started off as an homage to Horslips, and then went away off on it's own.

Go raibh maith agat. I've done the Scottish version of Drowsy Maggie - Sleepy Maggie.

Thank you very much. I'm very glad that it got to you somehow. I'm playing the acoustic and electric guitars and the bass, everything else is sequenced.

What makes this Irish reel a little different, is the appearance of the iv chord. This is very rare in Irish music. It's only there for half a measure, but it's the getting to it and the movement away from it that creates the unique tonality. Plus, this one has a banjo.