Traditionally, learning to read the sheet music is hard, and perfecting your technique takes lots of practice.
To fast-track your learning to the point when you can easily play complex melodies quickly, this book is more than just a book. It is an entire course comprising:
Music scores
High-quality studio-made audio files, and
High-definition videos demonstrating the pieces and the techniques at normal speed and step-by-step.
What binds it together is the FAME (
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FAME is a simple, straightforward and highly efficient 4-step method:
Listen
Listen to the studio recording and visualize playing it.
Watch
Watch the video while skimming over the sheet music, the left hand and the right hand technique.
Do
Watch the step-by-step slow-motion part of the video with the sheet music in front of you, and learn the whole song, bit by bit, and
Repeat
Practice until it's perfect!
Learn to play the following traditional songs: Avondale, Bantry Girl's Lament, Black Velvet Band, Cockels and Mussels, I Know Where I'm Going, Jug of Punch, Lilliburlero, Seven Drunken Nights, Soldier's Joy, The Banks of the Roses, The Bard of Armagh, The Foggy Dew, The Gentle Maiden, The Green Glens of Antrim, The Irish Washerwoman, The Lilting Fisherman, The Maid Behind the Bar, and The Minstrel Boy.