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| | When we're talking about Irish solo banjo, we usually mean A HREF="../../technique/solo-playing/index.html">fiddle style tenor banjo à la Barney McKenna, but there's a completely different, less flamboyant style too. Irish/Celtic guitarists often play what they call DADGAD guitar. Although the style probably evolved from US fingerpicking guitar (with a small measure of European classical guitar technique added), it seems the style's main inspiration is traditional harp music. The name DADGAD comes from the "modal" tuning usually associated with the style. It's not that specific to that single tuning though, so perhaps "harp style" is a better term? Typical characteristics for "harp style" are: - Usually, but not always fingerpicked.
- Fluent melodic playing with lots of hammer-ons, pull-offs and open strings sounding.
- Chord and bass tones are added, often "between" the melody tones.
At first glance it's quite similar to what I call guitar style, but with more focus on fluent melodies and less on chors.Although the harp style is mainly used on the guitar, it is also suitable for the banjo, especially the five-stringed banjo and the guitar-banjo.
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