Long time lurker, rare poster. I was hoping someone might suggest a good place to find guitar chords to accompany irish trad tunes online.
JC’s Tune Finder is a spectacular resource for tunes, but very few of them actually have guitar chords, and I can’t seem to find a search criteria that will only return tunes with chord progressions included.
I’ve been playing whistle for around 2 years and have been playing around with recording tunes on my computer. I would like to try to accompany myself on my accoustic guitar but cannot find chords anywhere (and I’m not as good at figuring them out myself as I am learning tunes by ear on the whistle).
Even if you don’t have any online resources, I would be happy to learn about good books on irish guitar with lots of tunes’ chord progressions.
The tunes on The Kitchen Musician Website have chords. It’s a dulcimer site, but the tune collection is pretty good. There’s not the volume of tunes that you’d find at JC’s or session.org or Wandering Whistler’s site, but there is enough to keep you busy.
If you can’t find the chords to a tune that you know, then you have an excellent justification for learning a new tune.
Our local beginner’s session keeps the tunes that are taught online,
and most, if not all, have chords. These are pretty standard session
tunes. There are two pages: