Welcome to Tradlessons!



On this site you will find a collection of short videos demonstrating tunes commonly played in San Diego and Los Angeles traditional Irish sessions.

In each video, the tune is played once up to session speed and then once slowly.

If the site is useful to you, please consider making a small contribution to the site via the PayPal donation box on the right. Your donations support the hosting of the site as well as production costs and are greatly appreciated.

The tune videos are organized by instrument:

Tin Whistle (74 tunes)
Group 3
Group 2
Group 1

Uilleann Pipes
(26 tunes)

Anglo Concertina
(9 tunes)

Wooden Flute
(9 tunes)

Tenor Banjo
(3 tunes)

Drop-D Guitar Backup
(8 videos)


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DownloadHelper



Along with the traditional Irish tune demonstration videos, I’ve developed a series of high quality traditional Irish music focused virtual instrument apps for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.

The apps are all available on the iTunes App Store for very reasonable prices, most under $5.00.

These include Anglo, English, and duet concertinas, Button and Piano accordions, Scottish bagpipes, Uilleann pipes chanters, drones and regulators, wireless MIDI controllers, and full sets of Uilleann pipes implemented as English concertinas and standard piano keyboards.

For more information about the apps, click one of the categories below:

Irish and Scottish Bagpipes

Concertinas

Keyboards, Hex Jammers, and Others




For more traditional Irish music resources, please visit my personal site at:


Michael’s Traditional Irish Music Page

or my Facebook page at:

Michael Eskin on Facebook


If you have a specific request for a lesson tune on a specific instrument, comments or suggestions for the site, please send me an email by clicking here.

Cheers and many thanks!


Michael
Michael

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