Traditional Irish Concertina, Intermediate

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Last updated on June 14, 2026 12:50 pm

Improve your concertina playing with Irish champion Conor O’Loughlin. Learn how to play chords and add colour to hornpipes, jigs and reels in 8 easy lessons.

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This concertina course is designed for relative beginners who have learned to play basic Irish tunes and want to improve their technique. Conor O’Loughlin, a former all-Ireland champion and member of The Conifers, is the tutor for these eight easy-to-follow lessons with accompanying notes. Learn how to play jigs, reels and hornpipes, with a focus on adding ornamentation in the form of cuts and triplets, along with chords.

What You Will Learn In This Free Course

  • Recall how to play ‘Jackie Daly?s Ji…
  • Demonstrate how to perform ‘cuts’, o…
  • Distinguish a cut from a triplet…
  • Discuss the best places to introduce…
  • Recall how to play ‘Jackie Daly?s Jig?
  • Demonstrate how to perform ‘cuts’, one of the fundamental techniques for ornamenting concertina playing
  • Distinguish a cut from a triplet
  • Discuss the best places to introduce cuts and triplets
  • Identify a hornpipe rhythm and play the hornpipe, ‘Off to California’
  • Recognise potential places to add ornamentation to ‘Off to California’
  • Discuss the different options for playing chords in the key of C
  • Identify the different notes that can be used to play chords in the key of D
  • Distinguish the reel rhythm and play the reel ‘The Weeshie Bag of Potatoes’ or ?Follow Me Down to Carlow?
  • Demonstrate how to add ornamentation using chords to the reel ‘The Weeshie Bag of Potatoes’
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