EMERGING traditional musicians of all ages will be interested in a new publication on paper, on CD and by MP3. Refer your interest to website www.ceoltracks.com or invest in the wiro-bound ‘Irish Traditional Session Music’ tutorial with chords, music scare, ABC notation and finger charts for popular instruments. Music teacher, traditional musician and carpenter Denis O’Toole is the brains behind this unique workbook that is sold complete with backing track CDs of up to 63 tunes each.
“This really is a first in the world publication of its kind,” Mr O’Toole told Arts page. “Irish Traditional Session Music’ is selling very well at O’Mahony’s Booksellers and Savins and online, from Brazil to Spain, from www.ceoltracks.com.”
A typical page is formatted to list vertically ‘The Blackbird Hornpipe’, for example, in a classic music score of crotchets and quavers. Below is the Do-Ray-Me-Csharp script used by most trad players who play in sessions and the third section is for personal notation in class. “The book is also unique in that are also finger charts for all common instruments, and the CDs have a two bar count into the tune played to allow time to tune the instrument”.
Denis O’Toole and his wife Carmel are accomplished musicians in their own right, he teaching at Comhaltas Garryowen and offering tutorials online with the happy promise that “With Ceol Tracks, you’ll be playing Irish music in Jig-time”.
