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Here are a pair of "Irish flavored" tunes I wrote. I like to play them as a two tune set. The first tune is a pretty easy one. I play it with a little "swing" and the only tricky item is the 4th fret hammer-on in the B part. All of the fingering is standard 1st position stuff.

The second tune of my little Irish set is a little more challenging because you must use your 4th finger on a couple of 7th fret notes. The only other thing which might need to be explained is in the 2nd and 6th measures of the B part. That little slanting line in front of the 4th fret note just means to slide into it from below. Then you have a double pull-off. Some of my video lessons cover that idea so I will skip the explaining it here.

Here is a recording I made of the two tunes back to back. I begin the set with a little intro riff I made up (you'll have to figure that part out on your own) and then I launch into Takin' The Shortcut Home. Then, it's two trips through A Pound O' Cure. Have fun picking! Here's the audio: Takin' The Shortcut Home and A Pound O' Cure by Bradley Laird

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