V-Is: most important chord progression in Celtic guitar! Folk Friend

Hello viewers! I had a comment from Ed Wright last week asking about chords for V-I progressions, so in this week's Celtic guitar tutorial, I'll be showing you a few of my favourite chord shapes along with some more unusual jazzy things you can do to make your V-Is more interesting!
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[@briandwi2504]

Very interesting and useful. So much to think about! Great stuff, thanks for posting. 👍

[@folkfriend]

No worries Brian, glad you enjoyed it! Lots more coming soon, I'm glad this video was requested it's made me think of a lot of other cool techniques with unexpected chord choices to cover in future videos.

[@VisboerAnton]

cool cool

[@Melvorgazh]

Hello Ney,
How do you do?
Have you a y tip to play faster flatpicking tunes?
Most of the time I have to slow down Bothy Band and Altan recordings to 70 or even 65% to be able to play along.
You reckon you can play faster on an electric guitar?
It's a tricky instrument 😅
Cheers.
Sláinte agat! 😉

[@folkfriend]

Hi! This is a tricky one. I think one of the best ways to play faster is to play slower... If you practice along with a metronome on a slow speed and practice keeping your picking motion as tight as possible, only having a small amount of plectrum poking out from beneath your thumb, really controlling the picking using the index finger and thumb movement as well as the wrist and gently resting the wrist somewhere near the bridge then you will improve your technique no end. Once you feel like your picking is really rhythmic and solid at a slow speed THEN speed up incrementally, but focus on the technique rather than the speed. The more you can keep your technique constant without any excess movement the more solid your speed playing will become. I have seen a lot of players who like to use the little finger and sometimes also the ring finger to rest below the strings and provide a kind of anchor. I used to do it a lot when playing the electric guitar although I seem to have fallen out of the habit these days.
The other thing to do is to keep a record of what speed you were playing at, when you practiced, for how long, what has improved, what you would like to work on next and so on. Regular goal updates and reviews of how far you have already come are a really great way to improve fast and feel good while you're doing it! I actually designed a practice diary for that very purpose which you can find here: amzn.to/342CkCe
All the diary pages in it are designed so that you can use them to write tabs or fretboard diagrams as well :).
Hope this helps!