Anyone knwo anyhting about Celtic music?

[DreamingTree34]

I'm intrigued by it...it is the kind of music that can be jammed the fuck out...i was just wondering what types of chord formations and scales were used for it...

[jclark]

Pentatonic scales.

[MattJ]

If you go to www.alltabs.com I think you can sort by type and they have celtic stuff. Take a look at a few tabs, it might give you some ideas.

[cj4258]

Predominantly traditional celtic music (reels, etc) are either in Dmaj or in Amaj. Bagpipes are made with a drone pipe that will usually be fixed to D but sometimes can be changed to G or A, and chanters are made to play in Dmaj diatonic scales (kind of like a harmonica is diatonic in one key).

I like to jam celtic style sometimes, so I put my guitar in open D tuning (DADADD low to high) and it takes on a dulcimer-type sound. Improv from there. Lot of fun.