Well scale-wise Pentatonics, Dorian and Mixolydian are the most commonly used scales in celtic music. Instruments like the bagpipes, fiddle, accordian, tin whistle, and bouzuki are some of the most used instruments in celtic music. In celtic dance music the songs are nearly always made up of a lot of fast, running, 8th or 16th notes. There are a lot of types of celtic songs that don't have these fast, running notes though.
One common thing in celtic music is to play with a major 7th for most of a piece then at the end use a dominant seventh. The dominant/minor seventh is used quite a lot in celtic music, especially in the chord progressions of minor songs. Very quick on beat grace notes are also a common technique in celtic music. They are called scotch snaps.
Temorary modulations to relative modes are also quite common.
QUOTE (Canis @ Mar 23 2009, 02:34 PM)
I'm with you on this one! I've actually decided to research Celtic Folk music to be able to make my own metal songs inspired by it
So I'm interested as well ^^
I find the best way to find out about a style is to learn some songs from it.
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This post has been edited by Matt23: Mar 23 2009, 08:02 PM
