Open chords on Irish folk tunes - and avoiding big left hand jumps
On Irish tunes like St Anne's Reel (folk forms often which have simple major chords, with a few minor chords) it is nice to have full chords but with open chord sound. Low bass note and high melody supported by closer 3rd note. Here is a proposed structure for open chords on Moschino system: Note chord voicings here are generally 1-5-3 position chords (2nd inversion with root). Note on fingering and hand movement. Generally 1-5-3 major chords are fingered with 5-3-2 fingering which is reachable and consistent across the tune. Root is D, which is an easy to find position. G is up 4th (neighbor on 4th-5th diagonal) A is chromatically up full step from G so 2 steps chromatic diagonal Emin is down 4th from A Note that the only real "jump" is G-A and A-D (which is actually the biggest jump) Of course 7th chords can also be easily fingered as in other tunes.