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The Glens of Antrim
This is an easy single reel. I am playing an offbeat rhythm - that is, emphasizing beats 2 and 4 instead of 1 and 3 - on the G modal chord but this changes, due to the harmonic progression, in bar 4. The D7th chord found in bar four was seen before in The Eavesdropper. It is the same hand shape as the C major chord with the little finger being used to add the dominant 7th note, C natural. I would occasionally leave the little finger off thus making the chord a D suspended chord.
The second part is almost exactly the same as the first but notice that I move to the first D on the + of 2, and, that I create a G sixth chord in bar fifteen by lifting my index finger, thus adding an E note.
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The Glens of Antrim with substitutions
This version may seem simple at first glance but there's a little more going on than meets the eye. The rhythm accents the 1, the + of 2 and 4 and herein lies the complexity of the accompaniment. I change to the D chord on the + of 2 as I did in the previous version. On the first beat of bar six I begin a slide to the B minor 7 but the chord isn't sounded until the + of 2. The same is true of the next chord, C5.
The second part starts on the relative minor, E minor, and then moves to B minor, chord III in the key of G. As mentioned before, both of these chords are good substitutes as they have two notes in common with the G major chord.
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