How To Play Galway Girl
By Steve Earle

Welcome to this page on how to play Galway Girl by Steve Earle. This page features a full free tutorial along with some other tips on this song and some resources on Steve Earle and free tabs.

Steve Earle wrote this song for his 2000 album Transcendental Blues and was recorded with Irish artist Sharon Shannon. All 15 tracks on the album were written by Earle and the album peaked at #5 on the US Country charts and #8 in Canada.

Another Irish singer songwriter known as Mundy and Shannon recorded Galway Girl and had a #1 hit with their version in 2008. It was the most downloaded song online in Ireland in 2008.

Oddly enough, Steve Earle himself never released the Galway Girl as a single. The only single from the 2000 album was Transcendental Blues.

There is a great performance of this song by Steve Earle and Sharon Shannon from the link in the right hand menu. Watch and enjoy!



I didnt do this in the video below but if I were to re-do this Id use a bit of a picking lead in to get this one off the ground. The chords for this one are C, F, Am and G and as you'll notice Im using a Capo on the 2nd fret.



Now this picking pattern can be broken down into 2 segments. The first 8 bars and the second 8 bars. The trick here is to try and continue strumming as you pick the following sequence.

And in various places in the song you repeat the last 8 bars once more. My advice for the rhythm is to pick the above patterns with all downstrokes first ... then slowly attempt to play up and down rhythn strokes until you can lay some rhythm over top. of the picking pattern.

                 

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There is really only one pattern for this one and this is note-dn-note-up-dn ... note-dn-note-up-dn ... and so on. But the chord changes are quick in a few spots so obviously you wont play this full rhythm pattern on each chord. The video above also goes into the picking pattern in full.

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