Yeah I just saw it and left a short essay of a comment. Your a man after my own heart ,I'm thrilled to see you be part of hive open mic :).
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Yeah I just saw it and left a short essay of a comment. Your a man after my own heart ,I'm thrilled to see you be part of hive open mic :).
Ah excellent! Well apparently I have Irish and Scottish genes when ancestors escaped the potato famine to come to South Africa (a very long time ago)!
Wonderful , dig into the archives of the auld Scots ,Irish folk songs we have so many wonderful gems. Have you ever played around with the open G Irish tuning? One day I will get my head around it..
I learnt DADGAD tuning from a group playing Irish traditional music (tin whistles and fiddles, etc). I have found it a very cool tuning to write rock and blues songs to! I plan on posting about it soon and how I use that particular tuning if you'd find that interesting? I have played open D a bit too (D A D F# A D).
I definitely plan to mess around with other alternative tunings as well!
I've been meaning to learn DADGAD tuning for a while so I will certainly check out the video you make talking about it.
Awesome - I feel it is an easier way to play all the chords in the key than open D. For either of them it's a good way to sound like more than one guitar all by yourself: there are strings dedicated to the chord, and other strings that always ring a D or an A like a well tuned second percussive instrument. You have more range in deep and high notes than you usually do with standard tuning... and it's actually an easy way to play while sounding different!
Just watched the Paul Brady video! WOW!
I have tickets to see him and Andy Irvine playing here in Scotland in November. I have had the tickets since April 2020 , the gig was postponed 3 times due to covid. Im greatly looking forward to it.
Well if this is anything to go by, the man still has it! - I've been watching various versions of the song and think a simplified version is doable, and that open G has similar principles to open D and DADGAD!
I play a version which just uses regular tuning and is played on the 4th fret. This was the first old Irish folk song I learned the words to maybe 4 years ago. I recorded it here about a month ago.
https://hive.blog/hive-193816/@celticheartbeat/culegzyj
It would be interesting to see what you come up with for this one.