Lessons
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Part 1 of the Sweet and Lockdown series of videos. This is a lovely, and short, instrumental version of I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles. As with all the performances in this series, there are some slight differences between the transcription – either for aesthetic or practical reasons. (Some phrases were too fast for me to play…
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Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War – Paul Simon Luke Devaney and I arranged a version of this beautiful Paul Simon tune for an online event called ‘Not A Theme Night’, which was put together by Kieran Quinn in early 2021. That’s me on bass and vocals, Luke on guitar and…
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(This is another one of the singalong videos I’ve been making for the Ballagh Choir of Ages, which features a short guitar lesson at the end of the song.) I’ve featured a Gilbert O’Sullivan song previously on the blog, in an in-depth look at We Will. This video, however, is probably much better-known (and certainly…
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Another song by Snow Patrol – Just Say Yes. (This is another one of the singalong videos I’ve been making for the Ballagh Choir of Ages, which features a short guitar lesson at the end of the song.) Original can be heard HERE on YouTube. Straightforward enough chords in this one (essentially C, Am, Em,…
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A recent tune by Ed Sheeran with a lovely melody, and some very simple chords (I call them the ‘Wonderwall chords’!) (This is another one of the singalong videos I’ve been making for the Ballagh Choir of Ages, which features a short guitar lesson at the end of the song.) Song starts at 1m14s. Lesson…
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I wrote earlier about the singalong videos I’ve been making for the Ballagh Choir of Ages throughout the lockdown period of 2020/2021. Some of these have included short guitar tutorials at the end of the video, because a couple of the choir members are guitarists, and I tend to lose the run of myself a…
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(VIDEO 2 in the Electric Guitar series for this song.) One of the most popular songs to come from this island in recent years, Run by Snow Patrol is quite straightforward to play. This video features multiple guitar parts from the transcription below: Guitar 1 (main guitar part throughout) Guitar 2 (tremolo fills & chorus…
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(VIDEO 1 in the Electric Guitar series for this song.) One of the most popular songs to come from this island in recent years, Run by Snow Patrol is quite straightforward to play. This video features just the Electric 1 guitar part from the transcription below. If you have an overdrive or distortion pedal, you…
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One of the most popular songs to come from this island in recent years, Run by Snow Patrol is quite straightforward to play. This acoustic version uses slightly different chord shapes than the electric guitar part used in the song, but still keeps the overall sound and flavour of the tune. Try to sing along…
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I wrote about this song and my journey towards learning to play it in this blog post. Here’s a video featuring just the guitar part, for anyone who’d like to have a go at it. Transcription available here. This isn’t a note-for-note playthrough. I’ve altered some of the lines, and some of the transcribed positions…
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