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Originally by Darrell Scott but you might be more familiar with the version by The Dixie Chicks, or indeed Sligo’s own Sharon Conway, who used to perform with her band Ruby Ridge in Hargadon’s. Sharon’s version was the first one that I heard, and now it’s my turn to record a version. I hope I’ve…
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‘…many days you have lingered around my cabin door, oh, hard times, come again no more…’ Everybody else has done their take on this classic song by Stephen Foster, and now here’s mine. I based this recording on the version that appears on the fabulous album Appalachian Journey by Yo-Yo Ma, Mark O’Connor and Edgar…
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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 bass part, for anyone who’d like to have a go at it. Transcription available here. While the transcription is accurate to what I played on the recording, it isn’t a 100% faithful…
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Just a nice quick cover version of this beautiful Beatles song, which I recorded a few days ago to send out to the Ballagh Choir of Ages in a recent singalong/catchup video. I really like how this turned out so I put it up as its own post just to get a few more eyeballs…
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I mentioned in a recent blog post that I had been taking part in a 100 Day Practice Challenge, in which you commit to practicing a new skill, or developing an existing one, for 100 consecutive days. I was working on pieces from the Woody Allen movie ‘Sweet and Lowdown’, which tells the story of…
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Tore Down House by Scott Henderson. Listen to the original here. I heard this song for the first time about four years ago. It popped up randomly on Spotify, and I loved it instantly. Amazing guitar tone, those weird accents in the intro that make you unsure what time signature it’s in (it’s 6/8!), an…
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…was in Ferns Community Centre, County Wexford, in 1995, I think. The band was called Junior’s Dad, and we weren’t great, though it probably wasn’t the smartest idea for me to publicly announce that over the mic after one song ended quite sloppily. Our setlist that night included Seek And Destroy by Metallica (our bass…
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I’ve loved this song for a long time. It’s one of those tunes that makes you want to climb up onto the table so you can properly belt out that last verse. I began working on the guitar part for this months ago, just for something to do. I had a simple piano score which…
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Here’s a playthrough of a beautiful tune by Gilbert O’Sullivan called We Will. It’s a fantastic melody, coupled with a very complex set of chord changes. In the next post I have a lesson video which breaks down the chord shapes that I’m playing in the video below, and also discusses the unusual harmony of…
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