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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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This is the isolated guitar part for my recent cover of ‘Anthem’ from the musical Chess, for any guitar nerds out there who’d like to get a closer look at what I’m playing. The tuning is Eb Ab Gb Db Bb Eb (Standard tuning, all strings down half a step).
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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 closer look at We Will, a tune by Gilbert O’Sullivan. I posted a playthrough video in my earlier blog, and in this video I show you how I wrap my fingers around the many chord shapes in my arrangement of the song. I also talk through the unusual chord changes, and offer a…
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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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A couple of videos with some simple exercises you can use for developing your finger dexterity. The second set is more advanced than the first, but you are free to speed up or slow down any of them to suit yourself.
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Hi there. I’ll use this blog to publish occasional videos from my YouTube channel, like the one below, which is a video I made back in early April 2020, experimenting with some video and audio recording techniques.