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Post by Onechordtrick on May 17, 2019 12:36:37 GMT
My approach to learning the guitar had been to tabs I use for mandolin, convert them to DADGAD and play them on guitar. Having, and I use the term extremely loosely, a single note rendition of Farewell to Whisky and wanting to make a fuller sound I decided to attempt this arrangement
The video is, as they say, drenched in reverb and too much for my taste but I liked the arrangement so bought the lesson. After 2 weeks it's nowhere near ready for public consumption but a charitable listener can now, in places, discern fragments of melody. It's also giving something to work towards.
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Post by ocarolan on May 17, 2019 18:29:17 GMT
It's a grand tune. I think you'd find it helpful to immerse yourself in as many versions of the tune as you can, particularly non-guitar ones. Once the tune is a part of you you'll be able to make more sense of a specific arrangement and not feel too tied to it.
Here's the wonderful Winifred Horan playing a slow version on the fiddle, wringing every last drop of emotion from it -
And even this fairly straight fiddle version has a lot to commend it, being done in a rather more sprightly fashion later on -
But congrats on picking a vid with the correct spelling!
Keith
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Post by andyhowell on May 18, 2019 12:58:53 GMT
You weren't joking. That was some level of reverb! Im always amazed by this. What is it people thing they are doing? Ho Hum.
This is a nice tune and I'm amazed at how many different versions there are of it. A couple of years ago Robbie Jessop here challenged us to come up with our own arrangements. I very soon get fed up of it and so wrote my own alternative which I called Neil Gow's Lament for the Empty Bottle. This title came because he seems not to have amended the first wife and the june is a bit cheerful ..
This is also in DADGAD. And quite simple :-)
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Post by Onechordtrick on May 20, 2019 9:44:30 GMT
Thanks for the comments; I'm still very much at the level where I can replicate the tab. Adding my own touch to it is a long way off!
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