This is the first video I found in which Daoiri plays his new bouzouki made by Joe Foley, Dublin. What a beauty! I really like the greek style front.
In this video he and his trio play the Foggy Dew. Enjoy!
Buy his new album here at bandcamp
Here's the Creggan White Hare:I made this video today for a friend who is a beginner on the bouzouki. It's in German, but I think easy to understand. Maybe it helps to activate the translate funcion on youtube.
It only covers the first part of the song. I start with an easy picking pattern. Later I add some hammering-on and hammering-off.
Would be great to get some response, if this video is helpful and easy to understand.
This will lead to the arrangement in Daoiri Farrell style which I made some time ago and posted here.
Another arrangement of the song by Darren Lynch can be found here.
NoCapo
[D] [G] [D]
Oh, me [D]name it is Sam [G]Hall,
chimney [D]sweep, chimney [A]sweep
Oh, me [D]name it is Sam [G]Hall,
chimney [D]sweep
Oh, me [G]name it is Sam [Em]Hall,
and I've [D]robbed both great and [A]small
And me [Bm]neck will pay for [G]all,
when I [D]die, when I [A]die
And me [Bm]neck will pay for [G]all,
[A]when I [D]die
I have [D]twenty [F#m]pounds in [Bm]store,
[D]that's not [G]all, that's not [A]all
I have [D]twenty [F#m]pounds in [Bm]store,
[A]that's not [G]all
I have [Em]twenty pounds in [G]store,
and I'd [D/A]rob for [G/B]twenty [A/C#]more
For the [D]rich must [F#m]help the [Bm]poor,
[D]so must [G]I, so must [A]I
For the [D]rich must [F#m]help the [Bm]poor,
[A]so must [G]I
Oh, they [D]took me to Coot[G]hill,
in a [D]cart, in a [A]cart
Oh, they [D]took me to Coot[G]hill,
in a [D]cart
Oh, they [G]took me to Coothill,
where I [D]stopped to make my [A]will
For the [D]best of friends must [G]part,
so must [D]I, so must [A]I
For the [D]best of friends must [G]part,
so must [D]I
Up the [D]ladder I did [G]grope,
that's no [D]joke, that's no [A]joke
Up the [D]ladder I did [G]grope,
that's no [D]joke
Up the [G]ladder I did grope,
and the [D]hangman he pulled his [A]rope
But [D]ne'ar a word I [G]spoke,
tumbling [D]down, tumbling [A]down
But [D]ne'ar a word I [G]spoke,
tumbling [D]down
Oh, me [D]name it is Sam [G]Hall,
chimney [D]sweep, chimney [A]sweep
Oh, me [D]name it is Sam [G]Hall,
chimney [D]sweep
Oh, me [G]name it is Sam Hall,
and I've [D]robbed both great and [A]small
And me [D]neck will pay for [G]all,
when I [D]die, when I [A]die
And me [D]neck will pay for [G]all,
when I [D]die
Another video by Ben Hockenberry. This time he plays the top 20 Reels from Irishtune.info. Very helpful for learning accompaniment. Remember, you can speed up the video in the settings.
These are the tunes:
0:17 #20: The Gravel Walks (Am) 2:26 #19: Father Kelly's (G) 4:10 #18: Ships are Sailing (Em) 5:55 #17: Miss McLeod (G) 7:37 #16: Congress (Am) 9:24 #15: Rolling in the Ryegrass (D) 10:48 #14: The Star of Munster (Am) 12:32 #13: The Wise Maid (D) 14:15 #12: The Cup of Tea (Em/D) 16:45 #11: The Merry Blacksmith (D) 18:28 #10: The Earl's Chair (D) 20:13 #9: The Sally Gardens (G) 21:55 #8: The Wind that Shakes the Barley (D) 23:13 #7: The Musical Priest (Bm) 25:08 #6: The Maid Behind the Bar (D) 26:50 #5: The Banshee (G) 28:34 #4: The Mountain Road (D) 29:52 #3: Drowsy Maggie (Em/D) 31:13 #2: The Silver Spear (D) 32:55 #1: Cooley's (Em)
Here's the link to his bandcamp site:
Today I tried to figure out the chords to the title track. So this is what I came about.
Intro:
I use the app Songbook from Linkesoft to write tabs. If you copy the whole text and paste it into a new song in Songbook you'll get a leadsheet with chords above the lyrics. You also can configure your instrument as bouzouki with GDAD tuning so you can determine the chords for bouzouki as well.
{t:The Wedding Above In Glencree}
{st:Daoiri Farrell}
{soh}First two verses without bouzouki{eoh}
Oh back in the days of the great King 0'Toole
On the high Wicklow Mountains while mitching from school
There is not on record a more glorious spree
Than was held on last Michaelmas, above in Glencree
T'was the wedding of Larry McGrain sir
He got buckled to Judy McShane sir
From Montpellier to Petticoat Lane sir
There were grub-hunters up in Glencree
The bridegroom came riding horseback on a mule
Brought Fagan the fiddler with him from Rathcoole
Dinny Murphy the piper was ne'er to be found
Tim Molonev's jackass was released from the pound
There was a messenger one Humpy Backed Casey
Who was deaf dumb blind bothered and lazy
Then the night it drew dark wet and hazy
We all sniffed our way back to Glencree
T'would be a [Dm]terrible [F]job for to [C]name all was [G]there
As to [F]name the pick-[C]pockets in [Am]Donnybrook [Dm]Fair
But [Dm]seen as they're [F]strangers to [C]both me and [Am]you
For [Bb]fear you'd be [C]jealous, ill [Am]name but a [G]few
There was a [Dm]miner one [F]Mickey Ma[C]lone sir
Kept a [Dm]thundering [C]great mind of his [Dm]own sir [Dm] {soh}10,12,0,0{eoh}
It was [Dm]made up of [F]lovely free [Am]stone sir
From the [Bb]diggings a[C]bove in Glen[G5]cree.[G7(no5)] {soh}0553{eoh}
There was the village schoolmaster one Snuffy Bob Mack
Four and twenty stone cutters from sweet Ballybrack And Mickey McLoughlin came o'er from Lough Bray
He kept a neat shebeen for selling goats' whey
There was a thundering great gang of the Rooneys
And the Kellys came in with the Cooneys
Then the Mulligans came in with the Mooneys
For the wedding above in Glencree
Oh you'd be anxious to know how we faired out for grub
We had lashings of beef that was reared on the bog
And the mutton was found before it was lost
By some of the go-boys d'er the Herring Brook crossed
Then his highness the public recorder
He gave some of the go-boys the order
Leave of absence to head o'er the border
For a seven year trip to Glencree
Well we killed an ould pig we found dead in a ditch
And each of the companv took a whole flitch
We had thundering lumpers of mealy baked bread
And mock turtle soup that was made from pig's head
We had dumplings and buttermilk buns sir
And the cabbage it came out there in tons sir
Oh we ate it and surely did hum sir
In the meadows surrounding Glencree
Well as soon as the boys had demolished the grub
As a matter of course the next thing was the grog
And the skelteen was mixed in Peg Donohughe's churn
And each in rotation was passed round in turn
The first toast was to bridegroom and bride sir
And the terrible downfall of the tithes sir
And the flower of sweet Erin's pride sir
And the Murphys that live in Glencree
Oh who chanced to walk in when the dancing began
Was rowdy Tim Ryan the tax collector's man
And when the boys saw him the word it went round
It was him put Moloney's jackass in the pound
As he was going through a three-handed reel sir
He took a south western clout from Sam Shiels sir
And it knocked him right head over heels sir
Put a stop to his dance in Glencree
Oh mile murder he cried you near killed me stone dead
And we laid him outside on a nice feather bed
And myself and Kate Kenny, a friend of the bride
Danced jigs there 'fore next the poor buck 'til he died
Well the dancing it lasted all day sir
And as we were going away sir
Well we swore we'd be back twice as gay sir
For the christening above in Glencree.
Daoiri released this video one year ago. I just found it again and found out that I had forgotten to post it here. So here it is, Daoiri's thoughts of how to back up this beautiful tune.
Some time ago I posted the melody of the tune as tab which you can find here.A wonderful concert of Maura O'Connor with Kevin Murphy here at the CD Launch. Concert starts at about 36:00 min.
You can listen to/buy the CD here:
https://sliabhluachra.bandcamp.com/album/its-handed-down
Ben Hockenberry and his series of Top 20 Tunes of each genre. Here he plays 20 famous SlipJigs at slow speed. Good for practicing accompaniment. Remember you can make youtube to play it faster if you want to practice at higher speed.
Here is the tune list, copied from youtube: 0:00 Intro 0:16 #20: Dever the Dancer (Em) 2:13 #19: Comb Your Hair and Curl It (Em) 4:10 #18: Moll Roe (G) 6:08 #17: The Swaggering Jig (G) 8:02 #16: Farewell to Whalley Range (F#m) 9:59 #15: The Boys of Ballisodare (G) 13:44 #14: The Snowy Path (D) 15:39 #13: Elizabeth Kelly's Delight (Am) 17:36 #12: The Rocky Road to Dublin (Am) 19:33 #11: The Whinny Hills of Leitrim (D) 21:33 #10: The Humours of Whiskey (D) 23:28 #9: An Phis Fhliuch (Dmix) 28:06 #8: The Cock and the Hen (F#m) 30:05 #7: Drops of Brandy (G) 32:01 #6: Na Ceannabhain Bhana (G) 33:58 #5: Hardiman the Fiddler (Dmix) 35:53 #4: Foxhunter's (D) 39:36 #3: A Fig for a Kiss (Em) 41:32 #2: The Kid on the Mountain (Em) 46:09 #1: The Butterfly (Em)
This list, and others like it for each type of Irish tune, are generated by members of irishtune.info, a free site for tracking practice of your repertoire: https://www.irishtune.info/session/sl...
Unfortunately this video is in Spanish. The Translation by youtube doesn't help a lot to understand the words. Nevertheless you can understand a lot just by watching and repeating. Fernando's videos are something special and something you won't find anywhere else.
Ben Hockenberry plays 20 popular Polkas at 100 BPM on his Banjo. Great for trying accompaniment. Remember you can change the speed of the video by clicking on settings (the cogwheel under the video).
Here I copied the list of Polkas in this video:
0:00 Intro 0:16 #20: Knocknaboul (G) 2:21 #19: Newmarket (A) 3:47 #18: Nell Fee's (D) 5:51 #17: Toormore #1 (D) 7:18 #16: Ballydesmond (Dmix) 8:48 #15: Farewell to Whiskey (G) 10:11 #14: Rakes of Mallow (G) 11:35 #13: Jessica's (A) 13:01 #12: Little Diamond (D) 14:26 #11: Maid of Ardagh (D) 15:48 #10: Rattling Bog (G) 17:09 #9: Finnish Polka (Bm) 18:29 #8: Denis Murphy's (D) 19:50 #7: Mickey Chewing Bubblegum (A) 21:10 #6: Ballydesmond 3 (Am) 22:36 #5: Maggie in the Wood (G) 23:59 #4: Ballydesmond 2 (Am) 25:25 #3: Peg Ryan's/Egan's/Kerry (D) 26:48 #2: John Ryan's (D) 28:12 #1: Britches Full of Stitches (A)
This list of Polkas, and others like it for each type of Irish tune, are generated by members of irishtune.info, a free site for tracking practice of your repertoire: https://www.irishtune.info/session/polkas.php
By now the top 20 has changed a little bit.