Ye Lovers All - Tutorial by Kevin Elam

 Kevin Elam just posted a Lesson in which you can learn his accompaniment to the Song "Ye Lovers All", an emigration song which has been sung by a lot of artists. 

These are the lyrics as sung by the Chieftains

Ye lovers all both great and small
Who dwell in Ireland
Oh I pray you pay attention
Whilst I my pen command
It was my father's anger
That drove my love away
But I still have hopes
We'll meet again in North Americay

My love he was fair and handsome
And to him I gave my heart
Ah but little was our notion
That we would ever part
It was in my father's garden
That this flower it did decay
But I still have hopes twill bloom again
In North Americay

Now I did not want for money 
Kind fortune on me shone
So out of my father's castle
I took five hundred pounds
It was in the town of Belfast
My passage I did pay
And then set sail across the sea
To far Americay

Now the captain's wife was kind to me
As you may understand
And she kept me in her cabin
Until we reached dry land
It was in the town of Quebec
We landed on the cay
But I knew not where to seek my love
In all Americay

Now I being sick and sore and tired 
Well I went into an inn
And it was there I found my William 
The lad I loved within
He took me gently by the hand 
And to me he did say
Oh I never thought I'd see your face 
In North Americay

Now I hear this couple has got wed 
As you may understand
And I hear they live quite happily 
In a town they call St. Johns
And the money that she took from home 
Well in gold she paid it down
And they think no more of Ireland
Nor Enniskillen town.

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Kevin Elam - Sally Gardens Reel - Playing melody by ear

 Playing melody on the bouzouki. Kevin Elam teaches how to play the Sally Gardens.

Kevin Elam - Counterpoint Sally Gardens (G, Capo 5)

Kevin Elam posted a new video on youtube recently. He explains some ideas for counterpoint. As example he uses the Reel Sally Gardens. If you like it you might be interested in joining his patreon site.

I made a tab of some of his ideas. If you might want the whole tab as pdf just write me an email. You'll find the contact on the right side under "about me".

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Kevin Elam - Bold Young Rover - Accompaniment

In this video Kevin explains how he arranged the song Bold Young Rover from his CD. It's a long and very informative video. So give it a go if you are interested in Song accompaniment.

 

 

In the next, actually the first video he gives some tips how to arrange the melody of the song.

 

You'll find some more videos of him on youtube. He also has a patreon page with additional content: 

https://www.patreon.com/kevinelammusic

Here's my tab of the chorus made with Tabledit:

Kevin Elam: Bodenstown Churchyard (Album Release Concert)

 Kevin Elam sings a song from his debut album "If I were a small bird". Check out his album at:

https://www.kevinelammusic.com/debut-album

You might also check his patreon page where he offers tutorials for bouzouki and other topics at:

https://www.patreon.com/kevinelammusic

The melody is very similar to "The Granemore Hare" Colleen Raney's Version can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow5kNq2vPZY

Lyrics: Thomas Davis, as recorded byThe Wolftones

In Bodenstown churchyard there is a green grave,
And wildly around it the winter winds rave;
Small shelter I ween are the ruined walls there
When the storm sweeps down on the plains of Kildare.
Once I lay on that sod it lies over Wolfe Tone
And thought how he perished in prison alone,
His friends unavenged and his country unfreed
"Oh, bitter, " I said, "is the patriots meed.

"For in him the heart of a woman combined
With heroic spirit and a governing mind
A martyr for Ireland, his grave has no stone
His name sheldom named, and his virtues unknown."
I was woke from my dream by the voices and tread
Of a band who came into the home of the dead;
They carried no corpse, and they carried no stone,
And they stopped when they came to the grave of Wolfe Tone.

There were students and peasants, the wise and the brave,
And an old man who knew him from cradle to grave,
And children who thought me hard-hearted, for they
On that sanctified sod were forbidden to play.
But the old man, who saw I was mourning there, said:
"We come, sir, to weep where young Wolfe Tone is laid,
And we're going to raise him a monument, too
A plain one, yet fit for the loyal and true."

My heart overflowed, and I clasped his old hand,
And I blessed him, and blessed every one of his band:
"Sweet, sweet tis to find that such faith can remain
In the cause and the man so long vanquished and slain."
In Bodenstown churchyard there is a green grave,
And freely around it let winter winds rave
Far better they suit him the ruin and gloom
Till Ireland, a nation, can build him a tomb.

 

Bodenstown is in Sallins, Co. Kildare, where Wolfe Tone is buried. Wolfe Tone was one of the leaders of the 1798 uprising, often referred to as the rebellion of the 'United Irishmen' due to the fact that Catholic and Protestant Republicans fought side by side. (Notes Finbar & Eddie Furey, 'The Farewell Album')

Here's the version of the Wolftones:

 

Here's Frank Harte's Version:

Kevin Elam - Jig Accompaniment: Why You Should Learn "Down-Up-Down"

Kevin Elam talks about accompanying Jigs and gives four reasons why you should learn DUDDUD  Rhythm. He does not say that playing DUDUDU is false, but that it should be your main pattern and match it with alternates.

 

Kevin has a patreon page, if you find his videos interesting you might think about joining his patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/kevinelammusic

Kevin Elam - The Rhythm of Reels

 Kevin Elam has posted some really good instructional videos on youtube which you might want to check out. Here are two videos about accompanying reels. He uses a guitar and piano, but it is worth looking at for bouzouki players as well. If you think these videos are useful you might consider joining his patreon site at: http://www.patreon.com/kevinelammusic

 

Here's part 2

Kevin Elam - How to play Counterpoint (Jimmy Ward's)

Kevin Elam provides some really good tutorials on youtube and patreon. Here he shows his ideas to play counterpoint to the Jig Jimmy Ward's. 

You can also have a look at his patreon site: http://www.patreon.com/kevinelammusic

Using tabledit I made a tab for this which you can download here:https://www.dropbox.com/s/po73uq0pe7sgs4k/Kevin%20Elam%20-%20Jim%20Ward%27s%20Jig%20-%20Countermelody%20mit%20Melodie.pdf?dl=0