Here's a little text I found which deals with Guitar accompaniment on Irish tunes I think it is written by Alan Campbell. Lots of tips for players, which might be useful for players of the bouzouki too.
If you are interested in more information: Here you can watch some videos:
http://www.celticguitartalk.com/assets/guitars/recording/video.shtml
And here is the tutorial:
http://www.celticguitartalk.com/assets/misc/sharing/Accompaniment%20Workshop.pdf
29 Dec 2009
The Doggy Few Tunebook
The Doggy Few is an Irish Folk Band based in the Netherlands. They have a nice website at: www.doggyfew.com.
I'm not really good in reading and understanding the language of the Netherlands. But they have a really good tunebook on the website:
http://www.doggyfew.com/doggyfew_tunebook.pdf
They have a cd out with snippets on the website, and a video on youtube:
SlowPlayers.Org Basic tunebook
This is a tunebook for starters with lots of basic session tunes. All with chords, so it's a good starting point for beginners.
http://www.slowplayers.org/BASS/bass2004tunebook.pdf
28 Dec 2009
Paul Hardy's Session Tunebook
Another Tunebook which provides lots of chords for accompanyment is made by Paul Hardy. He made it for Accordion-players, but it is useful for other instruments too.
http://www.pghardy.net/concertina/tunebooks/pgh_session_tunebook.pdf
Paul provides some more tunebooks (a set tunebook, a basic tunebook, a annex tunebook with tunes which will appear in a later version of his tunebook etc.) on his site, look at:
http://www.pghardy.net/concertina/tunebooks/
The Greene Tunebook
By accident I found this tunebook on the web.
https://www.ceilidhsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CeilidhSoc-Favourites-Book-1-20181024.pdf
Here's the original one, the link has changed since I last looked at it:
http://old.ceilidhsoc.org/music.pdf?Special=23&Type=Group
42 pages with lots of tunes, most of them with chords. A great learning base.
22 Dec 2009
Pennknivsmördaren
Pennknivsmördaren (Penknife Killer" is a traditional Swedish tune. Kruzifinger learded it from Ken P, a member of "Mandolin Cafe", who learned it from Swedish group Vasen. Kruzifinger plays it on his Zouk tuned GDAD, Capo 2.
15 Dec 2009
Andy Irvine - Blacksmith Live
I haven't posted anything for more than a month. How time flies, but I did not find anything, that I thought is so interesting to post. But now my friend Tom gave me the hint to a new video of Andy Irvine.
First there's a video from January 24, 1999 in New Zealand, Christchurch. Live at Maddison's . Andy plays his solo version of the classic "The Blacksmith". Not the best quality but really worth watching.
First there's a video from January 24, 1999 in New Zealand, Christchurch. Live at Maddison's . Andy plays his solo version of the classic "The Blacksmith". Not the best quality but really worth watching.
5 Nov 2009
Tim Browne - The Bold Thady Quill (The Bould Thady Quill)
Another fine song by Tim Browne, one of my favourite Bouzouki players. This is what he writes about the song:
This is a version of the great Cork song written over 100 years ago by Johnny Tom Gleeson. I recorded this version on Mutiny in the County a solo album I made in 2003. The lyrics were published in the 1993 edition of the wonderful Seanchas Duthalla Magazine in an article written by one James Chisman.
It is a mighty song and many versions of it, even one in the Irish language, are known. I particularily like this version because of its Land League component and Chisman mentioned in his article that this version is thought to be the nearest lyrically to the original version. The song has undergone many changes and additions since the original believed to have been written in the 1880's and first published around the early 1920's.
It is a much favoured drinking song possibly due to the references to drinking black porter as fast as you'll fill etc., Some extra lines have been added to this version so perhaps in one hundred years time or so Thade Quill will have become an internationally recognised academic, and maybe even an assissinated President of America................!!!
This is a version of the great Cork song written over 100 years ago by Johnny Tom Gleeson. I recorded this version on Mutiny in the County a solo album I made in 2003. The lyrics were published in the 1993 edition of the wonderful Seanchas Duthalla Magazine in an article written by one James Chisman.
It is a mighty song and many versions of it, even one in the Irish language, are known. I particularily like this version because of its Land League component and Chisman mentioned in his article that this version is thought to be the nearest lyrically to the original version. The song has undergone many changes and additions since the original believed to have been written in the 1880's and first published around the early 1920's.
It is a much favoured drinking song possibly due to the references to drinking black porter as fast as you'll fill etc., Some extra lines have been added to this version so perhaps in one hundred years time or so Thade Quill will have become an internationally recognised academic, and maybe even an assissinated President of America................!!!
31 Oct 2009
O'Donoghues covered by kyle25rs
Inspired by the version of Irishlike kyle decided to post his own version. Very interesting to listen to various approaches to one song. Good work!
21 Oct 2009
Irishlike - O'Donoghue's
A new video my friend Irishlike posted. Andy Irvine's song O'Donoghue's. Just the first verse. I like your version a lot, Tom.
16 Oct 2009
Tim Browne
Tim has posted some new videos, so I'm really happy to include them here.
On the first video he plays a guitar shaped bouzouki made by Heiner Dreizehnter a few years ago. As far as I know Tim bought this zouk from my friend Tom from Munich. The newry Highwayman
The Ballad of Ned Jones Toyota
A Youth That's Inclined To Ramble
The Handsome Cabin Boy
On the first video he plays a guitar shaped bouzouki made by Heiner Dreizehnter a few years ago. As far as I know Tim bought this zouk from my friend Tom from Munich. The newry Highwayman
The Ballad of Ned Jones Toyota
A Youth That's Inclined To Ramble
The Handsome Cabin Boy
Never Tire Of The Road - Andy Irvine with Donal Lunny and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
Dingle 2009. This is a real short but powerful version of Andy's classic.
11 Oct 2009
New book for Irish Bouzouki out now
Ralf Wackers, German musician with Band Curragh
http://www.currach.de/
has release a tutor's book for the Irish bouzouki. As far as I know it is the first book at this topic which is addressed to beginners and intermediate players of the bouzouki. Unfortunately this book is available only in German. So it could be a little difficult to understand all the things said in this great book. But if you have ears and eyes you can learn a lot by listening to the examples on the cd and look at the notation.
For example here is the tune "Toss the feathers":
Click on the picture to see a larger version. Be careful, the chords are for GDAE-tuning! And here's the audio file which goes with it:
If you want to buy the book or like to have more information got the Ralf's website at:
http://www.currach.de/ralf/Bucher/Irish_Bouzouki-Buch/irish_bouzouki-buch.html
It's a self-pressing, so it's only available directly from him. Many thanks to Ralf for allowing me to publish a sample of his book.
Another example page is to be found at Ralf's website:
http://www.currach.de/ralf/Bucher/Irish_Bouzouki-Buch/B-Buch-2728.pdf
Templates for Reels and Jigs
Some time ago I made some templates for Jigs and Reels where I could just fill in the chords needed. This helps a lot when attending a workshop.
You can download them here:
Reel-template
Jig-template
Find Chord shapes for different chords on GDAD
Some time ago I made this little helper. This shows all the position of the notes wich are in a specified chord. So it helps to find out different positions of the chords.
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