Darren plays the sea song Go To Sea No More on his Greek Bouzouki. He writes as comment:
Origins of this song have been traced back to the English Merchant Navy. It's thought to have been brought back from San Francisco and changed in England. Reasons being that Liverpool had no whaling industry and there was a known crimper in San Francisoco called Shanghai Brown. Shanghaiing or crimping is the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence.
He also made some tutorials for Irish Bouzouki. You'll find them here:
[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 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, 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, that's not [G]all
I have [Em]twenty pounds in [G]store, and I'd [D]rob for [F#m]twenty [A]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, 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
I tried to tab the backing for the first verse to study Eoin's playing. Here is my humble attempt. It is for the tuning of ADAD. But as the A-string is rarely used it is also possible for GDAD with the exception of 2 notes in bars 13 and 16, it has to be 2nd fret on G-string which gives the needed A.
Last October I took part in an online workshop with Eoin O'Neill. 9 video lessons, each around 20-30 minutes long he produced for the O'Flaherty retreat 2020. What an inspiration. Since then I play bouzouki in ADAD most of the times. It's much fun to back tunes in ADAD. But when singing I still use GDAD.
During that workshop he backed the singer Clara Buteler when singing "Down by the sally gardens". Now I tried to tab the accompaniment of the first verse. So here it is. Unfortunately I can't post the video here.
The Tab is for ADAD, but if you use GDAD it is nearly the same. Only one note is played on the low string, so you just have to play this D-Note on the 7th fret instead of the 5th fret which is notated for ADAD.
A new tutorial from Matt Heaton. A very in deep tutorial how to play counter melodies. Basic rule to this: you have to know the tune you're accompanying very well. Otherwise it might clash with the melody.
Daoiri did lots of online concerts during the pandemic in the last months. Here is one he did for the Festival of Oulu which took place Nov. 19th - 21
I think, I don't have to say anything about Daoiri, I first met him in 2011 in Germany and and within these years he has achieved a well deserved success. Alway great to see him.
Well, I'm a bit late with this information, but better late than never ...
Eoin O'Neill offers an online workshop for Bouzouki at the O'Flaherty's Retreat 2020. It runs from Out. 18th until Nov 8th, so it is already online. It cost 150$ and you'll get 9 Lessons each lasts around 25 - 30 minutes You can register here:
The online workshops are available until December, so enough time to learn from/with Eoin. I'm so happy to have the opportunity to learn the way Eoin plays. This might be the only good thing about Corona.
Found this now 10 years old Video on my hard disk. I filmed it at a concert in a small village in Northern Germany. The concert was sold out and I had bought no ticket in advance. Luckily they opened up the room and let me and some more people in. Btw. I drove more than 700 km to see Andy there, well, to be honest, I also wanted to visit my sister who lives there ;-)
Matt's workshop for this weeks is all about accompanying in Em without capo. He gives some ideas to play in Em which might be useful when accompanying a set of tunes in different keys.
This time no chord diagrams necessary, just watch the video.
Matt offers his first bouzouki tutorial. This one is about right hand technique. In this way he shares my opinion about accompanying tunes on the bouzouki. It sounds better if the bouzouki is played different from a guitar.
And don't forget to tune in to the Heaton's slow session on youtube every Saturday, and maybe donate some money to them if you have something spare: PayPal button -- https://tinyurl.com/wqofe4b
