A few days ago I posted the tabs to the first two reels of this set. Today I tabbed the third reel called Lillies In The Field.
Here's the link to the track on bandcamp:
The Black Haired Lass/Bag of Spuds/Lillies in the Field
Underneath you'll find my tab. There might be some mistakes in there, but If you listen to the tracks you'll hopefully get along with them.
Link to the tune at thesession.org:
https://thesession.org/tunes/1750
These two giants of irish trad music together on stage. One hour of the finest of bouzouki playing.
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/chordfinder-for-bouzouki/id507236609
I recently discovered the album In the Tap Room by McCormick & Vanorny with Brian Miller. Brian plays some fine bouzouki backings there. Now I tried to transcribe the first two reels of the Set "The Black Haired Lass / Bag of Spuds".
Here's the link to the track on bandcamp:
The Black Haired Lass/Bag of Spuds
Underneath you'll find my tabs. There might be some mistakes in there, but If you listen to the tracks you'll hopefully get along with them.
On August, 8th 2020 Matt and Shannon Heaton played a Set they started with the Reel "Otter's Holt", this is one of my all time favourite tunes. So I tried to write down the accompaniment of the first round through the tune.
Here you can find the video of the session with deep links to the sets:
http://www.vgsdb.com/sessions/2020/8/8
It is Set No. 8
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:
https://irish-bouzouki.blogspot.com/search?q=darren+lynch
Darren Lynch presents the classic Sam Hall on his 6-string Greek Bouzouki. Also check his bouzouki tutorials.
https://irish-bouzouki.blogspot.com/search?q=darren+lynch
These are the chords I play it:
Sam Hall
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 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
Marty Smith, a fine bouzouki player and Singer. Unfortunately I did not find lots of information about him. It seems he owns a lot of bouzoukis ;-)
McShane
The Shepherd Lad
The Mickey Dam
The Spanish Lady
Farewell To The Gold
The Foxy Devil
Clasped To The Pig
Some Reels
Some Jigs
Lucy Farr's Barndance
Daoiri and Donal together. What a great version of this classic.
On Jan, 24th Andy played this live gig at Cyprus Avenue Cork.
https://nirinlynch.bandcamp.com/track/the-road-to-drumleman
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.
So Matt did it again. Another great tutorial for bouzouki. He explains how to accompany tunes in Am. He uses the capo at 2nd fret and plays Gm shapes.
