BluesKing777 Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Yes, it is nearly that time of year again... So I recorded a version of a track you may know/may not - on my huge Lowden O22 (thanks to Doug Young!): https://soundcloud.com/bk7-3/silent777 BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassetman Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Sounds very nice. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted December 7, 2017 Author Share Posted December 7, 2017 Sounds very nice. Thanks. Thanks Bassetman! BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the other side Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 I absolutely enjoyed that BK. I love hearing things with the player's originality (version) and keeping the identity of the song recognizable. Silent Night. Thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneS Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 That's sweet, indeed, BK--thanks for sharing it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalex Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 That was great, has me gassing for a Lowden again..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted December 8, 2017 Author Share Posted December 8, 2017 Thanks for that! I was trying to loosen up a tune in DADGAD that I read off the TAB but added Celt fills here and there...... My recording is only a fraction of the truly remarkable tone that comes out of a Lowden O22. Thunderous, could be the word I look for. But on the other hand, it is a guitar designed mainly for fingerstyle....and the first time I have done that so....large.... It is not the size guitar I usually go for, as some of you know...but I should NOT have played it at the rotten shop......history after that BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 ah thats from his DADGAD Christmas album right?. I have the mp3s and charts, and do a few too.. fun stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted December 9, 2017 Author Share Posted December 9, 2017 ah thats from his DADGAD Christmas album right?. I have the mp3s and charts, and do a few too.. fun stuff. Yes, that’s the one! Many, many thorough layers to the book - I have had Doug’s “Understanding DADGAD for Fingerstyle Guitarists” for quite a while, which is a ‘learn the nuts and bolts’ type of book. I got that one because I had learned all kinds of DADGAD tunes from various sources, but could not play a tune that anyone would recognise. So the Christmassy ones are a start at that, but it also conveniently has the standard tuning chords/music above the TAB, so we can peel off Jingle Bells! [tongue] Handy if I get the sack and have to play out the front of the shops! I have yet to find a book with faves in DADGAD - it is always something grand, Celtic, Irish or Appalachian this and that! While it is good to work out tunes, it is also good to see someone like Doug’s ideas on the whole tune. BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Sounded great..I wanted more! I think Jerry asked for silent night covers a few years ago..BK you've finally delivered!! Lowden seems like a good match for Xmas songs for some reason.maybe it's DADGADability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted December 9, 2017 Author Share Posted December 9, 2017 Sounded great..I wanted more! I think Jerry asked for silent night covers a few years ago..BK you've finally delivered!! Lowden seems like a good match for Xmas songs for some reason.maybe it's DADGADability. Thanks FB.... I doubt anything except himself playing it would please old Jerry, and my version above in DADGAD, actually tuned down 2 to CGCFGC which is not so easy squeezy to say, would probably annoy him more than your version! BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly campbell Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Sounds great as usual. Thanks BBK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Yes, that’s the one! Many, many thorough layers to the book - I have had Doug’s “Understanding DADGAD for Fingerstyle Guitarists” for quite a while, which is a ‘learn the nuts and bolts’ type of book. I got that one because I had learned all kinds of DADGAD tunes from various sources, but could not play a tune that anyone would recognise. So the Christmassy ones are a start at that, but it also conveniently has the standard tuning chords/music above the TAB, so we can peel off Jingle Bells! [tongue] Handy if I get the sack and have to play out the front of the shops! I have yet to find a book with faves in DADGAD - it is always something grand, Celtic, Irish or Appalachian this and that! While it is good to work out tunes, it is also good to see someone like Doug’s ideas on the whole tune. BluesKing777. Agree BK,,, there's some very good pieces in that book. The First Noel is a fine piece.. check it out if you haven't.. some nice twists in there. I may offer that one up for the Christmas vigil at our parish Christmas ever. Craig our music director is looking for prelude music,, that would fit it I think.. btw.. Alex De Grassi is one guy that I have paid close attention too over the last few decades. He has a few dadgad pieces that I find rather exquisite. a piece called Mirage is one of them.. Alex is a master of alternate tuning finger style playing and composition. Look him up, some of his work is quite inspirational and NOT easy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted December 11, 2017 Author Share Posted December 11, 2017 Sounds great as usual. Thanks BBK Thanks again, KC! Glad you liked it! BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted December 11, 2017 Author Share Posted December 11, 2017 Agree BK,,, there's some very good pieces in that book. The First Noel is a fine piece.. check it out if you haven't.. some nice twists in there. I may offer that one up for the Christmas vigil at our parish Christmas ever. Craig our music director is looking for prelude music,, that would fit it I think.. btw.. Alex De Grassi is one guy that I have paid close attention too over the last few decades. He has a few dadgad pieces that I find rather exquisite. a piece called Mirage is one of them.. Alex is a master of alternate tuning finger style playing and composition. Look him up, some of his work is quite inspirational and NOT easy.. Thanks Ray! I know something of De Grassi - another peculiar thing about loving acoustic guitars is how you ‘come across things’ while looking for something else...... I often have the iPad playing youtubes next to my work computer lately (no soundcard on the cheapskate work computer, but we won’t be denied) - After getting my small Lowden, I looked at anything to do with them on video and came across quite a few artists that I have never heard of. The Lowden inner circle includes Alex with his custom maple! And once they are playing on youtube, and I get working and busy, it will start going through every thing they have... there are a couple there where he looks at least 30 years younger! Great stuff though! (Though I am not liking chorus pedals on amplified Lowdens much - prefer straight acoustic, but live they have to do what they got to do). BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Alex has been around for some time now, I think one of his earliest albums may date back to the early 90s. He's not as active these days it seems, I think he does week long work shops in the mid US still. Hanging out with a guy like for a week would be incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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