A song and a tune
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 9:35 pm
I've been listening to podcasts by a man called Mike Harding - very involved in folk music in Britain and was part of the British Folk Revival in the 1960s.
He plays folk, roots and acoustic music on the podcasts and Eric Bibb appears several times. One of the songs he performs, "The Drinking Gourd" really got under my skin. I spent a few weeks trying to get myself to play a version of it, but the end result though I would call it acceptable is disappointing to me. But anything I do is disappointing compared to Eric Bibb! His chord voicings are something special on this song, as is his vocal.
So - my attempt - on a Tanglewood all mahogany parlour guitar plus vocal live to a single track on the Zoom H4n portable recorder.
"The Drinking Gourd" https://app.box.com/s/o7bh4cwt6ma9ljf2xdn91hzk7n1dg4ny
So that's the song. So onto the tune.
I've been trying to follow a Masterclass course on JamPlay by Mike Dawes, a UK fingerstyle player. Mostly it's beyond me or I find the task of the lesson to not enthuse me, but there was early on a cluster of DADGAD lessons finishing with "Getting Creative" lessons. The first of these has a brief bagpipe tune and the object of the lesson is for the pupil to creatively adapt melody, harmony, etc. I sort of overdid the adapting bit and there's not much left of the original tune, but it's where my brain, fingers and guitar wanted me to go.
Vintage VE2000GG cedar/mahogany guitar onto the Zoom H4n portable recorder.
"Open Doors" https://app.box.com/s/nj4mj05v60hjv57hm1b31mb5jdcjg0q9
He plays folk, roots and acoustic music on the podcasts and Eric Bibb appears several times. One of the songs he performs, "The Drinking Gourd" really got under my skin. I spent a few weeks trying to get myself to play a version of it, but the end result though I would call it acceptable is disappointing to me. But anything I do is disappointing compared to Eric Bibb! His chord voicings are something special on this song, as is his vocal.
So - my attempt - on a Tanglewood all mahogany parlour guitar plus vocal live to a single track on the Zoom H4n portable recorder.
"The Drinking Gourd" https://app.box.com/s/o7bh4cwt6ma9ljf2xdn91hzk7n1dg4ny
So that's the song. So onto the tune.
I've been trying to follow a Masterclass course on JamPlay by Mike Dawes, a UK fingerstyle player. Mostly it's beyond me or I find the task of the lesson to not enthuse me, but there was early on a cluster of DADGAD lessons finishing with "Getting Creative" lessons. The first of these has a brief bagpipe tune and the object of the lesson is for the pupil to creatively adapt melody, harmony, etc. I sort of overdid the adapting bit and there's not much left of the original tune, but it's where my brain, fingers and guitar wanted me to go.
Vintage VE2000GG cedar/mahogany guitar onto the Zoom H4n portable recorder.
"Open Doors" https://app.box.com/s/nj4mj05v60hjv57hm1b31mb5jdcjg0q9