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Well, I found this enchanting guitar backup on OAIM and was inspired to play along with it slowly...so you can hear his lovely chording...( sorry for the iphone Voice Memos quality recording! )
This reel has been recorded by like, every famous Irish fiddle player ever... and I've been playing it awhile, but usually at session tempo. Slow feels kinda nice!
Also...second time better than first...because that darn Red Button Anxiety slowly dissolves as I play...
Edited by - NCnotes on 10/02/2024 11:53:00
Aw thanks! I wasn't that happy with the recording the first time through the tune (bowing sounded stiff due to anxiety) but I realize that if I wait until I'm totally happy with something, I'll never post a thing!
Also, I consider myself to be average fiddle player doing standard playing of a common tune ...
but the OAIM guitarist here is a cut above! He must be in DADGAD tuning...?
Anyway our playing is all a work in progress...
every day...but it's (mostly) joyful work...
Edited by - NCnotes on 10/02/2024 13:51:32
"He must be in DADGAD tuning...?"
And yet you can hum an E Drone right through? Must mean the tune is in Em Dorian maybe?....The second mode of D Major....Apologies for my theorizing , i just can't help it....Arghh...
Anyway, it's another "Gonnado" for me thanks for posting!
PS: recording sounds good over here in the UK.
Edited by - pete_fiddle on 10/02/2024 14:26:47
Thanks for reassurance Pete :-).
And I do suspect will go well with Rakish Paddy, I'm gonna check it out.
Hmm re guitar - well I suspected DADGAD tuning because of the open ringing sound of his chords...like, if in E minor (which I think it is?) you could just capo up a step, and have Es available on 3 open strings! Similar to the alternate tuning used in OT. Well, I dunno. I'll just appreciate and stop trying to figure everything out! As a player of "cowboy chords"* myself. :-D
*I think this means the simple standard first-position chords that we all learn when starting guitar...vs the people who go up and down all over the neck artistically voicing their chords...:-)