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For more fingerstyle tab and audio, see Les's
American Primitive Guitar website.
For more fingerstyle tab and audio, see Les's
American Primitive Guitar website.
For more fingerstyle tab and audio, see Les's
American Primitive Guitar website.
Played on the Papoose Travel Guitar in DGDGCD (low to high) (Gsus4).
Note that this and other tunes are available on my
Execrable Guitar Solos
web page.
For more fingerstyle tab and audio, see Les's
American Primitive Guitar website.
For more fingerstyle tab and audio, see Les's
American Primitive Guitar website.
Played on the Papoose Travel Guitar in DGDGCD (low to high). Actually,
the Papoose is tuned 5 steps up from a regular guitar -- so on a standard
guitar, tune to DGDGCD (Gsus4) and Capo V to get this same effect. Note
that this and other tunes are available on my
Execrable Guitar Solos
web page.
Here is the same tune recorded on the Papoose Travel Guitar (from Tacoma
Guitars)
The Lump
(Written and Performed by Nick Thompson)
Performers comments:
(From the Red Weather CD)
A 6 string piece in Eb/Gm tuning (Eb G Eb G Bb D). My goal for this song was
to make the music as intense as possible without hitting the guitar,
strumming or playing particulary loudly.
Links:
To hear more from Nick, please visit his web site at
http://www.nickthompson.com
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Chasing Puffins
(Written and Performed by Nick Thompson)
Performers comments:
(From the Sometimes Splatter Paint CD)
This is a short, peaceful song influenced by two of the first fingerstyle
guitar songs I really got into: Jimmy Page's "Bron Y Aur" and Leo Kottke's
"Echoing Gilewitz."
Links:
To hear more from Nick, please visit his web site at
http://www.nickthompson.com
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Ylime
(Written and Performed by Nick Thompson)
Performers comments:
(From the Sometimes Splatter Paint CD)
A tapping song that I wrote for someone I was involved with for a long time.
The song isn't meant to represent any particular emotion - it's just meant to
be descriptive of her.
Links:
To hear more from Nick, please visit his web site at
http://www.nickthompson.com
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Stolen Melody
(Written and Performed by Greg Neaga)
Performers comments:
The girl at the supermarket register, while scanning in my purchases,
kept humming the first 4 notes (or something close to it) of this
tune, again and again. Was it a song she knew, or was she just
expressing her mood, I don't know. I picked it up and it evolved
into this...
Links:
To hear more from Greg, please visit his web site at
http://www.geocities.com.com/Nashville/6777
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Malcom's Song
(Written and Performed by John Newbold)
Performers comments:
This is a simple bouncy and for me fairly happy
little tune i made up last fall inspired by a friend of mine's three year
old.
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Lullaby For Mariel
(Written and Performed by Ted Davidson)
Performers comments:
Performed by Ted Davidson of 'Be Curious'. See our website at
http://web.idirect.com/~bcurious.
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Grasp Sparrows Tail
(Written, Performed and Arranged by Cathy Horner)
Performers comments:
(DADGBD)is the name of a Tai Chi movement.This is a
happy song celebrating my progress in learning the ancient martial
art.(Takamine NP-15C)
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Zig Zag
(Written, Performed and Arranged by Cathy Horner)
Performers comments:
(drop D)Trying to emulate the great fingerstyle guitarists I was
being exposed to at the time resulted in this angular composition.(Takamine
NP-15C)
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Blue Heron Waltz
(Written, Performed and Arranged by Les Weller)
Performers comments:
A sentimental southern ballad, one of my first compositions in dropped D
tuning. The melody line slide on the B string holds the opening theme
together nicely. From APG Study Tape No. 1, tablature at the
APG II website.
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What A Friend We Have In Jesus
(Performed and Arranged by Les Weller)
Performers comments:
A beautiful old hymn, positive, inspirational. Find a nice medium pace
and take your time to work the individual notes for tone and clarity. It
takes some work but the G chord played from D position at 7th fret is well
worth the effort! Dropped D tuning.
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Funeral March For a Marionette theme from Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(Performed and Arranged by Les Weller)
Performers comments:
I've been toying with this one for years, but haven't got past the main theme.
Quite an energetic walk up the neck. Don't forget
the slides at the ends of the lines! Dropped D Tuning.
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Lament For Limerick/It's Not Yet Day
(performed by Michael Owings)
Performers comments:
This short arrangement of Lament For Limerick is based loosely on Duck
Baker's version from the CD Irish Jigs, Reels, Airs and Hornpipes
(SHANACHIE 97011). The Arrangement of It's Not Yet Day is
completely my own. My debut arrangement -- be gentle with me ...
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Waltzing Mathilda
(Performed and Arranged by Les Weller)
Performers comments:
Open C Tuning, from APG Study Tape No. 1
One of my first arrangements for APG, played slowly it works pretty well.
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Hard Times Come Again No More by Stephen Foster
(Performed and Arranged by Les Weller)
Performers comments:
Grand tune in Open C Tuning,
APG tablature
to come soon.
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My Generous Lover/Donal Og
(performed by Michael Owings)
A Papoosified version of My Generous Lover/Donal Og from
Martin Simpson's Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals Video #3.
I highly recommend this entire video series (3 tapes in all) available
through Homespun Tapes.
Simpson is really an incredible musician and teacher.
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Miss Gordon's Reel
(performed by Michael Owings)
Trad. from The Guitar of Richard Thompson available from
Homespun Tapes. Lots of
really nice not-too-hard fingerpicking stuff on this 3-cassete series. The
guitar is tuned to DADGAD, capoed at the third fret. I added a tiny bit
of echo to this track to fill things out a bit. Note
that this and other tunes are available on my
Execrable Guitar Solos
web page.
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Rosie Anderson
(performed by Michael Owings)
The Rosie Anderson part from the medley on Martin Simpson's
Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals Video #1 (available from
Homespun Tapes.
DADGBE (Dropped-D) tuning,
capoed at the fifth fret. Note
that this and other tunes are available on my
Execrable Guitar Solos
web page.
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