West
Jan-16-2008, 11:40am
I bought a very nice Gibson L4 Tenor a couple of weeks ago, tuned in GDAE, and I love it. #
Can anyone recommend things to play? #I know that's a little open-ended, so let me try to narrow the field a bit. #First of all, I'm not that good. #I really like some of the tunes in John McGann's book, particularly Cooley's Reel and Bits of Ginger, but I can't get them up to speed yet and frankly I can handle only so much Irish at a time. #I love the bouzouki arrangements from Tim O'Brien's Homespun DVD -- basically just ballads with the melody linked together by arpeggioed chords, slow and pretty. #I also just kinda sit around picking; sometimes I wind up doing some of the slow Bach partita stuff and sometimes I might stray to Dylan or Clapton or Tupac or whatever, just as long as it's not too fast. #
Anybody got any tips on additional things that would be fun to play, particularly on a Tenor -- and where I might find them?
Or if you're not feeling helpful today and want to talk about yourself instead, let me rephrase the question: #whaddaya like to play?
Can anyone recommend things to play? #I know that's a little open-ended, so let me try to narrow the field a bit. #First of all, I'm not that good. #I really like some of the tunes in John McGann's book, particularly Cooley's Reel and Bits of Ginger, but I can't get them up to speed yet and frankly I can handle only so much Irish at a time. #I love the bouzouki arrangements from Tim O'Brien's Homespun DVD -- basically just ballads with the melody linked together by arpeggioed chords, slow and pretty. #I also just kinda sit around picking; sometimes I wind up doing some of the slow Bach partita stuff and sometimes I might stray to Dylan or Clapton or Tupac or whatever, just as long as it's not too fast. #
Anybody got any tips on additional things that would be fun to play, particularly on a Tenor -- and where I might find them?
Or if you're not feeling helpful today and want to talk about yourself instead, let me rephrase the question: #whaddaya like to play?