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R-M-M-G-A!
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A little ditty written for the members of the Internet rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic newsgroup. Well, that's what folk music is, really. Stuff which relates to society. Newsgroups are society!
singer songwriter acoustic folk british guitarist song celtic traditional fingerstyle scottish scotland guitar kelso
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Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.
I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
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Peak #77
Peak in subgenre #22
Author
David Kilpatrick
Rights
David Kilpatrick 1999
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November 25, 2003
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MP3 1.9 MB • 128 kbps • 2:01
Story behind the song
There was a bit of a thread about songs for or about RMMGA, the acoustic guitar newsgroup, in fall 1999. As a songwriter this was a challenge and as a guitarist, it called for a complete break with my normal legato-celtic style. Just a question of psyching up, writing the words, changing the way my fingers and brain worked for an hour or two and recording. It's a minidisk single mike live recording with no processing. What you hear is what I did, Allah-appeasing bum note in critical place and all! If you asked me to play this now I couldn't - I neither play nor sing like this normally. It is like acting. I had to change personality to do this. The whole process took about 3 hours start to finish. The guitar used was my self-built 0000.
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RMMGA song. Played in drop D tuning, no capo. R, M, M-G-A Boys'n'girls come out to play Picking on an open string (let it ring!) Doing without delay (or echo!) R, M, M-G-A Boys and girls got tracks to lay Hammering the rails down Wearing all their nails down Plucking on the bass below At any time of night or day! R, M, M-G-A Boys'n'girls come out to play Pickin' on an ole guitar (you're a star!) Even if you don't get pay (or an audience!) R, M, M-G-A Everyone can have their say Lurking in the byways Of the superhighway Tappin' on the QWERTY keys At any time of night or day! (bridge) Forget the phaser Cut the chorus We're made of wood so don't ignore us Unplug the AC cord Throw away the jack Hold down a C chord And get the feeling back In the fingers which go dead Because your dreadnought's much too fat To ergonomically Hold like that! R, M, M-G-A You can be ten thousand miles away From Alaska to Australia We can mail yer Two hundred times a day (so be selective!) R, M, M-G-A Boys and girls come out to play Barring all our F-chords Barring all our F-words Bearing our souls and tapping our toes At any time of night or day! (first verse repeat)
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