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Comely Garden Reel Comely Garden Reel
Trad Celtic tune in DADGAD arr Rob MacKillop. Vintage VE2000GG acoustic guitar. Avantone CK-1 Omni & Cardioid microphones. Played slower than usual by choice.
Drowsy Maggie Drowsy Maggie
Trad Scots tune arr Rob MacKillop. Vintage VE200GG acoustic guitar in DADGAD with Capo at 2nd fret. Avantone CK-1 Omni & Cardioid microphones. Played slower than usual to bring out the tune better.
Sleep Sound in Da Mornin Sleep Sound in Da Mornin
Trad Scots tune arr by Rob MacKillop. Vintage VE200GG acoustic guitar in DADGAD with Capo at 2nd fret. Avantone CK-1 Omni & Cardioid microphones.
Meander with Purpose Meander with Purpose
DADGAD compositon - intended to be anomalous, but it kept resolving. Vintage VE2000GG acoustic guitar. Avantone CK-1 Omni & Cardioid microphones.
Asleep on the Porch Asleep on the Porch
Adding an improvisation on top of a basic Steve Eulberg Fingerstyle Lesson 'Porch Swinging'. Both tracks using TW133 acoustic guitar recorded with Avantone CK-1 Omni & Cardioid microphones.
Heather (GIO) Heather (GIO)
Test of addition of Garritan Orchestral Software onto DADGAD composition in Scots style. Vintage VE2000GG acoustic guitar. Avantone CK-1 Omni & Cardioid microphone into Zoom H4n recorder.
Heather Heather
DADGAD composition in Scots style. Vintage VE2000GG acoustic guitar (Capo 3) - Avantone CK-1 Omni & Cardioid microphones into Zoom H4n recorder.
Good Man Bad Man Good Man Bad Man
Song in DADGAD tuning. Vintage VE2000GG acoustic guitar. Avantone CK-1 Omni & Cardioid microphones. Vocal on AKG C3000 microphone.
Looking Inwards Looking Inwards
Composition in DADGAD. Vintage VE2000GG acoustic guitar. Avantone CK-1 Omni & Cardioid microphones into Zoom H4n recorder.
The Nights are Drawing In The Nights are Drawing In
Composition in Csus2. Tanglewood TW73 acoustic guitar. Avantone CK-1 Omni & Cardioid microphones
Hard Times Coming Soon Too Hard Times Coming Soon Too
This started with a basic composition in Csus2 which was then used as a framework for added notes when improvising which having been practised formed this recorded composition. Vintage VE2000GG : Avantone CK-1 Omni and Cardioid mics.
Reckoning Reckoning
Combination of acoustic & MIDI. Playing around with a single track using Garritan Instant Orchestra and adding an acoustic guitar track with the vintage VE2000GG plugged in direct using piezo/internal mic mix. All improvised.
My Tochers the Jewel My Tochers the Jewel
From Robert Burns DADGAD guitar book arr Ondrej Sarek. Vintage VE2000GG acoustic guitar recorded on Zoom H4n portable recorder using Zooms built in microphones.
Brooding Brooding
DADGAD composition. Vintage VE2000GG Gordon Giltrap Signature acoustic recorded on Zoom H4n portable recorder using internal microphones. No fx, no added reverb, no editing - just a simple recording.
Sad Evolution Sad Evolution
A bit of (hopefully) moody noodling over a MIDI track obtained using Garritan Instant Orchestra. Just at the testing the software stage. A single track unedited piece from the software using a preset called Evolution 1.
Roslin Castle Roslin Castle
An attempt at the trad piece Roslin Castle (arr Mark Thomson). The recently bought Vintage Giltrap Signature acoustic takes a capo better than any of my previous guitars. Capo 5th fret. Avantone CK-1 Omni & Cardioid microphones. In DADGAD.
Corne Yairds Corne Yairds
Vintage VE2000GG Guitar : Avantone CK-1 Omni & Cardioid Microphones: Open G Tuning : Old tune from the Rowallan Lute Music (1612-18) arr Rob MacKillop. Based around the double tonic feature - includes some improvised parts.
Pedalling Nowhere Pedalling Nowhere
Vintage VE200GG Guitar in Standard Tuning : TC Delay Pedal : Loudbox Mini Amp with Reverb & Chorus. Direct Recording to PC. In Em. Improvised and one track and one take.
After the Battle of Aughrim After the Battle of Aughrim
Vintage VE2000GG : Avantone AK-1 Omni & Cardioid Microphones : Drop D tuning: One track Lead & one track Chordal Backing. Based on an arrangement by Steve Eulberg on JamPlay
Arctic Ground Squirrel Arctic Ground Squirrel
Thought I'd have a go at writing a song about the remarkable Arctic Ground Squirrel. Instruments used are a Vintage VE2000GG acoustic guitar tuned in DADGAD and an Ashbury Mandolin.
