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Oh! Susanna
Classical banjo and fingerstyle guitar arrangement of the Stephen Foster tune.
posted on Jun 3, 2008 - View this thread
Wave
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Hard Times Come Again No More
Just installed new strings and set up my new 3-mic stand; I figured I'd test drive 'em both.
posted on Mar 29, 2008 - View this thread
noodling
More 12-string fingerstyle. This time the tuning is DADDAD.
posted on Mar 7, 2008 - View this thread
Cheese Whiz
I have no idea why I decided to choose that name half a life ago. It is a 12-string fingerstyle barnburner played with pinky slide.
posted on Mar 6, 2008 - View this thread
sonic youth vs. john fahey
To rock or to pick? That seemed to be struggle that played out on this old cassette that I recently dug up and digitized.
This is another 12-string fingerstyle tune in an alternate tuning (Cc Gg Cc gg gc ce). I played around with tuning the double-coursed strings to different notes.
posted on Mar 5, 2008 - View this thread
cgcgce
Another fingerstyle tune from the cassette time capsule. This one was recorded on a six-string with my friends backing me up on cello and percussion.
posted on Mar 4, 2008 - View this thread
Stay
cover of the song by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs. Fingerstyle guitar, vocals, banjo. Created for the 2008
Songfight! Gift of Music sidefight.
posted on Feb 1, 2008 - View this thread
Night Terrors
Written to satisfy both a Songfight challenge and the mefi music challenge. Who says you can't spook two horses with one chestnut? Featuring three buttons on my accordion.
posted on Oct 26, 2007 - View this thread
Take this Hammer
Beat Guitar (or, Rags to Rags)
Raw bedroom recording of a song that will eventually end up on an album. Lyrics inside.
posted on Sep 17, 2007 - View this thread
Imogen Heap "Hide and Seek" Arrangement for the Guitar
Rough arrangement of Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" for the steel-string guitar. I put this together about a month ago, after the SNL "Dear Sister" sketch introduced me to the song.
posted on May 15, 2007 - View this thread
The Parting Glass (Fingerstyle w/ Violin)
Fingerstyle arrangement of a trad tune, features backing violin by Gretchen Lohse.
posted on Jan 17, 2007 - View this thread
Auld Lang Syne
Fingerstyle arrangement of the trad tune. Looks like it was transposed down a step during conversion. Link to mp3 inside.
posted on Dec 31, 2006 - View this thread
Glass Eye
Off the album released in January, here's a blues written almost two years ago featuring Colin Keller on the Drums.
posted on Jul 3, 2006 - View this thread