Silver Swan by Scott Joplin

[carbomarcello1]

i like your style

[mlydiat]

@carbomarcello1 Thanks for commenting - good blues on your channel.

[mickeyflynn1954]

Hi, was cool to see a few other folks on this site playing this graceful old fave piece of mine. Best to you and yours.

[mlydiat]

Thanks Mickey - and thanks for subscribing too.

[geordie1833]

Holy £$%! a D45! M36 owner here. Great tune played well.

[mlydiat]

Geordie - thanks for the cmment. The guitar's a D-42 Limited Edition actually but I don't have it any more. I put it part-ex for a Manson Custom Jumbo which you can hear if you search for the tune Miss Hamilton.

[whitetetyb]

i luv it, played scrupulously with your (?) own rendition. or someone else' rendition, yet your guitar, and you, three. ! keep up ur work i want to see u more from utube.

[mlydiat]

Thanks for the comment. If you read down the early comments you will see that the arrangement is from an old Kicking Mule album from Ton van Bergyck. Search for LYDIAT and you will find many more tunes arranged by me.

[sc2man13]

Great playing man, that was beautiful. I love the bright sound of your guitar. It rings like a bell

[mlydiat]

Thanks for taking the time to respond. It's certainly a very 'bright' guitar - Martin know how to build them.

Mike

[schmev123]

Absoluteley beautiful. I have a queston regarding the artificial harmonics. When you play the G on the 1st string, 15 fret, are you also playing a base note simultaneously with you thumb?

[mlydiat]

Hi - thanks for the support.

For the artificial harmonic 3 things are happening at once.

a) thumb plays bass note 5th string (1st fret)

b) left hand fingers 1st string 3rd fret while index finger of right hand touches fret 15 1st string and

c) middle finger right hand plays 1st string.

Then for the second artificial harmonic you do all that at fret 2 / fret 14 of top string with bass note as 2nd fret 5th string.

It's harder to explain than to do!

Mike

[Philobiblion]

Transposing it into the easier key is good. Very nice and sweet rendition.

[teumut]

No I havn't posted my playing. A bit scratchy right now but starting to put more time in again. Wouldn't put anything up until I was fluid. Where did you get music from if not from 'Fingerpicking delights'? You tube's an amazing medium, contact with the whole world!

[mlydiat]

I got the tab with the LP as you suggest - there is a 3rd section (not in Ton van Bergyck's track) which I am trying to perfect for a different video.

[teumut]

Hi nice to see someone else playing this, that's me the other guy I hear playing it. Just a tid bit here, according to Stefan Grossman's comments on this song in his book 'Fingerpicking delights' this song was found on an old piano roll in the New York City library during the Scott Joplin revival of the 1970's - Composer unknown! Just passing that on and thanks for sharing your playing, keep it up.

[mlydiat]

Thanks for the historical snippet - I didn't know that.

Have you posted your playing to You Tube?

[Keeper1st]

Since that time, however, more copies of the roll were found with the label intact, clearly identifying Joplin as the composer.

[mlydiat]

I think I discovered the 3rd section on a CD attributing the whole thing to Joplin. Must record it with all 3 sections some time.

[xannirose]

Thank you that was impressive to say the least. I really enjoyed it.

[mlydiat]

Thanks for the comment.

[immanence]

Beautifully done. The Martin just sings in the right hands.

[BenRoachBlizzard]

Thanks - I have a third section to add as well.

[ddanze]

Well, if I'da known I wouldn't have posted my

(flaky, unpractised) rendition. Kudos to ya.

I'll have to either remove or renew mine, thanks to you!

[WillHirsch1]

Wow! That was impressive!. I've gotten the tune only as far as the "false" harmonics and sheesh, not so easy. You did this tune justice. It's a beaut! Like it's history as well. Keep 'em comin!