John Stowell playing "Haiku" from his Mel Bay DVD, Stowell Plays Stowell

[giordano243]

amazing

[winnijazz]

A beautiful composition by John,I love this tune.It has the same quality as his tune I WISH

I want to learn it!!

[Rexicano]

This is as far from the nature of a Haiku as you can get. Satie was more like someone who could claim to write with a Haiku feel. This sounds like an exercise in harmonic concepts...ones which I'd never want to use.

[diegosalvadorv]

"down a major 3rd sounds easier to me than "standard C".

[solowayguitars]

@Fluffypopcicle It's just a result of my being old and clueless. I'd never heard the term "standard C" until today.

[Fluffypopcicle]

@solowayguitars

Sorry if I came across as a tad judgmental, but there are specific names for certain tunings and such and I had never heard somebody explain the tuning in that way. I'm assuming it's a major 3rd down from standard and standard is in E so since a major third is is 2 whole steps, 2 whole steps down from E is C so that's where I'm getting this from. I assume you know that though, just making sure.

[LutenistDeMari]

@Fluffypopcicle I think the real issue here is that you think 'down a major third' "sounds all fancy".......its fairly simple really.... a major third is an interval.... and down means down...

[Fluffypopcicle]

@LutenistDeMari

I don't think it sounds all fancy, I just never thought any experienced guitarist like the guy here wouldn't know how to pronounce alternate tunings the standard way. I have met some people who try and make really simple things sound complicated to sound like they're smart, I wrongly assumed that's what this guy did. Key thing being that it was a wrong assumption, now please leave it alone.

[Olivia2551]

I love this......

[FrankGrigonis]

This is eerily lovely and very hip.

[evyhfd]

I tihnk he has the one near the japanese time feeling

[kofianonym]

beautiful playing, John. As always :)