Spencer The Rover - Traditional/Martyn (standard tuning)

[Merealoldeking]

Thanks for this very sweet arrangement & clear tutorial. You've kept the feel & spaciousness of DADGAD, but spared us standard-bound neanderthals the difficulty of navigating the alt-tuning universe.

Your playing is crisp & I agree w/ the others....your voice is beautiful on this.

Here's to ya, to Mr. Martyn & to all the other 60's/70s vintage 'trad arr' meisters!

[LiteGauge]

@Merealoldeking Thanks! Nothing wrong in wanting to stay in standard tuning. Open tunings means learning everything all over again - navigating - breaking strings and saying short expletives ;-)

All the best

[CoalCutter73]

This is really nice man. You have a very beautiful voice.

[LiteGauge]

@CoalCutter73 Thanks you very much - that's a great compliment !

[FRuTzk69]

Hey great cover, thanks for the standard tuning version, ive learned it from you over the last few days.

[AcousticMinja]

i love this.

[grovelhovel]

Great tune nicely performed. Thaks for the standard tuning I can't get the hang of

DADGAD! Thanks to JM for many beautiful tunes and lots of great memories. RIP John

[LiteGauge]

Thanks very much. Open tunings open up new possibilities but learning them is rather like starting again. I also find DADGAD rather difficult to work my way around.

[BigCrookster]

@LiteGauge Nice voice man, very close to the big man himself. That's quite a compliment from me! lol

[irvpav]

Love your version , Very cool the standard tuning !

Also to someone who hasn't played this the vocal may seem easy ITS NOT your vocal is spot on and the tone in your voice nicely compliments the tune 5*****+

[JoeChrisMorris]

Wow

an old traditional

From the Island Records period. Well done I think. Nicely played

I'm assuming most of Johns songs were in alternate tunings

[LiteGauge]

You can probably count the songs John did in standard tuning on your fingers - probably needing only one hand. He played Spencer the Rover in DADGAD, but I worked out this rough approximation in standard tuning. Peace John.

[jonno52]

After your recent DADGAD version, I wanted to try this song but in standard tuning. Now find you'd done that as well! Life is unexpectedly kind sometimes. Thanks for the helpful info on the chords and the nice clear fingering shown on the vid. Good performance too.

[bluesgunner]

This is fantastic! What are the chords?

[LiteGauge]

The chords are pretty basic D, Em7, G, Bm and A. I lean quite heavily on the 0x4030 chord, which I think is an Em9. I really like the John Martyn arrangement, which I tried to copy - it was only later that I read that he used DADGAD.

[bluesgunner]

Thankyou kindly :) I'll give it a go, but there's no promising I can match this performance, haha.

[MuNkYBizNess]

Cool arrangement

[achurley]

nice this, enjoyed it

[Waggonerslad]

Very nice version. Great job.

[LiteGauge]

Thanks