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John Henry Circus Day.AVI
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My original composition. I am very pleased with this, and the take still makes me happy. The picture is : John Henry, after a nasty hard week of defeating machinery by mean...
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Riding On Daddy's Shoulders
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I wrote this after a hope-inspiring visit today. It is messy right now, but fun anyway. I considered the state of well-being I was in and what sort of jouncy image went wi...
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St Patrick's Hymn
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After John Fahey's several recorded playings of the piece. The resonances of the Guild on those lower chords feel good coming through the back of the guitar -and into one's...
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Spring Awakening
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A tune I wrote in the Spring of 2007. It has some ordinary forms and some clusters of fretted strings and open ones, played in such order as to give arpeggios, which I enjo...
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Come Back, Baby
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As I recall, from my brother Rick Oltsch teaching me. See the tutorial for this, also on my youtube stuff, if you care to. My fingering is sloppy, partly due to weak buste...
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Come Back, Baby tutorial
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For David- As I recall my older brother Rick doing this, and as he taught me many years ago. He probably got his version from a Dave Van Ronk record, but Rick had gifted mu...
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The Yellow Princess
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John Fahey's majestic and difficult piece, a textbook in fingerpicking techniques and left-hand fingerings too. I just today (June 21, 2009) was able to use a part of Windo...
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Rowing Away
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Perhaps my favorite of the pieces that I've written so far. Standard tuning. 2008 Guild D40. I got a mental picture of someone leaving a place and a relationship, the rhyt...
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Osprey
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Original, composed after I began to use the right thumb on the upper strings, realizing that the common practice of keeping it to the lower three is restrictive. After that...
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My Hymn
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Original piece. For Judy and for David.
About OspreyD40
The "D40" is drawn from my brother Dan's Guild guitar. He and my brother Rick were both guitarists, Rick being my finest early inspiration for acoustic steel. (My best friend, Dick Benoit was playing flamenco pieces after his enthusiasm for Carlos Montoya, whom we met, and classical pieces traditional and modern, e.g. Villa Lobos, Jobim). I've played since I was a teenager, various guitars -but acoustic steel, in this style, only since about January of 2006. John Fahey is my greatest inspiration, and was one of Br'er Rick's musical models as well. Learning to play with fingerpicks was a challenge, but has opened up possibilities multifold. (John Pearse stainless steel Hi-Rider picks on three fingers with a Dunlop L. thumbpick works for me.) Since starting to play acoustic with fingerpicks, I have been able to write pieces now and then. Some takes of these are posted here.
The "D40" is drawn from my brother Dan's Guild guitar. He and my brother Rick were both guitarists, Rick being my finest early inspiration for acoustic steel. (My best friend, Dick Benoit was playing flamenco pieces after his enthusiasm for Carlos...
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