Basket (Dan Mangan cover)

This song is called Basket. It is by Dan Mangan, and it is one of my very favourite songs.
My hand is bandaged because I got a second-degree burn at work about a week before.

Please do comment and rate! I would love to know what you think.

A few people have asked for help with the guitar part so here's a tab:
There's now a chord chart on Ultimate Guitar that will show you the basic chords and when to switch between them.

Here's the picking pattern for the first bit where you play the E chord:
e|------------------------------
B|------------------------------
G|-------1---------2p1---1--
D|-------2-2-------2------2--
A|------------------------------
E|--0-0-----0-0--------------

Then you switch to F#m. This version is a bit more complicated than the video (in which I play the same pattern as above just with F#m instead of E) but it's what I play now and I think it sounds better:
|-----------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------
|------2----------2------------------2------------4p2---
|------4-4-------4p2--2h4--------4---4-------4------
|-----------------------------------------------------------
|--2-2------2-2---------------2-2----------2-2--------
Then you go back to E, and the rest is strumming except for the little B7 arpeggio bit at the end of each verse which is pretty straightforward.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• basket
• dan mangan
• cover
• maura doherty

[maddieclarksonxoxo]

Hi! Im trying to learn how to play this song but I can't figure it out! In the verses, what strings are you strumming/tabbing? I am playing E but can't get it :S

[mauramercury]

@maddieclarksonxoxo I just posted a tab in the video description -- YouTube wouldn't let me reply directly to your comment for some reason.

[meloves1person]

honestly , i don't want to compare you and dan mangan , but you sing the song at a much better angle. it's nice to see someone with such a soft nice and perfectly pitches voice singing this song. it almost seems as if its your own song. your very talented. i only listen to your cover, its amazing :D

[mauramercury]

@meloves1person Thank you so much for your kind words!

[FiveDollarFilm]

I feel real shallow for asking this but could someone help me with the plucking patterns on this song? This is an amazing song (and you sing it wonderfully btw ), and i would love to learn how to play it.

[mauramercury]

@FiveDollarFilm If you still need help I just posted a tab in the video description!

[maddieclarksonxoxo]

Thanks so much! and I love this cover it is the best i've seen. Your voice is beautiful.

[agardner007]

beautiful job.  thanks for sharing

[Rhibbler022]

You are wonderfully talented; thanks for sharing. I'd love to hear a whole album of your work, but after looking around the interwebs it seems that you only have this channel. The world needs more raw emotion like this expressed in music.

[PoetryAddict8]

This is great. I keep trying to cover this song but I can't strum that fast, I got too comfortable with finger picking.

You do the buildup of this song EXTREMELY well

[Polipotame]

Great voice !

[bigandtall]

well done - great version