Fiddle, Guitar & Bodhran: Green Mountain / Ships are Sailing / Boys of Malin

I've been playing the fiddle for just over 2 years now, so I thought it was high time I did another video. In fact, this is the first video with my lovely fiddle that I bought in November!

The tunes are all well known session reels. The first is "The Green Mountain" in D, the second is "The Ships are Sailing" in E dorian, and the third is "The Boys of Malin" in A.

The Green Mountain:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/166

The Ships are Sailing:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/543

The Boys of Malin:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/11

The guitar is my cheap Wesley Ovation copy. I used this as my other is tuned to open G at the moment at I couldn't be bothered to change it. This one's tuned to drop-D.

The bodhran is also a cheap and cheerful thing from Hobgoblin. I followed these instructions to make it sound better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euUSfb8LfMw

Category:

Music

Tags:

• irish
• reel
• fiddle
• guitar
• bodhran
• set
• session
• Green
• Mountain
• ships
• are
• sailing
• boys
• of
• malin

[ZombieSlayer9000]

what are the notes for green mountain

[davedupplaw]

@ZombieSlayer9000 Have a look on the website thesession (dot) org where you can get the notes for over 10,000 Celtic tunes.

[Brengor69]

do ye play the guitar in DADGAD? Drop D? EADGBE?

An-mhaith!

[davedupplaw]

@Brengor69 Hiya! In this video it's drop-D. In another video I play DADGAD accompaniment, although I now pretty much exclusively play open-G which I find pretty good for accompaniment too. Cheers! Dave

[josecalcru1]

Hey Dave, this is great!

I really like your bouncy guitar playing :P

I've been wanting to learn the last reel in a while.

[davedupplaw]

@josecalcru1 Thanks :) The bouncy guitar playing is mainly inspired by a guy at our local session. The chords are a bit uninspired though. Need some help from Norman :)

[ZombieSlayer9000]

@davedupplaw thanks

[jon3jon1jopn]

Awesome! Like like like

[ormoluinhen]

i knew you'd recorded boys of malin too somewhere - gotta learn this set!

[davedupplaw]

@MustBeTehLag Just a cheap Gremlin bodhrán from Hobgoblin.

[RichReevesNL]

haha good stuff! 5 stars!

[pcmhfx]

I love this. I've listened to it a few times. Creative. Musical. Nice blend of technology and good old human energy.