Sweet Lorraine

This tune - beloved of jazzers since it was written in 1928 - was composed by Cliff Burwell. I've played it, on and off, in various bands, for years, but haven't played it fingerstyle for a long time. After a morning of multi-tracking and layering sound, I just wanted to do a quick recording in one take - warts and all - and this is it!

Some simple tab to follow soon...

http://www.mjra.net/WillFly/

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Will
• Fly
• Cliff
• Burwell
• acoustic
• fingerstyle
• jazz
• guitar

[Mburwell2222]

good performance...my name is mark burwell and my great grandfather cliff burwell composed this song...im trying to play it now..and still trying to find a good enough guitar tab for it!!!...can ya help me out?

[HenfieldWill]

@Mburwell2222 Glad you liked it, Mark - your great grandpappy wrote a wonderful classic! I don't have any tab for this, I'm afraid - never got round to writing any and just played around with the chord structure and tune in the recording. I hope you find some - I'm really tied up with lots of musical stuff at the moment, otherwise I'd have a go at it. :-)

[leccinator]

how long are your nails on your right hand?

you are a magical player

[HenfieldWill]

Well, when I made this, they were just growing to about 8th inch after getting quite worn down. As you can see from the video, I pick the strings quite hard at times...:-)

[luiseifer]

Bravo!!!!!!! Thank you for not only this beautiful song, thank you for all songs you are playing here on youtube. Your smile at 1:46 is something special, thank you man!!! Greetings from Croatia!

[HenfieldWill]

And greetings to you! I smiled at the improbability of my playing - on a wing and a prayer - at that point! :-)

[christianevansmusic]

Great tune man. Guitar sounds nice too!! Nice to hear a good player on YouTube. Mostly just a bunch of hacks!

[pilarmattioli]

great clip keep it up =)

[BeeMichael]

Great - nice breezy rendition of a classic - i like the changes you use in the bridge - in my fake book they are too convoluted - nice stuff !

[pjurack]

Lovely, got to learn this.

[leccinator]

thanks for replying to my message, man. i really apreciate all the videos you've put up here; they inspire me greatly.

[pugxx8]

i think you very awsome good at fingerpicking. i play a little fingerpicking style but nothing close like your doing here i wish i can be this good one day.thanks for the inspiration!!