Shady Grove

Shady Grove is a well known folk song. Here I play it in a frailing style, with a partial capo on the second fret. It covers the A, D and G strings, which gives the guitar a DADGAD tuning, just in the key of E instead of D. I play on a Washburn parlor guitar.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• old
• time
• oldtime
• american
• folk
• song
• dadgad
• tuning
• partial
• capo
• washburn
• parlor
• guitar
• jesper
• deleuran

[joelakastud123]

are you using nylon or steel strings

kinda sounds like steel

[r810s]

@joelakastud123 No not nylon. I prefer steel strings on my guitars. I have other instruments with nylon, like banjo and bariton ukulele, but not on the guitars.

[joelakastud123]

@r810s thanks for the info i thought it sounded more like steel

i was looking for more romantic styles of classical guitars and parlour guitars like this are easier to find at a reasonable price with nylon would this guitar be able to play spanish classical like adelita or asturias?

[r810s]

@joelakastud123 THis particular guitar is more like an american folk and blues guitar. I do not doubt that it is possible to play classical music on it as the fretboard is wide enough for fingerpicking. But i do doubt that it will produce the same sound as the spanish or classical guitars.

I think it is possible to find one of those for a reasonable price, if you are not on the level of Andre Segovia yet.

[BraxtonCleburne]

Very nice ! I love the strange harmonies given by the DADGAD tuning !

[larry6669]

hey man might you be able to throw a piece of advice to me on getting into folk style guitar playing i am sick of my old metal style and i wish to transcend into something much better

[knopflerbest]

Sometimes, it hears like knopfler' style on ragpicker's album, great

[hamrzlawnlake]

You may not ride, or even have a horse, but you are a true cowboy.

[salexmich]

This is a beautiful version on Shady Grove

[axelkanne]

Hej Jesper. Du behøver ikke melde dig på holdet ;) Det er bare en lille introduktion.

Sounds great . ( Også Washburn'en)