A sunny morning serenading (and being serenade by) the blackbirds during Coronavirus lockdown
One sunny morning in May I went into the garden and recorded a set of YouTube clips of some of my favourite tunes. Blackbirds are in clear evidence - I'd like to think enjoying the sounds, but more likely thoroughly annoyed by the competition. Anyway the following tunes range from Mediaeval to pop classics.....
Fields of Gold / Misty Moll
This is my arrangement of Fields of Gold, a 1993 classic from Sting. It is followed by a traditional Irish tune Misty Moll, though in much altered form to give it a more jazzy tinge.
Ton of blues
A rather upbeat ragtime blues version of Ton van Bergeyk's 'Ton of Blues'
Marmaduke mouse
A short original tune - the closest I ever got to writing an English folk song....
Prelude from CELLO SUITE N. 1 by J. S. BACH
A piece I have been working on during the lockdown
Bossa Joa
Some gypsy-influenced music that I learned from the French guitar maker Jerome Martin last year on holiday.
Ain't misbehaving
This Fats Waller classic could be the anthem for lockdown days!
Blues in G minor
One of my own tunes in open G minor tuning.
Tristan's Lament / La Rotta
Taken from the playing of the late lamented John Renbourn, these are two of his Mediaeval tune arrangements.
Mist covered mountains of home / Captain Carswell's
Two traditional Scottish pipe tunes, the first a slow air, the second 4/4 march
Liberty Bell, by JP Sousa
And now for something completely different.........
One note samba
A classic bossa nova tune from the great Antonio Carlos Jobim