Folks,
Let me apologize for this recording. I've got a house full of kids and folks, races on TV and kids and email going on ....... so, sorry about that ....
and in my "Open Air" recording studio I have to try and work around family noise!
This is Dougie MacLean's tune, Caledonia. It's one of my favorite melodies. I'm playing the Guild D25 and tuned in an Open C tuning (CGCGCE) which creates a beautiful drone tuning for fickerpicking. I'm capo'd on the 4th fret, just like Dougie, although I am in no way shape or form close to the quality of his work.
For the folks who are starting out with fingerpicking, notice the tripplets in the picking. These are actually just a series of pulloffs and hammer ons. The hardest part is getting the "timing" of the tripplets into the normal beat of the melody.
Enjoy ...
http://www.croakingfrogmusic.com/mp3/caledonia.mp3
Les