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To mark the event I've made an arrangement of a nice traditional Scottish song, called "The Mist Covered Mountains of Home - I've made the tab and notation too for anyone who would like to look at it or wants to play it.
For anyone interested in Celtic music, the song's gaelic title is Chì Mi Na Mórbheanna and the melody, although notated in the key of A minor, is actually in the dorian mode, which means all the D chords are major instead of minor giving it a distinct harmonic 'flavour'. Dorian mode folk melodies are quite common throughout the British Isles but the lilting 'triple time' rhythm points to its Scottish roots.
Ok - enough of that stuff. Back to the party.
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Thanks for choosing this site to impart your wisdom and knowledge to, and thanks for the great tunes. As Rockerbob might say, you have a great Celtic mojo happening.
I'd love to learn the Gaelic language as well since I have Irish citizenship and love Celtic music. How about a Gaelic language forum under this one???
Thanks all - I'm glad you liked the arrangement. Sorry Les, I can't help you with Gaelic - I only know a few words and they're mostly unprintable. Anyway, shouldn't you be learning Welsh, "Mr Jones"?
Aren't there a lot of variations in Gaelic from country to country? My wife's cousin makes a living singing east coast Canada Gaelic. She even made it onto the charts and tv at one point.
I liked it, don't know to much about celtic music but have to wonder if Metallica is influenced by it ( not that i'm a big heavy metal fan) because it sounds a bit like some of their more mellow pieces
Aren't there a lot of variations in Gaelic from country to country? My wife's cousin makes a living singing east coast Canada Gaelic. She even made it onto the charts and tv at one point.
There is a few, off the top of my head the Scots, Welsh (not Welsh language) and a part of Argentina have different versions but only Ireland will push the language. They even designate "Irish Zones" called Gaeltacht where it is pure Irish, all road signs and council notices. Last year Dingle fell in that category and they changed the name to An Daingean and signs over a weekend.
The towns in that category get big state grants so it is forced.
Download the PDF of the 'Guitar Chord Slide Rule', print it out, fold it together and you'll have at your disposal a very neat tool that will not only show you all the positions for the main flavors of chords, but will also teach you a very important lesson about how the guitar works... It consists of a folded sleeve and six double sided inserts, instructions for cutting it out and folding it together are included with the PDF ... it's very simple to do, and if you botch it, you can simply print it out again!
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