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- Two jigs played on my Fylde "longscale archtop" bouzouki. I own this instrument for almost a year now, and still love it more every day.
The jigs are "The Pipe on the Hob", which I learned from my friend Erik de Jong, and "Cliffs of Moher", which I learned from Kevin Burke's album "If the Cap Fits". Both are in A dorian, played on a bouzouki in GDad' with a capo on the 7th fret.
Comments are welcome!
I love Pipe On the Hob. This one instrument version is quite powerful. For the complexity of a full band arrangement, The Bothy Band performance is highly recommended.
so very sweet
I love that beautiful music sound was on a bouzouki I think of sound was Johnny Cash
I love Greek Bouzouki cause i am from Greece but i must say that Irsih Bouzouki is also an awsome instrument. And the tune and playing is also great. Greetings from Greece.
Hey weird question. Ligas sounds like a greek name. Are you Greek by any chance?
I can't tell you how happy that made me listening to these wonderful tunes. Thankyou
Really nice playing!
Two great tunes, and they go together very well.
Amazing
Nice improv bueno magnifico 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸⚔️⚔️🇺🇸🇺🇸⚔️⚔️🇺🇸🇺🇸⚔️⚔️🇺🇸🇺🇸⚔️⚔️🇺🇸🇺🇸
Great tunes on a great instrument,
Wonderful musician playing a wonderful irish music.
Awesome playing!
Perfect as ever my friend 🤗
I am just starting out on Irish Bouzouki and your videos are inspirational. Thanks for sharing your music.
A fine instrument and a fine player combined, magnificently played. I can only wonder if the six "thumbs-down" must be insanely jealous, disgruntled banjo pluckers.
Very fine and tasteful. BRAVO!!!
Excellent! Great job with so consistent a partial-dotted lilt and steady tempo. You must be a welcome player at many good sessiuns.
Just amazing! I love it!
Lo tocas muy bien
Nice and steady, beautiful tone
Henry Lejeune
Wow man. You killed it. Keep posting.
Lovely playing.
Great playing! I closed my eyes and pictured the highlands before me while listening to your playing. Thank you.
Highlands?
Nice playing; God Bless you :)
outstanding!
Wonderful playing..and a wonderful instrument!!! thanks for sharing!!
Incredible :-) Great!!
Sounds great
Damn! So smooth, great playing
Great job!
I very much liked your cross picking technique! Never saw it being used to play bouzouki!
Lovely
Bravo , continuez !
this is the way i want to try and play it! back tu thee woode shedde
wonderful!
wonderful
Great Man! keep on
Sweet!
Super !
GREAT
Folks one missing item! the Irish Bouzouki has the "G" string & the "D" strings set up as octave with the "A" string & "E" strings in unison. The set up I play most is G-D-A-E however many down tune the "E" to a "D" which is also good if you like that sound. In a number of books the G-D-A-E is called Irish, same tuning as violin, mandolin, the G-D-A-D tuning is called standard tuning, "No' I don't know why! Just is! I like the twang sound that one hears from the Irish Bouzouki a little bit like (but not really) a banjo sound.
I have several and only one is set up as a octave mandolin, the other 3 are in some kind of tuning but different.
The lad above is a very good player, thanks for the fun in my ears!
Aye, mine is tuned GDAD. Not in octaves though, all my courses are in unison.
TijnB42 maybe next time just before you do a string change on your bouzouki switch out the two bottom sets to octave and give that sound a try. You can start with string size (E) to the "D" making it an octave and the (A) to the "G" making it octave also. I've use many different sizes and most will give a very light Greek bouzouki sound. Sometimes the new is worth a try! Mr. P. Hart
Why? Why would you want to? Apart from anything else, putting octaved strings on a unison Bouzouki will give you problems at the nut.
I wonder, can you make them up on the go? Enjoyed your videos, thx for posting it.
This sounds really great !! But it's not an easy task to to learn it by ear...
sounds great, so I assume the capo 7th fret takes it up an octave and makes easier to play? I have a 5 course cittern myself DGDAD and find it a lot easier to play at the 5th or higher frets
dude I'm playing 6 years tenor banjo and cant get your rhythm or my own. please dude help me. listening to you along time your magic...
Just recently purchased an Irish Bouzouki & the Zan McLeod DVD (spelling , I know haha) and am trying to learn though it is difficult as I have little to no experience previously with a guitar-type of instrument (bold, I know but couldn't help myself with this instrument). Any recommendations on how to effectively learn how to play it, other than the DVD?
Nice I’ve got a goldtone but i want to upgrade what is that you’re playing
Gdad will you get me one for Christmas? XD
Great tunes! I have a newbie question for you: does it make a difference when you play having the strap tied to the headstock as opposed to being attached to a button where the neck meets the body? Why do you choose wearing the strap this way?
Certain people play better at different angles, like how slash has his guitar vs how paul McCartney had his bass
That is wicked picking! I would love to play this on my Mandolin...do you play this on Mandolin as well?
Steve F Thanks! For me it's a mandola with a capo at 7, but yes, I do :p
Wonderful playing! Thanks for sharing the tuning in another comment. One more question ... what picking pattern are you using? The video is blurred, so its hard to see what your right hand is doing. I'm guessing you're hitting the downstroke on beats 1 & 4, otherwise alternating. Is that right?
cheers, Brendan
Thanks! It's a very basic down-down-up most of the time, a few times I do something different when switching between strings makes it tricky.
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are there tabs to this?
Sounds great! Do you not use your pinky to play?
+Ryan Dunne Thanks! I usually do, but when I'm playing this high up the neck the frets are so close to each other that I don't have to use it.
I see, I'm trying to learn proper technique for bouzouki and I noticed you didn't use your pinky finger much in this song and you played it so impressively. Any tips on proper fingerings? There is little online I have found...
How well does a mandolin translate to this?
Is that GDAD tuning? and why the capo, is it to hard to reach in open position?
enjoyed that, good stuff. what tuning are you using ? thanks
Thanks! The bouzouki is tuned G,DAd, which I think is the most common tuning for Irish bouzouki. Here I play with the capo on the 7th fret, thus making it DAea.
Nice playing, do you know the blind harper by any chance?.
Awesome, I have bought an irish bouzouki a few days ago, where can I find this tab or sheet music?
Thanks! Sheet music for thousands of Irish session tunes can be found on thesession.org, these two are on there too.
There must be a huge difference between Greek bouzouki and Irish bouzouki.
Not really. Just the general shape and the tuning. The Greek ones tend to have a bowl back and are tuned in C the Irish ones are flat backed and tuned in D
Umm, you have way too much musical talents in one body.
Kinda has that dorian medieval sound to it.
That type of thing is ok when there are no chord changes, but not useful in most music.
Thanks! Feel free to keep your uninformed opinion to yourself from hereon.
It is great. Is there a tab or something to play it?
Superb!
Amazing!!