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Plooman Laddies
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This is a simple 4-minute guitar instrumental based on the main air to the traditional Scottish song 'Plooman' Laddies' and some variations. Steel-string Lowden 0-10 guitar.
singer songwriter acoustic folk british guitarist song celtic traditional fingerstyle scottish scotland guitar kelso
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Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.
I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.
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Peak #422
Peak in subgenre #9
Author
David Kilpatrick
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David Kilpatrick
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November 25, 2003
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MP3 3.7 MB 128 kbps 4:05
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The main air to Plooman' Laddies remains one of my favourites for singing and is found in several other similar songs. It is extremely simple, based on no more than five chords and easily played using only three. The mode or feel can be shifted considerably by choice of chord; here I mainly use D with G and Am7 or C/A, but sometimes the G is substituted with Em, and a couple of time I use A or A7 instead of C/A for a greater change. When sung, this is the usual harmony rather than the C/A (x02010) chord which I find more attractive for an instrumental, giving a slightly plaintive air. This track has been recorded using four separate sources on the Lowden O-10 guitar - a Fishman Acoustic Matrix Natural 1 under-saddle piezo pickup, an AKG C1000S condensor mike aimed behind the bridge, a Pickup The World #27 sensor mounted inside the guitar on the bridge-plate, and a Beyer M05 dynamic mike processed through a JoeMeek VC3 v2 Pro Channel aimed at the junction of fingerboard and soundhole. The guitar is tuned to concert pitch with the bass string dropped to D, using Martin SP Bronze light strings.
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