The Road to Lisdoonvarna (jig)

[alfstone]

To be honest, I had planned this one for last month's Open Tuning Fest, but I didn't arrive in time...

...anyway...

this is a TRADITIONAL Irish jig, here's my contribution to the Trad. Fest!  

Guitar tuning: EADEAE

Jig on!!!  

Alfredo

[64Guitars]

Bellissimo.

[Gnasty]

I love Irish folk.This is excellent Alfredo. Cool tuning to learn too. Great playing!

[Hook]

Jig on my brother, jig on!!!!
Sounds great, I have always had trouble with that jig melody but you nailed it.
Rock On!

[bruno]

Lovely little jig Alfredo.
Very nice playing - great recording.
6/8 on

[Oldrottenhead]

must be one of the few times ive listened to an irish jig sober. now i want a guinness. magic alfredo but not helping me on my day of abstinence.

[IanR]

Hi Alfredo,

I really enjoyed this.

thanks,

Ian

[fenderbender]

What a beauty Alfredo -love it

what guitar did you use to get that tone ??



Tommy

[Hilary]

Bellissimo.

Indeed . . .

[alfstone]

Dear friends,

you all are too much kind, thank you for listening and your nice comments!  

A couple of answers:

Hook, if you had problems with this jig with different tunings (standard tuning included), try EADEAE, and you'll see that everything becomes more simple...

Tommy, the guitar...really a long story! My aunt bought me in the far 1980 a 12 string Tamaki acoustic guitar, as a gift for my degree. It was a copy of the glorious Gibson J-200, but with 12 string. For me it's still today impossible to know anything about this brand of guitars, Google doesn't help much.

Anyway, even if it was a cheap guitar, I found its neck wonderful and very comfortable, probably because it was a little wider than normal due to the 12 strings.

So, after some years, it became a 6 string guitar (I pulled off the treble strings), and I put a B-Band PU on it. I was NEVER really satisfied with this PU, but...some weeks ago I fell in love with the sound of danieldesete's guitar (thanks, Daniel!!!), equipped with a Fishman PU, here:

https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=18893.0

that message created a huge GAS for that PU. I ordered it on Amazon.uk and played Lisdoonvarna with this PU. To be more precise, I recorded the guitar dry on the BR600, and after that I used the Waves CLA Unplugged Stereo as a plugin, while mixing in Adobe Audition. And this is the result.  

Grazie e ciao a tutti!  

Alfredo