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Friday, 25 December 2009 11:21

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas, here's a song played after a few drinks and before some more drinks

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 22:36

Bird heart redux

Sunday, 21 June 2009 10:38

Bird heart

This is a song I wrote late last year, it is just an experimental version and I have actually changed it a lot since - there is a different structure and verse melody.

I had fun playing with feedback loops, but it's not quite how I would want it to sound.trees100

Play MP3 by clicking above

 

© Michael Fredman 2009
Wednesday, 28 January 2009 12:23

Carolina on my mind, guitar chords

Please note that this is my interpretation of the song and is to be used for study and research only.

This is based on the version from James Taylor's 'One Man Band' live DVD that I caught on BBC 4 one night, I did not really know him well, but was moved by that version of this song:

Friday, 23 January 2009 10:14

Lovin's for fools guitar chords

Lovin's for fools - Sarah Siskind (covered by Bon Iver)

(Capo on 2nd fret, I will give the chord names as if they were played without a Capo, in actual fact the song is in G)

Friday, 05 September 2008 04:02

Somehow

a curving tree

© Michael Fredman 2006
This is the third take of this song, I am just sat, singing and playing the guitar.  I think that this is how this song should be, raw and straight-forward.  I quite like the fingering on this, even the sketchy 'solo'.

I wrote this, sat outside on the roof, beneath an enormous full moon on a summer's night.  The first recording I made of this was done using my MP3 player and you can hear the cars wooshing by far below, and then, at the solo, there is a police siren, which actually fits quite nicely.  Hard to replicate, though.
Lyrics:


Somehow,
you're going to have to make it through
Like a wounded fox
In a forest of hounds
Sorrow is tracking you down

Somehow, I know
I'll be with you
Wherever you go
Like the water
That melts from the snow
Feeds the flowers
In the valleys below
Somehow

Somehow,
You're going to have to make it right
Like the pale moon
In the November night
Sorrow is bleeding you white

Somehow, I know
I'll be with you
Wherever you go
Like the water
That melts from the snow
Feeds the flowers
In the valleys below
Somehow
Friday, 05 September 2008 02:48

Stone

 


© Michael Fredman 2006

Thursday, 04 September 2008 17:46

Footfall

Footfall from Michael Fredman on Myspace.

Play MP3 by clicking above

 

© Michael Fredman 2007

 

Friday, 22 August 2008 06:50

Segovia vs de Lucia

Andrés Segovia

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Paco de Lucia

It is perhaps not a fair competition, because Segovia was a masterful - a truly great - musician, but he purposefully distanced himself from the spirit of flamenco - one of his guiding principles and aims in life was to 'extract the guitar from the noisy and disreputable folkloric amusements' into the philharmonic sphere.

Paco de Lucia has remained true to the folkloric passion, or 'duende', of flamenco, while successfully branching out into a range of different styles.

They are two of the greatest guitarists of recent times, perhaps of all time, nonetheless.

If there is something, Roxy Music, Guitar tab

This represents my own interpretation of the song, and is intended solely for educational purposes

 

(ferry)

C                                      F/ F7

If there is something that I might find

C

Look around corners

F/F7

Try to find peace of mind I say

G                                                Bb
Where would you go if you were me

C#                                       F7

Try to keep a straight course not easy


Somebody special looking at me
A certain reaction we find
What should it try to be I mean
If there are many
Meaning the same
Be specific just a game

 

Csus4                    
I would do anything for you

Bb

I would climb mountains

Ab                         G7
I would swim all the oceans blue
I would walk a thousand miles
Reveal my secrets
More than enough for me to share
I would put roses round our door
Sit in the garden
Growing potatoes by the score

C                                          Bb

Shake your hair girl with your ponytail

F                                             G7
Takes me right back (when you were young)
Throw your precious gifts into the air
Watch them fall down (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
You used to walk upon (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
The hills were higher (when we were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
The trees were taller (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
The grass was greener (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
You used to walk upon (when you were young)

 

Music and Lyrics copyright Ferry/Roxy Music

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