Red Pony
Added 2020-11-01 17:13:59 +0000 UTCFor November 1st we're discussing John Fahey's 1969 recording of "Red Pony" from the Laura Weber television show. This is a classic Fahey tune in open D minor tuning.
My performance on youtube is here: https://youtu.be/uD9UY1y4vZg
The Patreon only instructional video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7cPS5z6n1I&feature=youtu.be
Fahey's performance that corresponds to this transcription is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSh-YsyjpXk
The transcription is attached below.
Comments
Hi Kevin. No, never. Sheet music is a great guide to aid memorization, but when it comes to performance we can’t afford to be distracted, all attention should be on the instrument and the sound coming out of it, in my opinion.
Andrew Lardner
2023-10-27 20:52:31 +0000 UTCHey are you reading the sheet music as you play your finished performance for this? I am usually pretty good about memorizing pieces, but this one has so many minor nuances that are really hard for me to remember
Kevin Carlston
2023-10-27 19:12:31 +0000 UTCThanks Marco. I will definitely check out both songs you mentioned.
John Good
2020-12-30 03:57:14 +0000 UTCI'm sorry I missed this many post comments, I've been quite out of guitar music with my head in the last months. If someone is still interested I can give the answer where Fahey took the idea from The Planets by Holst. I have a strong and wide classical background and I have listened in the past "even" to Holst music. I wrote "even" because I don't like his music so much, it is quite "easy listening", too much easy music for my tastes that become boring too fast. The same reason I don't like Mahler and Bruckner for example. Anyway, the answer is number 3, the MERCURY planet. Fahey didn't played the exact same notes, but the idea, the pattern is clearly there. You can hear it right in the very few seconds, but the idea is the base for the entire MERCURY piece, you can detect it easily throughout the whole piece. It is a very short piece (for classical standard), 3' and 50'' in the version I have (Zubin Metha with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra) but I think it is more or less the same on every version you can find. Fahey used to "borrow" musical ideas even from classical music. For those that are not familiar with Fahey, another example is THE YELLOW PRINCES that is a theme from Camille Saint-Saens
Marco G
2020-12-26 12:22:00 +0000 UTC
