*does love good classical*

me too :3

This is short but relaxing! Now I'm picturing you as a bard from the middle ages, but.. I guess that's the point.

playing lutes n' stealin princesses

Don't you mean stealin' princes?

Good job. Sounds really good, AD.

Maybe I should write you a piece to play on the guitar...

i could try, but i can't read music, only tabs :I

Guitar Pro can help with that problem, it just costs money :/

It isn't that hard, just takes a lil time

W/e, I would totally play with you

i've never played with other before :0 sounds SCARY

Again, a very nice performance, it is a not too harpy, (due to the period of the piece), but I'd be lying if I said that rolled voices are okay for newer music for classical guitar (late baroque to romantic), but it takes time to get it right, right? And you're doing great (how long have you been playing?)

thanks for the honest critique!
i think i've been playing for a little over two years or so
no formal classes or anything though, just picked it up and started goin at it, so it's taking me a while to learn

Favorited! Very nice, pretty. :)

can't help but be reminded of soulfoxs old flash bar place...

You mean this?
http://www.furnation.com/Ian_R_Soul.....und/index.html

liked this even more

Very nice :) I love this sort of music.

cool man
nice music

Wish I'd kept up playing the classical...excellent work.

Wonder how the kind would take his songs being played by a purveyor of the suggestive arts such as yourself...heh.

i'm sure my head would be rolling about in some ditch

I don't think you have a sloppy style at all, this is a quite a difficult song to do. I didn't hear your fingers slip onto the other frets and I didn't hear any broken notes, I say, Bravo ^__^

thank you kindly :3

*chuckles* Not at all ^__^

WOW!!! really great =D

Very nice. It brings back memories.

Ahhhhh....

beautifully serene, I rather enjoyed this.

ahhhh sounds tight, i like i like very much!
when i saw this in my lil submissions thing i was like EEEEEEE finally!

also
dude
lute tuning? where you gettin this music at mannn

heheh thanks man!! :3
i found some lute tuned tracks at http://www.classtab.org/
few and far between but they're there for sure

Holy thanks for the link, dude <3

I'm still a huge ball of suck with my acoustic here, but it's great having some new material to poke at! I've found decent tab coverage of my folkier interests, but this is a fun new avenue to pursue <3

Also, beautiful playing! It's inspiring me to spend more time plunking away here as well ^_^

cool, man glad to hear that!
and thanks!! :3

I was surprised the first time I found out that King Henry wrote music.

Educational AND it sounds great!

I love it!!

I really love hearing you play guitar. It is so exciting to hear you progress from where you were a year or so ago! I'm so proud of you, babe

aww thank babe :3

Great playing. I think the 'harpy' style of playing as you call it is pretty decent. I mean, a performance should be judged more on the actual feel and style, rather than hitting every note with perfect attack and tone. Not saying you didn't though.

Thanks for linking to that tab site up there in the comments section. I should probably get to learning some more traditional pieces for classical myself. Keep up the good work!

thanks kindly, man!! :3

<3

Medieval music is pretty awesome

I haven't played anything before the Baroque era, though =/

a lot of it is really weird, particularly the lute stuff
half the time the chord progression doesn't seem to make sense, but maybe i'm playing them too fast or something

Well major and minor keys actually didn't come about until the Baroque era, maybe the church modes used instead are throwing you off? :3

hmmm could be, i might just need to shift my ears too!

you said that you tuned your guitar to a lute. What do you mean by that? Tune the stings to match that of a lute or actrully re-string it to sound in the same octave as a lute? <.< either way i would love to tune my classic guitar to sound more like a lute.. XD though lutes do sound much better.. O.o BTW this is pretty, I do like it, Have you ever tried a song with a mandolin?

thanks! i got big hands so it's hard for me to play mandolin XD

lute tuning is just E A d f♯ b e, and then i pluck the strings slightly above the sound hole instead of slightly below to give it a lute-y dynamic
some people additionally capo the third fret, to make it G c f a d" g which is the actual tuning for 6-string lute, but i didn't do that because my guitar, being kind of cheap, doesn't handle capo all that well, heheh

That's Cool <.< Now I need to by a new tuner XD. Awe That is sad that its hard for you to play mandolin. :P I always liked how they sounded. And I thank you for sharing how you tune it to a lute ^^ I really have to try this now ha ha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZDjWLwqAPY

HAHAAAA AWESOME

Thats the only think I can think of when I think of guitar lessons now.

hell
yes

Is the bass/treble thing really an issue with your playing? Or is it the recording?

Anyway, I'm fascinated to hear a piece by King Henry. I always enjoy your playing.

thankya!! =3
i just have a heavy thumb so the bass is kinda loud, moreso on recordings for sure, though

fockkenn badass. quite enjoy the image of you as a jacobean bard too.

i wish i could play non-shitty guitar. i have like 3 mildly complex songs up my sleeve but the rest is just short snippet or chordy garbage :(

thanks man!
you should post some if you haven't! or link me to it if you have, hehh

aaaah but i play the electric guitar, and pretty much every pimply high school kid is fucking badass at electric :c

give bored young males an instrument that promises to make them both impressive to chicks and cool to their peers and they will pretty much become geekily virtuosic at it. that's the electric guitar, in the hands of any guy but me :c. not saying i'm terrible, but i've played on and off for 4 years now and i should be better.

electric is easy and fun but that doesn't make it any less nice to hear! NO MORE EXCUSES MISTER

I put this on my mp3 player lol

Yay! Another classical guitar player!

this was very nicely done. :)

thank you!! you play too??

Classical guitar and viola. Shh! :D

I'm just not brave enough to post my stuff online.

I sing too. :D

lemme know if you post any!

I will! My fiance took some bad video of me singing at karaoke last week. I may or may not post it. *is shy*

However, if I record my playing I will let you know. :D

It's always lovely to hear something that's not techno on this site, but this goes the extra mile. It's beautiful, and I somehow imagine the wanderer picking at it with birds and animals under a bridge in one of those lost places, like some pre (or post?) horror Orpheus.

cool!! thank you so much for saying so!! =3

I'm very impressed!

thanks kindly :]

Harpy's can't play string instruments silly, they have no arms! Are the dynamics of playing a lute and a guitar very different?

probably, but i dunno, i never played lute!

Very nice dude. I should put this in my 's' playlist on my iPod. I actually have less Lute and pre baroque stuff than I should. I'm a big fan of Dufaut's stuff.

hell yeah

Interesting! That's a very languid version of the tune; I imagine everyone is drunk and sleepy by this point :) My favourite version of this was belted out at a rollicking pace by some choral singers backed by drums: clearly the height of the party, with everyone singing along and banging on the tables!

thanks! yeah, every version of this i've heard was kind of fast or energetic, but i think of past time with friends as chill and relaxing, so i did a slower version :3
also i'm not that great so it's easier for me to play slow XD

laid back king henry vibe

hell yeh!

NIce.

Huzzah!

thank you for listening! i still feel like such an amateur!

Hah, I knew I'd dig something up eventually.

This is really good! Gotta love Renaissance music... or is this Medieval? Not sure. Regardless, I really love how the key changes are pretty free form. Classical era folks would have hated it!

Also, I don't think your technique is sloppy at all.

thank you!! this song is still fun to play, even years later

Very well-played and quite soothing. :3 I've been learning this version, and I must say your interpretation has helped me out quite a bit. Nonetheless, I realize you posted this almost 10 years ago, so I hope I'm not too awkward by commenting now.

thank u! such a fun song! i haven't played this song nor any of the usual european stuff in a while but i still play all the time. lately i am learning turkish and indian traditional stuff! good luck with making music, it's so much fun. also i love the craft work in your gallery, the reed weaving and chairs etc, i am a huge admirer of traditional crafts

You're welcome, and your art is groovy, by the way. :) I'm quite interested in world music in general, but the past two years, lute tunes (mainly renaissance) in general have taken up much of my music time. Albeit, I'm just now really starting to work my into the lute tuning on my guitar. In addition, I appreciate the comment about my seat weaving--it's a fun hobby to be sure, and feels good to keep a useful old skill alive.