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The lyrics to the song The Mountains of Mourne (originally spelt The Mountains o' Mourne) were written by Irish musician Percy French (1854–1920). The music was adapted by Houston Collisson (1865–1920) from the traditional Irish folk tune "Carrigdonn" or "Carrigdhoun".
The song "Ode to Mel Bay" (written and first recorded by Michael "Supe" Granda of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils and featured on the album The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World by Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins), is a light-hearted song about Mel Bay's encyclopedia of guitar chords and the books in general.
The music of "Watching the River Flow"—whose feel the journalist Bob Spitz has likened to Dylan's "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" (1966) [21] —has been described by different critics as a "[b]lues-powered sound [that cascades] like clumps of flotsam and jetsam", [22] as "featur[ing] some blistering guitar work ... and rollicking piano work from Russell", [20] and as "an energetic, funky-gospel ...
D A D G A D, or Celtic tuning, is an alternative guitar tuning most associated with Celtic music, though it has also found use in rock, folk, metal and several other genres. Instead of the standard tuning ( E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 ) the six guitar strings are tuned, from low to high, D 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 A 3 D 4 .
The Nashville Number System is a method of transcribing music by denoting the scale degree on which a chord is built. It was developed by Neal Matthews Jr. in the late 1950s as a simplified system for the Jordanaires to use in the studio and further developed by Charlie McCoy . [ 1 ]
Octave doubling is sometimes done in power chords. Power chords are often pitched in a middle register. Shown above are four examples of an F5 chord. The letter names above the chords only indicate which different voicing is being used, and should not be conflated with the chord names typically used in popular music (e.g., C Major, B minor, etc.)
Used by the doom metal band Warhorse and the brutal death metal band Mortician and the sludge metal project Foreigns. F ♯ /G ♭ tuning – F ♯ -B-E-A-C ♯ -F ♯ / G ♭ -B-E-A-D ♭ -G ♭ Five full steps from standard tuning.
The first appearance of "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" in print was in Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag in 1927. Sandburg reports that the Negro spiritual "When the Chariot Comes", which was sung to the same melody, was adapted by railroad workers in the Midwestern United States during the 1890s. [1]