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This is considered a genius level IQ-not mine! Someone
else`s. I had all the parts and I put them together right before we
recorded it. I mean right before! I was writing the parts down on a
piece of paper as they were working on the mic placement for the tune.
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This is two hand tapping obviously. A
little bit more than a nod to Michael Hedges on this one. It`s funny to
listen to my brainstorming tape of this when I was trying to work out
the technique. Nobody but me will ever hear it and that`s the way I
want it!
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Mashu Mashu is an African Gray parrot. The term
means that indescribable something that you just can`t put your finger
on...kind of like the reasons people are attracted to other people.
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I wrote this song in the autumn, hence the name. The
tapping part in the middle is the first time I incorporated tapping in
an acoustic tune.
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This is the first song I ever wrote in DADGAD
tuning. I got the idea on a Friday at 3:55 in the afternoon. I know
this because a student knocked on the door right as a played the main
theme for the first time. I made him wait a few minutes while I got it
in my head. I worked on it all that night, the next day and by Sunday
at 10:00 pm it was complete, written out, memorized etc.
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I played "The Wedding" for a friend and he told me
it needed a companion piece. So I wrote this. The name comes from my
parents. Way back when in the fifties, my father was courting my
mother. He was at school in Philadelphia and my she was working in
Harrisburg, Pa. Back then people actually wrote letters! A few years
ago my mother found all the letters he had written her in the six month
span they were apart. There were 94. My dad was a man of few words. I
guess he used them all in those letters.
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This is the first real song I wrote on
acoustic guitar. It was a windy day. A bit of a Steve Howe influence
on this one.
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That`s the only girls I know. An exercise
in trying to sound baroque/classical.
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Another DADGAD tuning piece with a capo at
the fifth fret. I almost lost this one. I had it on my music stand and
forgot to take it off. A student came and mistakenly took it with them
when they left. Luckily I tracked it down.
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The theme uses the Spanish Phrygian mode.
The middle part rips off a Villa-Lobos right hand arpeggio pattern.
This one is fun. A real crowd pleaser.
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Probably the most beautiful woman in the
world. She completely broke my heart. I wrote this during the time we
were seeing each other. I wrote the first part when we first started to
go out and finished it after she moved away. This is definitely Jennah.
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