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Awakening Tab - Standard Tuning
Transcription - standard notation and tab, for my tune, Awakening. Recorded on classical guitar, but fine for steel as well. Transcription matches the You Tube performance at: https://youtu.be/FEsjQr2QqJU
The Duchess of Canterbury (std tuning)
Transcription of my tune inspired by The Earl of Salisbury. As seen on You Tube, with an added bonus 3rd variation. The file download includes the tab as well an mp3 of a 3rd variation (which was not performed on the you tube video)
TAB: Nightfall (standard tuning)
Transcription of "Nightfall" as seen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wMrhMOvDYY0
The Water Is Wide
My arrangement of the traditional tune in DADGAD tuning. As seen on You Tube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ype4E1SWdkI or heard on Spotify and other streaming services, https://musics.to/50301w1IdS
Tab: Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
Tab for my arrangement of the traditional tune, Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies, in DADGAD tuning. You can see the tune on You Tube: https://youtu.be/TzIP60aXCUw
Tab: While She Sleeps (2025 version). DADGAD tuning
Transcription of the performance on YouTube, https://youtu.be/htGL_NdEZFY
Tab: Planxty George Brabazon
Full tab for my arrangement of Planxty George Brabazon as seen in my you tube video. A simple version (the first AABB) appears in my book, Alternate Tunings for Fingerstyle Guitar as well as in my Peghead Nation course. This extended version covers variations for three passes as well as an added introduction
Tab: The South Wind (DADGAD)
A transcription of my arrangement of the traditional Irish tune, The South Wind, as performed on my youtube video: https://youtu.be/hSQr6Q4oZZE
Tab: Sunbreak
A transcription of my solo guitar instumental, Sunbreak, most closely following the YouTube performance at: https://youtu.be/O_-WqHWRbCI. In DADEAD Tuning
Tab: Blind Mary (DropD)
Transcription of my You Tube performance of Blind Mary, by Turlough O'Carolan. In Drop-D tuning.
Sea Gypsy Tablature
Transcription of "Sea Gypsy", in DADGAD tuning, a song written for luthier Ed Claxton.
As seen on You Tube, https://youtu.be/EoRmqrSyYmE, or heard on Spotify and other streaming services, https://open.spotify.com/album//0YTpbJwBq3eA81gbx1tdBp
Tab: O'Carolan's Welcome (Orkney tuning)
My arrangement of O'Carolan's Welcome, as heard on my You Tube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTC7uKaRSuM
Whippoorwill Tab
This original tune was inspired by a challenge from Will Ackerman to play something in his tuning, F C Eb Ab C Eb. I lowered it by a half step, which makes it EBDGBD, or an E minor seventh tuning. You can hear the tune on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8tuQhPNuCk
Shenandoah (DADGAD Tuning)
This tablature matches my You Tube performance, found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_9OFVsZwM.
I'm in DADGAD Tuning in the key of G.
The tab is free, but I'd appreciate it if you subscribe to my You Tube channel and/or follow me on Spotify!
Amazing Grace (Orkney Tuning)
This free tab matches the performance on my You Tube channel: https://youtu.be/DYekX7iuLg4
You can also find a tutorial on this arrangement at http://dreamguitars.com
If you enjoy this arrangement, please subscribe to my you tube channel!
Ashoken Farewell (DADGAD tuning)
My arrangement of Ashoken Farewell, first performed on a video for Peghead Nation: http://bit.ly/Lowden050Demo.
The download zip file includes an mp3 of the tune along with the tab (PDF), expanded with an introduction and interlude between verses.
Closing Time Tab Book
This book is included free with the purchase the CD, but you can also buy the music alone if you want! This is a downloadable PDF of all the tunes on the CD Closing Time.
Be Thou My Vision
This is an arrangement excerpted from my book Hymns for FIngerstyle Guitar. You can learn more about this arrangement and how to use it with this video: https://youtu.be/kQ_y2KABJ7s Of course, if you purchase the book, you get 25 tunes like this, but this is for a few people who have requested just this one tune
Cover Tunes
I Will
I Will, from the Beatles White Album, is arranged in DADGAD Tuning.
Still Crazy After All These Years
Paul Simons classic tune is arranged in DADGAD Tuning.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Classic Christmas tune from See You in St Louis, arranged in DADGAD Tuning.
When Sunny Gets Blue
A jazzy tune made famous by Johnny Mathis, arranged in DADGAD Tuning.













































