{"id":989,"date":"2015-01-30T22:16:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/?p=989"},"modified":"2015-01-30T22:16:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T21:16:09","slug":"the-south-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"The South Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was sixteen, way before I knew that Celtic music existed, I heard the first recording of Scottish guitarist Bert Jansch (1943-2011). Try as I might, I could not figure out how he got the notes on some of his songs \u2013 they sure weren&#8217;t on my guitar! Later I learned that Jansch, and many other guitarists involved in the 60s renaissance of traditional folk music in Britain, used alternate ways of tuning the guitar, called open tunings. These alternate tunings allowed the guitar to resonate more than the standard tuning.The most popular tuning for Celtic music was and still is DADGAD, so called for the notes at which the six guitar strings are tuned. Several of my own compositions are in alternate tunings \u2013 I think I use six different ones in all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Seagull-004_1002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-986\" src=\"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Seagull-004_1002-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe South Wind\u201d is an Irish air composed in the 1700s by a man called Freckled Donal MacNamara. The lyrics speak of estrangement and the south wind bringing the wayward sailor back home. Irish airs are Sean-n\u00f3s (<span lang=\"fr-CA\">Gaelic for &#8220;<\/span>old-style&#8221;) songs sung without accompaniment and their beautiful melodies also translate well to different traditional instruments like the fiddle and the tin whistle but also to the guitar, thanks <span lang=\"fr-CA\">to <\/span>those guitarists who spearheaded the folk music revival in Britain (Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, Martin Carthy John Renbourne, et al.). I play \u201cThe South Wind\u201d in DADGAD <span lang=\"fr-CA\">and my<\/span> arrangement is based on the playing of American guitarist Pat Kirtley, with one or two ornaments used by John Renbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Here<span lang=\"en-US\">&#8216;s <\/span>\u201cThe South Wind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-South-Wind-2.mp3\">The South Wind<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was sixteen, way before I knew that Celtic music existed, I heard the first recording of Scottish guitarist Bert Jansch (1943-2011). Try as I might, I could not figure out how he got the notes on some of his songs \u2013 they sure weren&#8217;t on my guitar! Later I learned that Jansch, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}