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The Spindrift TAB Collection is a selection of pieces from Ben Edom's album 'Spindrift' in TAB and Staff format. Each piece is a separate ring bound A4 book. The collection is currently being produced.
Titles in the collection so far:
Broom of the Cowdenknowes (Cat No. SM0001) - Scottish Traditional tune in DADGAD tuning. For Intermediate to Advanced players. 'Cowdenknowes is a pre-historic site not far from Selkirk in the Scottish Borders and gives it's name to a beautiful and very old Scots song. Among the words of the chorus are "Fain would I be in my ain country, herding her faither's ewes", a song of longing for the bright days of youth that we remember as being simpler and more beautiful than the difficulties of today.' .... Ben Edom
The Gray Girls (Jig) (Cat No. SM0002) - Original composition for Guitar in DADGAD Tuning. Contemporary/Celtic Style. For the advanced player. 'One of my great friends in Australia, Owen Gray, shares his life with four women, his lovely wife Karen and their three amazing teenage daughters. Visiting Owen always felt to me like straying into the path of a tropical cyclone, 'The Gray Girls'. This tune was meant to be played wildly, freely and with more emphasis on exuberant energy than precision and decorum.' .... Ben Edom
The West Wind (Cat No. SM0003) - Traditional Scottish air arranged for Guitar in DADGAD tuning. Traditional/Gaelic style. For the advanced player. 'My Gaelic teacher, Mrs Mairi Catriona Hay of Grosse Bay, Isle of Harris, assured me that 'The West Wind - An Gaoth Iar' is an ancient Gaelic song from Scotland's Western isles. To me it paints a musical picture of the scene from our window on a still Summer's morning when the sun brings in the sea breeze along Loch Linnhe from the West with it's scents of sea and islands blowing in over the hills of Mull. This arrangement has the tune alternating between the high and low register and shakes the cobwebs off the dusty end of the guitar, keeps the low D hot and stretches the fingers in between!' .... Ben Edom
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