Annie Rhiannon

Friday, February 13, 2009

The other song I know

video

There is no weekend picture; I left my camera in Dublin by mistake. Let's have 'the weekend classical guitar piece' instead. This is by Mauro Giuliani and my fingertips are bleeding.

29 comments:

  1. Beautiful! Please keep the weekend classical guitar piece going - I'd love to see what you have next week.

    P.S. Sorry about your fingertips, but you'd never know listening.

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  2. You are so adorable. Loved the piece. Please talk next time, I wanna hear your accent.

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  3. Claire13.2.09

    Wow! I am really impressed. I think you may underestimate yourself as a musician. I really thought this was great. By the way, if you want to meet Neil Young it's entirely possible if you attend the King's Mountain Art Fair. Dan's parents in CA are neighbors with him and he always attends this art fair each year; reportedly he always buys art there and mingles with people the whole day long. Possibly you could have a stand there and show your goods, and who knows?

    I really admire that you put this up. You have a lot of talent.

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  4. Mutant13.2.09

    Lovely piece - well done!

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  5. Thank you! Maybe I shouldn't start this as a 'weekend' thing though, it took me several months to learn that piece. If I did one next week it'd just be one sorry chord.

    Y'know, I like the idea of selling my goods at a Californian 'art stall'... until I remember I don't have any goods to sell. Unless Neil is interested in purchasing a 2mb quicktime movie of me covering his hit "the needle and the damage done". I can burn it onto a CD for you Neil...

    Claire, we should go and sell your highway paintings there. I'll pretend they're mine.

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  6. Hey, that's good. Very good. As people say to me all the time, you've probably missed your vocation. Drat.

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  7. Woaaahhh Annie -

    YOU ROCK!!

    That's deadly finger-picking. It's freaking hard to do. Fair play.

    Soon your fingies will stop bleeding and form delightful callouses that are pickable, with any luck.

    Nice one Annie.
    ps. You are hot and I like you're hair. It has *bounce*

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  8. The first few notes I was thinking it was "Pretender" by Foo Fighters!

    Really!

    It's because I'm a fucking eejit. Or could anyone else hear that too?

    Loved it though, nice work Annie. You're a talented ould bastard and I hate you. There, I've said it.

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  9. Aw, thanks Sarah. My hair is bouncy in the video because I had been to a funeral in the morning and I had washed and dried it very carefully. On normal non-funeral days it is just kind of wavy and unruly and crap.

    My fingers did form some callouses but then I didn't play for two weeks and now they're cracking again, but I'm going to make it a rule now to play every day so the callouses stay.

    I just looked up the Pretender song to see if I could hear the similarity. Yes, they both have this kind of descending bass note between the up-and-downy plucking. That Neil Young song is like that too. Maybe I can only play songs like that.

    No, I haven't missed my vocation Nick. This is just a nice hobby to keep me from my work.

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  10. Beautiful! And I have envy of your gorgeous red hair :)

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  11. You look gorgeous missus! And the gee-tar playing is great too of course!

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  13. Big smiles from me.

    Ok- Louie, Louie

    A/A/A/-
    D/D/-
    Em/Em/Em/-
    A/A/-
    repeat till fingers start to bleed

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  14. What's the name of that piece? It rings a vague bell from my days playing classical guitar (many moons ago) though they're all a bit similar. :)

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  15. HBO's showing Annie again this month. I always wanted ringlet curls.

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  16. Annie, that's so beautiful. Is there anything you can't do?

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  17. Gorgeous chords and curls, Annie!

    I hope the funeral wasn't too sad a one.

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  18. Clearly "funeral hair" is destined to be the next fashion fad... sorry you had to indulge in it, though :-(

    Enjoying your acquisition of yet another creative skill. I haven't decided yet whether you're going to be a famous filmmaker, famous photographer, famous novelist or, now, famous rock star. Perhaps you haven't decided yet either..

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  20. Hyfryd iawn Annie ! I really enjoyed that.
    Apart from chords and strumming , the tune from 'Magic Roundabout' was the only thing I was able to master on the acoustic guitar :/

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  21. "I haven't decided yet whether you're going to be a famous filmmaker, famous photographer, famous novelist or, now, famous rock star. Perhaps you haven't decided yet either.."

    My thoughts entirely. Just don't leave the decision too late, Annie!

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  22. How about going busking with this in Ghent?

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  23. I've just stumbled across your blog, and have enjoyed what I have read. But even more, from the Flickr stuff you are a kick-ass photographer! I'll work my way through your blog now and see if I can find out what brought you to Dublin and what's taking you to Belgium. Keep up the good work.

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  24. Bravo darling, bravo, bravo. I am throwing roses at your feet.

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  25. Great to see you on the bloggies shortlist! Good luck!

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  26. "I haven't decided yet whether you're going to be a famous filmmaker, famous photographer, famous novelist or, now, famous rock star..."

    Yes, well, it's bound to be either one of those things or I'm destined to spend my life posting shit on my blog. Either or.

    Thanks for your lovely words of encouragement everybody.

    UD: Thanks! It started as a hobby a couple of years ago. God love Flickr.

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  27. Sorry, that was me, not "Louise".

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  29. メル友募集3.7.09

    今まで同い年や年下としか付き合ったことなくて疲れてしまいました…優しくリードしてくれるような大人の男性に憧れます。　ayu-cha@docomo.ne.jpよかったらメールしてみてください。

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