Lakes of Ponchartrain (Open D Tuning) Guitar Lesson | tab available *see description

[@WreckinWalker]

Man, I can't thank you enough for showing me how to play arthur mcbride. I'm an Iirishman, I knew DADGAD was a Celtic friendly tuning, but I assosiated open g tuning with delta blues and Keith Richards. It was cool to be able to play that american blues style stuff in open g, but it was a revelation learnin' McBride in that tuning. It was cool that delta blues tuning had the possibility to sound straight up Celtic Thanks so much dude. I will now learn this. You are a legend may you have the luck of the real Irish, not many real Irish left, I could go into the social science view of this but eh... not the time or place

[@peterritchie2990]

Wow, what a cool thing to see just after I got off the tractor in the deep snow collecting firewood here in the Kootenay Mountains of BC. Paul Brady’s version, pure art that it is, now with your excellent lesson, has just become accessible to us mere mortals. Many thanks.

[@danielsherrill]

love that image!

[@7somekindofsomething]

One of my favourite songs ever. Thank you

[@danielsherrill]

me too!

[@louisgribben2933]

The tab is great everyone, highly recommend. Thank you Dan!

[@Lenin426599]

Brilliant tutorial thanks so much.

[@barrydoohan7705]

What a find, Daniel! I am in your debt, sir, for taking the mystery out of Paul Brady's guitar playing which I have been trying to emulate for years now in vain. Absolutely love this.

[@danielsherrill]

My pleasure, it is a mystery till it’s broken down a bit :)

[@jimcurnyn5787]

Great clear teaching and relaxed and engaging presentation - God I love Paul Brady's guitar style and skill . Thanks so much Daniel,

[@michaelha5254]

Daniel, it was a very good idea to buy your tabs as well. I can really recommend buying them - they make everything even more clear! I bought Paul Bradys DVD (homespun tapes) as well (same evening I bought your tabs), but: Paul Brady explains, how his songs are meant to be, what he intends to do and how he he wants to sound (which is quite helpful as well) whereas you EXACTLY explain what he is doing! And that applies to Mary and the Soldier & to Arthur McBride as well! So, guitar players out there > Buy Daniels tabs - the combination of explanation + tabs make it quite easy to learn these songs. Which I wanted to do since I came across these songs some 40 years ago. No youtube in the olden days ...

[@llywellynjones1554]

Lovely and very clear! Subscribed. So helpful!

[@jamescarson6074]

Have been waiting on this for quite a while Great no nonsense teaching Can’t wait to get down to it Cheers. Keep them coming. Love this tuning

[@danielsherrill]

more on the way now!

[@charleslock6432]

Thanks again, can't imagine myself taking the time to kindly impart these lessons. You are a blessing sir

[@francismurphy1767]

Thank you Daniel. In one short and very enjoyable lesson you've managed to demystify something that I've struggled with..... for ever!! Off to the kitchen table where I'll no doubt spend many hours generally getting it wrong.

[@danielsherrill]

keep at it! its difficult until it isnt

[@ignaz3254]

I learned this from you when you released the video a while ago. Thank you ever so much for this lesson! I enjoy playing it a lot, unfortunatley it is to high for me to sing even without the capo. But even without vocals, it sounds really, really good on a 12 string.

[@danielsherrill]

It sure does, I’d love to hear the 12 string version, u got a link to that?

[@ignaz3254]

@@danielsherrill I just have the guitar to play it, but recording it is beyond my capacities... If you get around a 12-string that you can retune, try it.

[@MrConornewland]

Great video Daniel. Thanks very much. This really is yet again another fantastically taught song. You taught me how to play Arthur Mcbride in January-February this year. It was tough graft but thanks to you I have actually played that in front of people already. Can't wait to have this one finished. Thanks again!

[@danielsherrill]

love this news...love this song...thanks for the message!

[@mortenwesnes329]

Thank you so much for making this video, man.

[@hollywoodmusicpulse838]

Good work! Thank you for the lesson!

[@nathanielmack1979]

Thanks so much for this man, this is an amazing lesson. Keep doing what you're doing!

[@rudallcarte580]

Awesome work !!

[@syaoranoni54326]

thanks so much for posting, crazy that i wanted to learn this song and then you posted it. I'll be donating soon

[@danielsherrill]

thank you!

[@JamesThomas-zl9er]

Thanks for this. Really inspiring, I’d abandoned it and gone to a standard tuning… reinvented the song, but the starting point was the PB version

[@WMV246]

One of the best lessons on KZbin this, please keep up the great work!

[@danielsherrill]

Thanks so much, I’m about to post another video in the next week or so, stay tuned

[@seamusmclaughlin7142]

Great lesson Daniel@@danielsherrill

[@zappafan3473]

some tone from that Martin, wow!

[@SaltBushCity]

Welcome back and thanks for the video. Just finished with your Arthur McBride vid. Appreciate these videos very much.

[@danielsherrill]

thanks for stopping by!

[@jimcurnyn5787]

have subscribed and donated how do I download the tab - Lakes of Ponchartrain

[@danielsherrill]

I just sent you an email that got bounced back to me, send me a note at Danielsherrill.com and I’ll get it to you :)

[@gulfmountain]

Fits it's in with like Nic Jones style...Nice of you to work all that out into a lesson. Great old tune, and sweet arrangement.

[@danielsherrill]

Absolutely, thank you for watching !

[@PointPanic]

Very cool! Haven't played a lot in open D, but love the sound. Cheers!

[@danielsherrill]

thanks for watching!

[@johnnelsonmusic1361]

Great stuff man, learnt Arthur mcbride off ye years ago, good to see ye back.

[@danielsherrill]

thank you my friend!

[@djw0051]

Daniel... OUTSTANDING Video instruction!! I take Skype Lessons from a guy named Tony McManus, who actually knows Paul Brady fairly well. He once "opened" for him in a famous Pub in Dublin. Your attention to detail is impressive! I use the "Amazing Slow Downer" (Roni Music) to get more details. One thing he mentioned about Paul: "he almost never plays it the same way twice". As you know, Paul is a master of improvisation, and has been doing it for years!! I've learned a great deal from this video. Blessings to you...

[@danielsherrill]

for sure, Paul is a Master of improv, which is why I had to listen to several different versions, and then pick my favorite moments...Tony seems great! Any other tunes I should consider adding to the queue of lessons?

[@djw0051]

@@danielsherrill Well, Tony taught me Arthur McBride which is in "open G". Again, weird how PB plays it in his younger days differently from today. He also told me the story of how Bob Dylan called BP on the phone, and asked PB to teach him Arthur McBride. The FUNNY part: Dylan almost NEVER used anything but standard tuning. He was TOTALLY confused when Paul started playing the Open G chords...ha ha ha,,,!

[@bbjoseyjw]

Where have you been! So glad to see you back. Thanks, more lessons please?

[@danielsherrill]

I've been off the tube for a bit, but back to it now, what tune next?

[@garymct6860]

Beautiful playing, tricky song.

[@danielsherrill]

thanks gary! all this stuff is a bit tricky

[@evlin10]

you certainly did "justice" to that song

[@Jack-cx8tj]

cheers lad this is class

[@danielsherrill]

thanks!

[@Jack-cx8tj]

@@danielsherrill I am only a third through the lesson so i don't know if i will end up needing to, but I tend not to use a pick when playing and seems to be working so far

[@danielsherrill]

@@Jack-cx8tj great, go with what works for you!

[@tamegomait]

Epic 🙏

[@mjgfox]

Much better than the Homespun tapes transcription. Happy Traum had Paul with him in the studio and still didn't nail it like you have.

[@danielsherrill]

where can i find the homespun tapes transcription?

[@mjgfox]

@@danielsherrill www.homespun.com/shop/product/the-guitar-of-paul-brady/ A great DVD but the transcription is not as detailed as yours. Paul shows how he does it in the video none the less. Is Arthur McBride on your to do list?

[@danielsherrill]

@@mjgfox thanks for the compliment! Arthur mcbride already done...check my channel

[@johnflanagan118]

Cheers..lovely playing..

[@danielsherrill]

thank you sir!

[@markroylance1584]

This is superb Daniel!!! I've been playing your video for about a month and it's now going into my fingers and my heart! Maybe try my folk heroes-Richard Thompson, Martin Carthy and John Martyn!!

[@danielsherrill]

richard thompson is on the docket for sure...vincent black lightning is tough!

[@conorquinn4779]

Great tutorial, thank you. I learned your version of Arthur McBride a while ago and have started with this one. One thing I found with Arthur is that when I play it, there are so many verses that it gets a bit stale without knowing some of the little variations that Paul uses throughout the song. So if you ever feel like making the tutorials slightly longer to include some of those extra little fills that would be very welcome! Thanks again

[@conorquinn4779]

Rough recording here - thanks for the tutorial! soundcloud.com/conor-quinn-460671837/lakes-of-pontchartrain

[@danielsherrill]

thanks for this tip...there are certainly a bunch of different variations, I'll look into making a full variation video! D

[@danielsherrill]

great take!

[@donmonaghan3509]

Nice one

[@descampbell5116]

Happy to be the 420th like. Great song and tutorial, thank you

[@danielsherrill]

Haha lol, nice 420 🤙

[@TheDouble68]

And I'm 666! Don't read too much into that! 👹

[@michaelha5254]

What else? Maybe another holy trinity? In my case that would be Dick Gaughan (plays his stuff mainly in DADGAD): World Turned Upside Down > kzbin.info/www/bejne/jojdq6mkhbSsiq8 Tom Paine's Bones > kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGnbe4Nvr5p3arM Workers' Song > kzbin.info/www/bejne/ep7aeXuLqLyAla8

[@seamusnolan4083]

Great clear instructions keep us busy for a while, could you please do i am a youth inclined to ramble , from the same kind stranger record thank you.

[@danielsherrill]

Ill look into this!

[@marthastone5783]

Excellent!!

[@conordevane5253]

Hi Daniel, thanks mate that's great song and great lesson put together. You really know you're stuff. I've donated and requested tab Will get the head down lots of learning in this one. Would you consider doing a lesson for Bright blue rose by jimmy mccarthy? There's a video of him doing a fingerstyle arrangement of it on KZbin it's brilliant!

[@danielsherrill]

will check it out now!

[@Fairy-door-78-86]

Great ! Thanks I'm not sure I'll get it but I'm trying :) New subscriber;

[@danielsherrill]

Excellent, thanks! You can reach out on my website if you have any questions!

[@Fairy-door-78-86]

@@danielsherrill Thanks I write songs and sing but my guitar playing needs to improve because if I have no other instruments playing with me it's not very interesting :) I have written songs in open D though my favourite tuning..

[@rogerobyrne5308]

Can you do crazy dreams? Awesome videos 👌🏻

[@alibryant8588]

Perfect vid, give it a few years and you'll have a few hundred thousand views.

[@danielsherrill]

haha, thatd be nice! thanks

[@alibryant8588]

@@danielsherrill I've been playing Lakes non stop since I watched this vid, you really do have a brilliantly sardonic teaching style! Thank you again!

[@alibryant8588]

@@danielsherrill also if at any point you would consider doing Mary and the Soldier I would be eternally grateful!

[@alibryant8588]

Nevermind, just found your vid of it ahaha

[@kevinblakely4384]

DADF#(sharp)AD Thank you :)

[@MrConornewland]

Hi Daniel. By any chance would you be able to figure out buckdancers choice (John Fahey version) please? I cannot find any on it apart from a few great covers which are just a bit too tricky to slow down and break up. Thanks very much lad.

[@Liam7812]

that's great work man, know ya when we both had more hair. how about doing "a pound a week rise" in open tuning by Ed Pickford or even "SlipJigs and Reels" by Steve Tilson.

[@danielsherrill]

k i'll check this out!

[@danielsherrill]

I love Dick Gaughan, Im going to look into erin-go-brah, or workers song

[@deluxecleaningsolutions2959]

Authur Mcbride Paul Brady amazing ballad

[@danielsherrill]

one of the timeless performances!

[@markcostello4013]

Met my mothers partner tonight. Asked him what tune he wants me to learn for Xmas day sing song. He said this

[@lenhartley8904]

Hi Dan, Have just made donation for link to Lakes of Pontchartrain tab at donation process did not see option to request link Thanks Len

[@TomBsChannel]

Hi Daniel, How would you feel about Arthur Mc Bride. There is a you tube video of him playing it live. Superb version of the song. Thanks, Tom

[@danielsherrill]

hey i did!...heres the link... kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5SkZ2eDltKjZ9U

[@conorsmith7009]

Can you do lessons on the Clancy brothers? In particular Liam's strumming technique?

[@danielsherrill]

can you give me an example of this?

[@conorsmith7009]

If you look up the Clancy brothers and Tommy makem - brennan on the moor on the ed Sullivan show, it's only 3 chords but I can never nail the strumming and time. Or if you search Liam Clancy - Patriot game the finger picking is beautiful 👌

[@patrickmcglinchey3105]

Do you know how to play ‘nothing but the same old story’ also by Paul Brady? Would love a tutorial for this, guitar sounds class on it!

[@danielsherrill]

I don't, but I'll look into it, thanks for the suggestions! keep 'em coming

[@JohnTimothy-m8x]

Ther you go .im now a suskriber .u fk are very much BONOIFIED IN THE BOOK OF ME .SOUNDS GREAT .ME ENVIOUSLY LISTENING

[@jnrmac1]

Hey. Great video lesson. Are you still sending tabs after donation?

[@danielsherrill]

Hey Gary I do have the tabs and they're available, let me know if you have any questions :)

[@jnrmac1]

Done. Thanks

[@matildabennett3419]

Hiya! I'm really interested in purchasing the lakes of Pontchartrain and making a donation, but not quite sure what to do as when I click the link it just takes me to the Paypal home page, do you accept payments outside the US? x

[@danielsherrill]

this is great news! and yes indeed, paypal has worked from all over the world, let me know if you need help, thanks D

[@danielsherrill]

also, i just updated the link in the description, hope that helps

[@matildab7082]

@@danielsherrill Amazing! Thank you so much! Have just donated. X

[@TMQmusic]

You know you're going to have to do Mary and the Soldier next to complete the holy trinity?

[@danielsherrill]

yup, just started working on it today, its a big one! hopefully will post in a week or so :)

[@TMQmusic]

@@danielsherrill haha. Marvellous.

[@danielsherrill]

Im about to post it, just finished it today...subscribe to the channel to see it when its released!

[@michaelha5254]

holy trinity - nicely put, thats exactly what it is > the three PB songs I alway wanted to learn! And now it can be done :-)

[@Martin-tn5lm]

It was on a bright March morning I bid

[@Martin-tn5lm]

Orleans adieu

[@Neilweemuck]

Needs a cheeky wee Bm7/D 024500

[@danielsherrill]

nice, where and when?

[@mikemurphy9634]

First rate 20:09

[@hollywoodmusicpulse838]

hella flitty bruh

[@Dre3ed]

Not the best camera view for a student....