Davy Rogers' Traditional Irish Guiter Tabs and MIDI's/Intro

What are "GUITAR TABs" ? Guitar TAB (or tablature) is a graphical form of musical notation, using lines and numerals, which inform guitar players precisely where to place their fingers on the guitar fretboard. Playing techniques such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, grace-notes, string-bends, and slides, are all displayed. What are "MIDIs" ? A MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a computer synthesizer generated sound sample sequence (basically a sound file)

INTRODUCTION

This website contains my fingerstyle guitar arrangements of mainly traditional Irish tunes, my own compositions, plus some other tunes, and is dedicated to the memory of my late father Dennis Rogers who encouraged me to develop it as an archive resource. My passion for Irish music, especially the compositions of the harpist Turlough o'Carolan, inspired me to set up this site to share my fingerstyle guitar arrangements with other guitarists. Since launching it in April 2001 it seems to have appeal, not only to guitarists, but also to people who appreciate Irish music and simply enjoy listening to the MIDIs. These MIDIs (All FREE) were all sequenced by me from my solo guitar TAB files, as audio samples. They're each between two and four minutes in length. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm Davy Rogers and I arranged all the tunes in this archive. I'm available for bookings as a melody player on dobro, tenor banjo, mandolin, fiddle and whistles, and as an accompanist on guitar, piano and Irish bouzouki I've been playing guitar for over forty years and arranging tunes for the guitar for twenty-three years. Before the advent of PCs and TablEdit I used to painstakingly draw my guitar TABs out by hand, in ink, on a drawing board (I'm an architect). Having three of my arrangements published in Mel Bay publications' "The Deluxe Anthology of O'Carolan Music" [CD and Book] (edited by Stefan Grossman and John Renbourn) encouraged me to arrange further tunes and share them with other guitarists through this website archive. Contact me and you can download my guitar arrangements, of traditional Irish jigs, slip jigs, slides, reels, mazurkas, hornpipes, airs, marches, barndances, world music tunes, o'Carolan compositions, and my own humble compositions, arranged and tabbed in TablEdit. For ease of playing these tunes I've used open guitar tunings in almost all my guitar arrangements. These are all available here FREE as MIDIs. I've also earmarked four simple jigs as suitable for beginners and have made these available to download for free on the jigs page. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So, here it is, my labour of love

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT MY FREE TABs CLICK HERE TO READ IT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THESE WEB PAGES CONTAIN 108 GUITAR TAB ARRANGEMENTS WHICH ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please make a donation and support this web site Thanks to all of you who have donated Quick link to my FREE guitar TABs See pages Jigs & Davy's Tunes

	TablEdit
	ALL THE TUNES IN THIS ARCHIVE WERE ARRANGED USING `TablEdit` Tablature Editor When you click on the button in the archive it'll play the tune for you with your browsers configured "midi player". If the MIDI doesn't play, you'll need to install an audio Media Player capable of playing MIDI files. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To view the TABlature you can order from me you'll need to download the demo of the Tablature Editor program TablEdit or it's `FREE`tablature viewer TEFview
	I thoroughly recommend this versatile software - Davy Rogers

	CONTACT and NEWS
	`I perform pub gigs and concerts and am available for bookings as a melody player on banjo, fiddle and mandolin, and as an accompanist on guitar, piano and Irish bouzouki ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TO CONTACT ME FOR BOOKINGS OR LESSONS PHONE OR TEXT` `00``353 86 3088067`

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		ALL THE ORIGINAL GUITAR ARRANGEMENTS & MIDIs presented here are the Copyright © Protected work of Davy Rogers

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