Celtic Guitar - Return to Kintail/Calliope House - Stephen Wake 

I bought the entire discog with all the tabs from the link in the description. The first song in this wasn't that hard to learn. I highly recommend it from one guitarist to another. This is from a guy who is 40 and completely new to finger-style and played metal and blues my whole life. I'll be working through these tabs for years.

Listen the lost hollow lament its beautiful too

@@willylabasan4351 thanks I will

Fluent Stringlish

Great. But not the first.

same, from ire too amazing tune can’t get enough 😅 👌

Scottish

Very true this comment. Just bought a Larrivée om 40, these videos definitely counted when I chose that particular guitar !

Largely influenced, I just bought a Larrivee.

+Lukasz Kapuscinski - Guitars & Dragons Thanks Lukasz! I checked out your videos and wow, such a great sound and composing... and thanks for taking the time to listen to some of my tunes! :)

Scottish

We both late to the party here brother but at least we are here now.

Thank you!

Mine too! Have you heard the version by Patrick Street? It's marvellous!

This is CGDGCD, or Orkney tuning, mate.

It's a Scottish tune, arranged and played by a Scot. Agree with you that it is sublime.

Scottish. Why are so many people so often wrong on this. It is extremely tiresome.

@@poolfrank11 Well i am Scotch Irish so..

​@@poolfrank11 Calliope House, written by a Northumbrian actually, Dave Richardson, who was a member of Boys of the Lough, a Scottish and Irish group who played Irish and Scottish traditional tunes. It's so tedious the find Scots getting so, so mean spirited claiming exclusive ownership of anything sounding remotely like a jig. Jesus...

@@washerdryer3466 Well I'm from County Durham in England, neither tune is Irish and Stephen Wake is definitely a Scot, so feel free to dismount from your high horse.

+John “Nibbo” Reynolds Thank you John for your kind words. It helps having a guitar tuned all the time to this tuning. You get more familiar with it every day.

+Nafiz Adnan Glad I pointed you in that direction!

Thank you! Saludos desde Costa Rica!

Thank you Glenda for taking the time to listen!

I like the video, but please, Stephen, develop a lighter hand with compression/limiting, and learn to watch your levels, before you make a video on recording/mastering. There's hardly any dynamic range left in this recording, and there are many overs. It's still a pleasure to watch, but it would be even more of a pleasure if you'd let it breathe more. Study recordings of Martin Simpson or Tony McManus (to cite just two examples) to get a sense of how fine recordings of Celtic guitar pieces can sound articulate and present while still preserving a natural dynamic range. Duplicate that, and your videos will go from impressive to truly outstanding (which is where your playing seems already to be!).

Thanks man for the feedback. Just so you know, I didn't use any compression but did use limiting. If you compare the audio to the version I have on Spotify then you might prefer that one. I think something accidentally happened to the track when I inserted it into Premier, but still I don't think it was anything drastic. As for the limiting, I don't agree that it's over the top. Both of those artists you mentioned have louder tracks than mine (on Spotify)

I can't agree . To my ears the sound quality is superb (as is the playing. Such clean triplets and oozing panache.@@TLMuse