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Guitar tabs for all Simon's tunes.

Tablature and standard notation, the studio recordings to play along with, and performance notes in tunings like DADGAD, CGCGCD and others.

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Tablature / MP3 downloads

6 listed

01
In the Duck Shed songbook and audio collection

Album · songbook, MP3, 90s demos

In the Duck Shed

The first album, finally written down in one place. Tabs and sheet music for the whole record, the original recordings, how they came about, and some demos and cassette recordings from the nineties.

US $25 Buy
02
Iris cover, showing footprints in pale sand

Single · tab, notation, MP3, performance notes, Tabledit file

Iris

A gentle tune about a dog, exploring some new ideas in DADGAD.

US $5 Buy
03
Wind and Waves album artwork

Single · tab, notation, MP3, performance notes, Tabledit file

Mercy

A rich and intricate DADGAD piece full of ideas for the adventurous fingerstyler.

US $5 Buy
04
Shallow Sea album cover

Album · twelve tabs, MP3, artwork, performance notes, Tabledit files

Shallow Sea

A darker collection of tunes exploring tunings like DAAEAE, CGDCGD, CGCGCD and DAFDAD.

US $15 Buy
05
Night Fishing album cover

Album · fourteen tabs, M3s, artwork, performance notes

Night Fishing

The most produced in the catalog, combining Celtic and New Age ideas with DADGAD and CGCGCD.

US $15 Buy
06
A Winter's Tale album cover

Album · fourteen tabs, MP3, artwork, performance notes

A Winter's Tale

All solo guitar. A more technical, intense guitar album using DADGAD, CGCGCD and a few surprises

US $15 Buy

What you get

What's in a download

It varies a little depending on the product, so check the items above or contact me with any questions.

  1. 01 Tablature and Notation Guitar tablature and musical notation, usually in the same manuscript.
  2. 02 Studio MP3 Recording of the tune(s)
  3. 03 Performance notes Brief notes about playing the tune, sometimes a rambling back-story.
  4. 04 TablEdit file Some products come with the Tabledit source files which can be helpful to learn the tune. You can download free Tabledit tab player software for most platforms, and it lets you play the tabs at any speed to see how it works.

The tuning

Most of my stuff in DADGAD

Drop the sixth, second and first strings by a tone and the guitar opens up in weird and wonderful ways.

Soon we will have some instructional content here to get you started with this awesome tuning. Stay tuned.

  1. 6D
  2. 5A
  3. 4D
  4. 3G
  5. 2A
  6. 1D

In progress

Video lessons

I'm putting video material together to go alongside the tabs. Slower walk-throughs of the tunings, right-hand technique, and how the tunes get written. When it's ready it'll be here, listed with everything else.

In the meantime there's free material going up on YouTube, which is the best place to catch new things first.