Joanne Iles

I think this is more like Santa mosey-ing into town a-la Clint Eastwood on his mule! I love this hoedown version! Merry Christmas y’all!

Excuse the pun!
Playing lots of Christmas tunes with friends earlier got me thinking that “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” is my favourite, especially the version by The Cocteau Twins & I didn’t have any music or tabs for it so I spent some time just making up my own version from singing it in my head!
I recorded it so hopefully tomorrow I…[Read more]

This has been my project for most of the last month!

Messing around with this song originally by The Doors and covered by Echo & The Bunnymen in the 80’s film The Lost Boys, I thought it makes a fun Halloween tune!

Final Day! Hopefully sounding a bit more musical than when I started this lovely tune!

Now playing from memory makes it easier to concentrate on getting the right finger positions, just need to get a bit more flow now!

Just catching up on the videos for this challenge: I’ve been practicing this jig called Coleraine, this was from day 1 of the challenge & I was still having to read the tabs/music as well as trying to get the tricky low 2nd & high 3rd notes!

Currently on holiday in North Devon, I thought I’d take advantage of the beautiful back drop! Unfortunately I was shivering so much there’s a few errors but you get the idea!🤣🎻

I recorded the lead part, chord back up plus bass fiddle version of Swallowtail then played it back on Garageband as I play this Harmony part. I recorded the 4 tracks on Garageband and it sounds better than here all mixed in but I don’t know how to make a video with it!? So here goes the slightly squeaky unedited version…[Read more]