For My Father - from Andy McKee
Here’s another great video featuring Andy McKee, playing a very pleasant melody called “For My Father”.
There are several musical themes that keep recurring in the song, and it’s the type of melody that grows more beautiful after listening several times. In this song, Andy displays a colorful picking style, bubbling with subtle syncopation. He is apparently using an alternate tuning (ECDGAD perhaps?), with capo on 3rd.
Do you see happy memories of your father as you listen? The song evokes happy memories of time spent with my father, too.
In other videos we’ve featured here, you can see Andy’s mastery of guitar harmonics (in a piece called Heather’s Song), or the now famous, fantastic finger hammering technique (in Guitar Drifting) that drove Mr. McKee into the international spotlight, and recognition as one of the top fingerstyle guitarists.
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