Ben Powell Bhagsu Road

I discovered this young British guitarist just by accident whilst surfing youtube for open tuned guitar pieces. Ben seems to have been heavily influenced by the music of Pierre Bensusan, and this piece is in Bensusan's trademark DADGAD tuning.

Open G minor Tuning: Clarsach

I was looking for John Renbourn stuff on Youtube the other day and I noticed that there weren't many versions of his masterpiece The Nine Maidens. I discovered this as a teenager in the 1980s and it changed my life completely. I had previously been learning fingerstyle guitar after giving up hard rock forever, but this was different to anything I had ever heard before.

This is my attempt at the first part of the Nine Maidens. It's not wonderful, but I hope it gives you a taste of Renbourn's work and maybe you'd like to find out more.
I got to the point where I couldn't stand listening to the original because it just showed how bad my playing was in comparison. Now I'm older, I've given up taking myself too seriously, and just play to enjoy myself, mistakes and all.

The tuning is G minor: DGDGBbD. Renbourn also used this tuning on an album called The Black Balloon, and although it produces wonderful sounds on the guitar, it is rather limited.

Sorry about the poor sound quality, I just used a webcam to record it. As my computer is a bit old now, the picture quality isn't very good either, that's why I switched on an artistic filter to hide that 'out of sync' effect that I get!