Free Tablature

The Winter's Tale CD features several tunes using the CGCGCD tuning, and these are freely available here. The tuning has much in common with DADGAD, and ideas translate freely between the two tunings.

Audio samples for these tunes are available here.

Smithy's Porridge

A Month of Rain

Outpost

Ninety Mile Beach

The Nightwatchman

Tablature Symbols

Here's a PDF with the full symbol breakdown for our tabs: NotationGuide.pdf

These tabs use a few special symbols. The up-arrow on the last 7 in the barre, is used to indicate a direct hammer with the left hand. There is no pluck, or note prior to the hammer. The 7-5-3 is a double grace-note, where the 7 is plucked and the two following notes are very quick pull-offs. The 2-3 is a single grace note, where the 2 is plucked and hammered quickly to the 3. Have fun !

Acoustic Guitar Home of Simon Fox

Instructional

Digital Tab Collection
27 Tabs for $27 - from Simon's recordings

This collection of 27 tabs comes in PDF format for digital download. It covers most of the Night Fishing and Winter's Tale albums, with the tunings DADGAD, CGCGCD and a few tunes in CGDGAD and BADGAD. This product is designed to keep people busy until the Mel Bay book (below) comes out with all the full technical details and breakdown of these tunes. Online ordering at our store.

Please read the digital products help page for information about ordering process, sales tax and file formats.

Night Fishing	Sleep	The Gathering Storm	Topanga
The Fisherman	Martingale	Any Day Now	Ninety Mile Beach
Potato Van	Purple Turtle	Murren	The Nightwatchman
The Ullapool Decision	Airwell	Powderhorn	Eleven Icebergs
All at Sea	Mapping the Paddocks	Inlander	Early Hours
Kettle of Fish	A Winter's Tale	A Month of Rain	Off the Grid
The Deep North	Tromso	Outpost

Tunings: DADGAD	CGCGCD	BADGAD	CGDGAD

DADGAD Guitar DVD
Online ordering through www.learnrootsmusic.com

The DVD features the following topics about DADGAD and fingerstyle guitar:

Modes and scales
Playing in different keys
Right-hand technique
Left hand ornamentation
Breakdown of songs
Tabs for 3 songs and examples

Celtic and Ambient Fingerstyle Guitar
No longer with Mel Bay, to be available on this website soon.

This book combines loads of tablature, examples, discussion, and a big DADGAD chord/scale library. The topics covered are:

Selected tablature for Night Fishing CD and Winter's Tale CDs
Hundreds of chord charts
Detailed scale/mode charts and harmonizations
Note selection with DADGAD using modes
Celtic guitar - right and left hand techniques
Harp-style guitar with cross-string picking
Exercises with tablature and audio tracks