Chords for International Guitar Night 2014, presents Mike Dawes

_ _ My name is Mike Dawes.
I play a style known as percussive fingerstyle guitar on a steel
string.
I have some family members that work closely with a French guitar player called
Pierre Ben-Susan.
So when I was growing up, I used to get guitar tab books and things
like that for my birthday and Christmas presents some years.
So I sort of got into players
like Michael Hedges and Preston Reed through that Pierre Ben-Susan connection.
And I guess
learning a lot of rock music at school growing up, the two styles kind of combined and you
have something that resembles, hopefully resembles what I'm doing now. _ _ _
Thank you so much.
[Fm] So, [Dm] are you good? _
Fantastic.
My name is Mike.
I'm from a little village in the south of
England.
[B] I'm going [D] to play you some of my songs.
This is the first song I wrote on a
steel string guitar.
It's called Boogie Shred. _ _ _
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My earliest sort of memory was watching the Blues Brothers, my parents VHS player, and
figuring out the little melodies for the horn parts on my mum's keyboard, you know, before
I could barely walk.
So I've always been making music.
I think the guitar is something that
I sort of fell into when I was 12.
I was never particularly _ specifically enthusiastic about
the guitar, just about making music.
But of course, once I got my guitar, I was completely
in love with it and I can't really imagine doing anything else.
You know, I've always
been making music and for as long as I can really remember, or at least the core part
of that in my life since I was 12, has been playing guitar, electric or acoustic.
So I
guess I have a really, really deep and long-lasting connection with the guitar and hopefully it'll
last for many, many more years to come.
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