Riverdance (Bill Whelan) - Shane Hennessy
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- Опубликовано: 13 мар 2019
- TAB available here: www.musicnotes.com/l/3kcW8
Happy St. Patrick's Day Weekend to all my friends, fans, and family all around the world. I have been working on this arrangement for a long time and I'm delighted to be able to present it to you at last! This is one of the most famous, if not the most famous, piece of music ever to come out of Ireland - Riverdance by Bill Whelan.
Written originally for the interval act at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994, Riverdance spawned into a world-famous production putting Irish music and dance on the world stage like never before.
I am an enormous fan of Bill Whelan's music, and in 2018 I had the good fortune to work with him on a piece called "Educo" composed for guitar, piano, and string quartet. That piece was premiered in October in Dublin City, and it was only after working with Bill that I realised I might be able to arrange his most famous composition for the guitar, and so this arrangement came to be.
There are four guitar tracks in total and I also use a sustain (freeze) pedal to hold the very first chord at the beginning of the video. I try to emulate the sound of the bodhrán (Irish drum) on the body of the guitar in the second section, as well as backing myself during each section of the composition. I also tried to think about how each instrument in the original piece produces its sound. The Uilleann Pipes are a monophonic instrument (disregarding the drone), and so 'standard' guitar fingerings and attack don't serve the melody. I altered my approach to playing these melodies on the guitar to imitate how these different instruments would sound (i.e. no ringing notes and very few open strings).
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Guitar Tab available here: www.musicnotes.com/l/3kcW8
Got to see him in Calgary and he played this live ….phenomenal ! What a talent .wonderful entertaining educational fun ear tingling evening . I was sitting down in my chair but in my head I was leppin around like Michael Flatley.
Never heard of you until now Shane but my God that's some guitar playing and what a great cover doing all the bits and pieces on your own of a very difficult musical I'll call it theme. Brilliantly done young man and long may you continue.👍
Wow!!
Was great seeing you do this live last year at Walnut Valley.
Thanks, I’ll be back again this year!
So wonderful
Thank you!
❤❤❤❤❤
thanks for watching!
Because Shane Hennessy is so good, I just assumed this was recorded on one track for about 15 seconds.
I never get tired of hearing you play, Shane.
Kat Wade thanks so much Kathy !
Wow!
Thanks Luke !
Fantastic you are!!!!!!!! Sorry I am sick or I would be in NYC tonight to see you.
Gale Raspen thanks Gale !
Fantastic Shane Hennessy-👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
My man this is bloody brilliant!!! The bridge where Micheal flatly does his solo is amazing
TheBondman007 haha thank you very much!
Just heard this on the radio in the car,went straight to RUclips looking for it . I'd not heard of you sorry but I'll keep an eye on you now.Brilliant arrangement and performance .Good luck with your career ,an Irish Tommy Emmanuel .
frank grimesjunior thank you! What station did you hear it on do you remember?
@@ShaneHennessyMusic Hi Shane as it is 10 months ago I cannot remember the station but I'm from Dublin and it was most likely RTE .
I can tell you it was an interview with you and he played your Riverdance on guitar that's all I heard for the time I was in the car.Sorry I can't remember but I'm a channel hopper when ads come on so I listen to many stations.
Ha! You beat me to it!
Fair play, Shane!
Brilliantly brilliant!!!! :-)
Fantastic Shane!!!!
Class Shane - love it!
Superb musical selection for this beauty spot of Milford, Carlow - performed with great artistic style
- Compliments indeed Shane!
Jerry O'Neill nice one Jerry, thanks!
Amazing Asolutely amazing
James Dominic Music thanks James!
Class !!
loved it brill
Amazing ! Well done Shane !
God blessed you with a great talent Shane, that is awesome beyond any meaning of the word!
super toll!!!!fond memories -shorelines festival in Portumna
Hey Wiltrud - thank you!
Bloody marvelous!
Brendan Harding cheers Brendan!
Amazing stuff Shane. Really nice arrangement.
Damien Kelly thanks Damien !
👍 great , hermosa interpretación
cowboy del espacio Uxbal gracias !
I saw you live with Scythian this year, definitely going to look for your stuff. This song was great here as well as when I saw it preformed! Keep it up!
Thank you William!
Love this!! 😍 Well done 😊
Thank you Rosemary!
Nice one, bro.
thank you!
@@ShaneHennessyMusic no problem.
Deadly 👏
Thank you!
Fantastic!
Thanks Tomás
Awesome job!
Thanks for watching Alex!
¡Majestuosa interpretación!.
Edgardo Diaz ¡Gracias!
Great stuff!! I love the song of this!
Thanks for watching!
Yup! I love listening to you play!
Great cover !!
Vielen Dank Lothar !
Wow! Absolutely Amazing.
Thanks Karen - lovely hearing you perform in Tullow last week !
Awe thank you. I really enjoyed being part of the show.
Sweet sizzling baby Jesus......! That's Outstanding (and hats off the the video editor!!!)
Maur Byrne thanks so much Maur, I did the editing too !
@@ShaneHennessyMusic Some job! Well done!!
🙌🏻🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻
This should be famous by now lol cant believe u were able to cover that whole piece of music on a guitar. Bravo sir lol
Thanks Sean!
Fantastic job Shane. Where is this videoed? I think I recognise the river
Milford Mills, Co. Carlow, Ireland!
Gorgeous Shane however volume turned to max (pc) but not that loud - to me anyway. Hypnotic
Riverdance Eurovision Song Contest '94
I remember seeing the piece with a young Jean Butler and Michael Flatley.
Now the show is celebrating 25 yrs back and better than ever.
A awesome guitar cover of Riverdance..all that is missing is Micheal and Jean Butler doing their taps.
And the live show from the Pointe Theater in Dublin.
¿Eres de Irlanda o de otro país Celta?
I’m from Ireland ! 🇮🇪☘️