Grey Eagle practice tracks

Finished off recording the Grey Eagle practice tracks tonight. This practice track has an odd beginning--there's a count-in, then a strum, another strum, then the song begins in proper. This is to make room for the double Georgia shuffle lead-in that Tyler Grant does on his excellent recording of this tune (which was transcribed in a relatively recent Flatpick Guitar Magazine).

I find this tune devilishly hard. Or, at least, Tyler's arrangement is. It's almost unbelievable that he recorded it at 240 bpm, and it sounds super relaxed and clean. Anyways, blah blah blah...here are the tracks:

Grey Eagle 180 bpm

Grey Eagle 185 bpm

Grey Eagle 190 bpm

Grey Eagle 195 bpm

Grey Eagle 200 bpm

Grey Eagle 205 bpm

Grey Eagle 210 bpm

Grey Eagle 215 bpm

Grey Eagle 220 bpm

Grey Eagle 225 bpm

Grey Eagle 230 bpm

Grey Eagle 235 bpm

Grey Eagle 240 bpm

And a zip file of all tempos (41.8 MB)

Enjoy!

Update, 2/28/10. A guest asked about the structure of this song. An excellent question; Grey Eagle is one of those tunes that seems to be played pretty differently in different places.

I recorded three parts, each repeats once, then the tune starts over:


A part (x2)
|A |A |A |E A|A |A |A |E A|

B part (x2)
|A |D |A |E |A |D |A D|E A|

C part (x2)
|A |A |A |E |A |A |A |E A|