Hello people
I have deceided I'm going to learn a few songs ,so If anyone could recommend a few nice songs with easy chords for a zouk it would be great(they don't have to be Irish).At the moment I'm learning Back Home in Derry .
Regards Eddie
hi there - I play guitar so I'm not up on bouzouki chords (yet) - anywho, I nice little song called 'Galway Girl' by Steve Earle has incredibly easy chords and sounds great on most instruments. It works in a D G A base - it's a fun song too so that may be good,
Generally, most of the more popular Irish singalong songs get by with only 3 to 4 chords, so you should have no trouble finding plenty of tunes to play. The other musicians might moan, but the punters always enjoy a good rendition of The Wild Rover, Whiskey in the Jar or Black Velvet Band, all very easy tunes. See that "Mudcat" website for lyric and chord charts.
Spancil Hill is a good three chord song that I play on my zook that always goes down well. For something more contemporary then 'Ride On' by Christy Moore works well. Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore works equally as well as a song or tune and you don't need the top D string to play it either.
I also do 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd, but strangely enough never get asked for that in sessions (actually, I never get asked for the others either).
Thanks lads this is great I was getting a bit bogged down with learning backing so its nice to have a change and a bit of fun learning a song or two or 50 now. and sorry if offended people by using the the term zouk , I thought it was the cool thing to say.
A good one for the zouk (or zook) is a song by Davy Steele and John McKusker called Last Trip Home. It's a great song. Another favorite of mine is the Ballad of Saint Anne's Reel, by Dave Mallet. By the way, call it a zouk (or zook) when and where ever you want. After all, what most of us play isn't a real bouzouki anyway.
No Eddie, I don't like the term Zouk or Zook or anything like it.
I've been calling mine the Bouzouki for 20 years even though its a long-necked Cittern with 10 strings. I'm with the guys who introduced it to Ireland and had it modified ; thats what they wrote on all their Album sleeves.
Of course, I can afford to be smug, 'cos I don't think it's ever happened to me. When it happens to you, Alistair, is it like you've lost control of it? I bet it's like it's taken on a life of its own.
Was just thinking Eddie ... with your Cork heritage, you should learn a few Jimmy Crowley songs ... Jimmy used to play great bouzouki accompaniment to his songs.
K.
dafydd why did you have to leave wales . maybe i can help you get back into the country . If I was from walse I would 'nt want to leave it , great country
For those concerned with bouzouki vs. zouk terminology you might be interested in: http://www.zoukfest.com/
In the event you are not familiar with Zoukfest, it is a week long event for bouzouki/zouk/cittern (or whatever you want to call them) players. It seems any name of five or more letters tends to be shortened to something less than that.
Right on Rob! Who gives a flyin' f*ck what you call it? A cittern isn't a real cittern and an Irish bouzouki isn't a real bouzouki, but we all know exactly what we're talking about when it's brought up. So with that, I'm off to play my 5 course ZOOOOOK!
A ZoukFest IS a annual bouzouki festival founded by Roger Landes. It is definitely NOT a Guadeloupean dance music festival. Some people call the instrument a zouk, deal with it.
The word zouk is already spoken for.In the rarified world of ITM everyone knows that you mean a bouzouki but if you said "my zouk" in other company they might wonder why you own a form of dance music.Zouk is popular in France so your misuse of the word might cause some puzzlement there. It's the Humpty-Dumpty syndrome at work.
'
When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
Yes, and it's already spoken for with the instrument as well. So there are now two meaning for the word. There are masses that use the term. Just because you have a problem with something as insignificant as this and have to whine about it, doesn't mean it will stop. So far in my experience, every single person in the rarified world of ITM knows exactly what it is whenever someone uses the term zouk, but only a few choose to bitch about something so dumb.
The Oxford Dictionary;
'zouk n. an exuberant style of popular music combining Caribbean and Western elements.
origin 1970'S:Gaudeloupian Creole,lit. 'to party'
And that's all,no other entiries for zouk.
Anyway,what's wrong with calling things by their correct name? I don't call my guitar a 'git' or my fiddle a 'fid'.Who started this zouk nonsense anyway?
It was just because people could not spell "bouzouki" or were fed up with drunk people asking them to use it to blow up their wife, etc.
I don't have a poblem with the term 'zouk' as long as those that play it know the full name and HOW IT IS SPELT!!! I don't go around calling my capo a 'capotasto'. Abbreviations are useful things.
'Lopa dotemakh oselakhogaleokranioleip sanodrimhypotr immatosilphiokarab omelitokatakekh umenokikhlepikossuphophattope risteralektruonoptokephalliokinklopelei olagoiosiraiobaphetra ganopterugon' is a Greek word.
HEY! Did you guys know that some people call their mandolins MANDOS?!?!? And what's worse, some people call guitars, bouzoukis, and other necked and fretted instruments AXES!!!! What the feck? It's not an axe, it's a guitar, for crying out loud! Let's start bitching and moaning now! Before it gets worse. Anyone who has ever been to ZoukFest has more than likely called it a zouk (and that's a pretty large mass). All I'm saying is, get over it. Who gives a sh*t what people want to call it, dafydd. Yes, you are right, it is a bouzouki (loosely), but some people REALLY do call it a zouk, so keep on whining about it forever. Maybe you'll make a difference.
Still waiting for the masses of uses.
What is the purpose of language?
"Fest" is one of those awful newspeak words too.
It's all part of the general dumbing down of our culture.
A mandolin is called a mandolin to distinguish it from a mandola.that's why it's called a mandolin."Axe" is a generic term for a fretted instrument,usually a guitar,fallen out if of fashion somewhat,but it's not a fatuous diminutive.
I thought that was just the Ozzfest.
(Antipodeans, that one's NOT about you!..)
The modern Greek for "out of tune" is "se paraphonia".
I can't think straight away of any exceedingly long words in Modern Greek, but am sure many exist. The longest surname I've come across is Papatriantaphyllopoulos.
I'm definitely pro-zouk. The Irish Bouzouki, though I like it, certainly isn't a bouzouki.
Google "zoukfest". In fact just look up top of here and click on the link Rob Zouk left. But google it if you question the fact that people use it. The funny thing is, I've never called my bouzouki a zouk until this thread, but I think that's what it will be known exclusively as from now on. Just because now I know that it might confuse you. Do you think I would confuse a lumber jack if I told him "I'm going to go play my axe now"? Or do you think he might have the common sense to know what I meant?
Well dafydd, I'm signing off. This discussion has become boring and monotonous. Have fun getting p*ssed at the petty sh*t. Keep up with the struggle, YOU just might make the difference. Maybe you can get rid of all the stupid, petty little things people do that make this world such a frustrating place for guys like you to live in. Good luck my friend.
Songs and the zouk
Songs and the zouk
Hello people
I have deceided I'm going to learn a few songs ,so If anyone could recommend a few nice songs with easy chords for a zouk it would be great(they don't have to be Irish).At the moment I'm learning Back Home in Derry .
Regards Eddie
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by Saint
Re: Songs and the zouk
hi there - I play guitar so I'm not up on bouzouki chords (yet) - anywho, I nice little song called 'Galway Girl' by Steve Earle has incredibly easy chords and sounds great on most instruments. It works in a D G A base - it's a fun song too so that may be good,
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by camwebby
Re: Songs and the zouk
Bouzouki. Zouk is a dance and a style of music from Gaudeloupe."Zouk" means "party" in the local creole.
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
Well said dafydd!
http://www.zoukclub.com.my/web06/index.htm
http://www.zoukmikael.com/
http://www.avirtualdominica.com/music/zouk.htm
http://www.zouk.com/
http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&275889DB5B041659C22572F30066B843
http://e-clubbing.com/Reviews-req-showcontent-id-15.html
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by Backer
Re: Songs and the zouk
Thats say it all Backer 40 years of playing and thats what you have to offer.
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by Saint
Re: Songs and the zouk
as for you dafydd why did you get kick out of walse?
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by Saint
Re: Songs and the zouk
kicked
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by Saint
Re: Songs and the zouk
Well, we're just going to have to call it the zook.
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by nicholas
Re: Songs and the zouk
How about calling it the bouzouki (<------- note the correct spelling!) - It is, after all, it's name!
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
Re: Songs and the zouk
No, Ben - don't say anything. I spotted it. I must be suffering from mental decline just now!
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
Re: Songs and the zouk
Generally, most of the more popular Irish singalong songs get by with only 3 to 4 chords, so you should have no trouble finding plenty of tunes to play. The other musicians might moan, but the punters always enjoy a good rendition of The Wild Rover, Whiskey in the Jar or Black Velvet Band, all very easy tunes. See that "Mudcat" website for lyric and chord charts.
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by AlBrown
Re: Songs and the zouk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVM1xAO2xIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1l8hSBqS3E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMh7bp845f4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z3A5Tgy47M
Lock yourself away, learn all of these.
Then come bcak and ask for some more.
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by Hugo Chavez
Re: Songs and the zouk
Got the PM Eddie - no probs mate!
Spancil Hill is a good three chord song that I play on my zook that always goes down well. For something more contemporary then 'Ride On' by Christy Moore works well. Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore works equally as well as a song or tune and you don't need the top D string to play it either.
I also do 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd, but strangely enough never get asked for that in sessions (actually, I never get asked for the others either).
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by Sugarfoot Jack
Re: Songs and the zouk
Thanks lads this is great I was getting a bit bogged down with learning backing so its nice to have a change and a bit of fun learning a song or two or 50 now. and sorry if offended people by using the the term zouk , I thought it was the cool thing to say.
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by Saint
Re: Songs and the zouk
Don't be sorry, all the cool guys say zouk..
I want to learn this tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9F_b84nRAY
When the postman delivers my ZOUK!
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by drunkenviking
Re: Songs and the zouk
good to see your getting well into it anyway. keep it up. hard at it myself....
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by mise
Re: Songs and the zouk
A good one for the zouk (or zook) is a song by Davy Steele and John McKusker called Last Trip Home. It's a great song. Another favorite of mine is the Ballad of Saint Anne's Reel, by Dave Mallet. By the way, call it a zouk (or zook) when and where ever you want. After all, what most of us play isn't a real bouzouki anyway.
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by MR.
Re: Songs and the zouk
Pimp My Zouk !!!
No Eddie, I don't like the term Zouk or Zook or anything like it.
I've been calling mine the Bouzouki for 20 years even though its a long-necked Cittern with 10 strings. I'm with the guys who introduced it to Ireland and had it modified ; thats what they wrote on all their Album sleeves.
Kevin
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by KevinOK
Re: Songs and the zouk
"as for you dafydd why did you get kick out of walse"
Translation please.
All the illiterate guys say zouk.
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
Ah I see,you probably meant Wales. QED
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
Yes, Alistair. I've only just woken up and spotted it ...
Well done for spotting it first. I think you did very well indeed.
I must remember to post you your gold star.
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by ethical blend
Re: Songs and the zouk
I'm just bitter for NOT spotting it first.
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by ethical blend
Re: Songs and the zouk
Of course, I can afford to be smug, 'cos I don't think it's ever happened to me. When it happens to you, Alistair, is it like you've lost control of it? I bet it's like it's taken on a life of its own.
(tee hee)
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by ethical blend
Re: Songs and the zouk
Was just thinking Eddie ... with your Cork heritage, you should learn a few Jimmy Crowley songs ... Jimmy used to play great bouzouki accompaniment to his songs.
K.
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by KevinOK
Re: Songs and the zouk
ya im on to jimmy
# Posted on June 21st 2007 by Saint
Re: Songs and the zouk
dafydd why did you have to leave wales . maybe i can help you get back into the country . If I was from walse I would 'nt want to leave it , great country
# Posted on June 21st 2007 by Saint
Re: Songs and the zouk
cg.f
your the man if you ever need my bouzouki give me a call. thats the difference between us and them.
thanks ed
# Posted on June 21st 2007 by Saint
Re: Songs and the zouk
For those concerned with bouzouki vs. zouk terminology you might be interested in:
http://www.zoukfest.com/
In the event you are not familiar with Zoukfest, it is a week long event for bouzouki/zouk/cittern (or whatever you want to call them) players. It seems any name of five or more letters tends to be shortened to something less than that.
# Posted on June 21st 2007 by rob zouk
Re: Songs and the zouk
Right on Rob! Who gives a flyin' f*ck what you call it? A cittern isn't a real cittern and an Irish bouzouki isn't a real bouzouki, but we all know exactly what we're talking about when it's brought up. So with that, I'm off to play my 5 course ZOOOOOK!
# Posted on June 21st 2007 by MR.
Re: Songs and the zouk
A Zoukfest would be a festival celebrating Guadeloupean dance music.
# Posted on June 21st 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
WALES.
# Posted on June 21st 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
The bouzouki Isles
# Posted on June 21st 2007 by Saint
Re: Songs and the zouk
dAvid from wAleS
# Posted on June 21st 2007 by Saint
Re: Songs and the zouk
A ZoukFest IS a annual bouzouki festival founded by Roger Landes. It is definitely NOT a Guadeloupean dance music festival. Some people call the instrument a zouk, deal with it.
# Posted on June 21st 2007 by MR.
Re: Songs and the zouk
Why do many farmers in Ireland call over the calves by chanting Zouk Zouk Zouk ?
# Posted on June 21st 2007 by KevinOK
Re: Songs and the zouk
The bouzouki of the Levant is, of course, descended from *real* citterns brought to the region by Northumbrian crusaders...
(Well? Who knows?!)
# Posted on June 21st 2007 by nicholas
Re: Songs and the zouk
The word zouk is already spoken for.In the rarified world of ITM everyone knows that you mean a bouzouki but if you said "my zouk" in other company they might wonder why you own a form of dance music.Zouk is popular in France so your misuse of the word might cause some puzzlement there. It's the Humpty-Dumpty syndrome at work.
'
When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
bouzouki comes from the greek word for out of tune. check it out
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by Saint
Re: Songs and the zouk
Yes, and it's already spoken for with the instrument as well. So there are now two meaning for the word. There are masses that use the term. Just because you have a problem with something as insignificant as this and have to whine about it, doesn't mean it will stop. So far in my experience, every single person in the rarified world of ITM knows exactly what it is whenever someone uses the term zouk, but only a few choose to bitch about something so dumb.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by MR.
Re: Songs and the zouk
"... perhaps the fighting is so fierce because the stakes are so small"
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by MR.
Re: Songs and the zouk
Name some of these 'masses of uses'.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
The Oxford Dictionary;
'zouk n. an exuberant style of popular music combining Caribbean and Western elements.
origin 1970'S:Gaudeloupian Creole,lit. 'to party'
And that's all,no other entiries for zouk.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
Anyway,what's wrong with calling things by their correct name? I don't call my guitar a 'git' or my fiddle a 'fid'.Who started this zouk nonsense anyway?
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
relax david and stop using english dictionarys to look up greek words
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by Saint
Re: Songs and the zouk
It was just because people could not spell "bouzouki" or were fed up with drunk people asking them to use it to blow up their wife, etc.
I don't have a poblem with the term 'zouk' as long as those that play it know the full name and HOW IT IS SPELT!!! I don't go around calling my capo a 'capotasto'. Abbreviations are useful things.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
Re: Songs and the zouk
Isn't this fun!
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
By the way zouk is not a Greek word.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
'Lopa dotemakh oselakhogaleokranioleip sanodrimhypotr immatosilphiokarab omelitokatakekh umenokikhlepikossuphophattope risteralektruonoptokephalliokinklopelei olagoiosiraiobaphetra ganopterugon' is a Greek word.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
I am totally relaxed,resting heartbeat 52 bpm.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
Winds light to variable.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
HEY! Did you guys know that some people call their mandolins MANDOS?!?!? And what's worse, some people call guitars, bouzoukis, and other necked and fretted instruments AXES!!!! What the feck? It's not an axe, it's a guitar, for crying out loud! Let's start bitching and moaning now! Before it gets worse. Anyone who has ever been to ZoukFest has more than likely called it a zouk (and that's a pretty large mass). All I'm saying is, get over it. Who gives a sh*t what people want to call it, dafydd. Yes, you are right, it is a bouzouki (loosely), but some people REALLY do call it a zouk, so keep on whining about it forever. Maybe you'll make a difference.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by MR.
Re: Songs and the zouk
Still waiting for the masses of uses.
What is the purpose of language?
"Fest" is one of those awful newspeak words too.
It's all part of the general dumbing down of our culture.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
A mandolin is called a mandolin to distinguish it from a mandola.that's why it's called a mandolin."Axe" is a generic term for a fretted instrument,usually a guitar,fallen out if of fashion somewhat,but it's not a fatuous diminutive.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
I thought that was just the Ozzfest.
(Antipodeans, that one's NOT about you!..)
The modern Greek for "out of tune" is "se paraphonia".
I can't think straight away of any exceedingly long words in Modern Greek, but am sure many exist. The longest surname I've come across is Papatriantaphyllopoulos.
I'm definitely pro-zouk. The Irish Bouzouki, though I like it, certainly isn't a bouzouki.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by nicholas
Re: Songs and the zouk
Google "zoukfest". In fact just look up top of here and click on the link Rob Zouk left. But google it if you question the fact that people use it. The funny thing is, I've never called my bouzouki a zouk until this thread, but I think that's what it will be known exclusively as from now on. Just because now I know that it might confuse you. Do you think I would confuse a lumber jack if I told him "I'm going to go play my axe now"? Or do you think he might have the common sense to know what I meant?
Well dafydd, I'm signing off. This discussion has become boring and monotonous. Have fun getting p*ssed at the petty sh*t. Keep up with the struggle, YOU just might make the difference. Maybe you can get rid of all the stupid, petty little things people do that make this world such a frustrating place for guys like you to live in. Good luck my friend.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by MR.
Re: Songs and the zouk
Aw,i was just starting to enjoy myself.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by dafydd
Re: Songs and the zouk
I'm too scared to say anything............
# Posted on June 29th 2007 by zoukboy