Donovan – Widow With Shawl (A Portrait)
Learn how to play Donovan – Widow With Shawl (A Portrait) note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Easy (if you’re familiar with Travis Picking)
Barre chords: No
Thumb over chords: No
Playing Style: Fingerpicked (Travis Picked)
Tuning: Downtuned by a half step
This lesson teaches Donovan’s guitar part from the original album version.
The complete file contains a lesson video, a performance play thru video, full tabs, chords and lyrics. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of 122 Mb containing all the lesson content.
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Robert says
Thanks, Jerry. Another beautiful but simple (as you explain it) Donovan gems from the awesome “Gift From A Flower.” Can you account for Donovan’s down-tuning by a half step? Perhaps unimportant, but details such as this perplex me when I am attempting to learn songs on my own, without your help.
Thanks, –Robert
Jerry says
Hi Robert. He doesn’t do it often but does occasionally – Sand and Foam is another example that springs to mind. It might be because he wanted the slightly darker sound that downtuning provides, bur far more likely, imho, is that it was easier for him to sing a semi-tone lower. In that sense his downtuning is like a capo in reverse!
Robert says
Thanks, Jerry. Makes sense. Barre chords would also be easier, too, I guess. With regard to “Sand and Foam,” I now know why I was always intrigued by its darker sound. As always, thanks, –Robert