David Delarre

Rule 1 
You're only allowed to play from Fret 1 to Fret 12.

Rule 2
Go from the thinnest string to the thickest string finding the same note e.g 
G on the E string fret 3
G on the B…

I've been teaching John Renbourn's arrangement of this lovely old English folk ballad recently on my guitar course for the English Folk Dance and Song Society so I thought I'd make a video for you guys. You can listen to…

Rowan and I have wanted to play together for a number of years now and on Sunday we got the chance to do a handful of songs together at Walthamstow Folk Club which meets at the brilliant old east end…

I'm a bit of a lurker on the facebook group 'Tunesday Tuesday' - essentially a facebook group for trad. folk players to learn and then share a tune every week - this tune was offered up by the admin. It…

I've not uploaded anything in a while as for the last 9 months I've been playing guitar in the #WestEnd for #Hadestown. It's a great show! Love it to bits but its 8 shows a week and knackers me…

Getting back on the transcription train! I’ve not uploaded anything in a while - currently playing guitar for ‘Hadestown’ in the West End which is keeping me very busy with 8 shows a week but I really want to get…

Just noticed my last post on my website was back in November 2023…. whoops. My apolgies for that - one of the main reasons I've not been so busy on my website and on my youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@DavidDelarre is that…

In this first part of the tutorial I teach the form of the song, the chords and the bass line that will get you started to learning this classic from Lightnin' Hopkins. 

You can download my transcription of this by…

I've been teaching this tune to my group guitar class recently (if you're interested in joining it check out my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/daviddelarre) and today after changing my strings on my old 1930's Kalamazoo KG-11 I thought I'd do a…