Chat 3: Arranging

Singers:

  • Lisa Murrin 
  • Wayne Richardson

David Kennedy is a guitarist, music teacher and producer/composer from Dublin. He makes YouTube videos to support students, teachers and music makers.  We asked him to contribute four arrangements to the Tones JC books. The four short clips shown on the right are in this order:

1 Semitones: Tracks 40-43 (Row your boat)
2 Tones Ex Book: Track 75 (Johnny, I hardly knew ya)
3 Tones Ex Book: Track 76 (The ants go marching)
4 Tones Ex Book: Track 78 (Whiskey in the jar)

Further Development

Identify the style used in each of the four arrangements, describing the different musical elements you hear.

Here is David’s description of these four arrangements: