We’ll close this lesson with one of Donovan’s heaviest offerings, “Hurdy Gurdy Man,” which gets its girth from relentless downstrokes and chords with their fifth in the bass (Bm/F#, C/G and D/A), like FIGURE 5. This style of fingerpicking profoundly impacted Lennon and McCartney during their India trip (e.g., the White Album’s “Dear Prudence,” “Julia,” “Blackbird” and “Mother Nature’s Son”). Yet in the eighteenth century the hurdy-gurdy player began to appear in the unlikeliest of places the dining rooms of Europe’s elite. An etching produced in France around 1610 shows a musician with a hurdy-gurdy violently attacking a terrified pilgrim. The Hurdy Gurdy Man was issued later that year, and includes “Jennifer Juniper” (penned for Jennifer Boyd, sister of George Harrison’s wife), similar to FIGURE 4. The pitiful hurdy-gurdy player became a stock character for European printmakers. With success skyrocketing in early 1968, Donovan took some time off and trekked to India with the Beatles to study transcendental meditation. For the title track’s infectious groove, akin to FIGURE 3, fret D7 and keep your pinkie fixed to the third string throughout that note serves as a “common tone” over Donovan’s low-register riffing. Sunshine Superman, a mix of acoustics, sitars and a rock rhythm section (with Page, years before Led Zeppelin’s formation), was issued later that year, and is one of the first psychedelic pop albums. In 1966, Donovan-credited as the pop star who imported “flower power” into the U.K.’s pop culture-abandoned “British folk” for more psychedelic sounds. Each bar uses the same strumming rhythm, with country/folk-flavored hammer-ons (from different open strings) on beat three. Grab an open C chord and add your pinkie to the high-E string’s third fret keep this note in place as you change between the C, F and G grips.ĭonovan’s second single, “Colours,” appears on his sophomore effort, Fairytale, and is an open-D tuning gem, not unlike FIGURE 2.
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