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Clive Davies - Guitar Arrangement
Waltzing Matilda (original arrangement)
I wanted to write a novel and unusual arrangement of this famous Australian folk song to display my love for this country of great beauty...
My two brothers moved there many years ago, they built their homes and raised their lovely families there in this wonderful land...
Uploaded 2 years ago
How long have you been playing?
For many years I've been a self taught fingerstyle, classical and jazz guitar player, performer, composer, singer songwriter and teacher.
What was the first concert you ever went to?
Segovia concert in the Festival Hall, London, early 1960's.
What are you looking for from Fandalism?
To connect with guitarists, singer songwriters and other fine musicians across all genres, keeping myself abreast of musical styles and trends related to my own musical development.
What gear do you use?
Ramirez concert 1A Spanish guitar, Aria cutaway-flamenco acoustic guitar, Aria solid body nylon string guitar, plus several student model Spanish guitars (full size and 3/4)
A 'YouRock' midi guitar. A Spanish guitar that I made in 1969 and played on my 1970 album.
A 'YouRock' midi guitar. A Spanish guitar that I made in 1969 and played on my 1970 album.
Who was your biggest musical influence growing up?
Good musicians and their music, on any instrument - in any genre - from Antiquity to Today... Early influences: English folk music, 1960 rock, New Orleans Jazz,
(From my late teens - particularly partial to really great fingerstyle guitarists..!)
(From my late teens - particularly partial to really great fingerstyle guitarists..!)
Are you in a band? Have you been in bands?
Solo performer only, though I enjoy playing my guitar with my student guitarists who come to study with me in Montefrio, granada, Spain.
https://www.guitarworkshops.es/clive-davies.html
https://www.guitarworkshops.es/clive-davies.html
If you could jam with anyone, who would it be?
Jamming is improvising which, in my book, has to make a positive musical statement - like an 'instant composition,' with solos that are musical stories, neat and compact - with a beginning, a middle, and an end - not simple lineal melodising - but texturally and harmonically interesting too..!
What's the biggest audience you ever performed to? What's the smallest?
Johannesburg, South Africa +- 1,000.
Montefrio concert +- 20.
Montefrio concert +- 20.
You're stuck on a desert island and only get to bring one album with you. What do you pick?
Bach, Goldberg variations, Glen Gould, seventies, it's brilliant.
CHRISTMAS CRACKER (SNOW SCENES)
A SEASONAL SONG OF MINE FEATURING OLDER SNOW PHOTOS OF MONTEFRIO (AND MY SUSIE) PLUS THE GRANADA SKI SLOPES OF OUR SIERRA NEVADAS.



Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar and vocals
Video
Montefrío, Spain
After a low profile musical production period of eight weeks (- a computer black screen problem had me very stressed out *&^%$! ) Plus software issues compounded things, after which it seemed as if I'd lost all of my precious Youtube videos... GRRRRR!
Sigh - I was not a happy camper...
But finally, all's well that ends well...
I've 'picked up the pieces' - and with huge sighs of relief - posted a new video..!
MY LAPTOP, BY CLIVE DAVIES:
I SAT MY LAPTOP ON MY LAP IT ATE A LOT OF FLUFF
AND NOW IT WON'T DO ANYTHING
I THINK IT'S HAD ENOUGH
SO I TOOK MY FRIED COMPUTER TO A SPECIALIST I.T. GUY
AN INNOCENTLY ASKED HIM WHY MY LAPTOP FRIED
QUITE TACITURN HIS WORDS ARE FEW IN FACT HE'S VERY QUIET
HE QUIETLY SAID ALL LAPTOPS NEED A BASIC FLUFF FREE DIET!




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
PHONEY NEWS (original song)
My song PHONEY NEWS was written after watching three documentaries - here are the links to short trailers:
The Social Dilemma | Official Trailer | Netflix (2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaC5...
Saving Capitalism | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T9E2...
Secret City, IMDb (2012) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2448704/...




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar and vocal
Video
Montefrío, Spain
I'M NOT ED SHEERAN (original song)
The inspiration for this song came about when I read that Ed Sheeran and I share the same birth date... (Although he's exactly 47 years younger than I am..!) Gasp!
I'M NOT ED SHEERAN New song by Clive Davies
*INTRO: WITH A GUITAR NOT A BROOMSTICK - HE LOOKS LIKE A FAMOUS MATE -
HE COULD BE HARRY POTTER'S SIDEKICK - BUT FOR THE FICKLENESS OF FATE..!
1 WEAR MY HAIR LIKE ED SHEERAN - MOVING MY WHOLE CAREER
DEVELOPING HIS STYLE, A VOCAL-CASUAL-YOKEL WOULD APPEAR
SEEKING HIS WORD ADVENTURES, EVER CLEVER AND NEVER ABSURD
WITH RETINUES OF FOLLOWERS - FOLLOWING EVERY WORD
2 DRESS MYSELF LIKE ED SHEERAN, ADOPTING HIS CANDID GAZE
WEARING A DIMPLE-EDGED SMILEY FACE, DELIVERING EACH PHRASE -
LIKE 'HI GUYS!' COOL-SCHOOL COMMENTS, IN A WORD PLAY KIND OF WAY
CHECK-OUT HIS CAFE COOLNESS, AND CHECK SHIRTED DISPLAY
3 WALKING LIKE ED SHEERAN, TALKING IN 'ED-SPEAK' TOO
NEVER CARELESS OR DISINTERESTED, EVER CONFIDENT AND COOL
NEVER DISTANT OR ALOOF - THE PROOF OF THIS - FUCK YES!
DELIVERED WITH A GRIN AND ROSY APPLE CHEEKINESS
4 COULD I CONTENT MYSELF WITH ED SHEERAN PLAY-DAY DREAMS
COULD I REINVENT MY EGO - DENTED BY MY GENES
IF MY LIFE BECAME LIKE HIS - WOULD I EVER LET IT SHOW...
I WOULD, PERHAPS - BUT IN ANOTHER DREAM - OF NEARLY FIFTY YEARS AGO!
5 TAKES OFF GINGER WIGLET FRINGES - UNCOOL FOR MY MY KIND OF SHINDIG
'COS I DIG WHERE I AM AND WHAT I 'ARE!' - NEVER DESTINED TO BE A ROCK STAR..!
ME AND MY GUITAR - MUSICALLY FREE - FINGERSTYLIST REPARTEE
BOUNDLESS CLIVESTYLE VARIATIONS - NOT TO MENTION LYRICAL FACINATION
*OUTRO: MY REAMS OF SCHEMES THESE DREAMS OF THEMES - ARE NEVER WHAT THEY SEEM
MERELY REAMS OF THEMES THESE SCHEMES OF THEMES ARE NEVER EVER DREAMS OF DREAMS




Clive Davies
- Fingerstyle guitar and vocal fun
Video
Montefrío, Spain
DIVINE DILEMA (original song)
A scribbled verse from my sketch book was reshaped and polished - it's about Our Musical Hero who has found himself a bit tied up and doesn't know what to do about it...




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
TRICK CYCLING (original instrumental)
Last movement of my suite, 'La Bicicleta'
I look so serious said Susie - which made me think of alternative light and summery ideas for the visuals...
Chick Cycling was the winner..! LoL




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
A E I O YOU AND ME (original song)
It's a fun song - yet another songfruit freshly plucked from my song tree (rootstock from the ragtime era...) LoL




Clive Davies
- Guitar and vocal
Video
Montefrío, Spain
ALMOST EUREKA (original song)
My latest song is a bizarre improvisation on my developing guitar style - a funky Nuevo Flamenco-ish wacky fusion - with vocals loosely attached..! LoL




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
DOUBLE DECKER (remix of my original instrumental) I wrote this piece for my one man show 'Waiting for the Moon' at South Africa's Grahamstown Arts Festival... I'm playing my Ramirez 1A concert guitar, in dropped D tuning.




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
THE THINGS THAT MATTER MOST
Original song by Clive Davies
BECAUSE THE DAYS ARE LONGER AND THE AIR IS NOT SO CHILL
FIND CONSOLATION IN ISOLATION THAT ABSENCE TENDS TO FILL
GOOD THINGS PROD AND PROMPT US - HELP US FIND A KEY
TO BUILD A NEW FOUNDATION - TO STRENGTHEN YOU AND ME
FILLING TIME WITH CHANGES - NEW PHASES AND GOOD WILLS
WE ADD NEW TUNES TO MELODIES WITH ORNAMENTS AND TRILLS
NICE THINGS SOMETIMES HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO SIT AND WAIT
WE OFTEN SAY THAT JUST A THOUGHT CAN LEAD TO SOMETHING GREAT
ISOLATED FOR THE DURATION LOOKING FOR A COMFORT STATION
SEEKING MUTUAL ADMIRATION AND LOVE OF SMALLER THRILLS
WE DREAM OF SUMMER PASTURES WHEN THE SUN IS STRONGER STILL
FOCUSING ON LITTLE PLEASURES, FAR FROM WINTERS CHILLS
REVISING DAILY LIFESTYLES, KEEPING THOUGHTS SO LIGHT
BRITTLE ISSUES FOLD LIKE TISSUES DIMMED BY BRIGHT SUNLIGHT
THINK OF WINKING AT MINOR FLAWS - THEY CAUSE NO LASTING STRIFE
THEREIN LIES THE ANSWER - LOOK FOR THE LOVELY THINGS IN LIFE
THOUGHTS FLOATING ON GOSAMER WINGS
JUST COAST ALONG ON THESE LOVELY THINGS -
THESE THINGS SO FEATHERLIGHT...
THESE LOVELY THINGS OF LIFE!



Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
SHOWTIME (original song)
Another song fresh from my song tree, to raise your spirits and hopefully a few chuckles...
SHOW TIME! BY CLIVE DAVIES
CHORUS: KNOCK KNOCK IT'S GREENWICH MEAN TIME -
UNLOCK YOUR PAD-LOCK BIG TIME
CLOCKWORK SHOCK WORK GO TIME!
IN TICK-TOCK TALK - IT'S SHOWTIME!
IT WAS HALF PAST THE KNEE JOINT, SAID THE FIGURE ON THE CLOCK - THE TIME WAS ALMOST HALF PAST KNEE
I HAD FLOWN IN TO ALASKA IN MY PIN-STRIPED JET,
LANDING ON AN ICY FROZEN SEA
THE WEATHER MILD AND BITTER, WITH A GLITTERING OF FROST -
SO NICE TO BE HERE JUST IN TIME FOR TEA
THOUGH THE LIME JUICE CURDLED CREAM ON TOP OF MY CUP - WHICH SORT OF STUCK TO MY PINK GOATEE
ON THE DOT I SAW THE CLOCK HAD RE-ALIGNED A NOSE AND A HAND - THAT'S ACCORDING TO THE FIGURE I COULD SEE
SO I WALTZED WITH MY TEACUP SWINGING FROM MY BEARD -
TO MEET THE BOSS - THE NEW REVERED QUEENBEE
NOW SENOR BUMBLE BEE HAD BUZZED ME - IF HIS BUZZING WAS CORRECT - I SHOULD 'WING' MY INTERVIEW WITH LADYBEE -
SING HER AN OUTLINE OF MY STORY, LEAVING OUT THE GORY BITS - BY PRETENDING SHE WAS JUST A HONEYBEE
CHORUS: KNOCK KNOCK IT'S GREENWICH MEAN TIME -
UNLOCK YOUR PAD-LOCK BIG TIME -
CLOCKWORK SHOCK WORK GO TIME! -
IN TICK-TOCK TALK - IT'S SHOWTIME!
OH NO! THE CLOCK WAS FROZEN STIFF WITH A SMILE UPON ITS FACE - DOH REY MI FAH SOH, LAH DEE, DAH DEE, DEE
TO BE OR NOT TO BEE - HOPEFULLY NOT A WASP!
NOW I'M CLUELESS AS TO WHAT THE TIME COULD BE...
GASPING AS I GRASPED THE MEANING OF THIS SILLY SCENE,
FEELING SUCH AN INEFFECTUAL WANNABEE
BUT QUEENIE WAS A HONEY AND AWARDED ME THE JOB -
AND THE MONEY, AND ANOTHER CUP OF TEA!
THE MORAL TO THIS TALE IS, IF YOUR FAILURE TO ALIGN
THE FIGURE ON THE CLOCK YOU CANNOT SEE
YOU NEED TO PAUSE ( ..2, 3, 4 ) LOOK FOR THE CAUSE -
IT MAYBE JUST ANOTHER TYPE OF BEE...
SO BE CAREFUL, TYPE YOUR RESUME, WITH SOME CRAFTY LYRIC LINES THAT DEFINE YOURSELF AS DIFFERENT TO ME
CHOOSING WORDS TO RE-ALIGN YOUR CLOCK,
THAT TICKS AS WELL AS TOCKS -
AND YOU'LL GET THE JOB WITHOUT THE THIRD DEGREE!
CHORUS: KNOCK KNOCK IT'S GREENWICH MEAN TIME -
UNLOCK YOUR PAD-LOCK BIG TIME -
CLOCKWORK SHOCK WORK GO TIME! -
IN TICK-TOCK TALK - IT'S SHOWTIME!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
MY OLD MAN'S A DUSTBIN (a re-imagined spoof song!)
Freshly plucked from my song tree (with apologies to Lonnie Donegan) and in keeping with my song challenge to all songwriters to help lift the gloom that's surrounds the whole world at present - write a song with a smile in it..!
MY OLD MAN'S A DUSTBIN, by Clive Davies
MY OLD MAN'S A DUSTBIN, HE WEARS A DUSTBIN LID
HIS PROPER NAME IS ROGER - BUT WE ALL CALL HIM SID!
WHEN HE DOFF'S HIS LID TO YOU HE MAKES A PROPER STINK
SUCH A MUCKER IN HIS DUSTBIN AND TUCKER - A SOD, WITH A NOD AND A WINK
RAISING SUCH A DUST STORM AS HE GOES OUT ON HIS ROUNDS
THE SOUND OF SID'S CLANKING LIDS, SOUND'S LIKE A BATTLEGROUND
UPSETTING ALL THE NEIGHBOURS - BY WHISTLING DIRTY SONGS..!!!
HE FLIRTS WITH ALL THE LOCAL GIRLS - EVEN THOUGH HE PONGS! (SOMETHING AWFUL!)
WATCH HIM JUGGLING DUSTBIN LIDS - HE'S REALLY QUITE A STAR
KICKING HIS BOOTS LIKE FRED ASTAIRE, NO MATTER WHERE HE ARE
CLATTER, CHATTER, RATTLE AND SCRAPE, BANGS, CLANGS AND TINKLES
HIS FRUITY SMELLS WAKE SLEEPING BEAUTIES - EVEN RIP VAN WINKLES!
SCHOOLED AT ETON AND OXFORD, HE'D SUCH A PRIVILEGED START
IN THE WHEELBARROW OF LIFE, DESTINED FOR A GREATER PART
JUST A FELLA IN A TOPPER AND TAILS - HE ROSE TO THE TOP OF THE TREE
NOW HE OWNS HIS OWN DUST CART, AND LOOKS DOWN ON YOU AND ME..!
OH - MY OLD MAN'S A DUSTBIN, HE WEARS A DUSTBIN LID
HIS PROPER NAME IS ROGER - BUT WE ALL CALL HIM SID!
WHEN HE DOFF'S HIS LID TO YOU HE MAKES A PROPER STINK
SUCH A MUCKER IN HIS DUSTBIN AND TUCKER - A SOD, WITH A NOD AND A WINK




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
LEMON SMILES (original song)
I felt that all of my music projects waiting for completion were too 'heavy' for this challenging and uncertain time that the whole world now finds itself in...
So, starting out from scratch with a nonsense line - just grabbed from fresh air, I began writing a song - with a SMILE in it...
LEMON SMILES by Clive Davies
Pipped at the gate post fizzy lemons whizzing by Winged horses riding lemon rainbows in the sky Pancho's mulish foolish looks mirror his own mule Are Don Quixote challenges of a clever man or fool?
Schools offer answers as in higher schools of fish Lemon wishing helps when riding rainbows as we wish Beaching whales as in a country dancing is divine Lemons foster fitness changing water into whine
Machiavelli lemon jelly well he really didn't know Lemonade is not a charity for clarity begins at Homer was a poet philosophic wannabee Buzzing lemon blossoms on the bitter lemon tree
Homer came to grips with novel quips and arty crafty scholar Ships of the desert regions lemon heaven blessed Well rested after contemplating lemon fish and chips Allowed unzipping of his fruit revealing lemon pips!
Unzip a lemon taking care as you incise For limes looks like a lemon not a melon in disguise So here's a rip-off of a tip-off I've wrapped it up in prose It's fun to squeeze your pips to hit your target on the nose!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
BLARNEY MAN (original song)
A delightful Irish family, the Kenny's, lived next door to us in Oxford, and Dad's great Irish friend George Ryan gave me my first guitar. In 1968, my big brother Les and I hitch-hiked across Ireland to Tralee - where the Guinness Folk Festival, the Rose of Tralee competition and the Trotting Races all combined - such a wealth of Irish experience - interesting people, music, humour, the 'Blarney' was everywhere - surely building the foundations of Irish wackiness into my young mind...
The Blarney Man by Clive Davies
1) THE CUTEST TOWN IN IRELAND
WHERE THE BLARNEY SHOWS ITS FACE
TICKS OVER AT A SLOWER PACE TO ALL WHO CALL FOR ALE
NOW SEAMUS THERE IS OFTEN DUBBED AS NOT THE BRIGHTEST IN
THE PUB - BUT BEGORRAH AND BEDAD
THE LAD COULD REALLY TELL A TALE
LICKING MENTAL PENCIL LEAD, HE'D TINK A MESSAGE TO HISSELF
THEN LEANING ON THE MANTELSHELF
HE'D START TO WHET HIS WILES
GRINNING AND A-GLARING – SURE HE'S AWAY WITH THE FAIR-IES
AND A COUPLE OF HAIL MARY'S - TOSSED INTO THE SKY!
CHORUS: TIDDLYWINKS WE'RE ODDS AND SODS
IN THE KINGDOM OF THE GODS
ROLLICKING, FROLLICKING, BOLLICKING FUN
AT THE BLARNEY BAR TODAY
2) IS IT FACT OR IS IT FICTION THAT THE TELLER OF THE TALES
HAS A BLARNEY STONE ADDICTION WHICH THE KISSING NEVER FAILS
HE TELLS OF SUCH ADVENTURES -
ALL THE DREAMERS ARE EXHILARATED
ACTIVATED, ANIMATED - PICKLED TINK - AND STIMULATED
THIS SEAMUS FELLA HELD THEM WITH HIS HOLY GRAIL OF TALES
AND THE PUB ENTERED THE GUINNESS BOOK
OF RECORDS FOR THEIR SALES
HE'D TROT THE PLOTS AND STORYLINE
HE'D LIFT HIS SNOUT AND SHOUT
WHILE THE PEOPLE FELL ABOUT -
AND LAUGHED THEIR TONSILS INSIDE OUT!
3) UNDERNEATH THEIR PADDY CAPS -
SMOKY TEETH LIKE DOMINOES
WRINKLED NOSES, EARS DELIGHTED,
BLINKING EYES IN SMILING FACES,
CHEWING PIGGIES TROTTERS, BAKED PRATIES AND PISTACHIOS
SHEBEEN KISSERS WHITE PAINTED
WITH GUINNESS STOUT MOUSTACHIOS!
4) ARE THESE FLIGHTS OF FANCY WHERE HIS FERTILE TINKING SAILS
IRISH MISTY - PASS THE WHISKEY - IS THE FELLA TELLING TALES..?
IS IT PHONEY - OR ONLY BALONEY -
NEAT AND SWEET BUT NEVER SOUR
WORD SPINNING AND WORD WEAVING -
AT TEN TOUSAND WORDS AN HOUR!
5) WHY NOT FIND OUT FOR YERSELF, IF YOU'VE A DAY TO FIND YERSELF
HERE AND NOW, TURN LEFT - (NO RIGHT..?) - AH, GO OTHER WAY!
FOLLOW THE FELLA, THE PRIEST AND TINKER,
NOT FORGETTIN' THE GUINNESS DRINKER
YOU'RE IN FOR A TREAT - SO FOLLOW YOUR FEET -
TO THE BLARNEY BAR TODAY..!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
ALICE'S CAT (original song(s)
I play two versions, first a simple folky style - and then a more jazzy style - loosely connected by instrumental improvisations...
Inspired by Alice and her Cheshire Cat - it's a nonsense song, written a while ago - in an 'age of relative innocence!' LoL




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Anastasia (original song)
A commission inspired this fantasy song... 'A Fairy story, please..!'
This was from Susie, my sweet musical darling wife, who sometimes makes a suggestion (more like an instruction! ha, ha,) I'm smiling as I write this, because this clever lady intuitively knows which type of music will provide a startling contrast for my next weekly video post..!
So here is a Fairy story, delicately placed between sections of an instrumental called Anastasia that I wrote for a young Montefrio student, Anna, about three years ago.




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar and vocal
Video
Montefrío, Spain
SNOWING HARD (Duet over Mark Fussell's guitar music)
Dear friend Mark had posted his composition, Snowing Hard.
I commented that he could turn it into a duet...
He sent me the mp3 file and suggested that I try to make a duet of it..!
It turned out to be more than a challenge...
So here it is (- a real pigs breakfast of an attempt!) LoL
Touché, brother Mark...




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
TOP SECRET (original instrumental, remix)
This is one of a number of pieces where I started with a blank slate, searching for a melodic, harmonic or rhythmical idea. Though, these days more often than not, I'll have a wee sketch written in notation or TAB or even words, which I use to kick-start a development... Any of these can give me a visual scenario which also stimulates my imagination - and sometimes provide a title at this early stage, which further encouraging my creativity..!




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Beating my way (original song, new recording)
Such a sensitive guy - he goes through extreme weather and danger to get to her place - then, having arrived battered and weary, he wonders if he should intrude on her quiet evening..!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Here, There and Everywhere (Beatles re-imagined)




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar and vocals
Video
Montefrío, Spain
REVELATION (original, remix)
Better sound on this remix - now my amazing revelation becomes even clearer..! Freshly plucked (well, remixed) a song fruit from my song tree - it's about this wonderful free APP - that I just had to write to tell you about..!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Afromenca (original instrumental, remixed)
I've never studied flamenco though I've attended many shows in my 15 years of living in Spain.
First posted a few years ago this piece of mine was sketched in South Africa and completed in Spain.
I've given many concerts in Montefrio - this was a fun edit of a home recording - putting me into a movie!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Spacebaby (original song, remix)
A futuristic musical romp with Universal appeal..! LoL




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
GHOST DANCES (original instrumental duet)
'GHOST DANCES' - THE GHOSTS OF RENAISSANCE CHRISTMAS PAST THAT SHOWS ACTUAL RENAISSANCE DANCING, FILMED IN 1584 - USING USING GALILEO'S AMAZING STRING AND BEESWAX TECHNOLOGY..!




Clive Davies
- 12 string and nylon string guitar duet
Video
Montefrío, Spain
MATRIX MORE VARIATIONS (original instrumental)
A matrix can be social or mathematical, here I set out to make it musical..!
The photos show some of my experiences in the three countries where I have lived for long periods; UK, South Africa, and since 2005, Spain...




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
MOLLY'S CHRISTMAS WISH (original song)
Talk about winging a song - this has a WET PAINT placard..!
Focused on reading the lyrics, I allowed my vocals to improvise - and left the chords up to my fingers... Then, Santa pyjamas on (as promised) - I pressed record... (Hopefully, my editing doesn't spoil my Christmas story..)
*The lyrics themselves started all over the place (- as my wacky songs do) - until I rhymed Jolly with Molly...
Factual background:
My two brothers and I had an Auntie Molly, who was always a little sad, except when she wasn't..!!!
Sister of Uncle Laurie, who was married to Auntie Milly - our Auntie Molly lost her fiancee in the war. She never had a boyfriend and, living alone, she never ever married..!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
ICLICLE MUSIC (original)
It's still too early for Christmas music (though Susie already has my Santa Claus pyjamas ironed and ready to wear..!) LoL




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
BAREFOOT RUNNER (live original song)
This song was part of a one man show I performed at the Grahamstown Festival in South Africa. I later made an album of this show, called Waiting for the Moon.




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
PLUCKERS (live original song)
I posted a photo essay version of this some three years ago...
For those that requested the chords here's another video that I made today which shows the fairly simple chords... (I hadn't played the song for three years - so it's a bit rough!) LoL




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
TOP HAT CAVEAT (original song)
For my weekly video post (+-360) this song only took a couple of days to write as this outrageous stand-up comic generates lots of comments and photos... LoL




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Almost Like Being In Love ( jazzy chords)
For my video post this week, here's a practice piece that I made a few weeks ago (often they end up in the bin - but this one's not too bad..!) LoL
*A cut on the tip of one of my left hand fingers has restricted my playing... Grrr!




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Merry Mushrooms (original song)
I wrote this song in the 1980's for a proposed TV series...
Sal Price, the (then young teenage) daughter of dear friends, at Buccaneers Lodge & Backpackers, Chintsa in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, is the charming singer on this (very dated) tape recording... (My guitar sounds tinny and quite ancient..!) (But then I am too..!) LoL




Clive Davies
- Songwriter and guitarist
Video
Montefrío, Spain
DAMI (original instrumental)
My tremolo study with variations (Before and After...)
Yesterday's sunny patio video was interrupted...
So, on this cool early morning, after some welcome evening rain, I hit record again - armed with a steaming mug of cocoa! Mmmm...




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
EASY PEASY (original song)
A spin-off from my practice for playing guitar at a recent wedding, I 're-sculpted' a well known song by letting my curious mind and fingers delve into some ideas - and two days ago - hey Presto..!
(*It seems the more I practice - the luckier I get..!) LoL




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Arpeggio Variations (improvised)
It's 6 pm and a sunny 29 degrees C on the 7th of October 2019
I'm sitting on our cottage patio in Montefrio Spain, playing a G,C,D,G chord sequence - well that's where it started...
I tried to make it melodic (to avoid boring any passing friends..!) LoL




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
SUNSHINE MARKET (original song)
I decided to use a 100 year old drummer to accompany me - please excuse the 60 seconds warm-up...
This story-song is a (patchwork!) sort of a factual account of a visit to a Sunshine Market last Sunday...
''Practice harder young Davies..!''
''Yes, Headmaster..!'' LoL




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Finger Thinking (original instrumental)
This is a piece from my sizeable repertoire of compositions - those I've actually written down..! LoL (Played on my £70 student guitar..!)




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
THERE BE DRAGONS..! (original song)
A genuine Renaissance, song that I wrote myself..!
Actual film footage of Dragon fights with Knights of old...
First hand eye witness minstrel accounts in song..!
(Predates Greensleeves..!)




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Montefrío, Spain
MATRIX (original instrumental)
I recorded this in three parts, each part on one of my different instruments... The sound settings were kept the same for each guitar to illustrate their individual characteristics:
3/4 size Student guitar / Flamenco guitar / Ramirez Classical guitar.




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
DEEP MARSHMALLOW VALLEYS (PARODY)
I had fun writing this parody on The Big Rock Candy Mountains, a ... read moredream alternative paradise for kids of all ages, 1 to 100...
Those who didn't relish my 'Pumpkin Houses' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD1A8D0Ekf8
can now delight in Gingerbread Houses with Milkshake Streams...
After all, it's glorious summertime - so just R E L A X ..!




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Living Doll (jazz / blues arrangement)
This is a remixed song with new visuals added...
Having taken a week off (without posting a new video!) I'm relaxing in the heat of our gorgeous Andalusian summer - still celebrating my Fandalism.com video channel having reached an incredible two million views..!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Here are some new variations on my
E minor study 'ENFASIS' that many of my students will remember...
*It also celebrates my videos reaching two million views
on the wonderful musicians video channel www.fandalism.com




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
HOUND DOG (wacky chords)
Never able to simply 'play a song' I always love to experiment - 'push the boundaries' - moulding, warping, distorting - morphing each song into a new shape that challenges my 'weird musical sensibilities..!' LoL




Clive Davies
- Fingerstyle guitar and vocal fun
Video
Montefrío, Spain
FIESTA (original instrumental)
Only in my mind, not on paper, this is an earlier classical guitar composition of mine that I'm still doubtful about including in my upcoming September gig (- my first since 2012..!) Gasp!
So I first have to write it out - then the piece needs a lot of work to really make it flow..! (Wipes sweaty brow!)




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
TIGHT DRESS BLUES (original song, remix)
A Blues encounter that inspired me to write probably the most intense song I've ever written..!




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Montefrío, Spain
THE GLORY OF LOVE (tutorial)
My basic fingerstyle method for separating the thumb from the fingers by using only one thumb note for each beat...
I also show a couple of other fingerstyle techniques for this great song..!




Clive Davies
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Video
Montefrío, Spain
LAGOON (original song, remix)
Cintsa lagoon, nestling on the east coast of South Africa, toes dipping in the beautiful Indian Ocean, this gorgeous retreat holds so many precious memories and inspired so many songs for me...




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
LIPSTICK HOCKEY TRICK (original song)
Wacky is as wacky does - this is a free flowing FUN song..!
'A rap-fashioned narrative - car horn boogie..!' LoL




Clive Davies
- Guitar and vocal
Video
Montefrío, Spain
JAZZMOLO (original instrumental)
I'd just wished bon voyage to my latest guitar student from UK and I was itching to get to terms with extending a piece that had been going around my mind - I call it 'JAZZMOLO' - so I scribbled a quick cascade of chord symbols and pressed video record...
It starts with the music that is a little guitar study, then I improvise on the scribbled chords in the middle section - and end off with the study again..!
Oh, and the guitar is a sweet 3/4 sized student model that I bought new in UK last month, for seventy pounds..!




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
I'm in the Mood for Love (remix)
My recording of this wonderful old classic song is dedicated to my darling wife, Susie...
What an inspiration Susie is, in my life and my music!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and vocal
Video
Montefrío, Spain
You may have noticed that I've always been fascinated by chords, so when I put this song together - I had to use a lot of harmonic glue...! LoL




Clive Davies
- Guitar/ vocal and a bit jazzy...
Video
Montefrío, Spain
I found a delightful Chinese Puppet Show by Dragon Art Studio.
I added some weird music..!
(I think this will raise a smile from my grand kiddies: Jude and Darcey, Emma and Claire...)




Clive Davies
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Montefrío, Spain
Granada On My Mind (original song)
Summer is here and the scent of bright yellow Broom flowers wafts along the hills and roads all the way to the beautiful city of Granada...




Clive Davies
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Montefrío, Spain
Photograph of You (remix)
His girlfriend had cried on my shoulder, 'He's always busy, busy, busy - she could never spend time with him - what could she do..?
*I simply had to write this song..!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Using the 'Good Morning Blues' of Lead Belly fame (as so many Blues players do...) I'd loosely sketched some new verses...
However - I'm only a dabbler in the Blues Style - so what finally
came out is a wacky nonsense piece (though at the very end I do hope there's some sort of resolution ...!) LoL




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- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
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Montefrío, Spain
I don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine (remixed)
Novel phrasing and chords...




Clive Davies
- Fingerstyle guitar and vocal fun
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Rocky Raccoon (remix)
Lots of Oops and rolling of eyeballs among this wonderful Beatles Western 'spoof' song (- some flying fingernails too..!) LoL




Clive Davies
- Fingerstyle guitar and vocal fun
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Funny Walks (original instrumental)
I selected a segment from my 'Ministry of Funny Walks' video, and turned it into a rhythm study to use for teaching..!




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
BRINK OF CONFUSION (original song)
AFTER A COLD START ON A WET AND WINDY MORNING
I SEE YOU IN A CORNER OF MY MIND
BUT FOR THE SAKE OF INNER PEACE I CONCENTRATE ON ABSTRACT THOUGHTS
THEN I FOCUS AND MY DAY BECOMES DEFINED
I TAKE A BOLD STEP THROUGH THE MORNING DOORWAY
MY THOUGHTS BOUND WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK I ALLOW
THEN THE RAIN KISSES MY BROW, AND HERE I AM ON THE BRINK OF CONFUSION
AND I FIND MYSELF THINKING ABOUT YOU ANYHOW
I NEED A FIRM HOLD ON THE HANDRAIL OF A NEW IDEA
A FIRM HOLD - A NEW PERSPECTIVE FOR MY LIFE
A NEW SLANT - TO BREAK THE THREAD OF MY DEMISE
TO REIN-IN MY GLOOMY MOOD AND LIFT MY DOWNCAST EYES
SUN RISING ON MY NEW THEME, LIKE A NEW MUSICAL SCORE
MY SELF CONTROL ASSERTS ITSELF - SADNESS IS DENIED
ONCE MORE I'M IN CONTROL, RESOLUTE AND SELF ASSURED
I THROW AWAY MY BLINDFOLD - I WON'T WEAR IT ANYMORE




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
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Montefrío, Spain
Pumpkin Houses (original song, remix)
Let's talk about pumpkin Pied a Terre's and cucumbersome homes
That fulfil the two essentials we need
Let's talk about eating where we live and living so cheaply,
'Cos we grow our own houses from seed!
Let's talk about eating marrow raw as we nibble out a doorway
And have breakfast on a passage or two
Let's talk about lunching on the lounge with a little marrow-juana
Let's talk about vegetable bedroom stew
Chorus: Oh, Oh, eat me a hole in a new house
Eat me a place to stay
Gonna get me an artichoke architect
To digest my accommodation needs - today!
Let's talk about vegetarian pests, I never have them as guests
'Cos they eat me out of house and home...
I was once a marrow cook, with a narrow outlook
Now I'm a broadbeaned gastronome!
Chorus: Oh, Oh, eat me a hole in a new house
Eat me a place to stay
Gonna get me an artichoke architect
To digest my accommodation needs - today!
My calabash cottage is the avocado Ritz
For me to habituate
With a full fat tummy and roof above my head
I'll settle down - lean upon my beanbag - and vegetate!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
THE INFLUENCE (ORIGINAL SONG)
GOT MONEY DRINK BREW SMELL BAD MAKE NOISE
SHUT UP GET UP TALK NICELY DON'T HELP
KICK DOOR KICK BACK GRAB WHEEL FALL OVER
SHOUT OUT PUSH BOOT TALK NICELY DON'T HELP
SIT DOWN GO FAST PEOPLE CARRY VERY FAR
DON'T FEED DON'T EAT TALK NICELY DON'T HELP
STOP FAST HIT FACE FIGHT BEAST HURT HAND
BITE TONGUE WRONG MOVE TALK NICELY DON'T HELP
JUMP UP ROOF SMACK KNOCK DOWN HEAD SORE
DOOR OPEN FALL OUT TALK NICELY DON'T HELP
BRAIN LOOSE SIT UP GO BACK START OVER
FOOT WALK ALMOST NEARLY TALK NICELY DON'T HELP




Clive Davies
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Montefrío, Spain
GIRL FROM IPANEMA (jazzy)
Aah, free wheeling with this fabulous Bossa Nova song that I've never recorded before...




Clive Davies
- Guitar and vocal
Video
Montefrío, Spain
UFO (original song)
I FOUND A FLYING SAUCER BURIED IN THE GROUND, I CLEANED IT UP AND CHANGED THE OIL THEN FLEW IT INTO TOWN
I TOOK IT TO MY GARAGE BUT THEY DIDN'T KNOW THE MAKE, SO A BICYCLE REPAIR SHOP CHECKED THE TYRES AND FIXED THE BRAKES
I WENT FLYING UP THE MAIN STREET FASCINATED LOOKING DOWN, I ALMOST HIT THE TOWN HALL IN MY FROLICKING AROUND
PEOPLE ON THE PAVEMENTS, WALKING, FOCUSED ON THEIR PHONES - THE MASSES AND THEIR MILLSTONES - I COULD ALMOST HEAR THEIR GROANS
THE KIDS WERE ON THEIR PHONES TOO WHEN I HOVERED AT THE SCHOOL, BUT NO ONE LOOKED UP TO SEE ME SO I HEADED FOR THE ZOO
THE MONKEYS SAW ME - THEY ALL LOOKED UP EXCEPT FOR THE KANGAROO, WHO CAME HOPPING OVER FOR A RIDE - ALONG WITH THE GNU
I SCOOTED AWAY FROM THIS ANIMAL FRAY - IT WAS PEOPLE I MEANT TO IMPRESS, SO I FOUND A GATHERING OF SOCCER FANS AT THE STADIUM ADDRESS
I HOVERED OVER THEIR FOOTBALL MATCH THOUGH ALL EYES WERE ON THE BALL - I SAW THE GOAL AND HEARD THEIR CHEERS - BUT NOBODY SAW ME AT ALL
IN FACT NOBODY WAS EVERYWHERE THOUGH NOBODY NOTICED MY RIDE, EVEN A SPACESHIP CANNOT WHACK IT - FACT IS PEOPLE ARE PRE-OCCUPIED
I WOUND UP BROWNED OFF AND DOWN IN THE DUMPS EVEN THOUGH I WAS UP IN THE AIR, IT'S RATHER INCREDIBLE (ACTUALLY INEDIBLE) - I DIDN'T STAND AN EVENING PRAYER
I FOUND IT A DULL PLACE WHEREVER I FLEW OVER HOUSE AND STREET AND TOWN, GOING UP PROVED A COME DOWN, A TOTALLY TURNABOUT RUN-AROUND
WEARING A CLOWN FACE I QUICKLY ABOUT-FACED AND ME AND MY SAUCER FLEW HOME, I CHEWED SOME CHOICY ADJECTIVES, PARKED IN MY BACKYARD AERODROME
IN A BLACK MOOD I LOWERED IT BACK IN IT'S HOLE AND SHOVELLED IN SOIL WITH A SIGH, I THREW IN SOME SODS THEN THREW A SALUTE, FEELING SAD AS I WHISPERED GOODBYE
LATER ON ON MY PHONE SOMEONE TWEETED ABOUT A KANGAROO AND A GNU, THAT HEAPED PROBLEMS ON KEEPERS BY RUNNING AROUND, AMOK AND AT LARGE IN THE ZOO




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
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Montefrío, Spain
TRIPLICATA (original guitar suite)
The suite begins with a 6/8 arpeggio Prelude (- only a few hours old - it's virtually an improvisation that uses my 'Skeleton' chords - high fretted notes interspersed with open strings..!)
The middle movement is a slow 4/4 Song that precedes the Dance which is in 6/8, both of these are dusty (rusty!) LoL - older pieces that I've never recorded before...




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
SOME PEOPLE (original song)
1) SOME PEOPLE LIVE WITHOUT EMOTION, WON'T GET THEIR FEET WET IN THE OCEAN OF LIFE..
THEY'RE NOT PREPARED TO SAY,
THAT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN A NOD AND A WINK, SOME PEOPLE APPLY A RULE OF THUMB -
SOME ARE DOING GOOD DEEDS – OTHER’S ARE LOOKING THE OTHER WAY..!
2) SOME PEOPLE MIX A POTENT POTION – FOCUSING ON SELF-DEVOTION
FABRICATING SELF-PROMOTION - JUST TO GET YOUR VOTE
SO BUTTON YOUR COAT - OPEN YOUR MIND, AWARE OF THINGS THAT MIGHT BLINDSIDE YOU
JUST READ THE WEATHER CAREFULLY, AND YOUR BOAT WILL STAY AFLOAT..!
3) SOME PEOPLE GO THROUGH ALL THE ACTIONS, AND FOR THE MEREST FRACTION OF THEIR LIVES
HEADS BOWED THEY MUMBLE - THEN THEY WALK AWAY...
HAVING PAID THEIR WEEKLY PENANCE, AND SALVED THEIR SHAKY CONSCIENCE
THEY'RE ALL FIRED-UP AND LICENSED TO BEHAVE IN THE SAME OLD WAY..!
4) SOME PEOPLE SEEM TO GET IT WRONG, WHILE OTHER’S SEEM TO GET IT RIGHT
BUT DON’T LET APPEARANCES DECEIVE YOU - MOST FOLKS ACHIEVE SO MUCH
BELIEVE IN YOUR SELF, YOU’LL FIND YOUR FORTUNES - ARE IN LIFE, AND NOT IN COOKIES
JUST LOOK AND LISTEN BEFORE YOU LEAP – AND DEVELOP A SENSITIVE TOUCH..!
5) SOME PEOPLE KEEP AN EVEN KEEL, ENABLING THEM TO STAY QUITE STABLE,
RIDING A GALE, THEY’RE HALE AND HEARTY – THEY’RE ON THE UP AND UP...
ENJOYING THE SWEET FRUITS OF THEIR LABOUR, SWEATING, TOILING - LOVING LIFE
THEY’RE LIVING LIFE FOR ALL IT’S WORTH - AND NEVER GIVING UP..!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
MOUNTAIN GREENERY (jazzy chords)
I cut my lyrical teeth on fabulous songs like this Rogers and Hart 1926 song... With such inspirational material, it was great fun to come up with over 150 chord changes to provide colourful challenges for my guitar playing and singing...




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
FLAT CAT (original, remix)
by Clive Davies
In the MARSHMALLOW among the TWEEDS, a tiny SELF lay sleeping
Covered in CLOVER, nothing he HEEDS, though his mind through a dream softly PEEPING
His mind through a dream softly PEEPING
Curled in a ball of CANDYFLOSS, three little TWICE lay DREAMING
Neither one nor the other one noting the loss - of the fourth little TWICE who was SCHEMING
The fourth little TWICE who was SCHEMING
Cheshire a FlatCat eating his dinner, FURRING in contented splendour
Waiting for something or nothing to GLIMMER - waiting for something to end-or... BEGIN!
A CREAM filled the air of the BRASSY wallow - up SELFED the JUMP - in a hurry!
A MONSTER came over the FRIDGE to follow - his FOOTSTOMPS in kind of a CURRY
His FOOTSTOMPS in kind of a CURRY
'ZOT!' cried the SELF - as he shot with his P UN - the FLATCAT lay sighing in GLASSES
'OH, Toe is ME! MY Good DEED is DONE!'
And rewarded he was... with MOLASSES!
And rewarded he was... with MOLASSES!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Tea Shop Tourniquet
(original music and poem)
Romantic VALENTINE Dreams..!
NOT EXACTLY..!!!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
FOCUS (original song)




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Dum Dee Dum (original song)
For my grand kids, Jude and Darcey in UK and Emma and Paige in South Africa.
*And a special dedication for Simon, Susie's eldest son - with his bright mind - amazing computer skills and Calvin and Hobbes vision...




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
PACKINGTONS POUND (MY VARIATIONS)




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
REVELATION (original song)
Freshly plucked from my song tree - it's about this wonderful free APP - I just had to write to tell you about it..!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
CLIVE & RAFI Montefrio Musical Evening
Rafi, a retired teacher is a fine singer and dear friend. He has played trombone in the local prize winning Montefrio Wind Band for many years... Two months ago, he and I decided to give a little concert of popular songs that we grew up with - Beatles music and so on... This is an edited video of our concert on the 26.DEC.2018
(*My first 'live' public performance since 2012..!)




Clive Davies
- Guitar vocal & accompaniment!
Video
Montefrío, Spain
The Snowman (original song)
Based upon a true legend...!!!
*No snowmen were injured during the making of this video.




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
DANCING WITH CALATAYUD (original instrumental)
Recorded at a small concert I gave in Montefrio a few years ago, I was inspired to write these variations by a sweet little Em Waltz of Bartolomé Calatayud, the Spanish guitar composer, 1882 to 1973.




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
CHRISTMAS SONG (chestnuts roasting...)
Mel Torme wrote and sang some wonderful songs...
This is one that I really love..!




Clive Davies
- Christmas (chestnuts) song
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Adagio de Ballet (original)
This afternoon in Montefrio, a typical winters blue sky day,
I picked up some music at random - perched myself outside in the sunshine and birdsong, and recorded this little piece...
(Though I'm no sight reader!) LoL
*This music first appeared on my 'Ministry of Funny Walks' video that I posted about 30 months ago.




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Lulu's Back in Town (my jazzy version)
With my chord symbols hastily scribbled over the lyrics, I thought Lulu was back -
she was - but in Eb...! Aaarrgghh!
Anyway I had fun playing around with her...
*Don't tell Susie! LoL




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Merry Go Round (original song)
HOLDING ON TIGHTLY, SHOUTING OUT LOUD, WAVING AT FACES IN THE CROWD
SINGING LOVE SONGS, BLOWING KISSES, GUESSING EACH OTHER'S SECRET WISHES
COASTING DOWN THE STRAIGHTS OF LIFE, FREEWHEELING ROUND THE BENDS
FULL OF KINDNESS, TENDER HEARTED - LEAVING CARES SO FAR BEHIND US
RIDE WITH ME - COME SPEND SOME TIME ON THIS MERRY GO ROUND OF LIFE
READ MY LIPS - BUT DON'T READ MY MIND - YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED AT WHAT YOU FIND
YOU'RE THE ONE TO BRIGHTEN MY STYLE, YOU LIGHTEN THE LOAD AND MAKE ME SMILE
LOVING LAUGHING - HOLDING LIKE GLUE, SIMPLY DELIGHTING IN WHAT WE DO...
TOGETHER - ALWAYS TOGETHER..!
ROLLER COASTING BUMPY ROADS, SHOULDERS HOLDING ANY LOAD
YOU IN YOUR FRILLY FEATHERED HAT - ME WITH YOUR DOG AND YOUR PERSIAN CAT
IT'S THE RIGHT STYLE, TRAVELLING LIGHT, KEEPING SUNSHINE IN OUR PROFILE
WARM DAYS, OH-SO PRECIOUS - AND YOU, MY LOVE, TASTE SO DELICIOUS
SEND A MESSAGE TO OUR FRIENDS - GONE ARE THE DAYS OF ODDS AND ENDS
LEND AN EAR, BIDE A WHILE, WITH SOMEONE WHO'LL MAKE YOU SMILE...
SEEK YOURSELF A LIFE LIKE THIS - SHAKE THE BOTTLE AND TASTE THE FIZZ
EASING INTO THE PLEASURE ZONE, SEIZE THE DAY - MAKE IT YOUR OWN
HOLDING ON TIGHTLY, SHOUTING OUT LOUD, WAVING AT FACES IN THE CROWD
SINGING LOVE SONGS, BLOWING KISSES, GUESSING EACH OTHER'S SECRET WISHES
COASTING DOWN THE STRAIGHTS OF LIFE, FREEWHEELING ROUND THE BENDS
FULL OF KINDNESS, TENDER HEARTED - LEAVING CARES SO FAR BEHIND US -TOGETHER, ALWAYS TOGETHER




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
COOKIE JAR (Michael Franks great song, remix)
Funk is a fascinating rhythm, ideal for fingerstyle improvisation...
Currently I'm working pretty hard on updating my gigging repertoire, so I re-mixed my video of this song which I dearly love..!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
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Montefrío, Spain
ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK (Sting's great song)
This is a remix of the video I made a couple of years ago...
(Living in Spain has probably influenced my music as much as South Africa did..! )




Clive Davies
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Montefrío, Spain
SMACK, BANG IN LOVE (original song)
Our HERO finds himself in a really tough situation...
Her slap and tickle, was more like Wack and Wiggle
- She WACKED - and he WIGGLED
- out of a tight corner..!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
'C' Si, Si, Senorita (original)
A fingerstyle Serenade, I wrote this little melodic piece for my guitar students (often they have a sight reading ability better than mine..! LoL
With simplicity in mind, I chose to use the open 'C' chord shape that's easily moved to many positions - up and down the neck...
The music display is in TAB and notation, with chord boxes too...
If you would like a copy - just send me an email clidaco@gmail.com




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Blue Moon (duet + dogs chorus)
Big brother Les came to visit me and Susie in Spain a couple of years ago. Les always loves to sing, so this was the two of us having fun with an off the cuff version of this great song - it features a canine chorus too..! LoL




Clive Davies
- Jazzy guitar and vocals
Video
Montefrío, Spain
THE ROAD TO FALLOW DUNN (original song remix)
First posted four years ago, I wrote this song, having been inspired by the music of the same name, by Mark Smith.




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
LOST KEY (original song)
He's trying to find his door key - but he's wearing his Wobbly Boots..!




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
An Elephant in THE HOUSE
With apologies to Nellie The Elephant!
Donald the Elephant flies his self-propelled hot air balloon...
Such loud Trumpeting echoes around the globe...
Impervious thick skin, oversized gall bladder -
Donald's a political animal - no doubt..! LoL




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar and vocal
Video
Montefrío, Spain
FlamBluesy Floozy (original)
Set in a fictitious Spanish nightclub, my story unfolds in a song..!




Clive Davies
- Spanish guitar
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Valentina (orchestrated)
I approached Fandalism's wonderful orchestral composer and arranger,
Jean-Louis Sambiasi, asking him if he would like to write an orchestral arrangement...
He very kindly agreed to do this for my
solo guitar work, Valentina!
Working through the heat of his Corsican summer, Jean-Louis then
sent me this lovely orchestration!




Clive Davies
- Guitar/ with orchestration
Video
Montefrío, Spain
Wearing Your Wobbly Boots (original)




Clive Davies
- Guitar and singer/songwriter music mentor skype sessions with clive email clidaco@gmail.com
Video
Montefrío, Spain
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