Doug Young - Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella - Solo Guitar

My arrangement of this traditional French Christmas carol. The tune is a dance called a "ritournelle," dating from the 1500's. played on a Ed Claxton Malabar in DGDGAD tuning.
Important NOTE: If you are trying to follow along with my arrangement of this tune from my book "A DADGAD Christmas", you'll find this video confusing - this is an older version using DGDGAD tuning, not DADGAD! I rearranged the tune for the book, and while it's similar, the fingerings have changed. In some ways, I think the DADGAD arrangement in the book is a bit cleaner, since it was a second pass at the tune.

[@michaelshannon6558]

I’ve done this song in standard tuning but without the harmonics. I love your arrangement! I found your book, A DADGAD Christmas, and I’ve ordered it to relearn a lot of the Christmas carols I play in DADGAD. I’ll be working on them throughout next year to have them ready for Christmas 2023.

[@hahahallo12]

Beautiful 😍

[@Dmangel41]

This dude is sick👌🏾👌🏾

[@mole62ssf]

Lovely! One of my most-treasured carols.

[@Qpidon]

Pure Magic to my ears....
Merry Christmas, Doug.
Pascal
PS that is one sweet looking/sounding guitar...so small yet so pòwerfull!

[@gdshepp]

Beautiful version Doug! Absolutely beautiful!
Gerald Sheppard

[@StumptownBoy]

That's some big, rich sound coming out of what looks like a pretty small bodied guitar. Quite lovely.

[@sandyshalk]

Ha! I love the changes you play on this. Abolutely one of my favs! Beautiful.
Sandy Shalk

[@deanroane7761]

fantastic Sir... feeling very blessed by this.

[@windcglider]

This sounds gorgeous in guitar!!! Thank you for playing/sharing this beautiful piece!!! And informative video intro too :) Thanks so much ^^

[@rebeccasuerdieck5083]

so so beautiful! thank you for sharing!

[@biophilist]

Must agree with the others. Very beautiful!

[@DougYoungGuitar]

@StumptownBoy The guitar is sort of a OO size, with the body volume of OO 1/2 if I recall correctly. Ed Claxton makes amazing guitars.