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« Reply #160 on: February 07, 2010, 03:00:36 PM » |
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Had a go at Oscar woods jig http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=13405This time in D with the stop out....and not looking at the music....and I wasn't holding the melodeon properly either. lol! |
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« Reply #161 on: February 07, 2010, 06:56:31 PM » |
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This is a good tune - I am impressed at you continuing to learn new tunes as well as TOTM! It takes me the whole month to learn just one. So far as holding the box 'properly', whatever works for you I say  |
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« Reply #162 on: February 08, 2010, 12:32:06 AM » |
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Well done, Sarah. I nice rhythmic rendition. I wonder whether the improved rhythm came from the fact that you were not relying on the sheet music and were listening instead to the music inside you.
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« Reply #163 on: February 08, 2010, 01:05:34 AM » |
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That is sounding really very good ldt, you are getting some nice drive out of those basses |
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« Reply #164 on: February 09, 2010, 12:42:59 PM » |
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That is sounding really very good ldt, you are getting some nice drive out of those basses Made my arms ache though. Well done, Sarah. I nice rhythmic rendition. I wonder whether the improved rhythm came from the fact that you were not relying on the sheet music and were listening instead to the music inside you.
I don't know...I have to be in the right mood and have the house to myself to properly concentrate. |
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« Reply #165 on: February 16, 2010, 09:30:26 AM » |
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ok here's one I recorded mistakes n all Somewhere Over the Rainbow...I can actually play. lol! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aw1Mng_428 |
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« Reply #168 on: March 08, 2010, 10:36:39 AM » |
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It's nice to watch/listen to your steady progress :-)
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« Reply #169 on: March 13, 2010, 02:02:14 AM » |
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This is sounding really good Sarah, I like 'young collins', haven't heard it before. |
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« Reply #170 on: March 14, 2010, 03:14:41 PM » |
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Those were great (especially the Bear Dance) - makes me want to go off and try and learn both tunes. John |
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« Reply #171 on: March 15, 2010, 07:56:32 AM » |
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Real progress. Notes are more or less perfect. This is music.  Bear Dance. It speeds up and slows a bit. Not an easy thing to remedy (I have the same problem myself) but the first step is knowing you are doing it. It may be time for a bit of metronomics. http://webmetronome.com/ looks the most visual on a quick google. But don't worry about it, as just playing with others will pull you onto tighter rhythm quite naturally. | | A note: while this version of Bear Dance is absolutely the one that reached UK in the 70's - Geert oude Weernink heard us play it at Witney, and pointed out assertively that it isn't the original from Flanders. It looks like someone learned it by ear and some simplification occured. I'd carry on this version, but sholud you go to Belgium listen for the difference (in second half A music) |
Young Collins: I could dance to this.  It just now needs 'smoothing off'. |
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Without gaps between notes, music's just noise A Cutting There are no bum notes N Pignol |
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« Reply #172 on: March 15, 2010, 08:35:29 AM » |
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| | A note: while this version of Bear Dance is absolutely the one that reached UK in the 70's - Geert oude Weernink heard us play it at Witney, and pointed out assertively that it isn't the original from Flanders. It looks like someone learned it by ear and some simplification occured. I'd carry on this version, but sholud you go to Belgium listen for the difference (in second half A music) |
I asked my accordeon teacher (from Belgium) about this tune: Actually the "bears dance" known today consists of two tunes: only the A part is callend "berendans" (bear dance), the B part is the first part of "krebbel reidans" Krebbel reidans - it also contains the bear dance - very confusing http://www.vitrifolk.be/partitions/partitions-belgique-krebbel-reidans.png |
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« Reply #173 on: March 15, 2010, 12:18:08 PM » |
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thanks for all the posative comments. :) Btw. here is another one this time multitracked with help from an online friend of mine Rogues March (Virtual Duet) http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=16093 |
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« Reply #175 on: April 02, 2010, 01:40:40 PM » |
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Been trying to record me playing some of the tunes from M&M.....but as soon as I press the record button it all goes wrong *sigh*
[Major grump mode] Public warning:
First of all - it doesn't 'all go wrong' at all. Stop being so negative about yourself and your playing. How many more times do we have to tell you this?[/Major grump mode] These are all actually pretty good. The tunes are nice and steady. As you have already identified, 'Off she goes' does indeed speed up a little bit in the B-music, but it is only a little bit and you pull it back during the A music. It just needs a little more concentration to keep the 'rum-ty tum-ty' rhythm rock-steady. You tend to hurry over the 'rums' and the 'tums' which results in the music tumbling over itself a little bit. But you are self-aware of this which is the main thing, so you already know what to work at. In Walter Bulwer's No.4 Polka, the little rising triplet at the end of bar 2 is just a bit clunky played just on the G-row by waggling the bellows. Have a try at playing the triplet by the cross-row method which I demonstrated in the workshop: play the first note G on the G-row, the 2nd note A on the D-row, and the 3rd note B back on the G-row, all on the push. The only thing which is different from what you are already doing is the 2nd note A on the D row. Good stuff. Keep it up. And stop trying to tell us that you can't do it or it goes wrong. It gets boring. You can and it doesn't. |
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« Reply #176 on: April 02, 2010, 04:05:16 PM » |
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Nicely done, Ldt! Each one has bounce and rhythm. I'm very interested in Steve's comments - his point about the cross-rows is bang on (obviously). It's funny - when I started last year I *only* worked from Dave Mallinson's "Absolute Beginners" book. I found this completely brilliant, but of particular help was the (early) introduction to row-crossing. So much so, that I tend to use that technique whenever I can as a piece flows more smoothly - so it seems alien to me that anyone uses cross-rows only occasionally. That said, I'm now appreciating the real benefits of NOT crossing rows - the various discussions of the merits of 1-row instruments etc have shown me how just one row and very active bellows puts much more bounce into the music. That's my focus at the moment. Perhaps yours could be to focus on crossing as much as possible(?) just to get that muscle-memory option into your fingers. Anyway, I also echo Steve's comments urging you to be less self-deprecating. It's very British, but when we see real progress like this it becomes a bit "boy crying wolf". You're on a good path ... keep going! Hope that's constructive? |
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« Reply #177 on: April 11, 2010, 09:53:12 AM » |
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« Reply #178 on: April 12, 2010, 09:15:45 AM » |
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Nicely done, Ldt! Each one has bounce and rhythm.
thanks....bounce is what I hope to achieve. I find smooth a bit ...boring |
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« Reply #179 on: April 12, 2010, 09:44:21 AM » |
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Very 'foot tappingly' good Sarah! Is that your one row? V nice.
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