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Title: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Clive Williams on November 01, 2011, 01:13:01 AM
It's back!

Many of us play/have played/will play in ceilidh/dance bands/sides, and if you're like me, it's always hard to find nice tunes to play. So, how about, as an occasional series every couple of months or so, we cover the various types of tunes you're likely to need/want, 32 bar jigs, 48 bar jigs, 32 bar reels, polkas, waltzes, and on the euro front, mazurkas, 2 and 3 time bourrees, 5-time waltzes, andro's/laride's, etc... and so on. It might take a while, but in a year or two we should have a nice little repertoire library!

So, this month we're going to do one of the staple tune types for ceilidh; 32 bar reels and polkas.  Do you have a set of them you particularly like? Or even try writing a new one; and with our readership, it'll have a good chance of other people and bands hearing it, playing it and perhaps in time it'll take off and become a new classic?!

Cheers,

Clive
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: folkbluesnbeyond on November 05, 2011, 10:49:37 AM
 A rainy Saturday morning and a mini selection. Description is in the notes on YT but if anyone can identify the first tune, and/or the composer of Traveller's Joy please post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyf-sjldK4g

All the best from soggy Suffolk

Bill
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: sqwzboxstudent on November 05, 2011, 12:31:43 PM
dunno how many bars this has but i havent done much TOTM stuff lately!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpi-cDRwkkc
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: pikey on November 05, 2011, 05:20:02 PM
A few to go at here, all played on the Dino Baffetti Black Pearl III:

Two tunes from the Yorkshire Dales, Buttered Peas, and another one (I can't remember what it's called!). Cracking tunes for the dance called Buttered Peas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTHZQ9g902E

Next a set put together by D0r. Jim Sharpe, Golden Slippers and Year of Jubilo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zUexx8i5sY

Followed by a Yorkshire tune written by a German, and a German tune not written by a Yorkshireman :  Huntsmans Chorus, from Buckden in the Yorkshire Dales, based on a tune from an opera by Weber, then Beethovens 9th choral (commonly known as 'Beethovens')!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IULiaFfCH_o

And now a three tune set, useful for Circasssian Circle : Jenny Lind (the Swedish Nightingale), Down The Road (an old music hall song) and Bacup (from the Bacup coconut dancers).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2VEODB6Z3c

And finally, a set of two Irish polkas, Tralee Gaol, and Maggie in the Wood (the 2-part version).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYVhSkaqz6U

Enjoy!

Pikey

Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: JohnA on November 05, 2011, 05:55:14 PM
Eeeh grand stuff Pikey - you're making me quite nostalgic - I remember Jim playing them ALL those years ago.

Cheers      John
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Steve_freereeder on November 05, 2011, 06:00:43 PM
A few to go at here, all played on the Dino Baffetti Black Pearl III:

Two tunes from the Yorkshire Dales, Buttered Peas, and another one (I can't remember what it's called!). Cracking tunes for the dance called Buttered Peas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTHZQ9g902E
Nice, jolly playing!  (:)

In case you've got the order muddled in your head, Buttered Peas is actually the second tune in your set. Of the first tune: the A music is from one of a set of polkas called simply "the Kerry polkas", although someone else might know a less prosaic name. However, the B music of that first tune doesn't go with the A music; it seems to be a variant of the B music of 'The Flowers of Edinburgh'.
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Anahata on November 08, 2011, 11:29:16 PM
Here are Foul Weather Call and Beatrice Hill's (again) this time played on a 1 row in C.
In the band we do them in D and I play a D/G two row, but these are both good tunes on a 1 row.
In fact I think Beatrice may have come off a bit better on this one, despite a few wrong notes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU8nuTsKDOQ
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Anahata on November 09, 2011, 10:32:25 PM
And two more: Jack Robinson and Mount Hills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ-roEdB43c
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Hugh Taylor on November 11, 2011, 12:25:59 PM
Errr...am I missing something here, as I have always thought that a polka was different to a reel? I know that how a tune is played can have a difference, but I wouldn't dream of playing Englands Glory, for instance, for a polka dance.
X:117
T:Englands Glory. JC.117
M:C
L:1/8
Q:180
S:John Clare,Poet,Helpston. (1793-1864)
R:Reel
O:England
A:Northamptonshire
K:G
d|gfgd cBAG|FGAB cAAf|gfgd cBAG|DGAc BGG:|!
|:z|DGBG DGBG|DGBG cAAB|DGBG DGBG|dedB BGGB|!
DGBG DGBG|DGBG cAAB|cdef gedc|BdAc BGG:|]
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Anahata on November 11, 2011, 01:03:21 PM
Errr...am I missing something here, as I have always thought that a polka was different to a reel?

Can of worms alert!
There seems to be considerable confusion. In the South of England, reels almost became extinct, helped no doubt by Old Swan Band releasing an album titled "No Reels", part of a campaign to bring back English music to an "English dance" scene that was getting dominated by American reels and Irish music. Now when a caller asks for reels or polkas they seem to be considered interchangeable (yes, dancers who know their steps will dance them differently, of course)

The North of England has never had a problem with reels, it seems, and maybe never had quite the same problem with its dance music being overrun with foreign influences. The North and South have different ideas on how to play and dance rants too, it seems.

Hornpipes are also sometimes played as slightly slower reels, apart from the ones that are played for step-hop dances in a dotted rhythm.

If anybody can explain all this properly I'll be very grateful!
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Gandy on November 11, 2011, 01:57:58 PM
Thinking of the coarser sort of Scottish ceilidh (and short of leaping round the room humming Soldiers Joy to confirm) I "think" that a reel would be danced two steps per bar, and played with two strong beats to match.  Very much two groups of four notes, rather than four groups of two.
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: pikey on November 11, 2011, 03:31:54 PM
Another Polka set:

Cooraclare Polka, followed by Dark Girl Dressed in Blue. Played on the Dino Special.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzx-CTdf5r0
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Chris Brimley on November 11, 2011, 05:21:14 PM
Quote
Errr...am I missing something here, as I have always thought that a polka was different to a reel?

Here's my take on this - I don't know if I've got it right, and I hope I'm not walking into a lion's den?:

I've always assumed it was all to do with slight differences in speed and emphasis of the 4/4 beats, in line with the rhythm of the dances, so that a reel would be quite a fast walk, with the first and third beat per bar being evenly emphasised , a polka would be slightly slower, with the characteristic 'dum bum bum, dum bum bum' rhythm or perhaps 'dum bm bum, dum bm bum', and a rant would be slightly slower still, with a 'b-dum bum bum, b-dum bum bum' or 'b-dumbm bum, b-dumbm bum' rhythm.  (I know there are English regional variations in the rant step, but don't know what effects they have on the music itself.)  I agree with Anahata that many tunes are interchangeable, and they can often be played with different beat emphasis to suit.  There are I feel many tunes where the natural emphasis in the tune follows the polka rhythm so much that they fit those dances best.  Undotted hornpipes seem to me to be the slowest of the tunes, and tend to have quite an even ('chugga chugga chugga chugga') beat which often fits well with rock-style percussion.  It seems to me that these last tunes are often unsuccessful and lose their charm if you try to play them fast for the other dances, except that occasionally undotted hornpipes played fast will work as reels, and vice versa, presumably because they have the same evenness in rhythm.

(Crossing my fingers as I press the return key!)
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: forrest on November 11, 2011, 11:04:41 PM
Here's an offering for this theme, played on an old (20's or 30's) Supertone in Bb/Eb. This box is a project that I have been working at quite slowly due to heavy work schedule in the world of getting by. It's the Ballydesmond Polka #3, which makes a good set when played with #1. Would have done that, but my playing of #1 is not so good at the moment.

                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vhKR4EOKg1Y
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: smiley on November 12, 2011, 02:55:07 AM
Here's an offering for this theme, played on an old (20's or 30's) Supertone in Bb/Eb.

That's a lovely sounding box, and your tasteful playing has turned an old tune I've taken for granted into something quite special. Great choice of bass chords.
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Anahata on November 12, 2011, 09:46:06 AM
That's a lovely sounding box, and your tasteful playing has turned an old tune I've taken for granted into something quite special. Great choice of bass chords.
What he said - a gorgeous sound, and harmonies a little off the beaten track which still fit nicely.
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Anahata on November 12, 2011, 04:46:55 PM
Another couple of band and session favourites, and a bit seasonal:

Fireside Polka and Albert Farmer's Bonfire Tune (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__CRFFh3Gr4)

Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: tjsmithdog5 on November 12, 2011, 05:10:57 PM
Here's an offering for this theme, played on an old (20's or 30's) Supertone in Bb/Eb. This box is a project that I have been working at quite slowly due to heavy work schedule

That's some project, Forrest. When those basses really get going around 1:15 I start looking around for the tuba. What a sound!
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: **DTN** on November 12, 2011, 06:40:02 PM
Nice!....   ;D
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Chris Brimley on November 12, 2011, 07:13:38 PM
Great stuff from Anahata and j.w.forrest!

Here's my offering:

http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=72655

A slightly spoof tune I wrote some years ago - 'My Love She's Fed on Lassie'.
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: forrest on November 12, 2011, 07:20:37 PM
That's a lovely sounding box, and your tasteful playing has turned an old tune I've taken for granted into something quite special. Great choice of bass chords.
What he said - a gorgeous sound, and harmonies a little off the beaten track which still fit nicely.


Thanks for the kind comments....I'm quite pleased with the box (http://forum.melodeon.net/index.php/topic,8270.0.html), and it will hopefully improve when I perform my finish tuning on it. As for the harmonies, I confess that it's what I hear. So many of these tunes have fantastic melodic possibilities, I can't resist experimenting! If they are not politically correct, just allow that I am a foreign hillbilly and don't know any better ;D
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: forrest on November 12, 2011, 07:25:37 PM
Another couple of band and session favourites, and a bit seasonal:

Fireside Polka and Albert Farmer's Bonfire Tune (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__CRFFh3Gr4)


Great set of tunes!

Great stuff from Anahata and j.w.forrest!

Here's my offering:

http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=72655

A slightly spoof tune I wrote some years ago - 'My Love She's Fed on Lassie'.

Very nice Chris!
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Ellisteph on November 13, 2011, 10:59:25 AM
Great stuff from Anahata and j.w.forrest!

Here's my offering:

http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=72655

A slightly spoof tune I wrote some years ago - 'My Love She's Fed on Lassie'.

Great tune Chris; even better title! You must write some more.
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Chris Brimley on November 13, 2011, 11:24:52 AM
Thanks, Ellisteph and J.w.forrest.  Can I just share something about this tune? - Obviously, I wrote it as an alternative to a similar tune with a similar name, recommended in the EFDSS CDM book 1 as a tune for Cumberland Square Eight ('..or any 32 bar reel or jig').  For many years, I played in bands where we followed those recommendations, and started with the original reel, then changed to a jig such as Atholl Highlanders (which apart from being a great tune, has the added benefit of being 64 bars long, as is the dance).  But I've always found in playing or dancing this that the reel rhythm just doesn't fit the galoping across, and perhaps also the basket, both of which come on the A part of the music.  Jigs would be much better here (which probably is the reason why the change to Atholl H is always popular with the dancers), though for the B parts reels are fine.  Has anyone else found this too?

So after all these years, I think I'm going to re-arrange my tune so that the A part is a jig.  (We have a gig on Saturday, and if I can persuade the rest of the band to play it, I'll let you know whether it works!)
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Ziachmusi/Louise on November 14, 2011, 05:22:47 AM
Here's a 32 bar Polka written by Dave Ball (the Well Dressed Band). It was on the music sheets he brought to Folk Camp Germany this year but sadly one of the tunes we didn't get round to. So I thought I'd learn it for ThOTM
The Curry Polka by Dave Ball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69gbzwkfGUk&feature=channel_video_title

Enjoy!
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: boxcall on November 14, 2011, 08:45:08 PM
Here's an offering for this theme, played on an old (20's or 30's) Supertone in Bb/Eb. This box is a project that I have been working at quite slowly due to heavy work schedule in the world of getting by. It's the Ballydesmond Polka #3, which makes a good set when played with #1. Would have done that, but my playing of #1 is not so good at the moment.

                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vhKR4EOKg1Y


Nice sound !!  I think that you play Ballydesmond #1 really well ! Sounded like that to me.
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Pete Dunk on November 16, 2011, 08:09:13 PM
Enjoy!

I did! I don't suppose there's any chance of an ABC or the dots?  (:)
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Graham Spencer on November 16, 2011, 08:54:55 PM
A few to go at here, all played on the Dino Baffetti Black Pearl III:

Two tunes from the Yorkshire Dales, Buttered Peas, and another one (I can't remember what it's called!). Cracking tunes for the dance called Buttered Peas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTHZQ9g902E
Nice, jolly playing!  (:)

In case you've got the order muddled in your head, Buttered Peas is actually the second tune in your set. Of the first tune: the A music is from one of a set of polkas called simply "the Kerry polkas", although someone else might know a less prosaic name. However, the B music of that first tune doesn't go with the A music; it seems to be a variant of the B music of 'The Flowers of Edinburgh'.

The second tune is definitely "Buttered Peas"; the first tune is "The Officer's Polka" as played by Tufty Swift on "How to make a Bakewell Tart" - slightly different from (and better than, in my opinion) the version in Dave Townsend's 1st  Collection.

Graham
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: pikey on November 17, 2011, 05:06:55 PM
Thanks Graham, now I remember!  I was always rubbish with the names of tunes :-)
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Ziachmusi/Louise on November 17, 2011, 06:33:12 PM
Enjoy!

I did! I don't suppose there's any chance of an ABC or the dots?  (:)

no problem (:)
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Mcgrooger on November 17, 2011, 07:17:48 PM
Here's my contribution to this month's theme. Once through four tunes with a similar feel - Whitehaven Volunteers, Flos Headford's Tanner Man, Michell Soinne's Willie Taylor's High Tea, and Robert Whitehead's Great North Run.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3qntKj57-g
Now then guys and gals (blimey - I seem to be channeling the spirit of Jimmy youknowwho!!) would you say that played at this speed they're polkas or reels?
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Clive Williams on November 18, 2011, 09:35:19 AM
Hi folks - here's a couple of sets I recorded last night:

First, 2 french style Polkas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBVswCYQaE

These are the Knife Edge Polka, a (as far as I know) traditional, possibly Belgian, polka, and Polka Avignon No.2 which I'm sure has a proper name that I don't know. Played on a Castagnari Mory in D/G (first tune in D, second in G) [[ Interestingly, the Knife Edge polka is where the Knife Edge Schottische comes from (2:12 on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBVswCYQaE)... for the schottische version I've simply minorised it, and tweaked the rhythm a little. ]] I think the Knife Edge comes from either the On Bouge tune books, or maybe the first Blowzabella tune book. Polka Avignon No.2 is definitely a refugee from the On Bouge tune book, which more than likely means that La Chavannee had something to do with it.

Second, a couple of nice reel-like things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoT3Bx1VGnw

The Rosetree a standard (and in my opinion underrated) session tune, normally played in D, but here in G since I'm using a G/C 1930's Hohner. And Beetle on the Wine, a cracking tune written by one of my favourite players, Dave Whetstone when he was with the Cock and Bull band, and the Albion Dance Band (which for a time were one and the same thing!). Both of these tunes work great on a standard 2 row 8 bass... 12 basses are not necessary for these tunes at all.

Enjoy,

Clive



Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Clive Williams on November 18, 2011, 09:39:37 AM
Oh, and special bonus, here's a couple of tunes also learned from the Cock and Bull band, which I recorded a while ago to teach to a couple of friends I was playing with in a ceilidh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR28MV3ldfs - William Irwin's No.2 and No.3

Sound quality is truly awful, sorry about that, but as a special bonus, the chords I use are plastered over the top of the video which should make following it rather easier. And they are *cracking* tunes. It's played on the Castagnari Mory in D/G.

Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: howard mitchell on November 18, 2011, 08:37:07 PM
Here are a couple of tunes, "Jack's Life" and Quigley's Reel.
http://youtu.be/ZO1ei6eUfLY (http://youtu.be/ZO1ei6eUfLY)
Recorded directly on a flip camera so the audio is not the best.

Jack's Life is by Ralph Page http://www.phantomranch.net/folkdanc/teachers/page_r.htm (http://www.phantomranch.net/folkdanc/teachers/page_r.htm) and, I believe, was written for Jack Hamilton of the Southerners band. It's published in various books of contra tunes.  I learnt it from the Southerners in the 1970s.

I couldn't remember where I got Quigley's from so I searched for it and, surprise, it was recorded on an LP called Southerners Plus Two Play Ralph Page, EFDSS RP 500, (1969).  So it's probable that I stole the tunes as a set.

Howard
 
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: joreema on November 19, 2011, 12:34:08 PM
Here is another tune from the last years folkcamp in Germany. Its name is "Dear Tobacco" and it is from the Docker m/s, Lake District. This tune is played by the band "The Well Dressed Men" and is arr. by Carolyn Francis. My melodeon is a Delicia Popular in D/G.

This video is the 1387th version. The webcam and me, we weren't friends. And the smiling in the end was important because friends told me to laugh on the videos and I can't smile while playing. Here is the compromise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKiuJ8AiTlY

Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Hugh Taylor on November 20, 2011, 10:56:15 AM
Here's my contribution to this month's theme. Once through four tunes with a similar feel - Whitehaven Volunteers, Flos Headford's Tanner Man, Michell Soinne's Willie Taylor's High Tea, and Robert Whitehead's Great North Run.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3qntKj57-g
Now then guys and gals (blimey - I seem to be channeling the spirit of Jimmy youknowwho!!) would you say that played at this speed they're polkas or reels?

Well I think that a reel counts two lots of four, so played like this these are more like polkas or rants than reels.
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Chris Brimley on November 20, 2011, 11:37:58 AM
Hugh, great tunes, lovely playing!  I'd say you could rant to those tunes, or polka.  A reel, which I think of as a quick 'mincing' walk, would to my ears be slightly faster.
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Bobtheboat on November 20, 2011, 12:35:11 PM
@ Joreema , I really enjoyed that, well played! Bob.
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: joreema on November 20, 2011, 05:14:23 PM
Thank You, Bob.

My family forced me to play this tune again. So we made a folkcamp Germany memorial concert in our living room. Unfortunately I was not allowed to make a video with them. They are teens.  ;D But I love to make music with them. My children are Emma (violin), Antonia (tin whistle), Emil (triangle). Lilly and my wife were the groupies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB0LUzgfaKs
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Chris Brimley on November 20, 2011, 05:46:31 PM
I promised to report on whether my rewrite of 'My Love she's fed on Lassie' for the dance Cumb Sq 8 worked.  (That's with the first half being a jig, the second a reel.) 

Well I'm pleased to say it worked last night, and seemed to bring new life to the dance - they didn't seem to have any trouble with the rhythm change, but just went naturally into the walking, then back into a jig for the gallop across.  In fact they seemed to quite enjoy the effect of the change, judging by the whooping noises you sometimes get at dances!  (And we all managed to play it OK, with minimal rehearsal.)
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Ziachmusi/Louise on November 21, 2011, 05:06:21 AM
My family forced me to play this tune again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB0LUzgfaKs

Great, Jochen, the kids really groove
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Chris Brimley on November 21, 2011, 01:52:03 PM
A couple more proper 32-bar reels, Happy Cavalier and Three Scamping Rogues, which I usually play for the dance Lucky Seven.

(A bit too much pace for this dance - I would only work up to this frenetic speed if the dancers are up for it.  We would usually start much more slowly, particularly the first B part till they get the hang of the multi-tasking hands around bit while simultaneously counting to 7.)

http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=73582
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: AndyShear on November 21, 2011, 08:52:39 PM
Hello
Busy month so heres one I did earlier 32 bars of something

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYN93lb__z8

and 32 of something else which has reel in the title so I guess it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK3CwjddBzE

Andy

Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: student I on November 22, 2011, 12:02:18 AM
Time was running out so I thought of this pairing. The notes are on youtube
Anyway here it is, a Thaxted Country Dance Band set, Jack Filby's & Nagging Bitch (or Cow caller etc) known as the Sugarbeet set and played as polka, reel, barndance Schottische or hornpipe, depending on the dance. The band doesn't play for the Sugarbeet festival anymore so the dances aren't done, it got so popular they now book national bands, next year it's The Watch with Dan Quinn.
http://youtu.be/a_IvUwomWhU as a fast polka
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: student I on November 22, 2011, 01:27:31 AM
My family forced me to play this tune again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB0LUzgfaKs

Great, Jochen, the kids really groove
I'm getting to like this spookily cheeky tune, nice.
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: student I on November 22, 2011, 08:51:16 AM
What we call The Rakes set as it's nicked from them. Captain McGuire, Babes in the Wood and the back to front All the Way to Galway is Jimmy Power's. We use them for the Bucksaw Reel.http://youtu.be/-iVXMLIte4w
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Just4Fun on November 22, 2011, 09:50:49 AM
Wonderful!
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Lester on November 22, 2011, 10:53:45 AM
A quick recording.

http://soundcloud.com/alison-10/danish-polka-and-cochin-chine (http://soundcloud.com/alison-10/danish-polka-and-cochin-chine)

Two polkas. The first I got from Pete Coe at Melodeons at Witney and the other from somewhere else lost in the mists of time.
Played on my Penguin of Death Pokerwork (PoDP)
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Steve_freereeder on November 22, 2011, 04:01:39 PM
A quick recording.

http://soundcloud.com/alison-10/danish-polka-and-cochin-chine (http://soundcloud.com/alison-10/danish-polka-and-cochin-chine)

Two polkas. The first I got from Pete Coe at Melodeons at Witney and the other from somewhere else lost in the mists of time.
Played on my Penguin of Death Pokerwork (PoDP)
Very nice playing Lester, and the Podpea sounds lovely.  ;)
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: sticky fingers on November 28, 2011, 02:01:36 PM
a 32 bar reel with no name, ril gan ainm, www.youtube.com/user/aaronmusictime
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Pete Dunk on November 30, 2011, 11:31:31 PM
Wait a minute, does that mean that Cooley's Reel is a 32 bar reel?  Or is it a 16 bar reel where you repeat both sections?  Have I been looking for something twice as long as I needed to or can I just not count?

Depends how you're counting bars I suppose. I would expect a 32 bar tune to have an 8 bar A repeated and an 8 bar B repeated. Add an 8 bar C repeated and you have a 48 bar tune. Something like Rusty Gulley only has 4 bars each in the A & B - both repeated - so I reckon that's a 16 bar tune.

I'm probably wrong though, that happens a lot!  >:E
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Clive Williams on December 01, 2011, 12:24:45 AM
... blimey, there's some cracking tunes amongst that lot. Onwards to the next theme though, but as ever late posts here are always welcome!
Title: Re: Theme of the Month for November 2011: 32 Bar Reels and Polkas
Post by: Matt (Kings Norton) on November 19, 2012, 01:36:11 PM
Rough as ever but looks like will be a while before I get my hands on the organetto again so:

http://soundcloud.com/i-k-3/polkadelpollino

Polka del Pollino, adapted from the recording by Castrese Bevilacqua ("King of the Left Handed Organetto") but without the jump-up drum machine programming or birdsong effects.  Played on a right handed organetto.  As far as I know the Pollino is a range of mountains and nothing to do with chickens.
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