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Discussions => Tune of the Month => Topic started by: Clive Williams on March 01, 2012, 12:13:21 AM
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By popular acclaim/demand, or whatever you want to call it, this month we're doing music from the movies. Any music whatsoever as long as it has a movie connection...
Plenty of scope for the unexpected here I think!
Cheers,
Clive
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From the 1956 Joan Crawford weepie of the same name here is my take on Autumn Leaves (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048967/).
http://libtrad.eu/mp3/AutumnLeaves_mixdown.mp3 (http://libtrad.eu/mp3/AutumnLeaves_mixdown.mp3)
Melody and solo's are played in a single take, using the Hohner Corona. I recorded this some time last month. I was practicing using the switches (trying not to loose the flow). The timing's a bit shaky in places, but as a quick musical sketch I think the results show promise.
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I have 3 ideas already....
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From the 1956 Joan Crawford weepie of the same name here is my take on Autumn Leaves (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048967/).
http://libtrad.eu/mp3/AutumnLeaves_mixdown.mp3 (http://libtrad.eu/mp3/AutumnLeaves_mixdown.mp3)
Melody and solo's are played in a single take, using the Hohner Corona. I recorded this some time last month. I was practicing using the switches (trying not to loose the flow). The timing's a bit shaky in places, but as a quick musical sketch I think the results show promise.
That's great Mike. Really enjoyed it; shows just how versatile these boxes (and some of the better players) are.
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That's great Mike. Really enjoyed it; shows just how versatile these boxes (and some of the better players) are.
Thanks Ellis.
This is part of a development path I've been following for a couple of years. For some time I had been aware that my playing centred on a relatively small number of keys. On the Corona (GCF) I was playing mostly Dm, Am, C and F. I had an arrangement of “Torna a Surriento” in Cm and a Java that switches from D minor to D major, but otherwise that was it.
I started working with scales and arpeggios until I had all 12 keys. Using a standard layout Corona GCF I found that I can play major and minor scales in all twelve keys and 60 different chords are possible (major, minor, M7, m7 and dim7 in all 12 keys). In addition I have blues scales in all 12 keys.
For a while my practice routine was all about scales, arpeggios and patterns. I would play each scale up to the ninth and then descend using an M9 or m9 arpeggio. Next I'd play scales in thirds, sixths and octaves. The biggest limitation here is the missing low Bb and the fact that there is only one Ab, otherwise most things are possible. The 34 button layout on the Xtreme makes octave work a doddle.
To break the monotony of scales and arpeggios I invested in some fake books and started running through standards, playing everything in the written key (rather than transposing, as I might have done before). As a discipline I'm finding this invaluable. Now I've got the melodies I'm starting to develop solos. I've recorded some backing tracks that I can improvise over as part of my daily routine. I record each practice and listen back looking for what works and highlighting the things that need more development.
The recordings make a useful feedback loop. Each new recording shows improvement. I recently posted my take on Polkadots and Moonbeams (http://forum.melodeon.net/index.php/topic,4398.msg110530.html#msg110530). Yesterday I recorded a new version. Some of the improvement is technical, I've been working on mic placement and mixing, but there is also clear development in the playing. As before, this is a single take using the switches to add tonal colour.
http://libtrad.eu/mp3/Polkadots_and_Moonbeams.mp3 (http://libtrad.eu/mp3/Polkadots_and_Moonbeams.mp3)
Most of this stuff stays at home. In public I sing trad. songs and play for ceilidhs. I'm finding it useful to be able to post things on the forum and get some feed back. I'm not sure where this will take me, but I like the road I travel.
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Wow, highly impressive playing and direction, Mike!
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Brief and imperfect
which may be the point
ce la vie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL2AnfkRxgU
all the best
Bill
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Better do something good seeing as I suggested this one. Much work to be done!
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This short video is not to be taken too seriously but it matched the theme... :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2LefViAAKI
Greetings,
Daniel
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Some very impressive music here so far this month !
Someone had to do this one which would also fit into the February theme.
It is Scottische Morvandelle which is played in the film Chocolat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiE867Pnt4w
Roland
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Loved that...and the way the tune moves into the B part and then resolves back into the A. Cheers
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The Oompa Loompa Song, from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zgZ3-KBLHA
;D
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Loved that...and the way the tune moves into the B part and then resolves back into the A. Cheers
Thanks, I have never noticed that and you are, of course, correct ;)
Roland
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Has anyone considered the theme from "The Godfather"? I have it on my Anglo concertina, sort of, but not sure I can get it onto my one row C box.
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I'm certain that must be a technical term for it, but my method is to "bodge"; ie amend the tune slightly if parts do not suit your instrument.
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I think that's called a Fantasia. Or Variations on a Theme. ;)
My husband has just been merrily humming along to the Oompa Loompa song. Genius choice of tune there.
I was toying with Star Wars as I'm a huge John Williams fan but I've been beaten to that one. I have another plan which seems to be shaping up better for me. Bit of practice needed however.
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I'm certain that must be a technical term for it, but my method is to "bodge"; ie amend the tune slightly if parts do not suit your instrument.
Bodge? That's a new word for me. Spent an half hour on Google looking for "work around..." Got nothing. Bodge comes up right away as in,
"Urban Dictionary: bodge
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bodgeA quick and dirty job, something done very hastily. Make it look good for the next day or two and if it falls down after that, it's alright."
And that fits me perfectly. Thanks.
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Bodge? That's a new word for me. Spent an half hour on Google looking for "work around..." Got nothing. Bodge comes up right away as in,
"Urban Dictionary: bodge
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bodgeA quick and dirty job, something done very hastily. Make it look good for the next day or two and if it falls down after that, it's alright."
And that fits me perfectly. Thanks.
Re Bodge - a much maligned word that does indeed now mean A quick and dirty job, something done very hastily. etc
But it also refers to a highly-skilled trade from the Chiltern Hills (where I live), ie the trade of Bodging, a traditional wood-turning craft, using green (unseasoned) wood to make chair legs and other cylindrical parts of chairs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodging)
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The Oompa Loompa Song, from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zgZ3-KBLHA
;D
I now have the mental image of oompa lumpas doing a morris dance....lol!
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My problem is I'm finding I only know bits of film themes...not the whole tune. :(
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The Oompa Loompa Song, from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zgZ3-KBLHA
;D
I now have the mental image of oompa lumpas doing a morris dance....lol!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ay7zU1GpE8 :P
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My take for ThoTM 03/2012. In Germany it is called "Pippi Langstrumpf" and we dance it on ceilidhs as chapelloise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndh6ZdCB9GE&feature=youtube_gdata
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My problem is I'm finding I only know bits of film themes...not the whole tune. :(
I had that too.... so I put some film names into the youtube search, and found soundtrack or concert versions of some great film themes. Mostly they did have reasonable length tunes. But sometimes there's only short segments.... like the Amelie waltz, of which there are a zillion accordion versions....so I'm snobbishly avoiding that one. I also found the free sheet music of one I was looking for...but that was more of a search through the dross and ads.
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I now have the mental image of oompa lumpas doing a morris dance....lol!
Close... the Oompa Loompa tune has been in use by Gog Magog Molly for several years.
My problem is I'm finding I only know bits of film themes...not the whole tune. :(
Yes, same here...
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I now have the mental image of oompa lumpas doing a morris dance....lol!
Close... the Oompa Loompa tune has been in use by Gog Magog Molly for several years.
you need some giant sweets to complete the picture ;)
My problem is I'm finding I only know bits of film themes...not the whole tune. :(
Yes, same here...
Wanted to try 'moon river' from breakfast at tiffanys...but this is something from a little while ago. Somewhere over the rainbow form wizard of oz....played a little irreverently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aw1Mng_428
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My problem is that two songs from the same film keep merging together in my head. I'm solving this by attempting to arrange them as a set. Also quite similar in parts to Bear Dance so if I'm not careful I'm going to break into that at the same time!
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My take for ThoTM 03/2012. In Germany it is called "Pippi Langstrumpf" and we dance it on ceilidhs as chapelloise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndh6ZdCB9GE&feature=youtube_gdata
This is great Mr J. I love it.
Roland
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If you don't have Cinéma Mémoire by Marc Perrone, you should get it. Pure delight. Some of it is on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D04A3260rAY
Superb playing again, Roland. Thank you so much. I loved the music in Chocolat.
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For those of a certain age, I have today uploaded (technical bit!) my abc transposition of The Dambusters' March in the "Tunes" department. Have fun!
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Is someone going to knock out the theme from Amelie then?
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Hello
Here's the wedding tarantella from ...The Godfather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa6VlddzpK0
Andy
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Hi folks, here's my shot at this month's theme; anyone remember the 2001 movie Ghost World, the movie adaptation of Daniel Clowes' graphic novel? A haunting (but not in the literal sense) story, with a lovely moving piano theme over the final scenes; and here, as best I can fit it to melodeon, it is, played on the Bb/Eb Hohner Preciosa, which is fortunate, because it puts it in C minor, the same key as the original - easy to play along with! For some reason, the original version is 4:00 minutes (give or take), and mine is 3:20 minutes, so either I'm playing it rather faster, or I've missed a bit.
I think this would fit on a standard 8 bass with a little work; all you really need (in D/G speak) is that Eb accidental on the push, and either a B major chord on the push, or the ability to knock thirds out.
I rewatched the movie last night, and saw why this tune is quite so irregular; it's written to literally fit in with the last couple of scenes, and the pause about 40 seconds in is when the second last scene ends, and the final scene begins. It's written by David Kitay, by the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1okoOuGFS4
Cheers,
Clive
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This theme has been great - there's been some excellent ideas, and some great playing - nice to see the box taken out of its normal folk context. I particularly like yours, Clive - great idea, brilliantly played!
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A grueling tale of brutality and endurance the 1973 Franklin J. Schaffner film Papillon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070511/) closes with Steve McQueen clinging to a makeshift raft. Dustin Hoffman watches from the cliff top as McQueen delivers his final shout of defiance - "I'm still here you bastards!". Under scoring the scene is this theme:
http://libtrad.eu/mp3/the_theme_from_papillon.mp3 (http://libtrad.eu/mp3/the_theme_from_papillon.mp3) (Hohner Corona GCF)
I wrote the arrangement some 12 years ago, for a saxaphone and accordeon film noir duo (of which I was one half). I am sad to have to report that the project descended into bitterness and acrimony before the first gig. Ah Well.
I'm busy rehearsing for St Pats, but if I find time I'll post some more.
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The link doesn't work for me .
Page not found . :-[
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The link doesn't work for me .
Page not found . :-[
I had some problems with the mp3 encoding, so I replaced it with another file. Now there seem to be some cache related problems. I've renamed the file on the server and edited the link in the post above. All should work now. If you're still having problems, the new link is repeated below.
http://libtrad.eu/mp3/the_theme_from_papillon.mp3 (http://libtrad.eu/mp3/the_theme_from_papillon.mp3)
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Great chords, particularly, Mike!
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Great chords, particularly, Mike!
Thanks Chris. I recall when I wrote the arrangement I was keen to push up against the harmonic limits of the instrument. Playing Bb in the melody against A7 demanded some careful thought. Much of the time I'm using only the bass note without the chord. In all there are eight chords in the piece - C7, Dm, D7, Em7, F, Gm7, A7 and Bb. The Gm7 and Em7 are composite chords using the bass from one chord with the chord from across the row. Thus Gm7 uses G bass with Bb chord and Em7 uses E bass with G chord.
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I've added a couple more. I think both these have been mentioned earlier, so I have kept the playing simple and to the point. If anyone wants to expand on this please do.
http://libtrad.eu/mp3/Moon_River.mp3 (http://libtrad.eu/mp3/Moon_River.mp3)
http;//libtrad.eu/mp3/La_Noyee.mp3 (http://libtrad.eu/mp3/La_Noyee.mp3)
The first is, of course, Moon River from the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054698/). The second is Yann Tiersen's Composition La Noyée, which was used in the 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet film Amelie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/).
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http://youtu.be/-hpYmudL63s
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http://youtu.be/-hpYmudL63s
Whip, crack, away!
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This theme has been great - there's been some excellent ideas, and some great playing - nice to see the box taken out of its normal folk context. I particularly like yours, Clive - great idea, brilliantly played!
Thanks Chris; I've wanted to learn this tune for years since first hearing it; ThOTM was the perfect excuse this month!
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I've added a couple more. I think both these have been mentioned earlier, so I have kept the playing simple and to the point. If anyone wants to expand on this please do.
http://libtrad.eu/mp3/Moon_River.mp3 (http://libtrad.eu/mp3/Moon_River.mp3)
http;//libtrad.eu/mp3/La_Noyee.mp3 (http://libtrad.eu/mp3/La_Noyee.mp3)
The first is, of course, Moon River from the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054698/). The second is Yann Tiersen's Composition La Noyée, which was used in the 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet film Amelie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/).
Oh, swoon! I love these recordings, but La Noyee in particular fits beautifully, doesn't it?
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So I did *try* with this theme but it was very hard....
First off my 'I know its rubbish but I was messing about because the music I had was in some key with loads of flats so I tried to work it out by ear which I'm rubbish at and ended up with a not quite chimm chimminy waltz'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Mrnl66iNs
Little Brown Jug....Is a nod to the film 'the Genn Miller Story' where he arranges a version of little brown jug as its his wife's favorite tune. It was really hard to do with just me..needed a band. lol! Plus I couldn't figure out what to do with chords and basses. But I could dance to it so guessing I'm not too far off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCEyRh17RYM
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The Oompa Loompa Song, from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zgZ3-KBLHA
;D
I really like this Ollie. And it put me in mind of another oom pa tune - from Lionel Bart's Oliver!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1u6nRdHbTA&context=C4c5393bADvjVQa1PpcFNoJFi6JjRE_XJFiHsK5ancfSJloFlCFHU=
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Here's my shot at this month theme enjoy! do re mi in the sound of music and somewhere over the rainbow in the key of D
great post by all - I really liked ollie's , mike's and andy's well done!!
Michael
http://soundcloud.com/boxcall/thotm-melnet-march-2012-music
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Gershwin's Summertime used in various films not least Porgy and Bess (1959)
http://youtu.be/nqbOFuch-PY (http://youtu.be/nqbOFuch-PY)
Played on my Pariselle self build 2.5 row box
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Leaning on the Everlasting Arms was used in different arrangements for the Coen Brothers' remake of True Grit including the one sung by Iris DeMent. It took me ages to think of any tune from a movie which I fancied having a go at and I eventually thought of this one.
http://youtu.be/TcxE7FrGdCo
Played on my D/G Saltarelle Pastourelle III.
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Here's my offering for this. (It's not really ready but it's going to take too many months to improve on, so I thought I might as well put it up now!):
http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=86664
I have to say this took a lot of working out, and my early tries at it just didn't work out, and had to be abandoned. There are several versions of this tune on YouTube, in various keys, and I eventually picked this one in Emajor because I wanted to be able to get the LH chord Dma7, C#7, Cma7 run down that seems to me to be such an essential part of this evocative tune. I've attached a word file showing the chords I'm trying to use, if anyone's interested.
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http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=86664
I have to say this took a lot of working out, and my early tries at it just didn't work out, and had to be abandoned. There are several versions of this tune on YouTube, in various keys, and I eventually picked this one in Emajor because I wanted to be able to get the LH chord Dma7, C#7, Cma7 run down that seems to me to be such an essential part of this evocative tune.
An impressive piece of musicology and playing!
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Leaning on the Everlasting Arms was used in different arrangements for the Coen Brothers' remake of True Grit including the one sung by Iris DeMent. It took me ages to think of any tune from a movie which I fancied having a go at and I eventually thought of this one.
http://youtu.be/TcxE7FrGdCo
Played on my D/G Saltarelle Pastourelle III.
I thought of that song, too, and wondered if it would sound good on the melodeon. It does!
Love your photos, too.
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Leaning on the Everlasting Arms was used in different arrangements for the Coen Brothers' remake of True Grit including the one sung by Iris DeMent. It took me ages to think of any tune from a movie which I fancied having a go at and I eventually thought of this one.
http://youtu.be/TcxE7FrGdCo
Played on my D/G Saltarelle Pastourelle III.
I thought of that song, too, and wondered if it would sound good on the melodeon. It does!
Love your photos, too.
Thank you, Pifa. I realised later that the tune has another film connection as well as True Grit. Robert Mitchum sings it in the Night of the Hunter. Just coz I had a go at it doesn't mean you shouldn't too - I'd be really interested to hear your take on it. There are other nice gospelly/hymn tunes in True Grit too such as What a Friend We Have in Jesus. McG
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Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
That is beautiful!! Love that song and the movie.
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Leaning on the Everlasting Arms was used in different arrangements for the Coen Brothers' remake of True Grit including the one sung by Iris DeMent. It took me ages to think of any tune from a movie which I fancied having a go at and I eventually thought of this one.
http://youtu.be/TcxE7FrGdCo
Played on my D/G Saltarelle Pastourelle III.
I really enjoyed this. Lovely sensitive playing and beautiful photos.
Martyn
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Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
I thought of that song, too, and wondered if it would sound good on the melodeon. It does!
Love your photos, too.
Thank you, Pifa. I realised later that the tune has another film connection as well as True Grit. Robert Mitchum sings it in the Night of the Hunter. Just coz I had a go at it doesn't mean you shouldn't too - I'd be really interested to hear your take on it. There are other nice gospelly/hymn tunes in True Grit too such as What a Friend We Have in Jesus. McG
I'm not sure if I'm ready to try, but my Dino Baffetti Binci 3-voice melodeon just arrived in a big box this afternoon (here in midddle of US), so I'm exited about trying something anyway! So far, number of dinners cooked since Binci arrived: 1. Number of dinners burnt since Binci arrived: 1.
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Leaning on the Everlasting Arms was used in different arrangements for the Coen Brothers' remake of True Grit including the one sung by Iris DeMent. It took me ages to think of any tune from a movie which I fancied having a go at and I eventually thought of this one.
http://youtu.be/TcxE7FrGdCo
Played on my D/G Saltarelle Pastourelle III.
Seen the film & enjoyed it, but didn't register this tune. Enjoyed your version very much, so will have to watch the film again now.
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Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
Thanks again for presenting this tune, Mcgrooger. You have inspired me. I have really modest ability but this brilliant new instrument that I'm determined to master. "Leaning..." is a perfect song to attempt in a simple way, especially remembering the serenity it had in the film.
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Here's my offering for this. (It's not really ready but it's going to take too many months to improve on, so I thought I might as well put it up now!):
http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=86664
I have to say this took a lot of working out, and my early tries at it just didn't work out, and had to be abandoned. There are several versions of this tune on YouTube, in various keys, and I eventually picked this one in Emajor because I wanted to be able to get the LH chord Dma7, C#7, Cma7 run down that seems to me to be such an essential part of this evocative tune. I've attached a word file showing the chords I'm trying to use, if anyone's interested.
Bravo!
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Here's my offering for this. (It's not really ready but it's going to take too many months to improve on, so I thought I might as well put it up now!):
http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=86664
Well Chris, it's just amazing to hear you playing that song so well on a melodeon ... what instrument (and tuning) did you use for your recording?
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Thanks Smiley. It's a Saltarelle Tramontane 11/10/9 14 bass D/G/Acc button accordion, tuning as attached.
I've been trying to adopt a new approach to playing, rather late in life. Rather than playing what falls naturally, I'm trying to rethink the whole instrument, in the same way as I play guitar and bass, starting from the chords, rather than the melody, then trying to see how I could fit the melody into the accompaniment. (I posted the chords I'm using, earlier). I don't think this piece could be played in this way unless you have more than 12 basses. The first consideration for me was that I needed C# on the bass, to get the semitone accompaniment rundown, and this for me meant playing that bit on a pull.
Technically the most difficult bit is at the end, where I'm trying to play Ema7, Ebma7, Dma7, round and round. I felt this was essential to the feel of the music, so I needed to find a way of playing it before I attempted the whole thing. On the RH, I only have Eb on a push, so to get the Ema7 chord, I needed a simultaneous low push E too. However I didn't have a push LH E, so used a B instead, which actually sounded OK. So then I tried using LH B, Bb, A against those chords, and again found it worked nicely. But the technical difficulty is that my RH is so spread out for the staccato notes that hitting the right buttons is really difficult - so I simply recorded this bit a million times until by fluke I hit the right buttons, and patched that into the recording.
The eye-opener for me about trying to play this piece was that it was actually possible, with a bit of ingenuity, on my box. You don't have to play all the notes in a chord, just the ones that are important to the sound of each chord in that context.
(And thanks guys for your other kind comments.)
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Thanks Smiley. It's a Saltarelle Tramontane 11/10/9 14 bass D/G/Acc button accordion, tuning as attached.
Chris,
I too had wondered about the tuning. The use of half tone changes suggested a non standard set up. (It is a source of great frustration that I can't do this on the Corona.) Looking at the attached chart I was, at first, intrigued by the some of the choices. I had to rewrite the bass layout using flats rather than sharps (enharmonic exchange) for it to make sense. (F/A# doesn't make much sense to me, F/Bb does). Anyway, great use of the available harmonic palette. I look forward to hearing more.
Mike
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No great mystery about the way I wrote it out, Mike, it's just that my QWERTY keyboard has a symbol for 'sharp', but nothing for 'flat', and the extra symbols available don't help much. I've tried using other fonts for a decent 'flat' symbol, but nothing really works. More recently, I tend to just use 'b', but it's often somewhat confusing!
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I've tried using other fonts for a decent 'flat' symbol, but nothing really works.
Melnet's forum software actually gets this right so that it should be consistent across all platforms. Every page declares its character set as UTF-8 and you should be able to get a flat symbol using any Unicode font that includes it. (Fonts calling themselves "Unicode" usually have a very large character repertoire, even if it's not the complete set. ♭ = U+266D and is in in Lucida Sans Unicode on this Windows XP box, for example) The "Character Map" tool helps you to find it, and on my Linux system the equivalent "Character Pallette" lets me have a subset of frequently used characters readily available on a desktop toolbar for even quicker access.
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I've tried using other fonts for a decent 'flat' symbol, but nothing really works.
Melnet's forum software actually gets this right so that it should be consistent across all platforms. Every page declares its character set as UTF-8 and you should be able to get a flat symbol using any Unicode font that includes it. (Fonts calling themselves "Unicode" usually have a very large character repertoire, even if it's not the complete set. ♭ = U+266D and is in in Lucida Sans Unicode on this Windows XP box, for example) The "Character Map" tool helps you to find it, and on my Linux system the equivalent "Character Pallette" lets me have a subset of frequently used characters readily available on a desktop toolbar for even quicker access.
Thanks Anahata,
This is useful to know. A quick play around with character codes found on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_%28music%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_%28music%29)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_%28music%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_%28music%29)
and I can do this:
C♯ F♯ B E A D G C F B♭ E♭ A♭
(:)
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Like this, you mean, under 'Insert Code'? Test:
U+266D
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Ah, no, that doesn't work! Where's the Character Map tool?
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Ah, no, that doesn't work!
Chris,
I found it easiest to cut and paste. I wrote an html page with musical symbols and pasted the browser output into the forum post. I suspect there may be an easier way of doing this. Would it be possible to include musical symbols in the forum post tool? Maybe underneath the emoticons? :-\
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Yes, that's what I tend to do if I'm trying to use an accented letter for example. But I've just tried inserting a flat symbol in MS Word (Arial, for example) in the same way, and clicking on 'Unicode' in the drop down menu, then entering code 266D, and it just comes up with a funny Latin h. And searching through all the characters available, I'm blowed if I can find the right one. I'm doing something wrong I know!
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I've just tried inserting a flat symbol in MS Word (Arial, for example) in the same way, and clicking on 'Unicode' in the drop down menu, then entering code 266D, and it just comes up with a funny Latin h.
Some of those techniques expect the character code in decimal instead of hex. That would be 9837 for the ♭ sign.
There seems to be a desperate lack of standardisation here...
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So I finally decided to go for a very well known melody from the superb movie Dances with Wolves. The John Dunbar Theme lends itself well to be played on a melodeon. I've made a short recording of it which you can find over here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xietdS5KCEE&hd=1
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I like this version from John Barry. I have to go out now and make a campfire in order to dance.
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I had an idea to try 'Putting On The Ritz' on my basic D/G box and it seems to go alright. The melody and accompaniment can be played OK in Em,
but since I don't have the patience or dexterity to play it well I just recorded the bass separately. I've discovered enough patience to record a 'session' version on a 19 button Baffetti BPII (with low notes, no accidentals).
http://soundcloud.com/dogbox/stuffing-up-the-ritz
The song was written in 1929 by Irving Berlin for the film of the same name.
Ian
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I have recently learnt Shrewsbury Lasses, a traditional country dance tune. I notice that it is played in the 1995 BBC production of Pride & Prejudice, Episode 2, Part 4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq2OLNG0f0E), about 3.20 minutes in.
I thought it might make a good contribution to this month's Theme of the Month. It is played on my Castagnari Tommy, with, unfortunately, one or two blunders :( I had a few goes at recording it but never managed it without a couple of blunders so I have uploaded the best of the bunch ::)
Here is the link:
http://youtu.be/2sVG4SIA2YY
Pam
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So I finally decided to go for a very well known melody from the superb movie Dances with Wolves. The John Dunbar Theme lends itself well to be played on a melodeon. I've made a short recording of it which you can find over here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xietdS5KCEE&hd=1
nice sound I really like that movie too. my brother in law did the production design for it. I started to pick it out by ear but will need to listen some more before i get it. what key did you play it in?
well I thought I would do a couple of tunes from another movie I like ( O'Brother where art thou ) lots of good tunes in it.
not really worthy of all the good stuff put up by all but you got to start somewhere.
Bluegrass and melodeon? maybe someone else could do some.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBr1H-Pd2vQ
Michael
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So I finally decided to go for a very well known melody from the superb movie Dances with Wolves. The John Dunbar Theme lends itself well to be played on a melodeon. I've made a short recording of it which you can find over here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xietdS5KCEE&hd=1
nice sound I really like that movie too. my brother in law did the production design for it. I started to pick it out by ear but will need to listen some more before i get it. what key did you play it in?
Thanks. I guess I've played it in the key of F. The chords I've found in the enclosed pdf file. Maybe this could be an inspiration. Greetings, Daniel
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Godfather tunes
http://youtu.be/nGFI7QBWAh4 (http://youtu.be/nGFI7QBWAh4)
I like Nina Rota and Morricone film themes... but having tried this one, I realise why we haven't heard many melodeon versions: I had to practice a lot to find all those those sharps and flats. The waltz is cut short, as it all went wrong the second time through. Played on Loffet Pro CF with what would be A minor and E major fingering on a GD. Hope you like.
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Godfather tunes
http://youtu.be/nGFI7QBWAh4 (http://youtu.be/nGFI7QBWAh4)
I like Nina Rota and Morricone film themes... but having tried this one, I realise why we haven't heard many melodeon versions: I had to practice a lot to find all those those sharps and flats. The waltz is cut short, as it all went wrong the second time through. Played on Loffet Pro CF with what would be A minor and E major fingering on a GD. Hope you like.
I do like it. Thanks. I've got a bit on my CG Anglo and need to work on the rest. It's never going to fit on my one row; so, eventually I've got to move on to more rows, or something. Thanks again for showing how it ought to be.
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At last... "Feed The Birds" from Mary Poppins. (you can tell I don't go to a lot of movies...)
I thought this would be easy but it wasn't. The chorus is straightforward enough, but there's a lot more to it than that.
Smoothed down with lashings of reverb and a little compression too.
http://youtu.be/nBDEO30RCU0
I just hope the YouTube copyright censors don't take it down - but that would be a problem with a lot of film music.
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Anahata - well done!
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That was a real joy to listen to Anahata! (:)
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At last... "Feed The Birds" from Mary Poppins. (you can tell I don't go to a lot of movies...)
I thought this would be easy but it wasn't. The chorus is straightforward enough, but there's a lot more to it than that.
Smoothed down with lashings of reverb and a little compression too.
http://youtu.be/nBDEO30RCU0
I just hope the YouTube copyright censors don't take it down - but that would be a problem with a lot of film music.
Love it. I think it sounds great on a squeezebox.
Its my fave disney song of all time.
I wanted to play it (as I have a tunebook with the dots in) but I couldn't manage it on melodeon only concertina.
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I thought this would be easy but it wasn't. The chorus is straightforward enough, but there's a lot more to it than that.
Anahata, superb playing, and those last few chords were real magic - you might well smile at the end!
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those last few chords were real magic - you might well smile at the end!
I (re)learned the song from the YouTube clip from the movie, so they are an adaptation of what actually happens in the orchestra - at least the E♭ chord is right to begin with, then I just made up a simplified sequence that led step wise to the final G. And I nearly didn't add that ending at all for fear of being considered too cheesy :D
So thank you for taking a charitable view :Ph :|glug
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http://libtrad.eu/mp3/Moon_River.mp3 (http://libtrad.eu/mp3/Moon_River.mp3)
I was really pleased with my version of Moon River ..
and then I saw this:
http://bit.ly/HaZ00y (http://bit.ly/HaZ00y)
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I nearly didn't add that ending at all for fear of being considered too cheesy
I like cheese ;)
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How I love it when Anahata posts a new tune!
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I wanted to play [ Feed the Birds ] (as I have a tunebook with the dots in)
I should thank you for reminding me of the movie with your own posting!
When we were teenagers my sister had a tunebook of songs from Mary Poppins, a possibly inspired choice by her piano teacher, and she'd struggle with that and several other songs from the book. I remember liking the tune back then.
How I love it when Anahata posts a new tune!
:|bl That one very nearly didn't happen.
It was quite a challenge, and I have other things I should have been doing (like getting the next issue of Mardles magazine ready for the printers...).
I'm quite pleased with the result though.
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I am *trying* to get something recorded in time but it might have to be early April. Got a bit of a full-on week this week.
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Here my contribution of the month, Music of movie Love Story composed by Francis Lai.
I made a tablature for 3 rows 18 bass G/C, please contact me if you are interested
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPRsUAwhx0s
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Very nice! One of my wife's favorites. Especially since when the movie was issued we were "marooned" in the Massachusetts Berkshires and homesick for California. I'll show this to her in the morning. :D
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Very nice - you make it sound haunting but relaxed, which I bet was not easy! M Lai does seem to like tunes that go off in all sorts of directions, doesn't he?
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End of the month and a new theme starts; thanks for all of the great recordings everyone! Late entries as ever are very welcome; stick them on the end here.
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The first of the late entries for this theme! My excuse is that I have just taken delivery of a new laptop with a built-in webcam and video-editing software, so, for the first time, I am properly equipped for recording and uploading videos for Tune and Theme of the Month. My playing may not be up to much, but at least I am beginning to get to grips with the technology!
A couple of years ago, I was in a session in the Rugby Club at Sidmouth led by Saul Rose and Maclaine Colston. When Saul went to the bar to get some drinks, Maclaine launched into In Dreams (better known as the Hobbit Theme from Lord of the Rings) on his hammered dulcimer*, claiming that he was taking advantage of Saul's absence to play a tune that you can't play on a melodeon. Red rag to a bull or what! So I got the film score and set about producing an arrangement that would fit on my melodeon. The following is my interpretation (or should that be desecration?) of Howard Shore's beautiful tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4rqSeO3LwQ&list=UUFrwCNQLCytv6UZMzkeIY1Q&index=1&feature=plcp
* By the way, how much does a dulcimer have to drink in order to get hammered? ::)
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Here my contribution of the month, Music of movie Love Story composed by Francis Lai.
I made a tablature for 3 rows 18 bass G/C, please contact me if you are interested
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPRsUAwhx0s
Je viens seulement de voir cette vidéo : elle est superbe, beau travail !
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This tune gave me a lot to learn. It's the melody used for the theme of THE PIANO, an old Scottish strathspey called "Lord Balgonie's Favourite."
http://soundcloud.com/john-dally/lord-balgonies-favourite-the
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Lord of the Box
Bob, that is really, really nice! I imagine you need a 12 bass box to do it or would I be able to attempt it with just 8?
Rod
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Hi, Rod. Thanks very much for the positive comments.
Most of the tune can be played using the standard eight basses of a D/G box, but there are three bars in the B music where I use B flat, E flat and F natural basses to create tension. No doubt, substitutes for these could be found among the standard basses. More importantly, you would need B flat and F natural accidentals on the right hand to play the melody. It might be possibe to adapt the tune if you don't have them, but I think the tune would lose some of its charm without them.
I can post the dots if you would find them useful.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4rqSeO3LwQ&list=UUFrwCNQLCytv6UZMzkeIY1Q&index=1&feature=plcp
beautiful, I did'nt know this theme ... Not an easy job to get it, I'm sure ..
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I wanted to play [ Feed the Birds ] (as I have a tunebook with the dots in)
I should thank you for reminding me of the movie with your own posting!
When we were teenagers my sister had a tunebook of songs from Mary Poppins, a possibly inspired choice by her piano teacher, and she'd struggle with that and several other songs from the book. I remember liking the tune back then.
Hmmmm...maybe I can try spoonful of sugar...
I'd like to try this one ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKTknLD9eWw
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Hi Bob,
Yes please! I have the right hand accidentals on the Preciosa but the bass end will not manage those B part bits.
Getting carried away - the Rohan theme (King of the Golden Hall) is A minor so I think it will need transposed before the bass end will do much at all.
There are other things I really should be working on but....
Rod
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Here it is, Rod!
I've left out the right-hand fingering because it is peculiar to the layout of my boxes. The bass notation is in capital letters for chords and lower case letters for fundamentals. In other words, I play the hole tune with droned chords, only bringing in fundamentals on the final note.
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Thanks! I think I can probably manage without what a German friend has dubbed the "Gandalf Buttons" (Any box with more than 8 bass will now be a Gandalf box). It will take some time though.
Rod
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My take for ThoTM 03/2012. In Germany it is called "Pippi Langstrumpf" and we dance it on ceilidhs as chapelloise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndh6ZdCB9GE&feature=youtube_gdata
Absolutely love it! My daughters have been brought up with the Pippi Longstocking videos. This is starting to turn them slightly more "pro melodeon".
Beautifully played too.
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Seeing as I suggested this theme I had to post something eventually. Not as polished as I'd like, but I'm getting there.
"The Black Pearl" from Pirates of the Caribbean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xySzZnLMkHU
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The first of the late entries for this theme! My excuse is that I have just taken delivery of a new laptop with a built-in webcam and video-editing software, so, for the first time, I am properly equipped for recording and uploading videos for Tune and Theme of the Month. My playing may not be up to much, but at least I am beginning to get to grips with the technology!
A couple of years ago, I was in a session in the Rugby Club at Sidmouth led by Saul Rose and Maclaine Colston. When Saul went to the bar to get some drinks, Maclaine launched into In Dreams (better known as the Hobbit Theme from Lord of the Rings) on his hammered dulcimer*, claiming that he was taking advantage of Saul's absence to play a tune that you can't play on a melodeon. Red rag to a bull or what! So I got the film score and set about producing an arrangement that would fit on my melodeon. The following is my interpretation (or should that be desecration?) of Howard Shore's beautiful tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4rqSeO3LwQ&list=UUFrwCNQLCytv6UZMzkeIY1Q&index=1&feature=plcp
* By the way, how much does a dulcimer have to drink in order to get hammered? ::)
I'm confused ??? this is nothing like the Roy Orbison original.
http://youtu.be/VbVF8MjFBgE (http://youtu.be/VbVF8MjFBgE)
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I'm confused ??? this is nothing like the Roy Orbison original.
http://youtu.be/VbVF8MjFBgE (http://youtu.be/VbVF8MjFBgE)
Really! It should do, because that was what I was aiming to achieve. I guess I just lack his musicality. :'(
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I'm confused ??? this is nothing like the Roy Orbison original.
http://youtu.be/VbVF8MjFBgE (http://youtu.be/VbVF8MjFBgE)
Really! It should do, because that was what I was aiming to achieve. I guess I just lack his musicality. :'(
I do hope you realise you're both talking about two completely different pieces of music? :P
Not a film theme, but a TV theme - Time Team, performed by me and my archaeology classmates on our last day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR3-x9HmiXc&feature=youtu.be