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Girl in Clover - remembered after all these years.
« on: March 23, 2013, 06:46:19 PM »

Hallo

This tune, Girl in Clover, popped into my head today after at least 20-odd years of not playing it. I'll confess to playing it through first before recording it but, amazingly, I remembered it almost note for note first time. It will be better next week when I remember all my variations - unless I forget it again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQE1GFRaoEA

If only I could remember what I had for breakfast . . . .

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« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2013, 08:10:58 PM »

Really enjoyed this  :D

My mind has started doing the same with songs. The brain amazes me sometimes especially with music.
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Re: Girl in Clover - remembered after all these years.
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2013, 08:21:32 PM »

What a beautiful tune that is - thank you for posting, I loved it!
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Re: Girl in Clover - remembered after all these years.
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2013, 08:52:27 PM »

I really enjoyed that song,have you the dots?...Hubert
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« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2013, 08:58:42 PM »

Sorry Hubert. I almost never have the dots for anything I play, I don't read 'em you see. I can't even figure out ABC. It's all by ear I'm afraid.

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« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2013, 09:16:00 PM »

A word of warning . . .

I decided to look for the dots online. I didn't find them but here's some advice: Make sure your 'safesearch' is on when you type in 'Girl in Clover' :|bl
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Re: Girl in Clover - remembered after all these years.
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2013, 09:59:29 PM »

Martin that's lovely.
Thanks, and a lesson in how to use accidentals so easily and noncholantly......
great!
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I think I'm starting to get most of the notes in roughly the right order...... sometimes!

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« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2013, 11:44:50 PM »

Martin, what key is your box in?

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« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2013, 07:46:00 AM »

Hi Stephen

This box (Saltarelle Bouebe) is in DG. If you're going to learn the tune by ear and by observing finger positions in the video then I'll give you a few more pointers . . .

It's a 4th button start with low notes and accidentals as below (from chin end)
G row, push/pull: F/Eb; B/D; D/F# then G/A etc
D row, push/pull: Bb/Ab; F#/A; A/C# then D/E etc

The accidentals are pitched in the octave of the normal G scale, not in the octave of the adjacent buttons. (Fairly standard, I know, but thought I'd give as much info as I can in the absence of any sheet music).

Hope this helps.

Martin
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Re: Girl in Clover - remembered after all these years.
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2013, 12:13:47 PM »

Great Stuff Mr Ellison!   Another tune for my 'to learn' list, and reminds me why I asked a while back if you would like to do a house concert???
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« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2013, 05:33:52 PM »

Thank you Theo.

I'm open to suggestions about a concert (the thought of playing to a room of melodeon enthusiasts fills me with terror. No hiding place!).

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Re: Girl in Clover - remembered after all these years.
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2013, 07:01:25 PM »

Most of the audience will not be melodionists, just nice people,  8)
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Re: Girl in Clover - remembered after all these years.
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2013, 12:01:15 AM »

Most of the audience will not be melodionists, just nice people,  8)

And the two aren't mutually exclusive...I believe it's possible, though difficult, to be both....
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Re: Girl in Clover - remembered after all these years.
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2013, 07:06:50 AM »

Most of the audience will not be melodionists, just nice people,  8)

Extrapolating forwards then Theo, Melodeonists are NOT nice people >:E
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Re: Girl in Clover - remembered after all these years.
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2013, 07:28:57 AM »

Sorry Hubert. I almost never have the dots for anything I play, I don't read 'em you see. I can't even figure out ABC. It's all by ear I'm afraid.

Martin

Me too Martin,
Brilliant in English, useless in maths, and music is mathematical. I just can't get my head round it. Dots and quavers are just all a blur to me and believe me I've tried.
I have always said, probably like you, that if you can hum it I can play it. Nothing that I'm proud of
though. I'd love to sort out ABC.
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« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2013, 08:07:08 AM »

I think that people get the wrong impression of melodeonists when they see their faces when playing. That's why I've chopped my head off in the video. You'd think I was either homicidal or quite insane.

Nick - It isn't just me then? Thank goodness. I'm sort of happy with that but when I think of all those tunes I could have learnt over the years . . .

Martin
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Re: Girl in Clover - remembered after all these years.
« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2013, 08:51:49 AM »

Martin, many of those on Melnet will say we have a gift. Once I get to know how to put something up on YouTube  I'll give it a whirl.
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Re: Girl in Clover - remembered after all these years.
« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2013, 09:00:34 AM »

When it comes to music, my wife Karen can only play with music notation in front of her. She plays the piano. I feel there might be a thread drift here, but I suppose not being able to read music is a lot like not being able to read books. However, I can play wherever and whenever it might be requested and any tune. Provided of course it's DG and up and down row.
Sorry for the thread drift and I know this has been covered before.
   Now it's back to the last few Chanson gussets!
Wish me luck.
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Re: Girl in Clover - remembered after all these years.
« Reply #18 on: May 24, 2013, 05:07:19 PM »

does anyone have ABC for 'Girl in Cover'?
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Re: Girl in Clover - remembered after all these years.
« Reply #19 on: May 24, 2013, 06:31:52 PM »

I was reading just yesterday about Chopin's technique at the piano and his use of "finger substitution" on the keys - an art you seem to have perfected on the box, Martin. As enjoyable to watch as to listen to, bravo.

PS Do you do that when you play reels?
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