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Alpine Slopes waltz on a D/G box
« on: April 29, 2016, 05:44:17 AM »

The late Finbarr Dwyer Dermot O'Brien composed a Bavarian-sounding waltz he named Alpine Slopes and I came to it via a really nice video done by our own OrchardAshley90 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O3T3_pI7zw  Dermot's version can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtGPnw4vOrA

I think Ashley played it in A major on an A/D/G box using the A & D rows but I'm trying to play it in G on a D/G melodeon. I couldn't find the dots or abc notation for the tune on the web and when I attempted a transcription the tune seemed to morph into a cliched 'lederhosen style' waltz. Might come in handy for an Oktoberfest gig anyway.

Has anyone seen a transcription of Alpine Slopes, or recognise which tune I've borrowed from? My transcribing efforts are attached.

X:1
T: Alpine Slopes
C: Dermot O'Brien; arr. Ian Hayden
Z: interpreted by Ian Hayden from Ashley Orchard's version in A
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:Gmaj
E2|:"G"DB BD DB|DB BD DB|"D"Dc3-cB|A4-AE|Dc3-cB|A4-AD|"G"DB3BA|G4-GE|
"G"DB BD DB|DB BD DB|"D"Dc3-cB|A4-Ad|"D"(3ded ^cd ed|fe d=c BA|(3GBG (3BdB (3dgd|1g4 E2:|2g4 f2|
|:"C"(3ecG (3ecG (3ecG|gG fG e2|"G"(3dgd (3BdB (3GBG|DG Bd ed|"D"(3efe de fd|fe d=c BA|"G"G2 B2 d2|g4G2|
"C"(3ecG (3ecG (3ecG|gG fG e2|"G"(3dgd (3BdB (3GBG|DG Bd ed|"D"(3efe de fd|fe d=c BA|"G"(3GBG (3BdB (3dgd|G4 E2:|
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Re: Alpine Slopes waltz on a D/G box
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2016, 07:53:14 AM »

Hi lovely tune isn't it :). I'm surprised I'm a huge finbarr Dwyer fan, but I always thought that Dermot O,brien composed that tune, and the original key was ment to be B major. Anyways I learnt the tune mostly from finbarr version but first heard it played by seamus Shannon.

Why would you want to play it in G? You would be better off in D, you could use the same fingering as I would play it well almost as I use all 3 rows.

I would of thought in G on a DG box that the tune would be really high or at the low end with out enough notes also you would need an F in there somewhere and make those rolls pretty hard
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Re: Alpine Slopes waltz on a D/G box
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2016, 09:11:36 AM »


Why would you want to play it in G? You would be better off in D, you could use the same fingering as I would play it well almost as I use all 3 rows.


dunno Ashley ... I tried playing it in D but couldn't work out how you made the tune sound so good. Then I began fudging it on the G row. There's very little logic involved in my approach to playing the box!

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Re: Alpine Slopes waltz on a D/G box
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2016, 12:12:15 PM »

Great playing in that video, Ashley. Watching it is making the MAD set in... Maybe I "need" a 3 row...
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Re: Alpine Slopes waltz on a D/G box
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2016, 12:45:59 PM »

I have played it on a d/g box with pretty much the same fingering and your right it dosent quite have the same effect, I think it's because it's on the high end of the scale in any key, that's what it's usually played in A. But no reason why you can't play it in d on the d/g box
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Re: Alpine Slopes waltz on a D/G box
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2016, 12:55:38 PM »

Thank you  Deltasalmon 3 rows can be fun ;)
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Re: Alpine Slopes waltz on a D/G box
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2016, 10:30:51 PM »

In the hope that it might be of some use to some folks, here is a transcription of Alpine Slopes by a PA teacher friend of mine. It is in the key of C but could be transposed into any key. The small numbers are PA fingering notations.

Every recording of Alpine Slopes that I have come across has attributed the composition to Dermot O'Brien.
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Re: Alpine Slopes waltz on a D/G box
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2016, 09:33:35 AM »

The intro in Bill's transcription is great. In ABC, transposed to G: 
DEF | G6 | B6 | d3c AF | G4 |: (3DDD |

Ian, I would change the bar with the triplets in the second line of your code
from (3GBG (3BdB (3dgd to (3GDG (3BGB (3dBd to avoid anticipating the high g.

Code: [Select]
X:1
T: Alpine Slopes
C:Dermot O'Brien; arr. Ian Hayden
Z: interpreted by Ian Hayden from Ashley Orchard's version in A
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:Gmaj
DEF | G6 | B6 | d3c AF | HG4 (3DDD |
|:"G"DB BD DB|DB BD DB|"D"Dc3-cB|A4-AE|Dc3-cB|A4-AD|"G"DB3BA|G4-GE|
"G"DB BD DB|DB BD DB|"D"Dc3-cB|A4-Ad|"D"(3ded ^cd ed|fe d=c BA|(3GDG (3BGB (3dBd|1g4 E2:|2g4 f2|
|:"C"(3ecG (3ecG (3ecG|gG fG e2|"G"(3dgd (3BdB (3GBG|DG Bd ed|"D"(3efe de fd|fe d=c BA|"G"G2 B2 d2|g4G2|
"C"(3ecG (3ecG (3ecG|gG fG e2|"G"(3GBG (3BdB (3dgd|DG Bd ed|"D"(3efe de fd|fe d=c BA|"G"(3GDG (3BGB (3dBd|g4 E2:|
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Re: Alpine Slopes waltz on a D/G box
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2016, 12:13:40 PM »

Here's the sheet music from Bill transposed down from C to G (with some passages taken up an octave to suit the D/G box).

X:1
T: Alpine Slopes
C:Dermot O'Brien
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:Gmaj
(3DDD|:"G"DB BD DB|BD DB DB|"D7"D2 [ce]3[Bd]|[Ac]4(3DDD|
|D2[ce]3[Bd]|[Ac]4(3DDD|"G"D2[Bd]3[Ac]|[GB]4(3DDD|
|DB BD DB|BD DB DB|"D7"D2 [ce]3[Bd]|[Ac]4d2|
|(3ddd ^cd ed|fe dc BA|"G"g,3[GBdg][GBDdg]2|[GBdg]6:|
G2|:"C"Gc eG ce|gG fG eG|"G"(3ded Bd GB|DG Bg fe|
|"D7"(3ded ^cd ed|fe dc BA|"G"GB dG Bd|gd Bd GB|
|"C"c2 (3Gce (3Gce|(3gcG (3fcG (3ecG|"G"(3ded Bd GB|DG Bg fe|
|"D7"(3ded ^cd ed|fe dc BA|"G"G3[Bdg][Bdg]2|1"G"[Bdg]4 G2:|2"G"[BDdg]4(3DDD|]
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