Hi, had a go at this one too, since it's a bit unusual for me! I knew next to nothing about French Bourrée dancing at the start of the month, and honestly I'm not sure if I know any more than that now! I took a most of my inspiration from this recording of a large dance hall worth of happy dancers and a stage covered in squeeze boxes:
https://youtu.be/d5gS_bIJmP0?t=172I do think I ended up adding too much swing into things, but I tried to mimic some of the bass rhythm I could hear from that video. I also ended up omitting the fundamental buttons and only playing chords - my preference was block chords but, at home, and playing a morros box, it felt like I'd have to play louder than I was comfortable with to do so, as it was robbing too much air from the melody reeds. Probably playing too fast too, but, I feel like I can feel a solid beat throughout even though there's
I found that the tune makes
a lot of sense to play across the rows, especially to play the less familiar rhythms and have the option of long held chords - on a 2 row 8 bass, there's really only one spot where you (probably) need to reverse the bellows without an accompanying chord change (in DG speak, the D note over an A chord, 2nd note of bar 4 of the B music), and papering over that with 'chord rest chord rest' is a doddle. I watched JeanGenie's video and was actually pretty impressed that she stuck up and down the rows (swapping to inner row for the accidental in the A music).
Anyway,
Chassepain on a on a black pearl II:
https://youtu.be/HzgJ7KBmMw8You may also recall from the voting thread the idea of writing Jimmy Allen as a bourrée for theme of the month, I only went so far as to translate some of the rhythms and chord changes from Chassepain as I knew it at the time, and never
really ended up revisiting it, or coming up with a preferred solution for D over an Em chord. But, here's the ABC for that anyway:
X:1
T: Jimmy Allen
Q:120
M: 2/4
P:ABAB
L: 1/8
%%MIDI gchord c2c2
K:G
P:A
| "G"B>G GA | "Em"BA GA | "Am"c>A AB | "D"cd "G"BG |
"G"G>g fg | "Em"dB Bc | "C"d>d cd | "D"BA "G" G2 :|
P:B
"G"G>g gf | "D"ed cB | "Am"A>a ag | "D"fd ef |
"G"d>g fg | "Em"dB Bc | "C"d>d cd |1 "D"BA "G" G2 :|2 "D" dcBA |