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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #20 on: April 03, 2010, 08:59:55 PM »

Here is my contribution...I think I might be able to do better with a bit more practice
Bobbie Shaftoe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GeHgoLxFZI
Good, good. Much improved from your early attempts (naturally - I'd be worried if it wasn't!)
I like the Am7 and Bm7 sustained chords on the introduction.

I was erm.....experimenting and decided to keep it in.

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Bellows and holding the instrument:
Can't remember whether I or anyone else has picked up on this before. Your playing position on this video is not the best. You risk wearing away the underside of the bellows where it rests on your leg. Check now!

My advice would be to rest the RH wooden end (not the bellows) of the instrument on your left leg, and then the bellows can operate freely in space to your left, without rubbing on anything and potentially risking an expensive repair bill.

The other advantage of that position is that your RH wrist and fingers are much closer to a straight line and you don't risk a strain injury.
it was more a case of having to do that or his my elbows on the arm of the chair or have the sun tottaly overwhelm the camera so I'd just be a blaze of fuzzy light. ;)

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2010, 08:12:12 AM »

I was erm.....experimenting and decided to keep it in.
Keep up the experiments, you're obviously 'getting your ear in' as it were.  ;D
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #22 on: April 04, 2010, 12:31:35 PM »

Here is my contribution...I think I might be able to do better with a bit more practice
Bobbie Shaftoe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GeHgoLxFZI

This is really nice and tight - the opening chords are good too, I can see progress from your early tunes.
I'm 18 months in, I got obsessed with 'Schottische de Pere Rouxel' while I was saving for my instrument, I have no video capability at the mo, but I'll open my little home studio back up and past an MP3 over a pic in a few days. Here's the video that inspired my first choice..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVKlSicgZAM

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #23 on: April 06, 2010, 12:19:59 AM »

Here we go - the first tune I ever learned on the melodeon (more years ago than I care to admit) - Rattling Bog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhbSDgrQf9s

I'm a little guilty of overdoing the chords in this version I think; ah well, the exhuberence of youth.

Played on a standard layout (declubbed) Hohner Club in C/F.

Enjoy,

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #24 on: April 07, 2010, 09:46:36 PM »

Here's mine, sorry there's no vid, I played melody through first time, moved basses abit second time and straight basses third. I usually tag Schottische du Pere Escalle on to the end but I'm still working on it...
I tend to lose my way when moving the basses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F56PWiNWdiA

thanks
Will
for some reason this ends abrubtly - I'm trying to sort it out...
edit: Should end when it's meant to now
« Last Edit: April 07, 2010, 11:20:34 PM by willriding »
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #25 on: April 19, 2010, 04:39:45 PM »

First tune - the morris tune Queen's Delight and I still enjoy playing it nearly 40 years later.
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #26 on: April 21, 2010, 08:29:41 PM »

"The Captain And His Whiskers"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJSKbm39F2k&feature=channel

When I was a little lad my mum and gran kept a shop & cafe in Brackley Market Square. I grew up listening to Brackley morris tunes because these big jingly men danced just outside the shop. Some of the music stuck, so when I bought a melodeon 50 years later these were obvious tunes to try to pick out. To my delight I then found that Mally's Cotswold Morris Books contain some Brackley tunes. I also found I'd been teaching myself to play the tunes slightly differently, but that's folk music for you.

The A section is obviously shared with Irish musicians. The B section has a sung chorus: "Oh I wish you'd do it now, oh I wish you'd do it now, oh the Captain with his whiskers, oh I wish you'd do it now."

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #27 on: April 25, 2010, 12:35:02 PM »

ive got another version to upload (multi tracked this time) on monday as my brother won't let me on the computer today. >:(  but im pleased with the result. It was a lot of fun.

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #28 on: April 26, 2010, 09:02:01 AM »

here you go
http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=19401
bobbie shaftoe in C

Edit: if you listen carefully you might just hear my mum sing along in the background at some point in the recording. That'll teach her for not doing as she's told and attempting to sing when I play.
« Last Edit: April 26, 2010, 11:40:44 AM by ladydetemps »
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #29 on: April 27, 2010, 07:41:24 PM »

OK so this is cheating as I posted this tune in an earlier thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow-kY9h_MzM
Speed the Plough was the first tune I learnt properly.  I had tinkered about with a couple of other tunes but not in any way that could be described as music.  
I learnt this tune from IanD of this forum with a couple of others sitting around a table in a converted mill in Normandy, Northern France.

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #30 on: April 28, 2010, 03:20:15 AM »

  I remember this as one of the first tunes I tried to learn on the box. Fact is, I'm still trying to learn all of them. (Except perhaps for Speed the Plough, I think I have reached a plateau on that one).
  Anyway, this is from one of Sharon Shannon's recordings, and she was a great stimulus to me, even though I finally learned that she played a semi-tone box and mine was a quint box and there was a difference. I wondered where all those exotic notes were coming from. Some of my chords are a bit simplistic and incorrect, but I was quite proud when I was able to wrench a recognizable version of this tune from my first lil' Hohner. I still love this song and when I play for the old folks, it gets their toes tappin'. It's a waltz called Maguire & Paterson's, played here on the old three row Hohner in F#

                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPLxt6w1UpE
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #31 on: April 28, 2010, 05:51:38 AM »

Rather beautiful. I felt your chords were 'rich'. The more so for your right hand extensions  8)
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #33 on: April 29, 2010, 12:29:34 PM »

Well, this isn't too good but......this is the first proper tune that I learned. I sing along with it (sorry  :|bl) because the desire to sing it for someone special was what motivated me to learn the tune.  Anyone familiar with my TOTM contributions won't be disappointed  ;) Anyone annoyed by beginners best not listen (:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBFbPsDs1iU
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #34 on: April 29, 2010, 12:39:04 PM »

I sing along with it (sorry  :|bl) because the desire to sing it for someone special was what motivated me to learn the tune.

Well done juker! And all power to you for including the singing.
How's that for a ThOTM - singalong tunes??!
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #35 on: April 29, 2010, 12:46:50 PM »

Well, this isn't too good but......this is the first proper tune that I learned. I sing along with it (sorry  :|bl) because the desire to sing it for someone special was what motivated me to learn the tune.  Anyone familiar with my TOTM contributions won't be disappointed  ;) Anyone annoyed by beginners best not listen (:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBFbPsDs1iU
So is that what the lyrics are! Well done juker you are very brave. :)


How's that for a ThOTM - singalong tunes??!
you wouldn't get me singing  >:(
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #36 on: April 29, 2010, 12:53:27 PM »

Juker, I loved this!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #37 on: April 29, 2010, 12:58:50 PM »

Gee, thanks guys  (:)
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #38 on: April 29, 2010, 03:24:26 PM »

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

 Very nice playing Susi, and a lovely song which I am adding to my 'must learn' list! If you are running out of air, try to find a phrase in the song that normally is played on the push, but can be played on the pull, and when you play it, snatch a nice big breath of air with the air button! ;D
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2010 - Your First Tune
« Reply #39 on: April 29, 2010, 04:28:53 PM »

Thanks J.W! I'm not sure it'll work to play on the pull and still make the chords work... or maybe I'm too stuck in the narrow-mindedness of certain Swedes... I'll give it a try, since both G and D exist on the pull.
One thing I've thought of with the Castagnari, is how weak the sound gets when I try to use the air button while playing (when I need more air). I can easily do it with my D organetto, without anyone noticing, but if I do it with the Laura, the sound almost disappears. Maybe I should discuss that on a separate thread instead of hijacking this one  :-[
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