Melodeon.net Forums

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Welcome to the new melodeon.net forum

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5   Go Down

Author Topic: Theme of the Month for July 2010 - Music You Wouldn't Expect on a Melodeon  (Read 26835 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Clive Williams

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3557
    • Home Page

Another month, another challenge! This month let's try playing music that *isn't* folk music... erm, no, that definition's that's likely to start a Mudcat style foodfight, isn't it?  ;D

How about this as a definition then - 'music you wouldn't expect to hear played on a melodeon'

Anything goes ... classical, pop, jazz, ... duelling banjos... whatever you wouldn't expect to hear on a melodeon!

Cheers,

Clive

Susanne

  • Respected Sage
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 319
Re: Theme of the Month for July 2010 - Non-Folk Tunes
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2010, 01:18:54 AM »

I see you mention Duelling banjos..... then it would be ok to do a bluegrass tune? Depending on who you ask, bluegrass is often considered as folk. It's good fun to do it on a melodeon though!! I tried last summer at a festival in lack of a mandolin...
Logged

Simon

  • Respected Sage
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 449
  • Serenellini Selli C/F and Gold98 G/C
Re: Theme of the Month for July 2010 - Non-Folk Tunes
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2010, 07:27:09 AM »

I don't want to spoil this great challenge, but we might get some copyright issues here...
Logged

ladydetemps

  • Emote Wizard
  • Forum Librarian
  • Hero Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3768
  • Castagnari Tommy D/G, Hohner 1 row 4 stop in C
    • My Youtube Channel
Re: Theme of the Month for July 2010 - Non-Folk Tunes
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2010, 08:39:49 AM »

I expect to hear everything on melodeon. ;)

Clive Williams

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3557
    • Home Page
Re: Theme of the Month for July 2010 - Non-Folk Tunes
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2010, 09:02:43 AM »

I see you mention Duelling banjos..... then it would be ok to do a bluegrass tune? Depending on who you ask, bluegrass is often considered as folk. It's good fun to do it on a melodeon though!! I tried last summer at a festival in lack of a mandolin...

Why not? I know what's folk for some people isn't necessarily folk for others, so it's not a very good definition really. I think the 'not expected on a melodeon' definition is better. Hmmm. I may change the thread title. [[[ Yep, changed it. That's better. ]]]

Cheers,

Clive

Simon

  • Respected Sage
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 449
  • Serenellini Selli C/F and Gold98 G/C
Re: Theme of the Month for July 2010 - Non-Folk Tunes
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2010, 09:06:35 AM »

I expect to hear everything on melodeon. ;)
Bach's Air on a G string would be pretty boring on a G reed though  ;)
Logged

Clive Williams

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3557
    • Home Page
Re: Theme of the Month for July 2010 - Non-Folk Tunes
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2010, 09:17:19 AM »

I don't want to spoil this great challenge, but we might get some copyright issues here...

I think we can safely leave this one up to people's consciences. I personally see nothing wrong with one-off postings for ThOTM of our arrangements of music on youtube etc as long as the composer is acknowledged, and in the unlikely event of the composer wanting the posting to be removed, it is done so quickly. In fact it's not that different from previous themes where recently composed tunes sometimes get used - I personally have done music by John Dipper, Huw Williams, and so on. Heaven knows there are *lots* of covers of, for example, Eleanor Rigby out there already, so one more surely doesn't hurt and is unlikely to cause offence.

TOTM is a different issue - I personally like to contact the copyright holder out of courtesy because there's going to be a lot of discussion, videos, ABC files, etc going on over a month.  The reason for not including (e.g.) pop music in TOTM there is simply the lack of probability that someone in your typical large record company actually say yes to the 'may we discuss and play your music for a month' question - I'm sure in virtually all cases if you could get through to the author they would be happy to give permission, but that's the trouble with record companies - the author isn't the one you need permission from...

So to summarise, I'm happy to let this theme run; I think it'll be a lot of fun! And there's plenty of non-contemporary stuff to try if you don't fancy something recently composed. I think I'll try a bit of Handel...

Cheers,

Clive

Susanne

  • Respected Sage
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 319

Cool - this will be so much fun!!!!!!!!! I'd better found a bluegrass tune with no "blue" in it... I won't find the blue notes on my box. I was once able to play Old Joe Clark on the organetto, though!
Logged

strad

  • Respected Sage
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 418

To me, ragtime music sounds great on a box, and most of that is way out of copyright.
(Apart from the ones I write) One tune which sounds good with a ragtme feel to it is Spootiskerry by the late Ian Burns.

Nigel
Logged

Martyn

  • Respected Sage
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 452
  • Hohnerohner
    • Martyn White Melodeon Tuning and Repairs

How about the Flight of the Bumblebee for a challenge?  :Ph
Logged
'Anything from a small repair to a full restoration'.
www.melodeonrepairs.co.uk

Keithypete.

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 917

To me, ragtime music sounds great on a box, and most of that is way out of copyright.
(Apart from the ones I write) One tune which sounds good with a ragtme feel to it is Spootiskerry by the late Ian Burns.

Nigel



Spootiskerry is a commonly heard melodeon tune - certainly in these parts.
Logged
Beltuna Sara II - B/C flavour.
Borsini - G,D,A.
Pokerwork B/C.
PRIMATONA IV, B/C.

Anahata

  • This mind intentionally left blank
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 6357
  • Oakwood D/G, C/F Club, 1-rows in C,D,G
    • Treewind Music

Spootiskerry is a commonly heard melodeon tune - certainly in these parts.

No points for Spootiskerry unless you play it in 3 different keys on a 1 row
(It is possible)
Logged
I'm a melodeon player. What's your excuse?
Music recording and web hosting: www.treewind.co.uk
Mary Humphreys and Anahata: www.maryanahata.co.uk
Ceilidh band: www.barleycoteband.co.uk

waltzman

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 943

Spootiskerry is a commonly heard melodeon tune - certainly in these parts.

No points for Spootiskerry unless you play it in 3 different keys on a 1 row
(It is possible)


I'd like to see/hear that.  Can you do it?
Logged

Anahata

  • This mind intentionally left blank
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 6357
  • Oakwood D/G, C/F Club, 1-rows in C,D,G
    • Treewind Music

I'd like to see/hear that.  Can you do it?
Not as accurately as I'd like, nor at proper speed...
Logged
I'm a melodeon player. What's your excuse?
Music recording and web hosting: www.treewind.co.uk
Mary Humphreys and Anahata: www.maryanahata.co.uk
Ceilidh band: www.barleycoteband.co.uk

michik

  • Respected Sage
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 412

I'll go for "Popcorn" by Gershon Kingsley .. I have found a quite simplified version of it in my sheet music collection
which can be played on a two-row+acc  melodeon relatively easy :|||:
Logged
Michael Knapp ~ Vienna ~ Austria
Playing on "Parigi Giovani" G/C (made by Bompezzo) - My recordings: http://www.onmvoice.com/mknapp

ladydetemps

  • Emote Wizard
  • Forum Librarian
  • Hero Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3768
  • Castagnari Tommy D/G, Hohner 1 row 4 stop in C
    • My Youtube Channel

Hmmm...might be a little adventurous but I'm gonna see if I can find the chords on the RH and play a nirvana tune....probably end in disaster and it all depends on me getting my computer power sorted by then.
or I do have this book so maybe.....
« Last Edit: July 01, 2010, 04:26:38 PM by ladydetemps »
Logged

Simon

  • Respected Sage
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 449
  • Serenellini Selli C/F and Gold98 G/C

I do have this book so maybe.....
Check the whole song first before spending too much time on learning the A-part. Most Beatles songs change key somewhere.  :-\
Logged

Québécois

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1206
  • Accordez-vous donc, c'est si beau, l'accordéon!

Stairway to heaven!
Logged
Hohner Morgane D/G, pre-Erica Hohner in C/F and G/C,
Hohner Erica A/D, Roland FR-18

LJC

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 527

You can play a good Cajun version of Twist and Shout on the one row- it's one of my party tricks when there are no folkies around, but it gets a bit dull without people to sing along!
Logged

Sandy

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1007
  • 'Musical Landlady'

Bob the Builder !!
 :D
Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5   Go Up
 


Melodeon.net - (c) Theo Gibb; Clive Williams 2010. The access and use of this website and forum featuring these terms and conditions constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions.
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal