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Lyn

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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #20 on: December 01, 2011, 07:52:04 PM »

OOh, ta, Lester.

(Now to work out that concertina.net thingy............)

And Liz, that thing you've just mentioned - I was doing it all the time in Somerset, especially during the 'noodling episode'! However I've come to realise most people are tone deaf or think it's just good harmonising!
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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #21 on: December 01, 2011, 10:16:32 PM »

LOL - I thought you looked quite confident in Witney Lyn  :P

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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #22 on: December 02, 2011, 08:26:07 PM »

clik go the shears

Just shows how difficult it is to define "English Music".  "Click Go the Shears" is an Australian song which is set to the tune of an English sea hornpipe called "Strike the Bell"

Still a cracking tune, though.

Chorus:

Strike the bell second mate, let us go below,
Look well to windward, you can tell its going to blow,
Look at yer glass - you can tell that is has fell,
Oh we would wish that you would hurry up and strike strike the bell!

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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #23 on: December 02, 2011, 08:55:02 PM »

clik go the shears

Just shows how difficult it is to define "English Music".  "Click Go the Shears" is an Australian song which is set to the tune of an English sea hornpipe called "Strike the Bell"
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You sure its English

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

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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #24 on: December 02, 2011, 09:01:02 PM »

Being able to hear yourself play is a challenge in many sessions, particularly if it includes the 'Pokerwork Wall of Sound' or the 'Casta Sound Machine' are in town. You need to know you are hitting at least some of the right notes if you are trying to pick up a new tune!

This is even an issue with some morris practices!!

Aside from positioning an ear suitably close when playing, I now tend to take a box with a distinctive sound whenever I think this will be a problem.
So the little Preciosa has become my standard session box - still the 'Sound of Hohner', but distinctive.
For morris, I now regularly take a 4-stop one-row and my anglo!

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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #25 on: December 02, 2011, 10:19:43 PM »

clik go the shears

Just shows how difficult it is to define "English Music".  "Click Go the Shears" is an Australian song which is set to the tune of an English sea hornpipe called "Strike the Bell"
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You sure its English

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

Yes, Lester - just thinking of my recording of Bernard Wriggley singing it.
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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #26 on: December 02, 2011, 10:25:50 PM »

clik go the shears

Just shows how difficult it is to define "English Music".  "Click Go the Shears" is an Australian song which is set to the tune of an English sea hornpipe called "Strike the Bell"
<snip>

You sure its English

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

Yes, Lester - just thinking of my recording of Bernard Wriggley singing it.

I've got at as well  ;D

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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #27 on: December 02, 2011, 10:30:57 PM »

I do rather like some of these "Australian" tunes - Oratoba Waltz and Mudgee Schottische. They are fun. Although Oratoba Waltz is doing a very good job of not lodging in my brain...

Malcolm

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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #28 on: December 03, 2011, 01:37:10 PM »

There's another set of words to Strike the Bell - the chorus goes:
Strike the bell, landlord, serve another round,
Such a thirsty crowd as this is seldom to be found,
To break such jovial compnay would surely be a sin,
So strike the bell, shut the door and lock us all in!

It's a good one for pubs where the landlord is very punctual with his "Last orders!" at 10.50 and anxious glances after 11 pm (and yes, it does still happen!).
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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #29 on: December 03, 2011, 05:25:49 PM »

Oh! and the OrotaBa Waltz

X: 1
T: Orotaba Waltz
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Gmaj
dc|B2D2D2|G4AB|A2E2E2|A4G2|F2A2c2|f4ef|e2d2d2|d4dc|
B2D2D2|G4AB|A2E2E2|A4de|f2e2d2|cF3A2|G3 A GF|G4BA|
G2B2c2|d2g3g|f2A2B2|c4fg|f2A2B2|c4ef|e2d2d2|d4BA|
G2B2c2|d2g3g|f2A2B2|c4de|f2e2d2|cF3A2|G3 A GF|G4:|

Oooh good, I liked this one.  Ta Lester.  (:)
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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #30 on: December 04, 2011, 10:31:06 AM »

Dingles Regatta

Bonnie Lass of Dundee

Margarets waltz + Southwind

Nellie the elephant+teddybears picnic

Beethovens 9th

Bit of a mixture I know, but easy for other people to join in with.
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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #31 on: December 04, 2011, 06:33:27 PM »

Dingles Regatta

Bonnie Lass of Dundee

Margarets waltz + Southwind

Nellie the elephant+teddybears picnic

Beethovens 9th

Bit of a mixture I know, but easy for other people to join in with.

PLEASE don't take this the wrong way - one man's meat, etc - but I know 6 of those 7 tunes, and 5 of them them I'd avoid like the proverbial.  That doesn't mean they shouldn't form part of anyone's repertoire, that they shouldn't be played in sessions, or anything else; if they float your boat, fine. They're just not for me.


Having said that, I suppose I should make 5 suggestions of my own to be shot down, so here they are:


Galopede
Bonny Kate
The Lollipop Man ( aka Lea Rigg)
Rig-A-Jig
Double Lead Through


These are not necessarily my "Top 5"; just the first 5 I thought of that I enjoy playing and that a decent number of other players might know.

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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #32 on: December 04, 2011, 06:45:18 PM »

Beethovens 9th
Woa, this I gota hear on Melodeon.  Do you have a recording ?
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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #33 on: December 04, 2011, 06:47:35 PM »

Beethovens 9th
Woa, this I gota hear on Melodeon.  Do you have a recording ?

At a guess it will only be the Ode to Joy


X:1
T:Ode to Joy
M:4/4
K:D
F4 G2 A2|A2 G2 F2 E2|D2 D2 E2 F2|F3 E E4|
F4 G2 A2|A2 G2 F2 E2|D2 D2 E2 F2|E3 D D4||
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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #34 on: December 04, 2011, 07:09:30 PM »

At a guess it will only be the Ode to Joy

Yes, that's what I assumed; not my favourite number with a 120-piece symphony orchestra and a 150-voice choir - and certainly not on a melodeon or a motley selection of session instruments!  Although Ludwig did have the foresight to pitch it in D...... :D

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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #35 on: December 04, 2011, 07:19:15 PM »

At a guess it will only be the Ode to Joy
Ah, thanks for the abc Lester

Yes, that's what I assumed; not my favourite number with a 120-piece symphony orchestra and a 150-voice choir - and certainly not on a melodeon or a motley selection of session instruments!  Although Ludwig did have the foresight to pitch it in D...... :D

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Shame though, I was looking forward to something tremendous akin perhaps to Máirtín O Connor's Paganini Perpetual Motion
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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #36 on: December 04, 2011, 08:09:49 PM »




  certainly not on a melodeon or a motley selection of session instruments! 

It ain't that bad and  the djembes  and shaky eggs really add another dimension. I don't know why I play his tunes really he never played any of mine. ;)
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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #37 on: December 04, 2011, 08:36:16 PM »

you didn't mention the djembes and shaky eggs before, they make all the difference  ;D
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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #38 on: December 04, 2011, 08:41:24 PM »

along with digeridoos, bodhrans and cajons ....
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Re: Your top 5 session tunes are...?
« Reply #39 on: December 04, 2011, 08:42:05 PM »

did anybody stress that this was just english top 5!
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