This week's winner is Midnight in Moscow. I'm not familiar with this tune, and I have very little Internet and am posting from my iPhone! So, I'll ask our regulars to help me out by finding some notation and videos! Thanks!
Here's what i found: http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userp...n_Moscow_1.jpg here's the band in a box file: http://bhs.minor9.com/biab/jazz/M/
I found this with mandolin joining the "band" after a minute: Those who like it with three flats will enjoy this site. (Scroll down for the dots.) And here you find a PDF with standard notation in D minor with piano accompaniment and the lyrics in English and Russian. Follow the link behind the blue title. Glad I learned Russian at school.
Here's a simple version in d-minor http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=h...q1tSBGCSDGuUpM And one in a-minor http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=h...Zv7N4j0pZszx-M I didn't find no mando tabs or mando version on Youtube, but this instrument comes close Swinging accordion An even jazzier version
Thanks, ya'll!
OK, let me kick of a hopefully large number of homemade versions. My version is close to that printed in the book "Familiar Music for the Mandolin" by Walter Kaye Bauer, but I replaced the classical guitar with a flatpicked steel string guitar. I played the melody on my Ukrainian domra, so maybe "Midnight in Kiew" would be closer.
Hey nicely done Crisscross! good tremolo going there! I do enjoy how this SAW group gets me playing stuff i would otherwise probably not come across. I have to work on a bunch of tunes for a folky festival in a couple of weeks, so short on time, but i wanted to have a go at this, so here it is rough and rough :
WOW! Nice swing feeling. Really enjoyed your version!
Had a go at this, been busy, not playing much, but I had a day off today so I got the mando's out and had a go........
Very nice jobs from Crisscross and jonny250. And a big welcome back to Tosh. I've really missed those Shippey mandolins and how they ring like bells... well done!
Thanks Michael, yeah I tabbed it out and played it a bit wrong, doing it from memory instead of reading, but never mind. I had a bit of trouble with Final Cut Pro and when the second mando comes in it does sound like Basil Rathbone having a sword fight !!!!! Anyway I got the tune from Deborah Greenblatt's book 'Russian Fiddle Tunes For Two Mandolins' (enjoy Deborah's books, a wide range of styles and cultures). It was in Cm, so I transposed to Em which is a lot easier for me.....here's my ABC..... X: 1 T: Moscow Nights T: Russian Folk Tune C: Mandolin Self Help Group R: Dance M: 4/4 K: Em L: 1/8 |EGBG A2 GF|B2 A2 E4 | GBdd e2 dc | B4 ^c2 ^d2 | fe B3 G FE | BA c4 dc | B2 AG B2 A2 | E4 ^c2 ^d2 | fe B3 G FE | BA c4 dc | B2 AG B2 A2 | E8 | EGBG A2 GF|B2 A2 E4 | GBdd e2 dc | B4 ^c2 ^d2 | fe B3 G FE | BA c4 dc | B2 AG B2 A2 | E4 ^c2 ^d2 | fe B3 G FE | BA c4 dc | B2 AG B2 A2 | E8
Yes, very nice sound from your mando, Tosh, nice work. I also have the Russian fiddle tune book by Deborah Greenblatt and the Klezmer book. Got to dig them out.
I've been travelling for the past week, so I'm a bit late with my version of this great Russian tune. I found an arrangement in D minor for mandolin, guitar and bass at: http://www.janwolters.nl/blad/moscownights.pdf I have recorded it on mandolin, tenor guitar and mandocello, varying the style from verse to verse. Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin Ozark tenor guitar Suzuki MC-815 mandocello Martin
Sounds nice! I like the variations.
Great tremolo work Martin. My version is also in D min.
It's also called Moscow Nights. Here's tab for it. http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/ma...cow_Nights.htm http://############/r/1zmilxd/8 When I was a kid, I would sit in the backyard listening to my shortwave radio, and this was Radio Moscow's call signal. It was originally called Leningrad Nights when it was first written back in the 50's but it was commandeered by the Soviet Ministry of Culture and changed to a Moscow-centric song. It's a lovely little tune.
This has taken way too long. My excuse is I was on vacation. Here is the result: a crude music video shot aboard a 38 foot sailboat in the San Juan Islands of Washington and the Canadian Gulf Islands. The reason for the double sound track was so I could include the sound of the helm creaking and the gentle lap of the waves against the hull.
Ok, so what do you do if you record a vid and the cable from the microphone to the iphone was inversed so that the iPhone uses it’s own little microphone instead of the carefully positioned better quality external microphone? What do you do? Probably laugh, and record it again? https://youtu.be/LjyOhpbMhN8 -but what if you’d recorded 8 nice tunes during the whole day? What would you do then?! Vodka!!!
The main purpose is to play it well. You achieved that, Simon.
Thanks Frithjof, at least this Christmas tune camp I’ve been on has been worth it so far. Decided not to burden you guys with the other seven tunes. Eight tunes left to do. -Yeeeehar!
Классно !!
