Since it fell off the list I thought I'd throw it out there...
Good stuff Eddie. I like the Dean.
I voted for it often enough I figured I'd better learn it. Campbell's Farewell to Red Gap played on my Weber octar.
Good stuff David.
I love this tune. It's the one that started me picking mando and the first one I learned.
Nice picking David. You can really hear the sustain on the Octar at the end of the video.
Hey David, I don't know how you get these tunes up to speed on the octave. Great job. This is another tune I learned from the Norman Blake Old Time Mandolin DVD. You too, Eddie? It sure is fun to play on the octave, even at my slow pace. All these tunes become brand new again on the octave.
I hope to be back in the swing of playing and recording by next week.... I play this tune, paired with Little Beggerman (Red Haired Boy) on my tenor banjo...... Don, great sounding OM.... I like it this speed....
Another on the must learn list. Don and Dave.....those octaves sound great. I like the contrast in tempos.
You guys are killing me with the octave instruments - lovely version there, Don. I just have to keep telling myself "you don't need an OM, you don't need an OM, you don't need an OM...."
Resistance is futile Jill!
Jill, you need an OM, you need an OM.....
Fun tune, everyone, and nicely played. Jill, I have the same temptation with a CBOM. Maybe we need to form an OMAS recovery group...
Dana, you need a CBOM, you need a CBOM!
Barbara, Maybe I do, although an oval hole mando is calling me in the distance. Still, most OM's have oval holes...
You got it.... get an OM with an oval hole, I can surely recommend Wm. Petersen's OM's!
Oh my, Don's OM is awesome. Very nice versions of this tune.
This is my version on the mandolin. After hearing the CBOM recordings, I'm sooo tempted to try this on the bouzouki. It will be the first time I play melody on that thing.
Lovely version, Susi, it's got a great feel to it.
Great stuff, Susi!
The very quick end was because I accidentally played an extra B part I tried it on the zouk last night, but with very little success. I was in a very bad shape last night after my flu shot (fever and aching all over the place) so maybe now feeling new and fresh I could do it. I haven't given up completely yet anyway... tunes like this are so nice on bouzouki and the likes.
I couldn't help it. Had to try it again This is my premiere on the bouzouki... it's my lovely Joe Foley that I bought in Ireland. I bought it from Gerry McKee (I got to know his brother who also plays the zouk and who plays in my favourite pub in Cork almost every day), this bouzouki actually appears in his CD-rom bouzouki tutor that you can buy on Mad for Trad I realize why there are so few women who play the bouzouki. It's definitely not a lady instrument, especially not this particular one. But the sound is gorgeous, I've decided to maybe buy a better concertina so I can't buy an octave mando as well I recorded the intro and then messed up, and I hear that the tempo isn't in sync. A sad proof that I still speed up quite a bit when playing on my own.
The zouk sounds great. You make it a "lady instrument."
I've played several different bouzoukis just out of curiosity but only found one that was somewhat in the same class as this one. Oh, I forgot to mention that the reason it isn't a lady instrument is that it is TOO BIG. At least for tiny ladies like me
That Foley sounds the business! I played a Foley OM in a shop last month - it was very lovely, and very out of my price range!
Yeah, they do cost I bought it used and got a very good price, but in a shop it would cost waaay too much.
Thanks to Norman Blake's instruction tape for this one. It's a neat tune. Tom
Very nice version, and very nicely played, Tom!!!! On what Norman CD do I find this?? I thought I'd heard most of his stuff.
It's a Homespun video instruction tape or DVD called "The Mandolin of Norman Blake". The songs are John Brown's March, Campbell's Farewell to Red Gap, The Hollow Poplar, Father's Hall, The Little Fair Child, Jack Danielson's Reel, Green Castle Hornpipe, Mandolin Fanfare and Blake's March. I have not gone through it all yet, but like what I have.
Oh, is it on the tutor. I've been tempted to buy it a couple of times. I like everything Norman Blake. He's a big hero to me!!! I can imagine there's some good stuff on that DVD!
Does anyone have the ABC's, or even tab for this? Thanks Never mind, I found it at Mandozine: Campbell's Farewell to Red Gap
Your playing on the Foley sounds great Susi! I'm glad you recorded a video on it. Tom, I like the version you're playing there. I guess have to add this one to my list of tunes to learn even though I'm falling WAY behind.
Keith: I'll have to do more of that!!! I play too little bouzouki!!
Another wonderful tune! One I have been meaning to learn for a long time -- now I have a reason to do so. Thanks for putting this one up Eddie! Inspiring to hear is on the lower pitched instruments -- octaves and the 'zouik Kudos to David, Don and Susi and a fine mando version by Tom. I am on it now and I'm thinking I'll post on the 'dola.... soon as I learn it. BTW I did create a .tef file for the mando -- if there is any interest in it I will post on my blog page -- but be sure to kill the sound on the bass -- I have that in the wrong key for some reason?????? Question -- probably asked before. What is an octar? Is it essentially an 8 string tenor guitar?
Bernie, an octar is an octave mandolin on an arched top guitar body. It's a marketing name Weber uses to differentiate between their octave mandolins with mandolin bodies and their octave mandolins with guitar bodies. It's interesting to note that no one differentiates between a mandocello with a mandolin body and a mandocello with a guitar body.
"It's interesting to note that no one differentiates between a mandocello with a mandolin body and a mandocello with a guitar body." Its Lloyd Loar's fault! We he converted the L-5 to a K-5 he decided to call it a mandocello instead of a guitar-cello (or cellotar?) -- anyway I guess he set the standard. I think it is interesting that Weber decided to build both insturments with 4 courses and the same tuning.
Am getting the recording bug! Noticed this tune here and remembered I had a version on computer, so a swift pose in front of the camera and here is another version, in Scottish style, of "Campbell's Farewell to Redcastle". Note title we use over here, and no doubt there are others. The instruments are mandolin, octave mandolin (both my own builds) guitar and bass and all recorded on the laptop using Reaper.
I really love this one! It sounds really nice coupled with Greenwoodside.
Well, I decided (for some reason) that this would be the song I would try to multi track on. I did this in iMovie and garageband. Tweaked it a few times, and finally finished. Not as polished as I would like, and I have an odd video delay and a few phantom feedback sounds. That said... it was my first attempt that mostly worked. BTW, the only real instrument is the mandolin (lead and chord chops). The rest I played on the keyboard as virtual instruments. That part was kinda funny.
Congratulations on your multi-track endeavors. Nice mandolin playing as well.
Here is Steve Jeter's video; he posted it in it's own discussion on Oct 4, 2010
I really love this so I had a bash...... Here's the abc for it...... X:14 T:Campbell's Farewell to Redcastle T:Scottish 2/4 March T:Mandolin Self Help Group 28/02/10 M:2/4 L:1/8 R:March K:A e|:"A"A>B cd | ea e>d | cA AB/c/ | "G"d>B =GB | "A"A>B cd | ea e>d | "A"cB/A/ "G"=GB |1 "A"A2 Ae :|2 "A"A2 A=g/>f/ || |: "A"ea a=g/f/ | ea e>d | cA AB/c/ |1 "G"d>B =G=g/f/ |"A" ea a=g/f/ | ea ed | "A"cB/A/ "G"=GB | "A"A2 A=g/>f/ :|2 "G"d>B =GB | "A"A/B/c/d/ c/d/e/f/ | e/f/g/a/ e>d | "A"cB/A/ "G"=GB | "A"A2 A2 ||
I really like this tune. Not sure why it was in the Week #119 poll, since we've already done it.
Great stuff Martin, Red Gap or Redcastle, it still sounds great.....
Thanks Tosh! This tune defintely wormed it's way into my top ten favs.
There have been other tunes that had a run as "other tunes" and then as tune of the week. The official tunes of the week seem to get more participation. If I had realized this had already been covered, I probably wouldn't have included it. However, with the number of tunes we have here now, and my time limitations this summer, I just quickly pick the tunes for the polls from the list of suggested tunes and try to have a variety of genre to choose from.
Perfectly understandable Barbara! And you are doing an awesome job! You are the heart and soul of SAW. ♪♫♥♥♥♫♪
Okay, surfing YouTube this morning I discovered that this tune is also very similar to Bonaparte Crossing the Rocky Mountains, as our own Stuche aptly demonstrates here. Was anyone else aware of this? I feel like I have been denied IMPORTANT, NEED TO KNOW INFORMATION! LOL. ;o)
It's hard to follow Micheal.
Hey, nice job. I like the C part! Where'd you find that?
