Thanks, Francis, for reminding me of this pretty tune. I was not in the game when #24 was on. Good job in the painting break. Here is my attempt:
Very nice Manfred. This one is still on my list. Gary
Lovely, Manfred. Sounds a little sad.
Great playing, Francis and Manfred. I'm glad you brought this one forward. After hearing this again I moved it from my "maybe someday" binder to my "working on" pile. Thanks for the nudge and thanks for sharing.
Zombie mandolinist! https://youtu.be/CbjvXZG7PZ0
Great playing on both instruments, Simon. Really a video with a happy end!
Thanks Frithjof. The whole story is that I’ve been unwell for a couple of weeks (not the plague), better today, couldn’t record so went weight training instead! Came back and thought, just record the thing, the tempo doesn’t matter (I was playing at a silly speed, but got tired with mistakes). So recorded at a reasonable tempo. Hence the happy smile once I’d decided to just do it!
Excellent, Simon. Enjoyed that. Get well.
Thanks Ginny, it takes a while, the beard comes off tomorrow.
Nice, smooth version, @Simon, I really enjoyed that.
Quite a sinister scene, Simon, for the genial jazzy chords. I'll call that Viennese humor, or Wampire's Waltz
Good return to posting, Simon.
Thanks Gentlemen. Yes, being a metronome fundamentalist does occasionally pay off! Bertram, ‘sinister’ was the feeling I was looking for, but I foolishly practiced L’inconnu de Limoise just beforehand. It’s a tune that’s well known by my neighbours. The doux sounds of my octave mandolin must have drifted upstairs. -and they ruined the sombre atmosphere with a little knock at my door and une assiette of delicious, sweet Pain Perdu. [WARNING, this is just a 5 second vid of a photo of food, no mandolin content!] ‘Please! I’m trying to be an artist’, I complain... this kindness doesn’t help! (The good news. I have enough French tunes to keep me well fed until Christmas)
Nice! I have trouble getting the timing right when I multi track. You're inspiring me to give it another whirl.
I didn't know The Rights of Man, but Simon's bluesy, swinging version persuaded me, to also put it on my to-do-list. Excellent, Simon!
Thanks Mike, the trick I’ve found, for me at least, is to always record the backing instrument straight afterwards. That way I can still remember the feeling of the slow/fast tempo changes and accents in the tune as I go along. Otherwise I have to play sort of slightly following a millisecond behind the melody track notes using brush strokes that increase individually in crescendo. (Probably a name for that) That way, if the backing track brush note slightly precedes the melody note it sounds ok because the initial volume is low. (All this in theory ) If necessary, and as long as all the notes are slightly behind, the whole backing track can then be shifted a millisecond forwards. These tunes are getting easier for me to do now, I mean to play the sort of ripples of feeling the same way through each time with the two A and B parts because in the past as a Metronome Maniac I didn’t have to worry about tempo change. Oh and I think it has to be felt as a complete tune from the beginning, not separate parts (no that’s complicated). And for the moment I’m only doing tempo changes. The other accent techniques for expressing what I already feel, but is hidden, as well as more blues notes will have to be learned later, in the Spring, well some time (hopefully). I will have to list them, and then consciously add them. I’m basically trying to go from robot to human being. Then the other advice is from a Hollywood Film director, may have been (the great) Clint Eastwood or on the other hand one of the Italians, cant remember. He said, ‘Don’t do anything in Post-Production’! Thanks CC, I’d been playing ‘Summertime’ just beforehand! -on guitar in Em, it’s the cool G, C7,B7, Am movement.
Simon, after what you say about your long playing sessions and your neighbours, I'd be having my food tasted before I ate anything! Your wee clip above of the Pain Perdue is maybe the ideal gift for them (put on a USB stick and gift-wrapped for Christmas) - a short and silent clip they can enjoy when you start practising again.
Ha, ha, I haven’t got any likes for my food vid yet. On the contrary, I’ve lost 2 subscribers! -hmmmm, forget practicing mandolin, I think I’m going to go back to the kitchen. ooops, lost another 3 subscribers. Love you guys!
[Just realised that this post should be in the L’inconnu de Limoise thread, so instead of deleting this I copied it to the other thread, here] Here’s the ukulele improved version: https://youtu.be/Q72b_3AQncY And here’s one of my ‘lift’ secrets. I like to call this one ‘Play a hornpipe rhythm like John Carty in a couple of hours’ -it works! Pick pattern DU, DU, DU etc and you can set YT time button to X1.5 https://youtu.be/mtg3w7pmz_s
Simon, I'm with John re the pain perdu - it might be a Voodoo-style preview about what they will do to you next time...
I can’t stop myself Bertram, when someone’s nice to me I forget what they were like yesterday, completely forgotten!
Simon, your new posting on YT has a better balance of octave to uke, I would say.
lovely playing as usual Simon
My original '09 version of this appears to have vaporized, which is probably a good thing. This is on a '24 Gibson oval I've been looking for excuses to play. I learned this tune a long time ago from Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band. He has an excellent book of fiddle tunes. Even the intro is tasty. Sample: "I hitched back to Edinburgh in the spring. ... The pickings were slim, and I was getting thinner. One day, when the winter was making itself felt, I was standing on a particularly windy corner when I pricked up my ears to the sound of bagpipes. A little further on were a couple of tinker pipers sitting on some steps, with their hats on the pavement, huffing and puffing and skirling away at some reel tunes. I could see that they were fatter than me and drunk to boot. It struck me then that I'd never need to starve if I could learn to play jigs and reels." I've always taken that bit of wisdom to heart and it has stood me in good stead.
This fine instrument should be played regularly. This lady has a nice, unique tone. Your playing suits her and vice versa.
Very fine delivery, Mike. I love those cascading triplet runs.
Now that is some fancy lady, Señor. I like! Great playing too.
Simon and Mike, you have just proven that we need more hornpipes around here. Great playing from both of you.
Another late entry by me. I don't play a repeat on this. Two reasons. I just couldn't get a decent articulation this morning on the second part of the tune. And on several occasions the amount of background noise was just too distracting/ruinous to the take (downstairs neighbour shifting furniture, airplane noise, doorbell rung, yada, yada, yada...) So I eventually decided to just go for it, warts and all and be done with it... Played on my Paris Swing "Macaferri" mandolin, newly re-strung yesterday. (Another frustration. I hadn't noticed until that point that the bottom e slot on the nut is cut too deeply and that particular string sits noticeably closer to the fretboard than its partner and doesn't have good tone. It's still playable - but once I detect a flaw in an instrument I fixate on it and it spoils the enjoyment of playing it. So looks like I'll be making a trip to the friendly local luthier to have a new nut fitted! Sigh!)
Lovely stuff Aidan - coincidentally I've recently dusted this tune off meself - it's the "tune of the month" for October over on the FB "Banjoheads" group.
Thanks, Jill. It used to be one of the standard tunes at a session I used to frequent many years ago and I never really got it. The people there used to play it fairly unswung and at a furious lick. I couldn't keep up with them at all - especially in the 2nd part where there's quite a bit of "travel". In fact my playing of the second part is still very "just about' (if that!). Don't think it will ever make it into my top 100... but it's always useful to have these reasonably common tunes in the oul' kitbag...
How could I have missed this one in the search function? Anyhoo.... Here is my take!
Love it! You play those triplets so calmly and have everything under control. Great recording of a great tune.
Old favourite, though reading back through the thread opinions are surprisingly divided. I have worked in human rights for most of my life, so I had to do this one.
… and you did a fine version, Richard. Funny comment about the video footage on YT.
I enjoyed the embellishments Richard, nice roll to it. This is a favourite tune of mine though I find it difficult to play. Some odd finger flow.
I was trying to find the divided opinions while reviewing this thread and couldn't find any. I'm sure there won't be any divergence on your own recording. You seem to have found a recording setup that shows off the clean sound of your instrument and playing very well. This reminds me that I was learning this tune just before Christmas. I'd forgotten all about it!
Fine bit of playing of a fine tune, Richard. You get a lot of lift in it.
A good swing and a clean but warm tone, excellent recording, Richard!
Thank you, all. Dennis, perhaps I exaggerated the divided opinions. Aidan Crossey (whom I admire enormously) seemed fairly underwhelmed by it and, John, I got the sense that you weren't a great fan either. I suspect this happens when things are played so often. Well spotted, Frithjof. These visual presentations do incline to the simplistic. If I had included pictures of, say, nineteenth century trade union banners, and Ford and Brezhnev signing the Helsinki Final Act (both essential to a nuanced account of human rights), everyone would have wondered what on earth was going on,
I haven't looked into this thread for a long time. All contributions made since are well-made and intricate. I noticed that the A-part melody is different in every rendition (an ambiguity I simply evaded in mine with doublestops), and that makes them so Irish - never give anybody a chance to claim copyrights, maintain the rights of tune instead.
