This week's winner (by one vote) is The Wind That Shakes the Barley (reel). I've found this on thesession.org Here's an ABC X: 1 T: Wind That Shakes The Barley, The M: 4/4 L: 1/8 R: reel K: Dmaj |A2AB AFED|B2BA BcdB|A2AB AFED|gfed BcdB| A2AB AFED|B2BA BcdB|A2AB AFED|gfed Bcde| |f2fd g2ge|f2fd Bcde|f2fd g2fg|afed Bcde| f2fd g2ge|f2fd Bcde|f2ae g2be|afed BcdB| In searching YouTube, I found our own Kyle had posted one about a year and a half ago.....
Man... I'm way ahead of my time!! haha but, since all my old videos are lousy, I'll have to do it over again for the group
So here is my version. I apologize to those of you who have grown up with this kind of music. I love it, but mostly play it out of books without the necessary cultural background. This one has a lot of drones .... Manfred
Don't apologize, Manfred. You got what it takes to convey the mood of the tune, your version would be perfectly good to go in any session, in fact sounding pretty authentic with the relaxed and constant timing, and those drones are about exactly what I am going to do when I am done practising.
I like it Manfred. Keep them coming.
If Barbara can wear her PJ's then I can wear my robe. Here's The Wind That Shakes The Barley played on my Weber octar.
great stuff David!
Sounds nice with all that drones, Manfred. And that octar fits this tune especially well for my taste, David. Here´s a version with mando and one with reso:
Michael, those were both great! I'm not sure what you're doing the next to last measure.... I don't like the way thesession.org has it (it seems wrong) and I've been experimenting with what notes to play there, so I'll have to figure out what it is you are playing (after my coffee kicks in and the fog clears from my head!)
Lovely stuff, Michael - especially on the tenor guitar. I agree with Barb about not liking the next to last measure as it appears on thesession.org. I've been playing that part as it's played on the Foinn 2 recording of it - here's the last two measures: | defg a2ab | afed BcdB A ||
Nice work from Manfred and Michael. Here's mine - if it seems familiar, I just learned it by watching David Hansen's video: thanks David!
Thanks Jill, that works great... makes it into that kind of tune that HARD to stop!
OS - nice job on that, sounds great! Barbara - glad to help!
David with the Octar and Michael with the TG already made fine and subtle suggestions that this might be a great tune for larger instruments. Here's my rough and not-so-subtle version. And I had no problems with that next to last measure at all...
Sounds great Bertram, and somehow Christmassy too
Thanx OS - now, is everything played with a white beard Christmassy? Pity I got nothing red to put on, but I might place a bottle of Coke on the table...
Here's my go. Chris
Here's my attempt at The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Tom
Well done everyone! Really like the triplets in your version Chris!
Thanks Gill, shame about my timing though, i noticed it's getting faster as the tune goes on - i'll have to get a bodhran player or a metronome. Chris
Chris - being innately skeptical, I checked your performance against my metronome, 91 bpm rock steady the whole way. So you can save the money on the bodhran guy or the metronome - good job! Nice playing from Tom, too.
Thanks - that's good to know, listening to it, I felt I speeded up part way through... Chris
Sorry I'm so late on this one. I've been pretty busy remodeling a bathroom. I got a "ToneGard" for Christmas. See if you can tell!
You're certainly getting some nice tone out of that mando on this, so the tonegard may be helping, although a lot of it is just good picking.
Chris, I always enjoy your posts. Every one I have viewed has been really well done. I think that OS is correct - good picking. Is this the first video without your hat? Seriously, great job.
No, not the first without the hat. Thanks for the comments!
Nice one Chris, that was great!
Very nice, Chris. I love my Tone Gard! Hey, the intro to your video says this is Rakes of Kildare!
Lovely playing, Chris. You have a very relaxed style in both hands.
Okay, finally a tune I have learned before, so I can brush it up a bit and jump right back in. That pesky day job does so much interfere with my music learning...LOL And now I understand all the hats in the videos - covers up a multitude of bad hair days, ha-ha! Here I go - at the end I tried to see just how fast I can go without a total meltdown finger-tangling mess.
Ok, wildly late, but hey, the holiday season can do that to you!
Hey Kat, good to see you! Love the hat! I've been playing this tune with about the same feel you have, to me, with kind of a hornpipey lilt to it..... Jill, I've been trying to play this with triplets incorporated into it... yours are just awesome..... I will try, when I ever have the time, to record it both ways.....
Jill, nice variations and superb rapid fire triplets. You got this one nailed.
Thanks Dave and Barb!
Jill, your playing is very groovy. These triples that you play later on part B are really nice.
Better late than never...
Ah, that lovely 2 point again! Tell, me, is the body on that slightly deeper than the norm, or is it just a youtube optical illusion? Such a sweet sound!
Yes it has an extra-deep body - I have to use a Mandola armrest on it. This is #47 and I also have #26 which has a "normal" body but the neck joins the body at the 16th fret.
I'm way late on this one!!! But here it is Sort of a fast version.
Here is my contribution using an oval hole Eastman 504 and a Maring D-18. http://www.box.net/shared/2l7929n6n0
Very relaxed, Kyle, no need to run! Wonderful, Chuck, that sounds like a little girl's wind-up musical box! Is it a normal size mandolin?
Kyle, nicely filled out on this one too. Chuck, I like your clean, lively playing.
Here is my only somewhat late attempt at this: This is my first try at adding a multi-track recording to a video. It feels like I'm "lip-synching", as you aren't hearing the video at all, but it seems to work. Of course, the audio quality is still vintage YouTube...
Excellent Dana. Any chance you'd multi-track a smile? I've been trying to add a smile to mine for ages... no luck yet though.
Whadda ya mean, I AM smiling. Okay, so my editing software has limited special effects - no smiling or laughing, just a bit of a smirk. We are a serious bunch here, aren't we.
Dana, very nice! Yeah, the whole multi-track, then video, then sync them up.... hopefully, it'll come easier eventually! Smile? It doesn't even look like you BREATHE on this one!
Thanks, Barb. Yes, I guess I was so intent I forgot about the breathing thing. Not so necessary with a mando anyway. Now forgetting to breathe with a whistle...
I'm finally getting around to trying to record this. What do ya'll have for chords? I figure it's pretty easy... D and G... but can't find the other chord(s) that go in there!
Dana, if that was you smiling, I wouldn't want to see your scowl But the whistle is a really refreshing highlight in the mix. Sends me straight off to Clare.
It's a long, long way from Clare to here...
