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Scarborough Fair
Scarborough Fair party!
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Uzi
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@coolpinkone That sounded very pretty. Thanks.

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@coolpinkone Nice work thar ... thank you.

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 @Panda-P  - thanks for the SF party and your submissions - good work!
and @RosinedUp  @Ferret, @coolpinkone  good work - I enjoyed them all !

Finally got round to it - and - as ever - I threw the sheet away. Why? Well I wanted to play-along to Panda's guitar (and do a mix down with her final track...) so I needed my timing to synch as best I could...

LOL - I'm not doing this to bore you all - you can jump straight to track 4 but I thought it would be fun to show what can be be done with a little bit of inventiveness and free software...

So here you go -

Track 1 - just me on EV, no FX - taking my timing and lead from Panda's Guitar track in my headphones...

Track 2 - added reverb and echo in Audacity

Track 3 - mix of track 2 with Panda guitar

Track 4 - final mix with @Panda-P submission

Hope it doesn't detract too much from "how the song should be played" - it was just great fun, and interesting trying this out...

Bill

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Great one Bill @BillyG thumbs-up

I'm glad you joined the party.

I've never played to a backing track in my short 'career' as a fiddler. 

Will have to give it a try sometime soon.

I hope you gave been giving some thought to the 'International Talk Like A Pirate Day' project coming up next month. Would love to see you there. hats_off

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Thanks @Ferret - and yup John, "...talk like a pirate" - I am planning to be there !  I love these little projects...

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....  I've never played to a backing track in my short 'career' as a fiddler...

  I find it interesting to try these things - obviously get a "good handle" on the tune to start with, then try to adapt, maybe change the rhythm to "fit" something else that's going on in the backing track - maybe shift an octave for a few bars - and so on - that's why I like to "play-along" with other peoples' submissions - or sometimes a well and professionally-crafted midi ....  

  The end result can sound a "bit unexpected" when first listened to - but that's originality for you, and it can bring a "uniqueness" and personal touch... hopefully without crucifying the original too much !

Bill

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Thanks everyone!!

wow Bill... Cool cool!

I am very excited to see Scratchy sisters!  

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@BillyG Pretty cool! Glad someone's using that backing track~

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@BillyG @Panda-P Nice teamwork.

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Very cool sound and nice playing @BillyG and @Panda-P ! Great collaboration!

Here's my contribution to the party. The Scratchy Sisters threw this one together pretty quickly so there are plenty of imperfections.

http://youtu.be/MdeNv34vkR8

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Really nice Diane. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Those 'long' notes are a pain aren't they :)

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@KindaScratchy - very nice bit of work there Diane!  Well done and thank you!

And thanks everyone for your comments, but especially to Panda for starting the thread - it has given us a lot of pleasure!

Bill

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Generous soul that I am, I put together a MuseScore sheet for SF.  It's a streamlined revision of Pierre's version, but with chords taken from the alto sax (curse you, Ferret, ha ha) version above, transposed to a C major key sig and D-Dorian.  The only thing I'm not sure of is whether the D on the first beat of measure 5 fits the F chord in that major.  Anyone with an idea about that, please comment.

I'm attaching a pdf.  Somehow I'm still not able to upload MuseScore files, even when disguised as .txt or .TXT, and that hurts.

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@KindaScratchy Very cool!

 

@Barry Where are you?? You're missing out on a party!

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There is no shame in playing twinkle, youre playing Mozart

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@kindascratchy  Yahoo... Love to see your productions. Nice Playing.  I am so so very intrigued with your mando playing. .. and the guitar.. and the recorder... dang... and your violin sounds so pretty too!  You recording equipment does a great job with clear sound.

Thanks for the show!  IT was rockin'

:)

Thanks

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@Barry  ha ha.. Good job bud!!!

Chasing squirrels.. ha ha.. Love it.

Love the hat and good job with your playing.

Yeee Haw!!! 

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Thanks for the nice comments, folks. Yes, John @Ferret , those long notes are a killer, which is why you see/hear me falter in one or two places and in a couple others I run out of bow and have to change direction to keep the sound going. I was playing along with Simon & Garfunkle and had only run through it a few times before recording, so I wasn't really confident on the arrangement.

Nice job sight reading on the fly, @Barry !

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KindaScratchy said
Thanks for the nice comments, folks. Yes, John @Ferret , those long notes are a killer, which is why you see/hear me falter in one or two places and in a couple others I run out of bow and have to change direction to keep the sound going. I was playing along with Simon & Garfunkle and had only run through it a few times before recording, so I wasn't really confident on the arrangement.

Nice job sight reading on the fly, @Barry !

Thanks Diane, I really want to be a decent sight reader so Ive been studying hard on the Alto clef. Got my practice schedule worked out to cover most of my weaknesses

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Great job everyone. Enjoying the party.

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but the one who needs the least."

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Squirrel-catching party? I'm worried about you @Barry

Good job on sight-reading, though!

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