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ive always loved this one... sounfs especially good played by shannon.
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Think stringy did a really nice recording of The Black Rogue (a while back)!
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ELCBK said
Think stringy did a really nice recording of The Black Rogue (a while back)!
yeah we've visited black rogue a few times here but i just wanted to share her playing. I thought it was very inspiring even not being fiddle. I Really like her playing!
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@ABitRusty -
Shannon Heaton DOES play beautifully!
I don't always say it, but I take away ideas intregal to playing different instruments & try to use them on the fiddle. LOVE the iconic pickup run, considering pause/space where she takes a breath (breath marks on fiddle notation would be cool), the soft attack on notes, and what she chooses for variation. Worth taking a second to slow down the video - helped me (here) better understand where I hear the pitch bending & tongue techniques.
...been making an effort to spot these things, otherwise my brain will take everything I hear, clump it ALL together & label it 'tone'. 🥴
What are you thinking when you hear Shannon play?
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"What are you thinking when you hear Shannon play?"
That i want to play a tune with them.
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My newest favorite. It seems too slow to be a jig, but still feels 6/8 (in Em) to me. Anyway, I'm addicted to it/learning it by ear. There is a tune by this name on The Session, but it's NOT this one.
From what I read in the notes of the album on Bandcamp, I'm assuming Meehan composed this tune for 'The Living Bridge' associated with the the University of Limerick.
The Living Bridge Part 1 and 2 - composed by Kevin Meehan (Donal Donnelly on Fiddle).
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the living bridge is new to me... good tune!
lanigans ball on this seems so familiar but not at the same time. maybe heard it by something else. Jimmy Wards is just a meat and potatoes kinda tune here. I love it..one of my favorites. One of those go to kinda tunes that everyone seems to know at least a part of.
They play them both here excellent! Cant get enough.
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Think it's great that Kevin Lees and Sebastian Bloch offer up tutorials, sheet music and backing tracks to play-along with, on patreon.
I have always LOVED Lanigan's Ball! Half was probably because the lyrics stuck in me head! 😁
Here, Christy Moore sings & Kevin Burke is playing the fiddle. I think many play this in Edor, but when I play along with this video - seems Bdor.
Jimmy Ward's is nice jig, but feels a bit too lukewarm for me to follow Lanigans... if I'm going to play in a major key I need the tune to jump around a bit more.
...btw, it's not that I always want to hear something melancholy. I'm just more likely to find some 'sass & mischief' stirring about in a key/mode other than major - but there ARE exceptions, and depends on my mood.
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"Jimmy Ward's is nice jig, but feels a bit too lukewarm for me to follow Lanigans... if I'm going to play in a major key I need the tune to jump around a bit more.
...btw, it's not that I always want to hear something melancholy. I'm just more likely to find some 'sass & mischief' stirring about in a key/mode other than major - but there ARE exceptions, and depends on my mood. "
so what your sayin is its a jig your not drawn to 😆
or at least the set.
I think instead of mischief and sass, im generally looking for a couple to string together that 1.I can play and 2. feel like its a good chance others know.
I will practice the change between the two or three to make sure it flows and there are no big jumps... but what works for me on fiddle may be a horrible one on concertina and viceversa...so who knows. but sass and mischief never really plays into it
intentionally anyways.😉🤣
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I was trying to figure out what I'd rather hear played with Lanigan's Ball.
I don't mind playing 'The Trip to Sligo' after it - wouldn't mind 'The Killavil', or maybe 'The Hills of Glenorchy', but I don't have them memorized.
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Im not familiar with The Hills ofGlenorchy as far as I know. I think if I had to pick The Killavil vs Trip To Sligo as a pairing with it... id go Trip Sligo. Killavil is even darker sounding to me so would be a good choice if wanting to stay on that side. Id have to learn lanigan's before I could experiment with thme though.
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...got another new earworm I had to learn! 🙃
Tunes like this just seem easy to remember - was half the battle won!
Bronwyn Leigh - Syncopaths (what a GREAT band name!) fiddler Ryan McKassan wrote this tune for his daughter. I think it's in F#minor, not A major - a lot more focus on F# and B. The 'D' thing going on in the 2nd part - very cool! The 2nd tune on this track is The Cowboy Jig.
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