Jim Besser Posted May 14, 2015 Author Share Posted May 14, 2015 Da Slockit Light, played on English Concertina and guitar. https://soundcloud.com/aeolaman/da-slockit-light Chris Nice, clean playing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chas Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 This has always been a flute tune for me. Been working at it on the Crane but not quite there yet so this is a first outing for our newly acquired Baritone English (a bit of valve work needed, you may notice) in duet with a treble. Only the second time we'd tried it so still a bit rough round the edges: https://soundcloud.com/jignatius-aeola/slockit-light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Drinkwater Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Da Slockit Light, played on English Concertina and guitar. https://soundcloud.com/aeolaman/da-slockit-light Chris Nice, clean playing! Thanks, Jim. Just as well I gave the tina a good scrub before I started playing it. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tona Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Hi all. A one shot "polka" version with my brother on ukulele. http://youtu.be/Ql-akSja1AY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Besser Posted May 17, 2015 Author Share Posted May 17, 2015 Hi all. A one shot "polka" version with my brother on ukulele. http://youtu.be/Ql-akSja1AY I didn't think I'd like a fast version, but this is pretty cool. Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daria Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Here is my version. Normally would have tried it on my GD but was travelling and only had the CG Anglo so used that. I dedicated my meager version to Charlie Gravel, whom I bought it from. I thought it was a fitting dedication since he died last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOmqjj-Yv7Q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Besser Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 Here is my version. Normally would have tried it on my GD but was travelling and only had the CG Anglo so used that. I dedicated my meager version to Charlie Gravel, whom I bought it from. I thought it was a fitting dedication since he died last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOmqjj-Yv7Q Very nice, I knew you'd get it! Will you be at the Washington Folk Festival again this year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robotmay Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Hi all. A one shot "polka" version with my brother on ukulele. http://youtu.be/Ql-akSja1AY Very funky, I really enjoyed that. And I recognise that grid system for chords! Emmanuel taught it to a class of us at Melodeons at Witney last year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tootler Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 I did a "remix" of Da Slockit Light for the ukulele forum which seemed to go well there. Here is the modified version. I removed the harmony line on recorder as I was not happy with it and added a tenor ukulele playing arpeggios and a shruti box playing a DA drone. I kept the doubled melody on soprano recorder second time through. https://vimeo.com/128575279 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cboody Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 Hi all. A one shot "polka" version with my brother on ukulele. Well, I was prepared to hate this, but I was wrong. It steps all over Tom Anderson's original idea, but is nicely done and works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tona Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 Thanks all, @Robotmay : you are all right with Emmanuel's grid system! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAc Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 time for me to get back into the game... https://soundcloud.com/rac-13/da-slockit-lighttheshakins-of-the-pocky Thanks, Ruediger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susanne Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 It sounds like something Swedish - very pretty. I'll see what I can do with it. I wonder if a tune, even when played by its composer, need be considered to be to be the 'definitive' version. Every player has an opportunity to improvise a little bit of their own personality into a tune if they so wish, and there is of course plenty of evidence to suggest that they do so. I perfectly agree - considering the composer's playing doesn't make me feel restricted to his approach at all. However, listening can be helpful for not missing what is in the tune, but the folk process can't (and shouldn't) be controlled anyways... Best wishes - Wolf I agree with this - if we were restricted to one definite version it wouldn't be trad/folk music. That's another discussion I suppose. But I get upset when I see someone write "that isn't 'tune x' because you didn't play a D there" or similar things (I've seen it happen on You Tube when someone posted a Swedish melodeon tune). Nice recordings all, by the way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Wooff Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 time for me to get back into the game... https://soundcloud.com/rac-13/da-slockit-lighttheshakins-of-the-pocky Thanks, Ruediger Some nice ideas here Ruediger, and the strathspey is fun, I've not come across that one before, Geoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Molkentin Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 (edited) Here's my final attempt (as for the month of May): Da Slockit Light 3 As always, any comment more than welcome... Best wishes - Wolf Edited May 29, 2015 by blue eyed sailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Besser Posted May 28, 2015 Author Share Posted May 28, 2015 time for me to get back into the game... https://soundcloud.com/rac-13/da-slockit-lighttheshakins-of-the-pocky Thanks, Ruediger Not pathetic at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Besser Posted May 28, 2015 Author Share Posted May 28, 2015 Here's my final attempt (as for the month of my): Da Slockit Light 3 As always, any comment more than welcome... Best wishes - Wolf All your work on this has paid off - a very nice rendering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Molkentin Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 (edited) Thank you for that Jim, I'm very glad about my effort apparently coming through...!Don (and maybe others), regarding intended improvements or changes, the following three subjects come to my mind instantly:1. (the obvious one) even slower pace with more variations and rubati,2. shortening phrases, such as in bar 3 (4), in order to give the slow lament sort of a structure which I welcome,3. avoiding the unpropriate counterpoint note at the end of bar 7 (8) of the B section, replacing it with another (third) double-fifths chord (dominant 1-5-9), which gets then resolved into the (high) major third of the dominant (10), again because I don't want to stress the double-dominant modulation at that point. To my ears the dissonant progression weakens or mellows the (all too strong) functional tension successfully...More information resp. analysis to follow...Best wishes - Wolf Edited May 30, 2015 by blue eyed sailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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