Johnson's Hornpipe on C/G Anglo

[Mark Bickford]

Over the last year I've transcribed 1280 tunes from the Paddy O'Brien Tune Collection

and edited the other 220 that were transcribed by others. We paid Paddy for the rights

and will soon publish all 1500 tunes on the ITMA (Irish Traditional Music Archive)

website.

Paddy plays a B/C two row button accordion while my accordion is a C#/D, so I find it

easier to play the tunes Paddy plays on B/C on a C/G Anglo concertina.

Now that I've finished the transcriptions, I'm going through the collection and really

learning (i.e. memorizing) many of the tunes.

 

Here is one called Johnson's Hornpipe. It's a funny one that was recorded by De Dannan years ago.

It's not as hard to play on the Anglo as it sounds.

I made a video, but it was too big to upload here so you'll have to make do with just the audio.

(There wasn't much additional information in the video -- just what my concertina and my fingers

look like.)

[RAc]

5 hours ago, Mark Bickford said:

Over the last year I've transcribed 1280 tunes from the Paddy O'Brien Tune Collection

and edited the other 220 that were transcribed by others. We paid Paddy for the rights

and will soon publish all 1500 tunes on the ITMA (Irish Traditional Music Archive)

website.

This is awesome, Mark, thanks a billion for that!

 

[Mark Bickford]

The transcriptions of Paddy's playing are done in Soundslice. It makes a musical score synchronized

with the audio (or video). Then, using the control buttons at the bottom, you can loop a section,

or transpose to a different key, or change the speed any amount. Under the speed setting (i.e. if you

click on the number 100%) there is a menu for Speed Training where you can set it to start at, say, 70%

and then increase by, say, 5%, on each time through (or after 3 times through, etc.) and keep going until

you reach 100% ( or just 90%, or 110%)

 

Anyway, here is Johnson's hornpipe on Soundslice https://www.soundslice.com/slices/t26Hc/

When the page comes up, press the Play > icon at the bottom left to hear Paddy's recording and watch the cursor follow the score.

On the ITMA website, the tunes will look something like this, but there will be more information on

each tune, including the notes Paddy wrote about it, and other names for the tune.

Edited March 25 by Mark Bickford
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[Ken_Coles]

A marvelous contribution, Mark! And nice to hear from you - I think we haven't encountered each other since the late 1990s.

 

Ken

[Mark Bickford]

I must have been so young then (though a bit older than you). I just turned 70 three days ago.