Ok ...i Admit (that Im Not The Red Rose)

[alblak1940]

...nor that I am a concertina expert...but this is the case

 

Ive fallen completely in love with the tune "Red is the Rose" altho the lass is Irish and not Norwegian.

I have a 20 key Stagi and need the right "sheet" to play this lovely tune.

Obviously this does not work :

 

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/irish-fo...usic/008573.HTM

...for me

 

so the question is if any of u can direct me to something more suitable...

 

Kindest regards

Allan

[Samantha]

...so the question is if any of u can direct me to something more suitable...

 

Kindest regards

Allan

 

If you love the tune you can hear it in your head, I presume. If you can hear it in your head, then pick out the tune starting on the C in the right hand (first finger push) on your concertina. The first phrase will be ... C C D E D C D E D C A (you provide the right rhythm from your memory of the tune). If you can work out the tune from here, you will also be able to put [left hand] chords to it later.

I hope this helps.

Samantha

[John Wild]

Ive fallen completely in love with the tune "Red is the Rose" altho the lass is Irish and not Norwegian.

I have a 20 key Stagi and need the right "sheet" to play this lovely tune.

Obviously this does not work :

 

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/irish-fo...usic/008573.HTM

...for me

so the question is if any of u can direct me to something more suitable...

 

Kindest regards

Allan

 

 

Does this help?

 

John Wild

 

X: 14110

T:Red is the Rose

S:Digital Tradition, redrose

B:Joe Heaney, via Helen Schneyer & Lucy Simpson

O:Irish

Z:dt:redrose

M:6/8

L:1/8

Q:3/8=100

W:Over the mountains and down in the glen

W:To a little thatched cot in the valley

W:where the thrush and the linnet sing their ditty and their song

W:And my love's leaning over the half-door

W:

W: Chorus:

W: Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows

W: Fair is the lily of the valley

W: Clear are the waters that flow in yonder stream

W: But my love is fairer than any.

W:

W:Down by the seashore on a cool summer's eve

W:With the moon rising over the heather

W:The moon it shown fair on her head of golden hair

W:And she vowed she'd be my love forever.

W:

W:It is not for the loss of my own sister Kate

W:It is not for the loss of my mother,

W:It is all for the loss of my bonnie blue-eyed lass

W:That I'm leaving my homeland forever.

K:F

F3 F2G|A3 G2F|G2A G2F|D3- D2C-|F3 F2F|F2G A2c|d3 c3-|c3 z3|

d3 d2c|A3 A2c|B2A G2F|D3 C2-D|F3 F2A|d3 c2A|G6|F6||

[Mark Evans]

A little digression:

 

On our recent Gaelic Traditions concert at the job site, Mairead asked me to present two songs in the Irish version and their Scotish and American counterparts.

 

Red is the Rose / (proper title escapes me at this early hour..."You take the high road, and I'll take the low road") and The Bard of Armagh / The Street of Loreado. It was fun to sing Red is the Rose which is quite the melancholic air and then slip into the strutting Scotish varriation. The audience reacted with suprise, even a few singing along as we moved into the change.

[Jon Freeman]

The first phrase will be ... C C D E D C D E D C A .

 

I notice you've written it in C and the web page given had it in F so I guess the original problem was the key. I feel a bit awkward mentioning another converter here but it might help with a problem that I guess crops up occasionally... if you can find an abc for a tune that is in an unsuitable key, a simple online solution would be to try our abc converter. Using the abc (I've cut the W: out for a shorter post) in a later post, transpose up 7 semitones would give:

 

X: 14110

T:Red is the Rose

S:Digital Tradition, redrose

B:Joe Heaney, via Helen Schneyer & Lucy Simpson

O:Irish

Z:dt:redrose

M:6/8

L:1/8

Q:3/8=100

K:C

c3 c2d|e3 d2c|d2e d2c|A3- A2G-|c3 c2c|c2d e2g|a3 g3-|g3 z3|

a3 a2g|e3 e2g|f2e d2c|A3 G2-A|c3 c2e|a3 g2e|d6|c6||

 

(techy note: we run the abc through abc2abc to do this)

[alblak1940]

Hello young man

 

Im sure they did.. I just wish I cud have been there and listen to u...

 

This evening I only have my dog listening and he escape under the table when I play the concertina .

I know so far that something is wrong as the roses fall off...but ...luckily its not that bad when my voice start to chant the tune (I hope)

.....so right now Ive moved on to the suggestion by Samantha (thanks S.) finishing a conversion the way she suggested... if not ...so ....then...some more singing for my dog :-) and then on to the suggestion by the name brothers John and Jon. Thanks to them too.

All the best from over the pond or........... two

 

Hope the roses will recover in the morning...........

 

Have a rosy evening

 

Allan

(Norway)

 

 

 

 

A little digression:

 

On our recent Gaelic Traditions concert at the job site, Mairead asked me to present two songs in the Irish version and their Scotish and American counterparts.

 

Red is the Rose / (proper title escapes me at this early hour..."You take the high road, and I'll take the low road") and The Bard of Armagh / The Street of Loreado. It was fun to sing Red is the Rose which is quite the melancholic air and then slip into the strutting Scotish varriation. The audience reacted with suprise, even a few singing along as we moved into the change.

[alblak1940]

Hello C-fans

 

I have now converted Red is the Rose in C.

I like best the following /re Jon's post also

 

C C D E D C D E D C A A G C C C C (then D left out)E G

A G G A A G E E G F E D C A G A

C C E G (G inserted) A G E D C

 

I play the melody satisfactory (my dog does not go and hide himself anymore...) altho

the next step now would be to insert the chords and if possible can anyone direct me to some great posts on the subject or any links I shud study ?

Would be very grateful for any help.

 

Best

Allan++++++++

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[if you love the tune you can hear it in your head, I presume. If you can hear it in your head, then pick out the tune starting on the C in the right hand (first finger push) on your concertina. The first phrase will be ... C C D E D C D E D C A (you provide the right rhythm from your memory of the tune). If you can work out the tune from here, you will also be able to put [left hand] chords to it later.

I hope this helps.

Samantha