meltzer Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Just thought I'd share that with you. Bit of a milestone & all that. Feel free to congratulate me, buy me a small present, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Feel free to congratulate me, buy me a small present, etc. Well done, Nigel! After what I saw, last week, I'm not surprised at your progress. Not sure about that present, though. Regards, Peter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meltzer Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 (edited) Cheers, Peter. Obviously seeing you playing across the rows like that was something of an inspiration. On balance, I'm not entirely sure it was in F at all. I started playing the thing on the C row but it was too low for my voice. But it was in the "pull" major key on the C row, which would be a G with a flatted 7th. So..... I tried in on the G row, reaching across to the C row for the lower notes, but it was a fraction too high. That would have made it in "pull" D. So..... taking it down a tone would mean it was back in C again. Hang on, that can't be right. OK, the low note in the chord on the left hand was a "pull" on the accidental row on the lowest note.... so that makes it (checks fingering chart)... er... actually it was an F all along. Unless the low note wasn't the tonic of the chord. It's a minefield, I tells ya. So that means I wasn't taking it a tone down, I was taking it a flatted third up, but singing it an octave lower. Hang on again, that's what it would have been in F all along. (Compared to playing it on the C row) * Anyway, it was an attempt at "Gypsy laddie" to the same tune as on the John Kirkpatrick/Sue Harris album Shreds & patches (but without the skill). Not sure I'd be able to play it again anyway. * See everyone? This is what happens when English anglo players think about what they're doing too much. Edited January 31, 2008 by meltzer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meltzer Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 Perhaps I should start a poll so that people could decide what key I was playing in. Anyone who's familiar with the tune, the whole of the first line was a run on the "pull." My poor 5-fold bellows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Drinkwater Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Well, for F's sake! (or not, as the case maybe) Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceemonster Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 i am starting on "F" tunes because i wish to gain ease with the "flat keys" often favored by irish players in county clare....F, C, G minor. etc.....wonderful concertina records for F tunes are Kitty Hayes' solo record, "A Touch of Clare," plus her record with piper Peter Laban, "They'll Be Good Yet." Also recorded in "flat keys," including tons of F tunes, are the solo cd of Clare music by Gearoid OHallmhorain, plus his duo record with fiddler Patrick Ourceau titled "Tracin'." I believe Gearoid recorded his two "flat" cds using a bflat-f concertina, but believe Kitty Hayes is using a C/G on her cds, and that is what I am trying to do, learn to play "low" on a c/g.....i only just learned my first F set, namely, the first set of reels on Kitty Hayes' solo CD, "A Touch of Clare," i.e., "Touch Me If You Dare," paired with a composition by the late Paddy O'Brien of Tipperary titled "St. Patricks Night." these tunes are usually G tunes, but they are so lovely in F! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffwright Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 There are lots of Irish tunes in Dm, which are worth looking at, because many don't have a Bb, so are even easier to get into F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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