Showing off tune

[Robert Booth]

"Scipios' March", lifted from AI and transposed to the left hand, 'cause I like it that way.

 

 

Gee, wish I could master "Rosbif Waltz." It still eludes me.

Edited July 5, 2009 by Robert Booth

[Scally]

"Scipios' March", lifted from AI and transposed to the left hand, 'cause I like it that way.

 

Gee, wish I could master "Rosbif Waltz." It still eludes me.

Hmm . . . I'm playing it in Dm on a C/G anglo which seems to make the left hand accompaniment much easier. Not sure what key Alan plays it - probably Am? I tried this first, found it quite tricky and immediately transposed!

 

My new show-off tune for G/D? Monck's March - which I can play at a jaunty angle.

[Robert Booth]

Mmm...there's just something about that tune that won't settle into the brain.

The left hand still can't figure out what the right is doing

 

I've often wondered just what it is that makes one tune leap immediately into ones' repertoire and another, not necessarily any more difficult or complex, stay just out of reach.

 

I assume that this is what influences our choices as to what to use as our "show-off tune", the ability to play it in a social setting without having to labor over it too much,and still be able to keep some kind of contact with the folks who are listening.

 

It's a pretty good indication of where I'm at, skill-wise:the tune still tells me what to do, not the other way round.

 

Maybe I'll go take a shot at The Glin Cottage Polkas; I can get quite a ways through that one before things go south.

 

Cheers,

Rob

[Jim Besser]

so I know you've all got one what is it? What tune do you play if you want to show off your skills?

 

Depends on the context.

 

If I want to play it safe, Orange in Bloom. I heard Jody Kruskal do it at the first NE concertina workshop, and I couldn't believe how a tune I'd played for years for dancers could be a wonderful concert piece. I've been trying to emulate it ever since.

 

If I'm daring: one of Brian Peters medleys from Anglophilia. They're all great, but I love playing the one that begins with The Nymph.

 

If I want to show off mindlessly in front of people who don't know much about music: a fast oldtime tune like Puncheon Floor or Cold Frosty Morning. Or Liza Jane, changing keys each time thru. Extremely easy to play in a way that impresses the uninformed. And open to endless variations.

 

Soon, real soon, John K's Canone Cannelloni