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Post by franco on Nov 17, 2020 16:33:38 GMT
I like the tenor guitar track Brian, it has a medieval feel to it, is it based around a specific mode?
Most of the stuff I recorded is now on discs from when we got rid of the home computer, positive I don’t have any files on my iPad. Got a few bits on YouTube but I don’t think it will be anyone’s cup of tea, it’s either heavy rock or punk.
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Post by oldroadietehachapi on Nov 17, 2020 17:14:28 GMT
Time to post some recordings: Brian That is great stuff!
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Post by brianbutler on Nov 17, 2020 18:56:44 GMT
I like the tenor guitar track Brian, it has a medieval feel to it, is it based around a specific mode? Most of the stuff I recorded is now on discs from when we got rid of the home computer, positive I don’t have any files on my iPad. Got a few bits on YouTube but I don’t think it will be anyone’s cup of tea, it’s either heavy rock or punk. Franco, the mode is E mixolydian but I think it is the sound of the tenor guitar, sort of like a lute, that make it sound medieval rather than the mode. I'll look around and see if I have any recordings made with the octave mandolin. That REALLY sounds medieval.
Old roadie, thanks.
Brian
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Post by franco on Nov 17, 2020 19:19:27 GMT
I like the tenor guitar track Brian, it has a medieval feel to it, is it based around a specific mode? Most of the stuff I recorded is now on discs from when we got rid of the home computer, positive I don’t have any files on my iPad. Got a few bits on YouTube but I don’t think it will be anyone’s cup of tea, it’s either heavy rock or punk. Franco, the mode is E mixolydian but I think it is the sound of the tenor guitar, sort of like a lute, that make it sound medieval rather than the mode. I'll look around and see if I have any recordings made with the octave mandolin. That REALLY sounds medieval.
Old roadie, thanks.
Brian
I’d never have guessed mixolydian, I thought you would say something like Phrygian. Thanks for the info, it’s interesting stuff.
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Post by brianbutler on Nov 17, 2020 20:06:07 GMT
Franco, the mode is E mixolydian but I think it is the sound of the tenor guitar, sort of like a lute, that make it sound medieval rather than the mode. I'll look around and see if I have any recordings made with the octave mandolin. That REALLY sounds medieval.
Old roadie, thanks.
Brian
I’d never have guessed mixolydian, I thought you would say something like Phrygian. Thanks for the info, it’s interesting stuff. For the most part, the modes used in Irish music are Ionian (major) often, Aeolian (minor) rarely, Mixolydian (major but weird) often, and Dorian (minor but weird) often, and in very few keys. All of the common keys and their modes in Irish music have one or two sharps. The reason is that the Irish pipes, simple system flutes, and penny whistles are all pitched in D (two sharps), but can play a C natural fairly easily for the one-sharp keys. So the main keys/modes are Dmaj, Gmaj, Edor, Ador, Emix, Amix. In fact, if you want to make something sound Irish just play some notes in a D scale but start and end on E - you have Edor and it sounds typically Irish.
Brian
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Post by velocipete on Nov 18, 2020 7:33:34 GMT
Very good indeed Brian. Cheers, Pete.
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Post by velocipete on Nov 18, 2020 7:37:53 GMT
Very good indeed Brian. Cheers, Pete.
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Post by cusqueno on Nov 18, 2020 10:48:15 GMT
Many thanks to everyone for great advice and encouragement for JC jnr. The apartment now reverberates nightly to the bass line from Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple). A song with an interesting background by the way. For the more folk-inclined I can recommend Mike Harding's podcasts. A good repository of folk & roots music, now running to 286 episodes stretching back to 2013. Although English MH has eclectic tastes and plays quite a lot of Irish music, both instrumental and singing. Just the stuff to have on in the workshop while you are working on your bikes.
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Post by Jem on Nov 18, 2020 15:30:23 GMT
Time to post some recordings: I am (or at least was pre-COVID) pretty active in the Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island amateur Irish traditional music scenes, which are among the most active in the country. It is primarily play-for-your-pint pub sessions with the odd paying gig thrown in. The music is almost entirely traditional dance tunes (reels, jig, hornpipes) with the occasional song. This is me playing a slip jig on tenor banjo: O'Farrell's Welcome To LimerickAnd here I am playing a reel on tenor guitar: Sean Sa CeoHere I am playing a set of jigs with my flute-playing musical colleague, Leslie: Patsy Geary's - Humours Of RaheyLooking forward to playing out again. Brian Bravo Brian - superb, the slip jig is a very tightly woven piece , I really like it, and the Sean Sa Ceo is a great old tune that made me want to reach for the bodhran. You'd be welcomed in any Irish pub for a sit down and a drink playing like that! Have you ever been?
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Post by brianbutler on Nov 18, 2020 16:08:51 GMT
Time to post some recordings: I am (or at least was pre-COVID) pretty active in the Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island amateur Irish traditional music scenes, which are among the most active in the country. It is primarily play-for-your-pint pub sessions with the odd paying gig thrown in. The music is almost entirely traditional dance tunes (reels, jig, hornpipes) with the occasional song. This is me playing a slip jig on tenor banjo: O'Farrell's Welcome To LimerickAnd here I am playing a reel on tenor guitar: Sean Sa CeoHere I am playing a set of jigs with my flute-playing musical colleague, Leslie: Patsy Geary's - Humours Of RaheyLooking forward to playing out again. Brian Bravo Brian - superb, the slip jig is a very tightly woven piece , I really like it, and the Sean Sa Ceo is a great old tune that made me want to reach for the bodhran. You'd be welcomed in any Irish pub for a sit down and a drink playing like that! Have you ever been? Thanks for the comments. Sorry to say I have not been to Ireland yet. I have played in hundreds of Irish sessions in New England and some far flung places in the US and Canada. Hope to get to Erin one day though.
Brian
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