On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 05:37 AM, Matt Seattle wrote:
Never done this before, but working by analogy from what you wrote, here goes -Actually Matt, you did a great job. I like the changes you suggest. See! Abc ain't all that hard to read and write in.
X: ? T:The Roman Wall M:6/8 L:1/8
I'm not sure if I agree with your "logical conclusion" here...
>>I'm aware of the Cape Breton 'same root' practice, but am more used to going
from one key to another in medleys. The logical conclusion of the same root is
to stick to one tune only and play variations - which I sometimes do when
playing pipes.......
Or better stated, I guess the Cape Breton fiddle tradition hasn't evolved by logic.... What has evolved tho is that the fiddlers have to learn lots of tunes to be able to play twenty - thirty minute sets in the same root. Each tune is rarely played thru more than twice. And of course each scale root will its own huge set of tunes. The CB style is to learn the tune in the "right" way, leaving creation of variations to visitors from away.
Thanks for the tune,
John
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