Re: [scots-l] Rockin Step
I may be too lte with this but I note that MA Alburger has the following in her book: "Bill Duguid, an Aberdeenshire fiddler, received advice about Skinner's tune "The Rockin Step": "Play four time sthrough with great force. This will be the leading strathspey in my future collection, 50% of which is ready... Learn this tune as I want to associate it with the Reel o'Tulloch and Highland Fling". Rock on Stuart Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Decorative Techniques and their names
Now that we have exhausted the fiddle birl - any thoughts on the "doodle"? Stuart Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Decorative Techniques or Vile Italian Tricks
Caro Nigelo, Un gruppetto? Non lo so! Stuardo Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
RE: [scots-l] Decorative Techniques and their names
> -Original Message- > From: Nigel Gatherer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > I'm preparing a list of decorations for my beginner whistle class. Being > > . > The Cut > Playing a note before the principle note (example: (A) D). I don't think > there is a fiddle term for this, unless it's simply "a grace note". a cut is a higher pitched note (played by removing a finger). most cuts on the whistle are played with the A finger (unless one is cutting A or B or C#) a strike is also a grace note, but it is lower than the principal note (played by tapping a finger) > The Casadh > Playing the principle note plus another as grace notes (example: (DA) D). > I wondered if this might be similar to an "upper mordent" or a "double > appoggiatura"? i've also heard the above called a "trebel" or a double grace note. > The Roll > The note above the principle note, the principle, and the note below > (example: (BAG) A). This would appear to be the equivalent of the "turn" > in Scots fiddling, also known as a gruppetto. what you describe is a short roll. a long roll (or just a roll) is played with 3 eight notes replacing the dotted quarter: ACAGA the first A is usually held for about half the time, which makes the rythm most like a doubble dotted eight followed by two sixteenth notes. you can explain this most easily to a violinist by saying "put a lot of emphasis" on the first note. in classical music the turn or mordent is played equally (all three notes for the same duration). my wife is a violinist, and i've been examining the wave forms of recordings, trying to figgure out how to explain the ornaments in her language. one thing i seem to have discovered is that grace notes are played much shorter in traditional music than in classical music. after i first explained a roll, she said "oh, that's a mordent", but when she played it, it wasn't right. her grace notes were articulated, whereas when someone like alisdair frasier plays grace notes, sometimes you get a tone, but sometimes not, just a tap on the string. i'm still working on this stuff too, so i might not have said everything exactly right. bob rogers south carolina Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[scots-l] Inexplicable tune success
For some reason a track I recorded last summer is doing better than anything of mine right now on mp3.com. It is called 'The Grey Mare's Tail' (named for the waterfall between St Mary's Loch and Moffat, not for the rear end of a horse, as one enthusiastic American lady decided when placing it on her 'tunes about animals' station!) and it's a waltz-tempo Scottish (Lowden S-25J nylon) fingerstyle instrumental. I have no idea why it is doing so well compared to other tracks. http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/785/785372.html Any extra listens I get could put this one a the top of the Edinburgh charts as it's sitting at No 4. Just have no idea why! David Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] another place for Rob (or maybe Nigel) to visit
Steve Wyrick wrote: > > Well actually Fender did make an "Yngwie Malmsteen" custom model > Stratocaster with a scalloped fretboard for a number of years but as you > say, this never really caught on amongst guitarists. I suspect one reason > is that an electric guitarist can get many of the same effects by either > bending the strings (i.e., pulling them sideways) or using a tremelo bar > (which changes pitch by moving the bridge and reducing or increasing string > tension), and with either of these methods the guitarist doesn't have to > worry too much about finger pressure affecting intonation. Might be > interesting to see what could be done with this on an acoustic guitar, > though. -Steve > Actually, there's a guy on mp3.com playing scalloped fret electric as a speciality, doing Renaissance lute pieces and one Scots piece SHE METT HIM IN THE MEADOW or something like that. I did not bookmark this guy's page because to be honest after listening to everything, quite impressed, I just thought he missed the point of the original MS and made them sound un-renaissance or un-Scots or un-anything - and he did not really use the scalloped frets to very good effect either. I have heard note bending on a fretted guitar do more work. David Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
