As easy as ABC?
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 3:50 pm
So perhaps it's 'the text-based music notation system and the de facto standard for folk and traditional music' (quoting abcnotation.com), but I can't say it's ever attracted me before when it's just no way readable/writable like staff notation for anyone fluent in the latter. But guess I can see its value as an interchange format and thought I'd maybe better give it a go if I'm going to hang around here! So I've set two of the tunes from my signature link, run them through the staff notation rendering thingies at folkinfo.org and concertina.net to check for mistakes, am sticking them up here for folk to try and might well add the ABC to my site if it's useful. So please go ahead and play them, gig them (would be nice to hear how things go if you do!), ignore them or whatever, but please also remember they're mine and ask before reproducing them anywhere else (if I want to see them somewhere like The Session, I'll put them there myself!). For anyone interested, the MP3s on my site were taken from an early/mid-1990s recording I made of both tunes as a set, with The Boat that Sailed Backwards played three times (on Sweetheart D flute), An Tilleadh gu Colla twice (on Overton G whistle) and the latter also doubled by the accompanying piano. But I'd love to hear a good fiddler take on that reel because it's always stuck me as a natural fiddle tune...
X:1
T:The Boat that Sailed Backwards
C:Peter Duggan
F:http://www.petestack.com/music/audio/boatback.mp3
H:Composed November 1992.
I:http://www.petestack.com/music/petestuf ... recordings
M:9/8
R:Slip Jig
L:1/8
K:G
"D7"D2e dAB cAF|"G"D2G GBG FGA|"D7"D2e dAB cde|"Bm"fed "Em"cBA "A"GFE|
"D7"D2e dAB cAF|"G"D2G GBG FGA|"D7"Dfe dAB cBA|"G"GAG FGA G3|
"Em"B2a gef gfe|"B7"f2B f2g agf|"Em"e2a gef gfe|"B7"f2B- Bfg agf|
"C"e2a gef gfe|"G"def gdB GFE|"D7"Dfe dAB cBA|"G"GAG FGA G3|]
X:2
T:An Tilleadh gu Colla
C:Peter Duggan
F:http://www.petestack.com/music/audio/tilleadh.mp3
H:Composed October 1991, revised March 1992.
I:http://www.petestack.com/music/petestuf ... recordings
M:C|
R:Reel
L:1/8
K:G
B2A|:"G"GDB,D "D7"A,CB,A,|"G"G,2 "D7"(3A,B,C "G"B,G,B,D|"Em"GG,"D"FG, "C"EG,"G"DG,|"Am"CB,"A7"A,G, "D7"A,B2c|
"G"dBGB "C"cGEG|"G"BGDG "F"AC(3=FGA|"G"DADG "D7"DFDA|1 "G"G/2G/2GAF GB2A:|2 "G"G/2G/2GAF GABc|
"G"dBGB "C"cGEG|"G"BGDc- "C"cGEG|"G"BAGA "A7"FAEA|"D7"Dd2c BAGF|
"G"GABG "C"cGEG|"G"BGDG "F"AC(3=FGA|"G"DADG "D7"DFDA|"G"G/2G/2GAF GABc|
"G"dBGB "C"cGEG|"G"BGDc- "C"cGEG|"G"BAGA "A7"FAEA|"D7"D/2D/2DFD ADdc|
"G"BGDB, "D7"A,CB,A,|"G"G,A,B,G, "Cm"CA,B,C|"G"DADG "D7"DFDA|"G"G/2G/2GAF G|]
X:1
T:The Boat that Sailed Backwards
C:Peter Duggan
F:http://www.petestack.com/music/audio/boatback.mp3
H:Composed November 1992.
I:http://www.petestack.com/music/petestuf ... recordings
M:9/8
R:Slip Jig
L:1/8
K:G
"D7"D2e dAB cAF|"G"D2G GBG FGA|"D7"D2e dAB cde|"Bm"fed "Em"cBA "A"GFE|
"D7"D2e dAB cAF|"G"D2G GBG FGA|"D7"Dfe dAB cBA|"G"GAG FGA G3|
"Em"B2a gef gfe|"B7"f2B f2g agf|"Em"e2a gef gfe|"B7"f2B- Bfg agf|
"C"e2a gef gfe|"G"def gdB GFE|"D7"Dfe dAB cBA|"G"GAG FGA G3|]
X:2
T:An Tilleadh gu Colla
C:Peter Duggan
F:http://www.petestack.com/music/audio/tilleadh.mp3
H:Composed October 1991, revised March 1992.
I:http://www.petestack.com/music/petestuf ... recordings
M:C|
R:Reel
L:1/8
K:G
B2A|:"G"GDB,D "D7"A,CB,A,|"G"G,2 "D7"(3A,B,C "G"B,G,B,D|"Em"GG,"D"FG, "C"EG,"G"DG,|"Am"CB,"A7"A,G, "D7"A,B2c|
"G"dBGB "C"cGEG|"G"BGDG "F"AC(3=FGA|"G"DADG "D7"DFDA|1 "G"G/2G/2GAF GB2A:|2 "G"G/2G/2GAF GABc|
"G"dBGB "C"cGEG|"G"BGDc- "C"cGEG|"G"BAGA "A7"FAEA|"D7"Dd2c BAGF|
"G"GABG "C"cGEG|"G"BGDG "F"AC(3=FGA|"G"DADG "D7"DFDA|"G"G/2G/2GAF GABc|
"G"dBGB "C"cGEG|"G"BGDc- "C"cGEG|"G"BAGA "A7"FAEA|"D7"D/2D/2DFD ADdc|
"G"BGDB, "D7"A,CB,A,|"G"G,A,B,G, "Cm"CA,B,C|"G"DADG "D7"DFDA|"G"G/2G/2GAF G|]