GORT session digitized
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GORT session digitized
I remember hearing (I think from Blayne) that we were going to try and see if we could put the GORT sessions in some kind of digitized format so we could pass them around for learning purposes etc? Any word on getting this done? Anyone spoken with any of the attendees? Kevin Crawford et. all?
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I assume this is the 1991 session tape from Kelly's Bar in Gort, Co. Galway, with Conor Tully, Tonny Linnane, Kevin Crawford, Padraic McDonacha, Terence O'Reilly, and Frank McGann?
If so, one great benefit of getting this more widely distributed would be to have more people playing The Green Mountain the way it used to be played
Everyone nowadays seems to play the Matt Molloy version, in which the turn is very similar to that of the Vincent Broderick tune, The Tinker's Daughter. I even play it that way myself, caving in to peer pressure, but prefer the old way...and that's the way they play it on this recording.
If so, one great benefit of getting this more widely distributed would be to have more people playing The Green Mountain the way it used to be played
Everyone nowadays seems to play the Matt Molloy version, in which the turn is very similar to that of the Vincent Broderick tune, The Tinker's Daughter. I even play it that way myself, caving in to peer pressure, but prefer the old way...and that's the way they play it on this recording.
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Hi,
style and arange the tune to your own liking, but make sure to keep it within tha traditional realm, if we all were told that we had to play a tune exactly as it was played on a recording, i would put my flute away and never play againn, i get a great kick out of arranging and styling a tune to suit my liking,
style and arange the tune to your own liking, but make sure to keep it within tha traditional realm, if we all were told that we had to play a tune exactly as it was played on a recording, i would put my flute away and never play againn, i get a great kick out of arranging and styling a tune to suit my liking,
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Happy to oblige! Actually I already had a rather amusing recording from a few years back, playing this tune on my Bb Wilkes on the day I received my minidisc recorder in the mail...I was testing it out with my sound system and playing around with some way-out reverb effects just for fun. And then after the Green Mountain I went into Swinging on a Gate but stumbled and, well, the ending is just too silly.MurphyStout wrote:Hmmm, I play both Tinker's dtr and the green mountain (I didn't know I played the green mountain but I found out I can play it). The two A parts are quite different but the B's are very similiar. Perhaps Brad could record the old green mountain to clear up any confusion!
The B parts of Green Mountain and Tinker's Daughter are indeed very similar, but in the "old way" of playing the Green Mountain there's a place in the first few bars of the B part where it goes down...that doesn't happen in the Tinker's Daughter. You'll hear it here on the MP3.
http://www.firescribble.net/GreenMt.mp3
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Better yet (much, much better, in fact), I've posted a clip from the above-mentioned Gort session with the Green Mountain in full swing. I love the sound of Kevin's flute here.
http://www.firescribble.net/GreenMountainGort.mp3
http://www.firescribble.net/GreenMountainGort.mp3
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So... Why don't I do this... I'll post it (and divide all the sets into separate tracks) and put it on our media player... that way you can listen, rewind, etc... If Kevin emails and tells me to take it off then I'll gladly oblige! It is a great resource... A fiddler friend of mine and I are learning the whole session... Dminor tunes and all (yuck...)
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The very same. Boxwood with an unlined headjoint.sturob wrote:Is that your Bb Wilkes, Brad?
It's a nice flute (if that's the one it is) . . . I've tooted on it myself.
Stuart
I recorded that bit about five years ago and I suppose I would play it a bit differently now, less "smooth" and more articulated, since my playing style has been heading in that direction.
But I'd still say "yeah" at the end.