How to Kill a Butterfly
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How to Kill a Butterfly
OK, another newbie question. I'm just getting around to learning 'The Butterfly'. I know....groans all around.....but I'm still in the phase where I think it's a beautiful piece of music.
So anyway I'm doing this trance-like, mantra thing of playing through its three sections for like, about forty-five minutes, and then I'm thinking to myself, "Hey, I kinda gotta go to the bathroom. Like probably pretty soon". The problem is, I can't get out! I keep thinking I know where the end is, but guess what? It really doesn't work to stop there either! So I'm thinking, "This thing is starting to get pretty serious. I don't wanna ruin a good tune, but what am I going to do?"
Somebody help me out! How do you stomp the little bugger?
So anyway I'm doing this trance-like, mantra thing of playing through its three sections for like, about forty-five minutes, and then I'm thinking to myself, "Hey, I kinda gotta go to the bathroom. Like probably pretty soon". The problem is, I can't get out! I keep thinking I know where the end is, but guess what? It really doesn't work to stop there either! So I'm thinking, "This thing is starting to get pretty serious. I don't wanna ruin a good tune, but what am I going to do?"
Somebody help me out! How do you stomp the little bugger?
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― Oscar Wilde
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Just add a long note at the end of the C part. I think it would be an E or an A.
Go to greenlinnet.com and find Kevin Burke's In Concert album. Click on listen to the whole album. The first cut is The Butterfly, played straight and at moderate tempo, so you can hear how he plays (and ends) it.
Go to greenlinnet.com and find Kevin Burke's In Concert album. Click on listen to the whole album. The first cut is The Butterfly, played straight and at moderate tempo, so you can hear how he plays (and ends) it.
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Thanks. I've tried a few things, and usually just end it on a sustained B note. I'll have to pull out a few recordings, and see what other folks do.
Maybe you can "medley" it into other things that have more pronounced endings?
Maybe you can "medley" it into other things that have more pronounced endings?
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No groans here...no need to ever apologize for what you think is "still a beautiful piece of music." I still think Danny Boy or Londenderry Air is still a beautiful piece of music, whether or not I ever play it. I haven't played the Butterfly in a very long while either, but as I recall it's not such an easy tune to play well, or perhaps it's an easy tune to butcher easily? Have fun and btw, 45 minutes on one tune, of course you had to hit the head!
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Kid on the Mountain! That's plain cruel! Segue into another slip jig there! Hunting the Hare! Sir Roger de Coverley!Chiffed wrote:Head into Kid On The Mountain. It's got a nice form, beginning middle and end. Alternately, the hornpipe Rights of Man, complete with triplets, is nice.
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