Jam Report #4: 2/18/01
Feb. 18th, 2001 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperFourth Jam Report originally posted to the OKP. Transcribed to Livejournal 10/1/05.
Hit-and-run sampling of GBS: "Jolly Butcher", "Lukey", "Paddy Murphy", "I'm a Rover", "Old Black Rum", "Donkey Riding", "Mari Mac".
For session number 4, we were down a couple of Tewsons -- which meant that we were down our alpha singer and our alpha guitar.
However, this didn't stop the rest of us from having what basically amounted to a hit-and-run sampling of a great deal of Great Big Sea.
We took another stab at "Jolly Butcher" -- and it's official, I can actually PLAY "Salmon Tails Up the Water", though I still have to work on the upper octave on my piccolo.
We also took a stab at "Lukey", for which we got Fred the Sailor to break out his dulcimer, which worked quite well. But due to the fact that our singers are girls, we had to change keys and punted from G up to C. We're still not happy with that key because the two singers we had today have vocal ranges that do not play nicely with one another, quite, so we're going to have to explore this some more. The other problem is that I can't play the bridge yet on "Lukey" -- "Staten Island" -- and the music we have does NOT sound like what Bob's playing on the fiddle on the discs. ARGH! :)
(Chant and sing the mantra with me, everybody: "It's TRAD! You can play it ANY! WAY! YOU! WANT!)
This, of course, means that I'm just going to have to do something scary and make something up MYSELF!
Hit-and-run stabs were made on "Paddy Murphy" (which was shunted aside when we discovered that the tabs for this song scarfed off tabcrawler.com were off) and "I'm a Rover" (for which our singers decided we really did need to feminize the lyrics: 'He raised his head from his feather pillow, raised his arms up around his chest!') and "Old Black Rum" (and I'm STILL trying to figure out what the heck key that's being sung in, LOTS of accidentals in there on my piccolo, but we did sound pretty good when we burst into Acapulco--er, uh, a capella into a couple of verses of it).
Update, added 2/20/01: How could I have forgotten that we also yakked some about doing "Donkey Riding"? Since I can in fact play the instrumental part, we have Fred and his bodhran and my housemate![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mamishka (Mimi) and her tabla drums, and a whole bunch of voices that can trade off on the verses? We didn't actually take a stab at the song yet, though -- it needs some more practice.
The SCARY bit of this jam session, however, was that we actually also took a stab at... (drumroll)...
"Mari Mac"!
THAT was a challenge since we had three different sources for lyrics and in several verses they did not agree with one another. We do actually have the key for this, and some of the guitar chords, and at least one of our singers is making mischievous noises about wanting to sing it AT SPEED.
*gulp*
Looks like I'm gonna have to work harder on figuring out exactly what twiddles I'm going to play with this. There's a bit in there where Bob is sawing away on the fiddle and I'm fantasizing about trilling on the piccolo...
(Dang. If I keep this up, folks, I may start sounding like an ACTUAL MUSICIAN, huh?)
The upshot of all this, though, is that we may well have a couple of good solid candidates for the Kitchen Tapes. More bulletins on that as events warrant.
And in conclusion, the pie was lemon meringue. Yum!
More in (possibly) two weeks,
Anna the Piper
Hit-and-run sampling of GBS: "Jolly Butcher", "Lukey", "Paddy Murphy", "I'm a Rover", "Old Black Rum", "Donkey Riding", "Mari Mac".
For session number 4, we were down a couple of Tewsons -- which meant that we were down our alpha singer and our alpha guitar.
However, this didn't stop the rest of us from having what basically amounted to a hit-and-run sampling of a great deal of Great Big Sea.
We took another stab at "Jolly Butcher" -- and it's official, I can actually PLAY "Salmon Tails Up the Water", though I still have to work on the upper octave on my piccolo.
We also took a stab at "Lukey", for which we got Fred the Sailor to break out his dulcimer, which worked quite well. But due to the fact that our singers are girls, we had to change keys and punted from G up to C. We're still not happy with that key because the two singers we had today have vocal ranges that do not play nicely with one another, quite, so we're going to have to explore this some more. The other problem is that I can't play the bridge yet on "Lukey" -- "Staten Island" -- and the music we have does NOT sound like what Bob's playing on the fiddle on the discs. ARGH! :)
(Chant and sing the mantra with me, everybody: "It's TRAD! You can play it ANY! WAY! YOU! WANT!)
This, of course, means that I'm just going to have to do something scary and make something up MYSELF!
Hit-and-run stabs were made on "Paddy Murphy" (which was shunted aside when we discovered that the tabs for this song scarfed off tabcrawler.com were off) and "I'm a Rover" (for which our singers decided we really did need to feminize the lyrics: 'He raised his head from his feather pillow, raised his arms up around his chest!') and "Old Black Rum" (and I'm STILL trying to figure out what the heck key that's being sung in, LOTS of accidentals in there on my piccolo, but we did sound pretty good when we burst into Acapulco--er, uh, a capella into a couple of verses of it).
Update, added 2/20/01: How could I have forgotten that we also yakked some about doing "Donkey Riding"? Since I can in fact play the instrumental part, we have Fred and his bodhran and my housemate
mamishka (Mimi) and her tabla drums, and a whole bunch of voices that can trade off on the verses? We didn't actually take a stab at the song yet, though -- it needs some more practice.The SCARY bit of this jam session, however, was that we actually also took a stab at... (drumroll)...
"Mari Mac"!
THAT was a challenge since we had three different sources for lyrics and in several verses they did not agree with one another. We do actually have the key for this, and some of the guitar chords, and at least one of our singers is making mischievous noises about wanting to sing it AT SPEED.
*gulp*
Looks like I'm gonna have to work harder on figuring out exactly what twiddles I'm going to play with this. There's a bit in there where Bob is sawing away on the fiddle and I'm fantasizing about trilling on the piccolo...
(Dang. If I keep this up, folks, I may start sounding like an ACTUAL MUSICIAN, huh?)
The upshot of all this, though, is that we may well have a couple of good solid candidates for the Kitchen Tapes. More bulletins on that as events warrant.
And in conclusion, the pie was lemon meringue. Yum!
More in (possibly) two weeks,
Anna the Piper