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robobanjo - Posted - 02/01/2018: 18:44:36
This is a recording I made a couple weeks ago of The Banshee reel [click here]. I fine the tune really catchy. Hope you enjoy.
Dan and I'll be posting tunes back and forth for the next couple of months, but please join in and partake.
We'd love to get some feedback and others responding and posting tunes of their own. :-)
Cheers,
Rob
James Rankine - Posted - 02/03/2018: 05:17:56
Lovely solid playing Rob and the banjo looks and sounds fantastic.
Here's my version on a Capek tenor.
robobanjo - Posted - 02/03/2018: 11:31:24
Thanks James. You nailed that by the way. I'm envious of your triplets. You sprinkle those around like they're the easiest thing to do. Not so much for me. Again - well played!
DSmoke - Posted - 02/06/2018: 18:19:23
OK, I'm on it, will learn it and post it by month end.
Briarpicker - Posted - 02/07/2018: 10:10:12
I'm on it, too. I'm looking forward to learning and recording the tune.
DSmoke - Posted - 02/07/2018: 10:40:41
I just picked it out from Rob and James vids, thanks guys, great little tune. Honestly, I didn't really like it at first, but do enjoy it now that I am playing it.
Briarpicker - Posted - 02/10/2018: 03:52:28
This is my first version of the Banshee Reel - this time played clawhammer style. I'll post a second version played on tenor banjo later. I thought it might be interesting to hear that different approach to that tune.
Briarpicker - Posted - 02/12/2018: 03:57:34
Here comes my second version, this time played on my Framus tenor banjo.
Rob and James, I really liked your versions of the tune! James, one question about your Capek banjo: What kind of tonering does it have? Did it come without a resonator?
Tom Hanway - Posted - 02/12/2018: 11:50:33
Good stuff Rob, you're peeling back the layers of the onion. No messin' but I'm hearing a slightly different air than is commonly heard at trad sessions abroad. I don't know where you got your version from, but it's unique, and possibly a crooked version, hard to tell.
Popularly known as 'MacMahon's', here's a groundbreaking version of it from the legendary Bothy Band, second tune of the medley:
Same link here:
Enjoy!
Tom
robobanjo - Posted - 02/12/2018: 19:03:29
Tom - Thanks for the feedback. Dan told me the same, that I was making the D notes 1/8th notes instead of 1/4 notes. My bad. All part of my journey in improving ... but now I what to focus on.
Martin - Thanks very much for sharing your 2 versions. Very fun to watch and its really great to get some folks participating. So a huge thanks to you! Keep joining in monthly, ok? :-)
James - Your version was great once again. Awesome triplets. Awesome.
Dan - your turn! ;-)
Briarpicker - Posted - 02/13/2018: 00:06:58
Rob - Thanks for your kind words and for inviting me to join in in future! It is really fun to me.
James Rankine - Posted - 02/13/2018: 11:55:49
Thanks Rob and Martin for the comments.
Martin the Capek has a whyte laydie tone ring and came as an open back - it's the "brdy" model (brdy is a region in the Czech republic). I met the maker, Rosa Capek and his wife when he took a trip over to the UK and played a lot of his instruments. He makes lovely mandolins as well.
robobanjo - Posted - 02/13/2018: 17:20:07
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Originally posted by robobanjo
Dan told me the same, that I was making the D notes 1/8th notes instead of 1/4 notes. My bad.
Actually, this was related to Blackthorn Stick
Spitzenkorper - Posted - 02/14/2018: 06:49:58
Nice Playing Rob, James and Martin
Here is my version: Banshee February 2018 TOTM
Spitzenkorper - Posted - 02/14/2018: 06:59:24
And...Martin inspired me by posting two videos with two different instruments.
Here is The Banshee: February 2018 TOTM on a Cello Banjo.
Tuned DAEB (capo 2).
Tom Hanway - Posted - 02/14/2018: 17:03:56
quote:
Originally posted by Spitzenkorper
And...Martin inspired me by posting two videos with two different instruments.
Here is The Banshee: February 2018 TOTM on a Cello Banjo.
Tuned DAEB (capo 2).
Cool!
Every tune has its own variations, and it's contextual, personal and lovely that way. I was searching for a tune to put with another (I won't say which one), and a box player played me 'The Flogging Reel' (all three parts), and I used to back it, but never really had it under my fingers. So, I remembered Sligo-style fiddler Tony DeMarco playing it, and Tony can hold his own with any Irish fiddler, and can play more variations, and then some, being Sligo-trained, and just being Tony DeMarco. He doesn't read music. He just plays fiddle.
He plays a version, or, if the truth be known, multi-versions of 'The Flogging Reel' that he got from Martin Wynne, who got it from Lad O'Beirne. It's heritage. I have a version of this from the lads, and the C-part doesn't go Mixolydian, i.e., no f naturals.
F naturals in the C part are another way of doing it, but not the way the old Sligo-style fiddlers would have done it.
One can find this @ the Session, Ask Lad or Martin. It's all about digging.
All the best,
Tom
Tom Hanway - Posted - 02/16/2018: 23:18:17
So, pardon the thread drift, but here's the 'Flogging' with the first two parts, like 'MacMahon's', in G Major (Ionian) mode, and the C-part in Mixolydian. This is fairly standard, though a lot of old pipers in Ireland used to play the f sharp, and not the f natural.
youtube.com/watch?v=J60750HxtRw
Enjoy!
DSmoke - Posted - 02/17/2018: 14:24:00
Here is mine, thanks Rob for picking this tune and thanks to you and James for teaching it to me.
youtu.be/MrmRJmFXBCM
James Rankine - Posted - 02/17/2018: 15:35:13
Really good Dan - lovely feel to it. Well done.
robobanjo - Posted - 02/17/2018: 17:53:37
Lovely - well played Dan. Well played!
Fud - Posted - 02/17/2018: 18:25:58
Thank you, Dan. Nice tone in the Weymann, too.
Larry
DSmoke - Posted - 02/18/2018: 06:38:05
quote:
Originally posted by Fud
Thank you, Dan. Nice tone in the Weymann, too.
Larry
The Weymann is a horrible instrument and people should really get rid of them. If you happen to see one for sale let me know, lol!
Thanks everyone, it really is a great tune to play!
Briarpicker - Posted - 02/18/2018: 08:53:46
quote:
Originally posted by Spitzenkorper
And...Martin inspired me by posting two videos with two different instruments.
Here is The Banshee: February 2018 TOTM on a Cello Banjo.
Tuned DAEB (capo 2).
That tune sounds great on cello banjo! Thanks for posting!
ruraltradpunk - Posted - 02/19/2018: 06:07:55
Well done everyone! Just catching up on these videos - will try to record a version before the month is out, but at the moment am trying to learn 17 tunes for a mandolin workshop next weekend!
Tom Hanway - Posted - 02/21/2018: 18:17:12
One tune at a time, who knew?
Briarpicker - Posted - 02/27/2018: 03:48:13
February is almost over - here is my last version. I hope it is OK for everybody that I participate with different instruments. I couldn't resist to record The Banshee Reel played on my tenor guitar.
James Rankine - Posted - 02/27/2018: 09:34:06
Lovely swing to the rhythm Martin
