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John D - Posted - 08/02/2024: 08:10:41
The TOTW for 8/2/2024 is....... The Cat Rambles to the Child's Saucepan. The tune is a traditional Irish Slide (12/8 time).
I was surfing "The Session" about 10 years ago, looking for cool new tunes to learn, and I stumbled on the title. I immediately thought this has to be the greatest tune title in the history of tune titles! The title suggested such a powerful vision of domestic charm. Don't worry about all the germs and the mess!
At the time, there wasn't a version to study on YouTube, so I learned it from sheet music without ever hearing it. Not sure if I'm playing it "right." At any rate, The Cat Rambles to the Child's Saucepan is a great tune with a greater title and, for a slide, not that difficult to play CH style.
Here's a version from Cherish the Ladies (and the Boston Pops!):
youtube.com/watch?v=c8x2KvSYkpY
Here's a mandolin version:
youtube.com/watch?v=tYnHIYglCRo
Here's my CH version from ten years ago:
banjohangout.org/myhangout/med...archived=
John D
Mtngoat - Posted - 08/02/2024: 09:05:45
The Boston Pops didn't do anything for me (just another Celtic tune poorly arranged and poorly played for popular consumption) but your clawhammer version is great.
Noah Cline - Posted - 08/02/2024: 09:10:28
Don't think I've heard that one before, John. Nice tune, I can envision the cat rambling along ;)
JanetB - Posted - 08/02/2024: 15:28:02
This is a learning leap tune. You played it with nice tempo, John, but I had to amble much more slowly. It does seem like it would be fun at a fast tempo for dance, as intended.
Today I discovered a traditional slide is something like a jig, but it's not, and I perhaps know only one other such tune, so here is a demonstration that helped me understand the differences: Comparison of jig and slide. And this explanation on Wikipedia also helped. The Session notation and audio helped, especially for the open G tuning. It's neat that it comes out so evenly, though at a first listen it sounds crooked.
After trying arrangements in double C and modal tuning, it ended up in open G tuning, played in the key of C. There's a couple of measures where I used something like a Galax lick for the fingering.
