I love this tune.
Eddie, I love that tune too! I'll try to record some video's today, as it's raining outside now! Which mando are you playing on that one?
10-string Vega 305 - circa 1918.
Ok, here's mine on my Collings MT2 O
Very nice Barbara!
Here's a link to another thread of this tune.
X: 2 T:Butterfly R:slip jig C:Tommy Potts D:Bothy Band: 1974. Z:id:hn-slipjig-3 M:9/8 L:1/8 K:Edor |:B2E G2E F3|B2E G2E FED|B2E G2E FGA|B2d d2B AFA:| |:B2d e2f g3|B2d g2e dBA|B2d e2f g2a|b2a g2e dBA:| |:B3 B2A G2A|B3 BAB dBA|B3 B2A G2A|B2d g2e dBA:|
Tenor banjo followed by my bowlback mando, back up by my ukulele This is my first slip jig ever, so show some indulgence.
No indulgence needed! You play it beautifully. The back-up is very nice too. This is one of my favourites too. Coleraine, Road to Lisdoonvarna, The Butterfly - that's become my default set at the local session.
Good one Criss, comes with all a slip jig needs, but why the sudden end?
Bertram wrote: "... why the sudden end?" I like it, I've heard that type of ending before on other tunes over the years (can't remember what genre of music), I'm assuming it was intentional? I think it's kinda neat.
Thanks Gelsenbury, Bertram and JL277z! The sudden end was a result of a counting mistake when I laid down the rhythm track with my ukulele. The chords for the B part and the C part are the same, so I lost track and ended it one round to soon. I re-recorded the whole tune a tad faster and with all parts equally present.
Recorded this on the banjo since the Banjo Hangout Irish tenor subforum is doing a "Tune of the Month" and this is the first one they chose:
Nice version Criss, and Jill, great to hear the tenor again!
We are all outing ourselves as Banjo Hangouters. Great rhythm Jill. It almost sounds like you are playing triplets but unless I'm mistaken these are runs of 1/8 notes with interspersed 1/4 notes? Here was my submission, pictures are of China
Lovely version there James! Your banjo sounds great - which one are you using?
It's my back-up Jill -a hybrid of a 17 fret Deering Goodtime neck with a no-name Chinese pot with a rolled brass tone ring - I took the best bits of two banjos to make one (the Deering pot was a bit quiet for the weekly session - I know a banjo too quiet!). I tightened a nut on my Capek and threaded a nut so it's out of action at the moment.
Relaxed rendition and it certainly suits the tune, James.
Ok, had to do another version of this on the Ajr - it just rings like a bell since coming back from the luthiers.
Thanks for the kind words David, and lovely playing on your part as always sir - is that a Deering Sierra?
It's a Deering Boston, 17 fret 21" scale.
Ah, how do you like it? I'm in the market for another tenor banjo meself...
It plays well and has good tone but the metal pot is heavy and the sound can be a bit piercing if overdriven. I'm thinking of trying a fiberskyn head and nylon strings for a different sound.
Good to know. I've seen a few Sierra's at decent prices used, but also did the math and conversion rate on getting a Clareen tenor from my old pal Tom Cussen back home and it doesn't work out too bad at all for a new banjo.
This is THE tune that I could never play without tripping up, still can’t... but there you!
I don't know why I never posted this - old recording, you can tell by my looks...
Great tune, and two great videos! This has been a favourite of mine for a long time.
I’m amazed that you can get all those chords!
Both so good...Bertram you don't look any different - just blurrier.
Sounds great. Obviously both of you had a great time playing this together.
Very nice. They always look like they are having so much fun !
Strong and resilient, a butterfly that makes it to hell and back. And there's a guitar player who can put a smile on your face, all without surgery
Really good music. What a sound from that mandolin and guitar duo!
Playing The Butterfly in a virtual session with around 30 musicians, in the #IsolationPubSession organised by John Spiers: If you don't know these yet, check them out! John, known for his work with Bellowhead, Gigspanner Big Band, Spiers & Boden, etc., has been keeping the music going during lockdown by doing these virtual sessions. He posts a set of usually 3 tunes on Sundays, and people send him videos of themselves playing along to one or several of those. By Wednesday evening, he then produces a video collage containing those contributions. It's great fun!
Great, Dennis. Obviously you all had a lot of fun doing this virtual session. At 4:55 you popped up next to Squezzy John. Unfortunately all these strings and some other musicians played too noisy. I couldn’t recognize your (not at all any) mandolin in the mix. But that’s not your fault! Thanks for sharing your experience with us. It is fun to watch the IsolationPubSessions of John Spiers.
Thanks for that Dennis, I especially liked the exotic instruments, e.g. the bass clarinet. I dimly remembered an older example of such a collaboration and found it (2009! apparently, cameras have improved since back then)
Thanks Bertram, I like the editing there and the way each instrument gets a place in the vid.