would be wonderful if you have them
would be wonderful if you have them
My mandolin is my boyfriend
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Originally done by Eck Robertson.
Bill Foley
one of my all time favorites....seems pretty challenging to play up to speed but I haven't really focused on it yet.
anyone else have it done cold?
I've got it dialed at 76 bpm.
I was playing it faster but then I moved on to other frustrations. #
Tabs are here.
i can play it up to the speed that sam plays it i believe. It's not one of those fiddle tunes played extremely fast, it sounds very nice at slow and medium speeds. Make sure you play the b part slow and make sure all the positions shifts are very clean. great tune.
There are also two versions in mandolincafe's tablature library. I memorized one of them.
http://www.stephaniereiser.com then click mandolins
Is that true? I know he recorded a "Brilliancy Medley" and as far as I've been able to determine, it is exactly that, a medley of mostly well-known tunes likeOriginally Posted by (a12 @ June 25 2007, 15:58)
Bill Cheatam. Others have claimed
that this medley is the same as the one
played by Fairport Convention - I've heard it on YouTube. I have no way of confirming or refuting that claim.
At least that latter version has nothing
in common (except the key of A)
with the 3-part tune known as Brilliancy, which has two parts
coming from Trafalgar Hornpipe, and another part from Passaic Hornpipe
(these tunes were annotated in the classical collection 1000 Fiddle Tunes).
I learned Brilliancy in 1965
from Howdy Forrester's LP Fancy Fiddlin' Country Style
(CUB records)
which also had Rutland's Reel (by Robert "Georgia Slim" Rutland). I'm pretty sure
that Sam Bush, Bobby Osborne and Blaine Sprouse, amongst others,
got a lot of inspiration from that LP (recorded in 1960 with piano,
except harmonica on one piece, which makes me suspect the player was
Jimmie Riddle).
In a recent interview for a British magazine I learned that Sam Bush's father
was a friend of Roy Acuff's, which gave Bush the opportunity to learn
a thing or two first-hand from Forrester. So he may have gotten the tune
that way (although the tabbed version deviates from what I heard on slowing
down the turntable to half speed).
I recorded it in 1969 with a bluegrass band (of sorts). I'm pretty sure that's the first recorded version that has (two parts of) the tune in "melodic" banjo style.Originally Posted by (jjboone101 @ June 25 2007, 16:03)
I later changed the second part as I forgot the second half of it:
http://www.huthyfs.com/music/Brill2.mp3
Now that I know so much more about music I wish I had the technique
I had 38 years ago, this is not very clean, I'm afraid.
I think this is around 90 bpm, shouldn't be
done much faster than that.
I hope to get a CD copy of our recording later.
Sam did indeed cover a bunch of Howdy's material (from the Fancy Fiddlin' Country Style and another whose title escapes me) on the great (but unreleased on CD) "Sam and Alan Together Again (For the First Time)" on Ridge Runner Records. That album was a major roadmap for me when I started getting serious about mando back in the day. I was lucky enough to find those two Howdy albums and got to compare and contrast Sam and Howdy's versions of the tunes, as well as check out a bunch of other Howdy tracks.
It's always fun to see where your heroes came from...Sam led me to Howdy and Bobby Osborne (and Ozzy too but I won't mention that )
John McGann, Associate Professor, Berklee College of Music
johnmcgann.com
myspace page
Youtube live mando
So maybe I should add jmcgann to my list.
I still recall hearing Brilliancy on radio in '60 or '61; it was featured
in a gramophone hour on Swedish radio with the program
(including record label and number) printed in the newspaper.
I thought it was the prettiest tune I'd ever heard, looked up the
LP in the Schwann catalog and ordered it through a store in Stockholm -
took several months. The tunes on that album
(transcribed with the turntable set to half speed) determined
much of my vocabulary when I got staretd on the mandolin in 1966.
Another source was a Flatt and Scruggs songbook that had faithful transcriptions
of the fiddle solos on some of Scruggs' instrumentals. Didn't realize at the time that the fiddler on these numbers was Forrester!
No mandolin content, and off topic , but right now you can hear Forrester's
High Level Hornpipe on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MoBSLipiJU
That tune, too, was on Fancy Fiddlin'.
jmcgann recorded "High Level Hornpipe" in a version combining elements of Howdy and Michael Coleman on an album called Upslide (Green Linnet/Redbird) 1995. Supposedly being reissued by Mel Bay sometime in this millenium...also on the same album is "Doc Harris Hornpipe" again influenced by Big Howdy.
John McGann, Associate Professor, Berklee College of Music
johnmcgann.com
myspace page
Youtube live mando
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