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Martin Jonas
Oct-18-2004, 6:29am
I've been playing around with "Battle of the Somme" (a great Scottish 9/8 march in D), playing it in unison on bowlback and, one octave lower, on bouzouki. I now want to add a rhythm part on the bouzouki. Getting the alternating march rhythm right with a mixture of double stops and full chords works fine, but I don't seem to get anywhere trying to figure out the chord changes. Has anybody else tried this tune, or knows of a source for the chord changes?

The version I play is this (http://jc.tzo.net:1742/~jc/cgi/abc/gettune?F=GIF&U=http://users.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/tunes/abc/abc2/somme.abc&X=100&T=BATTLEOFTHESOMME&N=BattleOfTheSomme.gif) one.

Many thanks!

Martin

Bren
Oct-20-2004, 5:48pm
There are suggested chords in "Ceol na Fidhle" vols 1 & 2 published by Taigh na Teud at SCotland Music (http://www.scotlandmusic.com).
They are simple chords, Dmaj, Gmaj, Amaj and pretty well suggested by the notes in each set of triplets. I think it would sound fine with just the sketchiest skeleton of a chord anyway.

Martin Jonas
Oct-21-2004, 5:53am
Thanks Bren. That's what I thought originally, and I just tried playing it by ear with D, G and A. When I recorded it, it sounded wrong. Might be my dodgy doubletracking with Audacity or it might be my trying to get the chord changes by ear playing along with the lead, rather than sketching it out on paper first.

I'll have another go on the weekend.

Martin