This week's winner is Hobbart's Transformation, which was suggested as an Old Time / IT. I'm not familiar with this tune. Here is a link to the notation Here are the ABC's X: 1 T: Hobbart's Transformation M: 4/4 L: 1/8 R: reel K: Ador e2a2 abag|e2a2 abag|edef gfgf|edef gfgf| e2a2 abag|e2a2 abag|edef gfgf|edcB A2 z2:| A2Ac BAGB|ABAG E2EG|AGAB cBcd|e3=f edcB| A2Ac BAGB|ABAG E2AB|cBAc BAGB|A4 A4:|
Here is a link to a tab for this tune.
Qristina and Quinn Bachand have a nice and (as far as I can tell by reading the same version as the notation above) at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN6Hzss71aU. Hobart's starts around 2:56.
Well, I had everything out and ready after recording Possum Up A Gum Tree earlier today, and I've played half of this song for over 25 years, so I just learned the B part and recorded it. Hobbart's Transformation is the A part of The Pateroller Song with a B part that seems to come from Kitchen Girl. It's played here on a Kentucky mandolin with backup provided by a Simon & Patrick guitar. The last time through, I slipped into the Pateroller's Song just for fun... I love old time fiddle tunes!
Michael, very nice! I'm sure that's how it's supposed to sound! Well, I'm still away from home, but it's been so long since I've recorded anything, and this is a pretty easy tune to learn! Here's mine, one time through, on my Collings MT2O mandolin. There seems to be an annoying high pitched background sound (or maybe that's just my tinnitus!)
Great way to kick off the week Michael and Barbara. That Paterollers song does sound like a lot of fun too. Really great playing.
Really well done, Michael and Barbara. Here's another example of how rich and dynamic these tunes can be. So different, yet both so interesting and joys to listen to! Great stuff - Oh, and excellent playing as well!
Excellent playing Michael and Barbara. The title to this song apparently refers to the revival of the Episcopalian Church by Bishop John Henry Hobart. Played on a Savannah.
Great-sounding tune and three very entertaining versions. Love the addition of the fiddle tune in your version Michael, and those fingers and the pinkie especially are flying!
Hi, It's been a while since I posted. I spent the afternoon on the back patio with my mandolin, guitar, my dog, and a beer working on this. By my definition, a perfect day! Shoulda paid more attention to the lighting, I'm sporting my new Cafe baseball cap, but you can't tell.
tnt..... that was wonderful!
So is it Hobart's or Hobbart's? Here's a little different take.
Very cool, David!
Absolutely cracking versions this week, another great uplifting tune to boot. Haven't done a vid for this as I'm waiting for Viny to get back from up North and I'll do one with him playing guitar. I have done as an mp3 and put it on Soundcloud... http://soundcloud.com/toshmarshall/h...transformation
Tosh, that was great!!!!
Loved that Tosh...It has a unique and wonderful "Spaghetti Western / Sergio Leone" feel to it. Outstanding!
Here's my first mandola contribution...
And, based on Michael's suggestion, here's my mash up of "Kitchen Girl' and "Hobbart's Transformation."
Really nice, Toycona! Great playing, and I really like the mash-up...Works beautifully! Oh, and your mandola sounds great!
Barbara, Ed, thanks for the kind words. My only defence on the Spaghetti Western front is that I listen to Hugo Montenegro and Spaghetti Western Swing by Brad Paisley (I'd love to see him with a Mandocaster!!!!!). Toycona, the Dola sounds fantastic, great buy.......
great to hear the different versions of this, heres mine, warts in all!
Y'all sound good, folks! It's interesting to hear the tune played on a variety of mandolin-family instruments.
Here's mine. I'm not happy with the phrasing I got into, but them's the breaks. Out out of time for this week. I really enjoyed the different interpretations of this one.
A veritable feast of listening on offer here folks - great versions one and all, well done everyone!
Wow! I must echo Jill's comments. Lots of really tasty stuff posted here. Great job everyone.
Here's my take. BTW, I'm using a new pick (The JazzMando 1.5mm) in this video. As soon as I started using this pick (just a few days ago) my wife and daughter immediately noticed what they called an increase in "warmth and roundness". They strongly prefer the tone of the mandolin when I'm using this pick. Hard for me to tell much difference from the playing perspective. Comments regarding the tone are welcome. Thanks.
Nice work Ed! And I definitely hear a difference in sound with that new pick, I like it! - what thickness was the previous pick you were using?
Hi Jill. Thanks very much. The old pick was teardrop-shaped, 1.2mm, and made of vintage celluloid material. Here they are side by side: From a playing standpoint, I'm liking the new pick a little more every time I use it. I think the increased size enhances my drive through the strings. Also, I think the new pick produces a "woodier" tremolo on the wound courses. However, it will take a little more work with this new, larger pick to get my tremolo up to speed with it...Frankly, I'm kinda glad to finally be a "stick out of the mud" and trying a new pick!
Ed, I started out playing with teardrop shaped picks, in the 1 mm size. I got the Blue chip Pick in the large triangle size, which is my go to pick... but, I also got several of those Jazz Mando 1.5 mm large triangle picks, and if I don't play with my Blue Chip, the Jazz Mando is the pick for me!
Barbara, thanks for the info.
Ed, it's great to see you participating in the group. Great job and The Raven sounds wonderful. I'm enjoying everyone's playing on this tune! I'm a sucker for A minor tunes so I think I'll be jumping in soon with a video.
The light was fading fast but I got through it: Hobbart's Transmogrification. I really wanted that first note to be a pickup note when I started in on this tune, but once I got the emPHAsis on the right syLABle, I could feel the fiddle shuffle on the first part of the tune.
Don, that is just brilliant! Great playing and wonderful tone...Is there anything that Gilchrist can't do?
I especially like the little things, like the slides. Very cool!
Thanks Ed and Toycona. Glad you enjoyed that.
Nice versions by everone! I nearly transformed myself into a non-picker on a Hobart once! Scott
Great versions guys.
Fantastic Don, loved it....
Good on y'all. I don't claim to know, but seems to me -- from fiddle playing -- these tunes just beg for drones. YouTube did something to my video. Maybe it'll fix itself after it renders or something.
Just to prove London's not burning and things are pretty normal, here is me and my mate Vinny performing in Twickenham today........
That's great, Tosh (and Vinny). Tosh, I knew that you were not a spring chicken. I didn't know, however, that you were already playing when films were still made in black and white.
I'd throw something in your opened case if I were walking by...
Very nice Tosh. Glad to see your well and things are back to normal. I wish my buddy could play as well as yours.
Manfred, Toycona and GK thanks for the kind words..... Manfred, I know what you're saying! I'm feeling my age, believe me!!!!! Somebody did mention Laurel & Hardy!!!!!!!!
You guys work really well off each other. Great arrangement.
Tosh, Vinny - Very enjoyable. Great playing. Loved the B&W. I know London is a big city, but it must have unsettling with all the rioting. Thank for sharing.
Marcelyn and Mike, thanks for your kind words. The rioting was a moment of madness, it had been brewing, city types waving their fat bonuses in peoples faces, when they are told they are being made redundant or having wages frozen whilst living costs are spiraling out of control. The most poignant moment for me was a young couple in Ealing whose flat was set alight, possesions and memories lost,but the firemen saved the wife's treasured violin which she had owned since she was 12. Thank god for music! Here is an alternative I did which Vin added to (don't know how he comes up with this stuff!) which is not for the purists http://soundcloud.com/toshmarshall/0...sformation-who
Pretty awesome renditions so far! Here's my take on it, with my Breedlove FF Quartz mandolin. Jim