I've known this tune for years on the tinwhistle so I decided it was time to learn it on the mandolin... probably a mistake...
Wow, Eddie, you've recorded a bunch of tunes that were on MY list to record! But, no video is showing up here for some reason!
missed a letter in the link...
Eddie, that was great! Your 10 string Vega, right? How is it tuned?
Cgdae
Here is my take on Banish Misfortune. I did make the band learn this, but it's not "square" for contra dances, so we've let it drop. Too bad; a really fun tune. DWP
DWP, that was great! Eddie, that's the tuning that my fellow bandmate, Scott, uses on his short scale cittern (except an octave lower. I use GDAEA on mine).... so your 10 string mandolin is like a mandola and a mandolin combined.... probably about the same size as a mandola?
Yes, it's a 15" scale
Very nice DWP.
DWP, that was really funny and lively! Having not much of a surprise to hold a match to that, I post my version anyway: Bertram
Bertram! That was great.... as always, your OM is awesome sounding! Was this video made with your new camera?
Thanks, Barb - no, same hardware, but different software/procedure... Old: Webcam plugged in USB-1-hub, recorded with Quicktime Broadcaster, MOV file uploaded to YouTube. New: Webcam plugged in USB-2-socket directly on the Mac, recorded with the simple cam viewer (no compression => 1GB/min), MOV file converted into AVI with Xilisoft video converter,AVI uploaded to YouTube. All just to prove I haven't got Botox in my fingers... Bertram
Bertram said: All just to prove I haven't got Botox in my fingers... HAHA! I know what you mean! I got that better digicam, which I'm hardly using, because the webcam is still so much more convenient.... but when I have videoed myself with the new camera, I'm like..... LORDY! Look at that chicken skin!
A very cool tune that I'm putting on my list to learn--and the title is a big bonus, especially the way Bertram says it.
Catching up, here's this tune played on my Slingerland Tenor Banjo, in Irish Tuning (GDAE)
Humorous, honkytonk version, Barb! Surprisingly much sustain for a banjo, just like I used to like it back when I played one myself. Somehow, I can imagine Huck Finn playing it while rafting down the Mississippi... Bertram
That's a lovely tune!! I was about to start learning it some year ago as a part of a little similar project on the concertina forum but never did. I don't fancy too much playing Irish music (I do enjoy listening to others doing it, though), but this tune is too nice to not start working on!!
Susi, you just might find you change your mind about playing Irish music! We seem to have quite a lot of it here in our little social group, and they are all so much fun!
Maybe I'll enjoy doing it when I do it just for myself and not along with a lot of other musicians who play too fast. It's the curse of living in the south of Ireland where everything has to be played too fast, and my husband seems to have been affected by the same disease
Wow, Bertram, (didn't get opportunity to listen to all the vids until now) that tune on the bouzouki/mandola/OM/whatever is amazingly beautiful. Makes me want to sit down and learn to play melodies on my bouzouki...
Here's my try... http://vimeo.com/5476730 Chris
Barbara, I'm really digging your tenor banjo. I've got the itch. I GOT to get one of those! TBAS! Very nice job on the tune! Me likes!
Warning.... TB can be addictive! I LOVE mine!
Chris, way to go. Sounds like you've been hanging out at the local session.
I love this tune, too. I enjoyed hearing all your versions, especially octave and banjo. I realized after recording this I've somehow lost some of the triplets in the course of playing with flutes and whistles that ornament like mad. I need to work those back in. This changes key and ends up in the original.
Mike, cool! I like key changes within tunes....
That's the style, Mike - playing an Irish tune in a green shirt, matching your avatar... Looks like any moment you'll march out with your team for a game of Hurling after preparatory percussive mandolin playing Bertram
Ha ha Bertram! I imagine in Germany, Hurling must be a game... but here, it brings to mind 'spewing' or 'puking'... as in what you do when you've downed just a FEW too many!
Barb, Hurling is one of the oldest Celtic sports, played within the GAA in Ireland. It is a bit like Hockey, only faster and more brutal. I think this was the inspiration for Quidditch. Bertram
Yeah, a little too percussive when I listen to it this a.m. This approach works a lot better in a band setting, with a bunch of dancers stomping away on a wood floor. ... I've never seen a Hurling game, but it looks interesting. I like the part about helmets being optional.
You've always got a great drive to your playing, Mike. That's what makes backin' you up on guitar on so much fun. I love trying to provide more propulsion to that drive! To me that's one aspect of Fire In The Belly!
I'm quite surprised that more folks here, haven't had a go at this one!
You're putting together quite a marathon Dick. I think everyone is holding their breath waiting to see if you play every song on the list. Your Sobel sounds wonderful.
This one has been on my "to learn" list for ages - I must get cracking and try to do that sometime soon! Lovely version there, Dick - I'm really enjoying all your videos tremendously!
"every song on the list" No chance Jim, I'm afraid, as Popeye would say, .. "I yam what I yam" .... just a one trick pony. I have had a go at a few of the tunes from other genres on the list, but I never come even close. The only chords I know are the Chord Trousers I wear sometimes, so all the great chord experts here just leave me standing. As for all that fancy double tracking stuff some of you guys do, I wouldn't even know where to begin. Still, like Harry Callahan ( Clint Eastwood ) said: "A man's got to know his limitations" Cheers Dick
If I could play as cleanly as you Dick I'd be a happy man.
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I'm revisiting this tune, this time on my Collings MT2O mandolin. I've been working on changing my right hand technique, trying to play more 'from the wrist', and have changed up how I hold my pick (slightly). I just got a new pick, it's a Blue Chip CT55 (CT stands for Chris Thile~maybe that explains my improved technique, haha!)
lovely playing there Barbara!
Sounds great Barbara. Is the MT2-0 D string issue all fixed? Hope so. Couldn't here anything wrong myself. I was sad when I saw your post about putting it away till someone could look at it. Scott
I have to get around to recording this tune sometime soon, but in the meantime, here is my favourite musician playing Banish Misfortune on guitar, in a great 1981 video showing close-ups of the fretting hand for a bit of left-hand technique when playing fiddle tunes on fretted instruments: Martin
Here is my attempt at this great tune, on my resonator tenor. Martin
That's one funny TG, Martin. Reminds me of... But then, isn't that the mood these mixolydian tunes seem to express?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_yrplmUYfM :D trying not to wake my neighbor
Nicely played etteM! What mandolin are you playing? Do you know the 3rd part of Banish Misfortune? If so, you should play that too and it would sound even better! Jim
ah, I forgot to play it.. Its a Flatbush A4.
Scandinavian mandolin players united with our Flatbush mandolins, LOL! Great playing!
:D thanks! Yes, very very happy with the mando, In some of the clips Im playing a little low because it was 2.am over here, but flatbush has plenty volume and stamina:D
You make your neighbor miss all the fun, etteM
Agrh! 1 sour note! Well, it was about the 10th take, and I'm tired, so it's just going to have to do.