This week's winner is Sailor's Hornpipe. Most of you know this tune in the back of your mind, even if you've never played it. Here's Mickey Cochran's arrangement in standard notation & mandolin TAB from the folk of the wood website. (Key of G) Here's a pretty hokey (but cool) midi I just found. Here's the ABC from www.thesession.org (key of D) X: 1 T: Sailor's, The M: 4/4 L: 1/8 R: hornpipe K: Dmaj dc |: d2 D2 D2 AG | FAdc dfed |e2 EF ^GBed |ce a2 a2 bc' | d'c'ba bagf | gfed edcB | AcBd cfeg |[1 f2 d2 d2 dc :|[2 f2 d2 dBAG || |: FAdA FAdA | B2 G2 G2 BA | ^GBeB GBeB | c2 A2 A2 gf | g2 b2 bagf | gfed edcB | AcBd cfeg |[1 f2 d2 dBAG :|[2 f2 d2 d2 dc || I play this tune in D. This ought to be enough to get ya'll started. It just started snowing again....yay
Mike Oldfield eat your heart out...
It's raining here... and you know what they say about So. Cal. rain...
This is what got me (and a lot of other people) started on multitracking. Not quite the Sailor's Horpipe, though, a slightly different tune called "Barnacle Bill".
OS, that's the most awesome YouTube video I've ever witnessed! Throw down that multi-track challenge!
Actually it's not Barnacle Bill, which is quite, um, NAUGHTY and would get us all banished from the Caf'e forever after spending 8 years in the US Navy I know more than a few bawdey tunes and back-room ballads Cheers Michael
For those on the west side of the pond (Atlantic Ocean) the Blue Peter is the flag shown on a ship about to leave a harbour. In the video the tune is the theme for a childrens' magazine programme which started in the very late 50s and is still being produced. Google it or check Wikipedia. One of the male presenters was expected to do daring things like parachuting or jumping into freezing lake in the Arctic. Mike Oldfield was (is), although a folkie, a leader in experimental music, his Tubular Bells album is one of the 10 top ten ever in the UK. Again check Wikipedia. The presenters were expected to be very virtuous and wholesome, although one or two were found to have had the odd trip.
Is this a hornpipe? I know I'm not a sailor... Oh, Michael, the Blue Peter theme is called Barnacle Bill, it's just not the Barnacle Bill you know because, well, it was a kids' show after all. The tune and lyrics you refer to are well known on land and sea, near and far
When I referred to Mike Oldfield above, I was referring to his rendition of "The Sailor's Hornpipe" at Montreux - I believe he played it on a Gibby F4. Anyway, it's probably on utube...
That's really nice David.
Thanks Eddie. This one, perhaps:
I plan to do it like that but in reverse.... I'll start slowly and go even slower until I stop... or fade away...
OS, that's great... it's a bluegrass hornpipe!
OS, I think that would be labeled a cornpipe. Nice job!
Great job as always, OS. I just returned to snowy Chicago from vacationing where it is warm and see that I have a lot of catching up to do. I didn't have any instruments with me and will now have to suffer to regain my calloused fingertips. Tom
Thanks guys - I like "cornpipe" Good to have you back in town, Tom.
The Gaelic for a Hornpipe is Cornphiopa - probably not by accident...
OS, great sound, great playing. And, as always, the bar is now very high for us earthlings.
OS, really great playing! Oh, and Whew, i was worried we might be waxing a bit blue with barnacle bill and all, glad you cleared that up. Ironically enough, the only person i ever met who knew all the "real" words to that song was a Council-woman in Boston, Mass. go figure. Slante' MIchael
great stuff OS!
Ok, here's mine. I didn't have to learn this tune, but, in multi-tracking in GarageBand, and having to play rhythm on my cittern (something I'm still in the beginners stage of!), I was having to learn that part. In addition to rhythm on my Petersen cittern, I'm also playing melody on my Petersen cittern, Collings MT2O mandolin & Slingerland May Bell tenor banjo.
Well done Barb, that sounds brilliant! Your tenor banjo sounds great!
Babara, really great!!! (but i lost count. was it 4 or 5 tracks?) How cool is THAT?? THX Michael
Thanks! 4 tracks: cittern rhythm/chords, cittern melody, mandolin melody, tenor banjo melody.
Nicely played, Barbara. You're coming on well with the Garage Band software - isn't multi-tracking great fun! It's also a great learning tool, as you have to get everything in time and sync and then work on arranging the tune and backing tracks, getting a balance, etc. I'm working on a version of Hector the Hero right now, using guitar and octave mandolin and giving the cello synth a rest! Late as usual but will get it posted soon, I hope. Knowing that others will listen to it makes you try that much harder. Well done, again.
Excellent Barb, very melodic.
Very Nice, Barbara you're becoming quite the multi-track aficionado. Here's my try on my Fletcher tenor guitar tuned GDAE with back up on guitar and bass.
Nice David! I love it when you play your tenor guitar!
Nice playing from all above. I'm enjoying the multi-tracking. Here is my attempt, played on my Flood-Tone. Sorry, no multi-tracking from me although I did include a special feature at the end. I learned this tune a long time ago, mostly to use for comic effect during trips out on the river in our rowboat.
Keith, Nice playing. Sometimes it's nice to just have pure mandolin on these. Your house seems infested with hobbits. I also had one, although he's growing, and will reach elven height soon. But I guess that's what happens if you keep feeding them...
That gets my vote for the best thing I'll see today, and it's super bowl sunday, when there's lots to see on TV! I also agree with totally enjoying mandolin solos..... Your mando is sweeeeet sounding!
Thanks! Finding a quiet space to do a video in my small house is always a challenge.
Great playing, Keith.
Here is my version with poor man's 'multi-tracking', i.e., Band-in-a-Box plays bass through my PC speakers.
manfred, nice clean picking there!
Nice Manfred. Smooth and lively.
Very nice. I love this tune, it's so Jolly...
Here's my version played on a Dearstone D1A...
