Thursday 31 December 2009

Man of Ar(r)an

Spending New Year in Ayr with my brother and mother. Trying to learn the tune Man of Aran by Darach de Brun since the other Arran is in view across the water from their new house.

Here is someone playing Man of Aran very nicely...

And here are the dots....

Saturday 19 December 2009

Barham Down

Originally posted here.

I listened again to the original recording and I thought I'd do a new one. I still haven't cracked my Windows 7 latency issues. I've got the average latency down to about 333microseconds, but every once in a while there is a monster lump of about 65000 microseconds (65ms) which is well out of order.

I'm still not completely happy with the playing, but the recording is better at least! Recorded on my AT2020 with a Centrance MicPort Pro interface.



The Hampton Hornpipe



Written Summer 2009 in Water Mill, NY (i.e. in the Hamptons).



Originally posted here

Seagrass



Seagrass near Shelter Island. Written in Long Island summer 2009 while I was there for my parent's wedding.

Originally posted here.

Fairy Ring (continued)

Here is a simple recording. Its my first recording on Win7 and as you can see I haven't sorted out the latency fully - there's a glitch about 8 seconds in and another at 25ish. I need to spend more time with dpclat.exe hunting it down.


Wednesday 25 November 2009

The Fairy Ring Counterpoint

(Click on image to enlarge)
My attempt to write a counterpoint for the Fairy Ring.

ABC
ABC source follows below
X:1
T:The Fairy Ring
C:Paul Fremantle
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
H:Written at the Lewes Elephant workshop on 14th November 2009
H:With help from Johnny Dyer and Vicki Swan
K: G
V:1
~G3 edB | AGE GED | ~G3 edB | Aed ~B3 |
~G3 edB | AGE GED | Ged BAG | AdF ~G3 :|
~d3 ~e3 | dBG AFD | ded eee | dgf ~e3 |
~d3 ~e3 | dBG AFD | dgf edB | AdF ~G3 :|
V:2
~E3 edB | dBG BGF | ~E3 edB | bag ~f3 |
~E3 edB | dBG BGF | Bgf edB | agf ~e3 :|
~G3 BBB | fdB dAF | ~G3 BBB | gef ~a3 |
~G3 BBB | fdB dAF | gef edB | agf ~e3 :|

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A variation of the Northumbrian Tune - "Welcome to the Town Again"

X:1
T:Out of the Town Again
C: Fremantle
R:Reel
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:G
gfgd cBAG | gfgd eAA2 | gfgd cBAG | BdAc BGG2 :|
cBdA cBGG | cBdc BcAA | cBdc Bcde | fgdA cBGG :|

Sunday 15 November 2009

The Fairy Ring



I was at a workshop on smallpipes run by Vicki Swan and Johnny Dyer. One of the things we did was to write a tune. This is mine.

ABC source follows below
X:1
T:The Fairy Ring
C:Paul Fremantle
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
H:Written at the Lewes Elephant workshop on 14th November 2009
H:With help from Johnny Dyer and Vicki Swan
K: G
GFG edB | AGE GED | GFG edB | Aed ~B3 |
~G3 edB | AGE GED | Ged BAG | AdF G3 :|
ded ~e3 | dBG AFD | ded ~e3 | dgf e3 |
~d3 ~e3 | dBG AFD | dgf edB | AdF G3 :|