Another tune blog!

I was looking up a tune on Folktunefinder this morning and I noticed the site redesign. Firstly, congratulations - it looks great. Secondly I noticed that the good folks there (i.e. Joe) have set it up so that you can blog ABC and it puts a nice page of notation in the blog too. Since it also indexes your tunes, I thought it would be a good place to repost the tunes I've written. Ok maybe this is just duplication, but it only took 10 minutes :-)

So here is my folktunefinder blog.

Mothering Sunday

And here is the ABC as usual:

X: 1
T:Mothering Sunday
C:Fremantle
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
K:D
DFA dAF | GBd gdB | agf efd | cdB AGF |
DFA dAF | GBd gdB | agf efd | Adc d3 :|
Ffe dcB | Ggf edc | Aag fed | cBA GFE |
DFA dAF | GBd gdB | Aag fed | Adc d3 :|

Sunday Morning Coffee

A relaxed hornpipe, ideally played legato and only a bit dotted.

 

Here is the ABC:

X:1

T:Sunday Morning Coffee
C:Fremantle
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:D
FA | BAFA dAFA | fedc BAGF | GEed cBed | cBAG F2 FA |
BAFA dAFA | fedc BAGF | cAed cABc | eddc d2 :|
fg |afdf afdf | agfe dcBA | gece gece | gfed c2 fg |
afdf afdf | agfe d2ef | gege cABc |eddc d2 :|

The Tank

This is an old tune found in various manuscripts, such as John Clare's 1820 and George Spencer's 1831 manuscripts. It was also in the repertoire of the Bosham Band from the Welch family manuscript. I tried playing various versions and ended up doing a bit of editing to combine parts from a couple. Its a simple tune and very catchy. A nice recording by the Gloworms got me onto it.

Here is the ABC for reference.

X:1
T:The Tank
O:england
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:G
|:G2g2|E2e2|A2dc|BAG2|BcdB|cdec|d2f2g4:|
|:B2Bc|dd|eccA|GFED|B2Bc|d2d2|ecAF|G8:|

The Crinan Puffer

I wrote this tune a couple of years ago while visiting with my brother around the West Coast of Scotland. Well at least I think I wrote this tune. Who knows? Maybe I just remembered it! Crinan is a beautiful spot, the end of the Caledonian Canal, and the Puffers were a set of steam powered boats that took supplies to the Western Isles. Being overhauled at Crinan while we were there was VIC32, one of the last of the puffers still running. This tune came to me as we walked along the canal in the spring sunshine.

The Crinan Puffer by paulfremantle

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....

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.