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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2010Midwinter Greetings
A little something by way of New Years greetings to all on AUE: http://www.bankgatetutors.co.uk/in_the_bluegrass_winter.mp3 (I borrowed a mandoline over the holidays. Next year I hope to borrow a book on how to play it.) A peaceful and prosperous 2010 to you all. DC -- > A little something by way of New Years greetings to all on AUE: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > A peaceful and prosperous 2010 to you all. As the midnight fireworks burst into the air, in my part of London it began to snow. Ominous, or what? Permit me to second the greeting, notwithstanding. -- franzi >> A little something by way of New Years greetings to all on AUE: >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Permit me to second the greeting, notwithstanding. View from northern New Jersey: We had a pretty warm New Year's Eve day, having dug out of and melted off the snow from the storm preceding it; overnight mix starting about 9 pm before the New Year, over by morning and the roads clear to go visiting during the day. Now precip again starting about 10 pm and it looks like we might have siginificant snow again, as we did just before Christmas Day. DC: nice, bouncy version. Certainly an improvement on the somewhat strangulated baritone I heard solo the first verse on the 25th. (We are not abundantly supplied with accomplished trebles.) It might could catch on as a contradance tune...  SignatureRoland Hutchinson He calls himself "the Garden State's leading violist da gamba," ... comparable to being ruler of an exceptionally small duchy. --Newark (NJ) Star Ledger ( http://tinyurl.com/RolandIsNJ ) > >> A little something by way of New Years greetings to all on AUE: > > > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > are not abundantly supplied with accomplished trebles.) It might > could catch on as a contradance tune... Thanks Roland, and a HNY to you, too. [Looks up 'contradance' quickly] Yes, that's sort of more what I had in mind, a country dance rather than speed-metal bluegrass. I wonder if Holst actually had a folk tune in mind. Anyway, this has been sort of bubbling under since Christmas Eve - to me, Christmas starts with the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, from Kings College Cambridge (huge lush reverb), and ITBM, sung by . I toyed with lots of other Christmas melodies - the Holly and the Ivy worked well on mandoline - but in the end I thought ITBM worked best. I recorded guitar, fretless bass and two mandolines, but what it really needs is some kind of fiddle line... DC -- > >> A little something by way of New Years greetings to all on AUE: > > > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > are not abundantly supplied with accomplished trebles.) It might > could catch on as a contradance tune... (Missing bit in reply) 'a single chorister'. -- > A little something by way of New Years greetings to all on AUE: > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > DC > -- Hi Django. My firewall would not let me open that link but I hope that you come out of the experience with a full set of digits. All the best to you and yours and indeed to everyone else. > > A little something by way of New Years greetings to all on AUE: > > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > you come out of the experience with a full set of digits. All the best > to you and yours and indeed to everyone else. Thanks, Redshade, have a good one. DC -- > A little something by way of New Years greetings to all on AUE: > > http://www.bankgatetutors.co.uk/in_the_bluegrass_winter.mp3 > > (I borrowed a mandoline over the holidays. Next year I hope to > borrow a book on how to play it.) I could add a simple dobro track to that. Since it's played at about a tenth of normal bluegrass pace I could - for once - keep up. > A peaceful and prosperous 2010 to you all. And to you. SignatureJames > > A little something by way of New Years greetings to all on AUE: > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > I could add a simple dobro track to that. Sounds good. I arranged the chords: D - 3 bars A - 1 bar D - 2 bars A - 1 bar D - 1 bar G - 1 1/2 bars D - 1 1/2 bars A - 1 bar D - 1 bar A - 1 bar D - 1 bar (I had this all notatated, but in a worrying development the Cubase file has become corrupt) >Since it's played > at about a tenth of normal bluegrass pace But of course! >I could - for once - keep > up. > > > A peaceful and prosperous 2010 to you all. > > And to you. Thanks, James. Right now I'd settle for a slightly less snowy one. DC -- |
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