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EV'rybody barndance!

EV'rybody barndance!

I was messing around yesterday with Pedaling Patterns http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4178
a lovely little barndance by Charlie Lennon, when, unbidden and without malice of forethought, I segued into Master Crowley's - in barndance rhythm! It turns out that I do this quite often when in my own company (Father Kelly’s, Boy on the Hilltop, etc), as well as putting reels into strathspey time occasionally. Sometimes a barndance is just the ticket for the rhythm train I’m riding, and I’ll stop at nothing - nothing, I tell ya - but just keep taking other tunes aboard, regardless of character or origin. Does anybody else do this, or am I all alone in the club car, blearily knockin’ back pints and fiddlin’ in the corner?

# Posted on March 1st 2008 by drone

Re: EV'rybody barndance!

yes -I have done this many times I think its called Boredom,
I mostly take jigs to reels rarer reels to jigs- But it has been
done before -Ie/ Colliers Reel / jig.Though an old guy leslie
craig-{writer-Road to Ballymac} said is easy to get Waltzes
into jigs ,same sort of timeing just faster, Although you may
have to add or remove a note or to- You should try this one
next,,
jim,,,

# Posted on March 2nd 2008 by FIDDLE4

Re: EV'rybody barndance!

Right then... Barkeep! A pint for my man Jim here and the same again for me, while we pervert the rhythm of a couple of tunes for yeh.

# Posted on March 3rd 2008 by drone

Re: EV'rybody barndance!

"Hommage à Elmer Briand" ~ jig to waltz
Key signature: A Major
Submitted on July 5th 2005 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4674

'barndance' is like putting cheese in a trap for me, as are other things, so I decided to skip over this. I have been so caught up in swinging I've even done a fair Tarzan imitation literally swinging on jungle vines... fortunately for my there weren't any camera... ;-)

# Posted on March 3rd 2008 by ceolachan

'skip' over this! ~ did you catch that one?

# Posted on March 3rd 2008 by ceolachan

Re: EV'rybody barndance!

heh... well "played".

# Posted on March 4th 2008 by drone

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