Along the lines of the 'Mighty Craic Online' I've another proposition for you all. If individual players could submit a recording of the same tune or set, eg let's just say a popular reel - if they were to record it in standard pitch (tune their instrument with a tuner) and in contant time (played against eg a strict 120 bpm), and last but not least, play the tune in the same key - I could stitch the recordings together with my recording software and get a 'session'......then publish it somewhere on my site....taking advantage of modern technology, but keeping the music real. What say you all?
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I think it would sound cool, except for the fact that how could be all send you our sound clips? I know Im absolutely ignorant about technology and I dont see how I could get the sound clip to you. Maybe others out their are as ignorant as I am. So I guess if you had exact instructions it might work.
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Anna - record on to a minidisc, or on to your PC through the soundcard using a microphone. The resulting files will likely be in WAV or MP3 format, you then e-mail them to me. You get my address when you're ready to send the files. You can email me through thesession mail (click on 'Jim Dorans', then click on 'send an email') if you want more specific advice. Anyone else got their own tips for recording?
Q - I can filter out the worst of the hiss if it's that bad - I'm using Cakewalk Home studio to record the accumulated tracks, and a 16-channel Alesis desk to monitor and mix. The final mix is bounced down to a stereo track, and saved as an mp3 file.
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Jim, I see you're very excited with the idea. You omitted some letters in the first post.
I think it's better someone posts a set of very standard tunes recorded in a steady rhythm first, and then others follow him or her. Maybe you can do it, Jim.
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So - anyone wanting to take part, please suggest tune(s), agree on key, speed, number of times to play the parts etc...how about something really simple and well-known be the pilot, like :
McMahon's Reel (The Banshee), key of G, speed of 96 bpm (metronome mark of 96), play part A, part B, then part A, part B, then finish.
..........or............
Tobin's Favorite (Double jig), key of D, speed of 104 bpm, play part A, part B, then part A, part B, then finish.
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Jim, would you record a guide track that we could perhaps play back to ourselves over headphones as we record? That way we can synch up groove-wise too - as well as make sure we're all playing the same tune!
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"im, would you record a guide track that we could perhaps play back to ourselves over headphones as we record?"
Yep, I've done a bit of multitrack by mail, and that's the way to do it. Someone has to go first and everyone else follows.
"I've mailed you McMahon's reel"
You might want to consider just putting it up on The Mighty Craic instead of having everyone shout "me too" and having to mail it to everyone interested.
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Would it be bad form to ask for a wee bit of a slower pace? You see, the space-time down here around Table Mountain is a bit wonky, so what you guys play at a reasonable lick up there comes out #$%ing fast down here. No, seriously.
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Well I sent an MP3.
Are we meant to do one at 84BPM as well now?
Can't we have a tune I like?
(only joking)
I'm going to see Planxty tomorrow!!!!
(Had to tell someone)
Mark
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KFG, International Man Of Mystery -
Isn't this going to blow your cover - won't we recognise you from your playing? At least we'll find out WHAT you play - one piece of the puzzle will be in place!
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"Isn't this going to blow your cover - won't we recognise you from your playing?"
Naaaaaah! At least not unless you have a real taste for "old fashioned" playing (at a gig last night someone came up to me afterward to ask for my website address (don't got one. I['ve got the hosting space just sitting there empty) and told me he didn't know anyone even played like I do anymore, and he's a fine, multi-instrument musician himself. He seemed entranced. There's no accounting for taste), with a truely comprehensive recording collection (I've never released a solo album, and all the other stuff I've been on (often uncredited (how many parentheticals can I nest before I break the record?)) is out of print (Thank God) vinyl and tape of rather limited distribution in the first place. None of it is strictly ITM. Or even vaguely ITM.
I'm afraid I'm one of the lowest key solo performers you'll ever run across. I do little selfpromotion, hang in the back and just listen at sessions most of the time and prefer busking to club gigs. In fact virtually all of my formal gigs come from being solicited, rather than the other way around.
If you're thinking I'm some famous person traveling semi- incognito you can drop that idea, and I have no particular desire to be famous.
On the other hand If you've spent a lot of time on the American east coast (particularly the northeast. I've been around the world a bit, but that's my "stomping ground") there's a chance you might recognize me if you *saw* me. I stand out. From a distance. But it's my *singing* that's truely distinctive, not my playing (Ok, maybe my playing's distinctive too, but not for what I would consider the right reasons). I've got that "Best Singer" trophy I mentioned the other day, I've sung harmony for famous people and I've been told by a number of people that they can always find a workshop or songswap I'm running from half a mile away just by standing still and listening.
That's when I'm not being amplified. I've also been told I "project."
My favorite billing ever was "A tenor who doesn't suck". I love that. Makes me giggle. I like to giggle.
I've even been billed as a "legend" and a "treasure", and I'm often mistaken for someone who *is* famous (people kind of recognize me and so think I'm "somebody" and pull the "somebody" out of context, like when I was mistaken for James Taylor when I was having a chat with Livingston, or mistaken for Bill Staines when I was standing by his van waiting to have a chat with him), but really, even If I told you my name (I've already dropped that "K" is for Kevin) the odds of your recognizing it are pitifully small. I'm just "The guy with the pipe and the hat" (in Saratoga Springs that turns into a humorous "That pipe smoking son of a bitch") or maybe "The guy with the cool, beat-up old Washburn." Or sometimes "Sherlock Holmes."
And I like it that way. It affords me the sort of life I enjoy living.
Yeah, I know my profile is a bit on the coy side, but that' s just me. You'll note I'm perfectly (if by perfectly you mean "overly") loquacious in my posts.
"At least we'll find out WHAT you play . . ."
Well, in my posts I've already mentioned that I'm really just a guitar player, with a bit of whistle, oh and five string banjo, and a bit of. . .
Ok, I can bang out some sort of tune on every family of instrument but double reed (and I'll have to close that hole someday, but have you seen what even a student oboe costs?) and have played most of the individual members of the families a bit (koto and samisen are really cool). What I play depends on what I happen to possess at the moment. I always possess a guitar, a whistle, a recorder and usually some sort of small keyless flute (my quena's gone missing after a NYC gig though, and it was a real Indian made one brought back from Ecuador for me) and play them in about that order.
Instead of the complaint I've been expecting from my new, upstairs neighbor he went to the landlady and asked "How many instruments does Kevin play?"
I wouldn't say I'm of "International Standard" on any of them, but merely competent on a few. I get by well enough to keep rice in the bowl. I'm a better than average busker, but I get blown away by preteens all the time (ok, so one of them was named Mark O'Connor, but that's beside the point) and the guy who once compared my guitar playing to Norman Blake's was smoking something I don't want in *my* pipe. I've seen Norman play up close and personal like and I can't do anything like that. I finally spoke personally to my neighbor the other day and told him I hoped I wasn't driving him crazy by playing and singing at all hours. He told me, "Oh no. I like it. I haven't had to turn on my stereo for weeks."
He must know the "Norman Blake guy," or share the same supplier.
Anyone who says I can even actually play the fiddle (which includes some of my best friends) is just a lying bastard (I have an odd taste in friends).
I don't really play. Really.
I'm also told I drum like a banjo player. It was meant as a perjoritive (jokingly), although I actually think that's pretty cool, but as a fiddle player I make a good drummer who plays like a banjo player.
And besides, who said I was going to participate? : )
I just used up all the time I could have spent doing so writing this silly post.
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You should post a link to this thread in your bio, Kevin.
That was a glorious development in my life - when the neighbours stopped banging on the wall with a broom handle to shut me up and started stopping me in the hall to tell me how enjoyable it is to hear me play.
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Zina, that's just intermediate results so far - I'm now working on mixing the three of us together. So when there are more players, it *will* be one big track! OK?
Just wondering if anyone out there could tell me what the difference is between mp3 and mpeg audio. Sometimes I download what is supposedly an MP3 but it becomes an mpeg audio on my computer.
I have problems then importing that format into Audacity or other programs as it doesn't seem to like that format. Can I just edit the file extension name to *.mp3 without it jumping up and grabbing me by the throat?
It will take me some time (home computer internet is down) but I will add accompaniment to some of these files when I get a chance and then it's up to Jim to decide what he does with them if he gets too many accompaniment offerings.
This is a great project - I take my hat off to you Jim.
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I dunno what mpegs are, Donnough, but there's a free program called "Blade" that you can drag and drop them onto that turns all kinds of audio into MP3. Works great. It's a free download.
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Sounds like fun to me - we do need some kind of beginning though.. an mp3 of a melody and maybe a rhythm instrument that everyone could play to when they make their recording - I'd be happy to help with file management/mixing/recording suggestions..
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And I know where to find pool table noises, televised sporting events and smashing glass, not too mention a half a dozen interesting cartoon sound effects...
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Yea, you can hear Kerri's masterpiece, complete with sound effects, featured under my name on the "Mighty Craic On Line" page. After I drew fangs on her piccie, I wondered where she disappeared to for so long. I knew she was going to retaliate, but I had no idea it would involve so much time and effort... not to mention talent. She probably did it when she was supposed to be working.
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I swear it only took me a half hour. OK, maybe a little longer to find a "SHADDUP!" MP3 download and exactly the right smashing glass effect. Revenge is sweet, but not THAT sweet.
And no, I wasn't supposed to be working at the time. NOW I'm supposed to be working. One must be subtle about these things. I think I'd blow my cover if I set up mic stands in my cubicle.
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Cmon, the clip is what, 15 seconds long? Times (thinking) 6 instruments (7 if you count the bodhran). That's only a minute and 45 seconds of actual recording time. The other 28 and a quarter minutes I just spent giggling.
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No, I was in fact sort of working. but instead of making comments I was plotting and chuckling softly to myself. I had to wait 2 whole hours to finish work so I could come home and execute my little ploy. Then I only had a short window between the end of work and the Monday night session, so I had to be efficient.
It is true that finding sound effects online is time consuming. I might have to get a nice CD library so I can retaliate quicker next time.
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I agree KFG, I think Kerri should really consider cosmetic dentistry and get fang implants. She could use that photo as an illustration for the dentist of what she wants. I think it really enhances her wild personality and biting wit.
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Don't worry, Kevin. I do look like that, except Jack was kind enough to swap my hideous buck teeth for those sensuous vampire canines. (I think he did something generous to my crossed eyes and monobrow too.)
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lol, I just got the craziest idea that if that chin thing is made of rubber I could get the guitar player to unplug me while I'm playing tunes so that all that unswallowed beer I've forgotten about will drain right out and I can call out the next key more intelligibly.
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And don't get me started on your money.
(That two dollar bill I mentioned in the "What's in your case" thread is actually Canadian. Hey, ya never know where you'll wake up in the morning. I've got a Bermuda dime in my pick case too, just in case I wake up in Hamilton and have to call someone to come get me)
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i own the 6th, 7th, and 8th two dollar bills ever printed. My sisters have the 3rd, 4th and 5th, and the 9th, 10th and 11th. I have no idea if they're actually worth anything besides their actual face value.
My dad worked at the US Assay Office -- San Francisco Mint, y'see.
Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
Along the lines of the 'Mighty Craic Online' I've another proposition for you all. If individual players could submit a recording of the same tune or set, eg let's just say a popular reel - if they were to record it in standard pitch (tune their instrument with a tuner) and in contant time (played against eg a strict 120 bpm), and last but not least, play the tune in the same key - I could stitch the recordings together with my recording software and get a 'session'......then publish it somewhere on my site....taking advantage of modern technology, but keeping the music real. What say you all?
http://www.worldfiddlemusic.co.uk/
Jim
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Worldfiddler
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I think it would sound cool, except for the fact that how could be all send you our sound clips? I know Im absolutely ignorant about technology and I dont see how I could get the sound clip to you. Maybe others out their are as ignorant as I am. So I guess if you had exact instructions it might work.
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by banana512
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Ambitious. I suspect there'll be trouble with the accumulated ambient hiss, but I'm up for it. What'll you be using to mix it down?
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Q
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Sounds like an idea. The result will probably be... interesting.
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Pontus Adefjord
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Anna - record on to a minidisc, or on to your PC through the soundcard using a microphone. The resulting files will likely be in WAV or MP3 format, you then e-mail them to me. You get my address when you're ready to send the files. You can email me through thesession mail (click on 'Jim Dorans', then click on 'send an email') if you want more specific advice. Anyone else got their own tips for recording?
Q - I can filter out the worst of the hiss if it's that bad - I'm using Cakewalk Home studio to record the accumulated tracks, and a 16-channel Alesis desk to monitor and mix. The final mix is bounced down to a stereo track, and saved as an mp3 file.
Jim
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
Jim, I see you're very excited with the idea. You omitted some letters in the first post.
I think it's better someone posts a set of very standard tunes recorded in a steady rhythm first, and then others follow him or her. Maybe you can do it, Jim.
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by slainte
Re: Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
So - anyone wanting to take part, please suggest tune(s), agree on key, speed, number of times to play the parts etc...how about something really simple and well-known be the pilot, like :
McMahon's Reel (The Banshee), key of G, speed of 96 bpm (metronome mark of 96), play part A, part B, then part A, part B, then finish.
..........or............
Tobin's Favorite (Double jig), key of D, speed of 104 bpm, play part A, part B, then part A, part B, then finish.
...that sort of thing, just to see.
Jim
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Worldfiddler
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...cross posted with you, Slainte. I think I got all the letters in that time!
Jim
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Worldfiddler
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Jim, would you record a guide track that we could perhaps play back to ourselves over headphones as we record? That way we can synch up groove-wise too - as well as make sure we're all playing the same tune!
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Q
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That sounds so cool! I am definitely up for this! A guide track would be useful. McMahon's Reel here we come!
Vix
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Vix
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OK, Q and Vix - I've mailed you McMahon's reel, key of G, speed = 104 bpm, played through twice.
Jim
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Worldfiddler
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Send it to me too, Dorans. You know the address.
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Zina Lee
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BTW, how're you going to figure out which of our backers to use? Or are you going to have all of them going at it at the same time?
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Zina Lee
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I'd love to give it a go! Send me copy as well.
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Pontus Adefjord
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"im, would you record a guide track that we could perhaps play back to ourselves over headphones as we record?"
Yep, I've done a bit of multitrack by mail, and that's the way to do it. Someone has to go first and everyone else follows.
"I've mailed you McMahon's reel"
You might want to consider just putting it up on The Mighty Craic instead of having everyone shout "me too" and having to mail it to everyone interested.
And I see you've bumped the speed up.
KFG
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by KFG
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This session is getting too big. I'm going to the bar.
(Just kidding, send me a track, Jim, I'll do something crazy to it.)
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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Yeah, she'll just play it...! (Kidding, I'm kidding!)
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Zina Lee
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OK guys, I've cobbled together a temp bit of space to upload stuff to ... so McMahons and anything else is up there at
http://worldfiddlemusic.co.uk/virtualsession/
OK, Ms Session Princess Zina?
As for the backers, first come, first served, and space and time permitting, I could do different mixes if there is more than one
backing contributor.
Kerri, mines a pint of London Pride ale, dear. And be quick aboot it!!
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Worldfiddler
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KFG mentioned about the speed - I tried to make halfway between slow session speed and Scottish speed - is it OK?
Jim
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Worldfiddler
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Would it be bad form to ask for a wee bit of a slower pace? You see, the space-time down here around Table Mountain is a bit wonky, so what you guys play at a reasonable lick up there comes out #$%ing fast down here. No, seriously.
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Q
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Slower? No problem - it's up there now at 84 bpm.
http://worldfiddlemusic.co.uk/virtualsession/
Jim
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Worldfiddler
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Well I sent an MP3.
Are we meant to do one at 84BPM as well now?
Can't we have a tune I like?
(only joking)
I'm going to see Planxty tomorrow!!!!
(Had to tell someone)
Mark
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Ottery
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KFG, International Man Of Mystery -
Isn't this going to blow your cover - won't we recognise you from your playing? At least we'll find out WHAT you play - one piece of the puzzle will be in place!
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Ottery
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What we need here is an ITM podcast.
That's it, and I'm saying it.
# Posted on January 30th 2005 by bt
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"Isn't this going to blow your cover - won't we recognise you from your playing?"
Naaaaaah! At least not unless you have a real taste for "old fashioned" playing (at a gig last night someone came up to me afterward to ask for my website address (don't got one. I['ve got the hosting space just sitting there empty) and told me he didn't know anyone even played like I do anymore, and he's a fine, multi-instrument musician himself. He seemed entranced. There's no accounting for taste), with a truely comprehensive recording collection (I've never released a solo album, and all the other stuff I've been on (often uncredited (how many parentheticals can I nest before I break the record?)) is out of print (Thank God) vinyl and tape of rather limited distribution in the first place. None of it is strictly ITM. Or even vaguely ITM.
I'm afraid I'm one of the lowest key solo performers you'll ever run across. I do little selfpromotion, hang in the back and just listen at sessions most of the time and prefer busking to club gigs. In fact virtually all of my formal gigs come from being solicited, rather than the other way around.
If you're thinking I'm some famous person traveling semi- incognito you can drop that idea, and I have no particular desire to be famous.
On the other hand If you've spent a lot of time on the American east coast (particularly the northeast. I've been around the world a bit, but that's my "stomping ground") there's a chance you might recognize me if you *saw* me. I stand out. From a distance. But it's my *singing* that's truely distinctive, not my playing (Ok, maybe my playing's distinctive too, but not for what I would consider the right reasons). I've got that "Best Singer" trophy I mentioned the other day, I've sung harmony for famous people and I've been told by a number of people that they can always find a workshop or songswap I'm running from half a mile away just by standing still and listening.
That's when I'm not being amplified. I've also been told I "project."
My favorite billing ever was "A tenor who doesn't suck". I love that. Makes me giggle. I like to giggle.
I've even been billed as a "legend" and a "treasure", and I'm often mistaken for someone who *is* famous (people kind of recognize me and so think I'm "somebody" and pull the "somebody" out of context, like when I was mistaken for James Taylor when I was having a chat with Livingston, or mistaken for Bill Staines when I was standing by his van waiting to have a chat with him), but really, even If I told you my name (I've already dropped that "K" is for Kevin) the odds of your recognizing it are pitifully small. I'm just "The guy with the pipe and the hat" (in Saratoga Springs that turns into a humorous "That pipe smoking son of a bitch") or maybe "The guy with the cool, beat-up old Washburn." Or sometimes "Sherlock Holmes."
And I like it that way. It affords me the sort of life I enjoy living.
Yeah, I know my profile is a bit on the coy side, but that' s just me. You'll note I'm perfectly (if by perfectly you mean "overly") loquacious in my posts.
"At least we'll find out WHAT you play . . ."
Well, in my posts I've already mentioned that I'm really just a guitar player, with a bit of whistle, oh and five string banjo, and a bit of. . .
Ok, I can bang out some sort of tune on every family of instrument but double reed (and I'll have to close that hole someday, but have you seen what even a student oboe costs?) and have played most of the individual members of the families a bit (koto and samisen are really cool). What I play depends on what I happen to possess at the moment. I always possess a guitar, a whistle, a recorder and usually some sort of small keyless flute (my quena's gone missing after a NYC gig though, and it was a real Indian made one brought back from Ecuador for me) and play them in about that order.
Instead of the complaint I've been expecting from my new, upstairs neighbor he went to the landlady and asked "How many instruments does Kevin play?"
I wouldn't say I'm of "International Standard" on any of them, but merely competent on a few. I get by well enough to keep rice in the bowl. I'm a better than average busker, but I get blown away by preteens all the time (ok, so one of them was named Mark O'Connor, but that's beside the point) and the guy who once compared my guitar playing to Norman Blake's was smoking something I don't want in *my* pipe. I've seen Norman play up close and personal like and I can't do anything like that. I finally spoke personally to my neighbor the other day and told him I hoped I wasn't driving him crazy by playing and singing at all hours. He told me, "Oh no. I like it. I haven't had to turn on my stereo for weeks."
He must know the "Norman Blake guy," or share the same supplier.
Anyone who says I can even actually play the fiddle (which includes some of my best friends) is just a lying bastard (I have an odd taste in friends).
I don't really play. Really.
I'm also told I drum like a banjo player. It was meant as a perjoritive (jokingly), although I actually think that's pretty cool, but as a fiddle player I make a good drummer who plays like a banjo player.
And besides, who said I was going to participate? : )
I just used up all the time I could have spent doing so writing this silly post.
KFG
# Posted on January 30th 2005 by KFG
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You should post a link to this thread in your bio, Kevin.
That was a glorious development in my life - when the neighbours stopped banging on the wall with a broom handle to shut me up and started stopping me in the hall to tell me how enjoyable it is to hear me play.
# Posted on January 30th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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Is there a deadline for this? I'm not sure when I'll be able to do the recording...
# Posted on January 30th 2005 by Pontus Adefjord
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Right, space-time's behaving this morning (or else my fingers are more limber today) so I've posted my McMahon's clips at both speeds.
My neighbours had also stopped complaining. Until two days ago, when I took up the fiddle by mistake. Man... bowing is *difficult* !!
# Posted on January 30th 2005 by Q
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You're telling me!
# Posted on January 30th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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Pobe - no deadline. Just do it when you're ready.
Ottery and Q - you're up there now playing with me.
Everyone else - the site is called
http://worldfiddlemusic.co.uk/virtualsession/
The top list is the master version of tunes. Anyone who wishes can download and record their instrument using these to play with.
The lower list contains the results of the mixes, and who is playing on them.
Jim
# Posted on January 30th 2005 by Worldfiddler
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You're the man! ;)
# Posted on January 30th 2005 by Pontus Adefjord
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But I thought we were putting them all together into one big track?
# Posted on January 30th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Zina, that's just intermediate results so far - I'm now working on mixing the three of us together. So when there are more players, it *will* be one big track! OK?
Jim
# Posted on January 30th 2005 by Worldfiddler
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*smirk* Okay, Jim. I have to borrow Beth's mini disc recorder before I can do mine.
# Posted on January 30th 2005 by Zina Lee
Virtual session -Question on file formats
Just wondering if anyone out there could tell me what the difference is between mp3 and mpeg audio. Sometimes I download what is supposedly an MP3 but it becomes an mpeg audio on my computer.
I have problems then importing that format into Audacity or other programs as it doesn't seem to like that format. Can I just edit the file extension name to *.mp3 without it jumping up and grabbing me by the throat?
It will take me some time (home computer internet is down) but I will add accompaniment to some of these files when I get a chance and then it's up to Jim to decide what he does with them if he gets too many accompaniment offerings.
This is a great project - I take my hat off to you Jim.
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Donough
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Jim, Ottery and Q all playing together now........
http://worldfiddlemusic.co.uk/virtualsession/
Jim
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Worldfiddler
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*high five's Jim & Mark*
Virtual pioneers are we. Anyone laughs, sniggers or smirks I'll bliksem you.
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Q
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OK Vix, you're in the tune now. Audio placement from left to right is Q, Jim, Ottery, Vix
http://worldfiddlemusic.co.uk/virtualsession/ ... item 4
Jim
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Worldfiddler
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I dunno what mpegs are, Donnough, but there's a free program called "Blade" that you can drag and drop them onto that turns all kinds of audio into MP3. Works great. It's a free download.
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Kerri Brown
Re: Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
Turns out I'm a dirty liar. Blade is no longer available for free download due to some nonsense about patented programming language or something.
But I reckon I could email it to you if you're interested. Don't tell The Man.
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Kerri Brown
Re: Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
....and Jonny is there now too.
http://worldfiddlemusic.co.uk/virtualsession/ item 5
Jim
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Worldfiddler
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The "mp" in mp3 stands for "mpeg." The "3" stands for "Audio Layer 3". Don't even think about asking what "mpeg" stands for. mp3s are mpeg audio.
Go here to find out far more than you want to know about this, direct from the Fraunhofer's mouth:
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/techinf/layer3/
KFG
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by KFG
Re: Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
Grego, you're there now.
http://worldfiddlemusic.co.uk/virtualsession/ ...item 6
Jim
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
Sounds like fun to me - we do need some kind of beginning though.. an mp3 of a melody and maybe a rhythm instrument that everyone could play to when they make their recording - I'd be happy to help with file management/mixing/recording suggestions..
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by MixArtist
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And I know where to find pool table noises, televised sporting events and smashing glass, not too mention a half a dozen interesting cartoon sound effects...
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Kerri Brown
Re: Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
Yea, you can hear Kerri's masterpiece, complete with sound effects, featured under my name on the "Mighty Craic On Line" page. After I drew fangs on her piccie, I wondered where she disappeared to for so long. I knew she was going to retaliate, but I had no idea it would involve so much time and effort... not to mention talent. She probably did it when she was supposed to be working.
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Phantom Button
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I'm *so* glad you explained all that, Jack. You have no idea how many people e-mailed me about that photo. They thought she really looked like that.
Jim
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Worldfiddler
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hahahahahaha
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Phantom Button
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I swear it only took me a half hour. OK, maybe a little longer to find a "SHADDUP!" MP3 download and exactly the right smashing glass effect. Revenge is sweet, but not THAT sweet.
And no, I wasn't supposed to be working at the time. NOW I'm supposed to be working. One must be subtle about these things. I think I'd blow my cover if I set up mic stands in my cubicle.
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Kerri Brown
Re: Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
A half hour... uh huh.
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Phantom Button
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Cmon, the clip is what, 15 seconds long? Times (thinking) 6 instruments (7 if you count the bodhran). That's only a minute and 45 seconds of actual recording time. The other 28 and a quarter minutes I just spent giggling.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
Re: Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
Then why were you gone so long? Certainly not because you were working -- we wouldn't believe that.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Phantom Button
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No, I was in fact sort of working. but instead of making comments I was plotting and chuckling softly to myself. I had to wait 2 whole hours to finish work so I could come home and execute my little ploy. Then I only had a short window between the end of work and the Monday night session, so I had to be efficient.
It is true that finding sound effects online is time consuming. I might have to get a nice CD library so I can retaliate quicker next time.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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"They thought she really looked like that."
Oh man, you mean she doesn't?
All my dreams are shattered. You'll have to excuse me, I need to go curl up in the corner and have a good cry.
I really liked Jack's submission to The Mighty Craic though. I thought it truely captured the Irish spirit.
KFG
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by KFG
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I agree KFG, I think Kerri should really consider cosmetic dentistry and get fang implants. She could use that photo as an illustration for the dentist of what she wants. I think it really enhances her wild personality and biting wit.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Phantom Button
Re: Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
Don't worry, Kevin. I do look like that, except Jack was kind enough to swap my hideous buck teeth for those sensuous vampire canines. (I think he did something generous to my crossed eyes and monobrow too.)
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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All I did was draw the fangs, Kerri. I couldn't believe that was all I needed to do to get such terrific results.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Phantom Button
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Jack, it's in the works, but I won't be able to afford the fangs until I've paid off my coral forehead implants.
http://www.stevehaworth.com/portfolio/enigma.htm
(believe it or not, I've actually met that guy.)
Do you guys think I should have this done to my tongue?
http://www.stevehaworth.com/graphics/gallery/other/steph_tongue2.jpg
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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And do you think I should get ... whatever this is... done to my chin?
http://www.stevehaworth.com/portfolio/implants/implants_frances.htm
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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"Jim, did you mean Victual Session? I'll bring the saucisson. Full marks for innovative accomplishment BTW."
Yes, well, just be sure to bring some silver if I'm not wanted... ;)
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Pádraig
Re: Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
lol, I just got the craziest idea that if that chin thing is made of rubber I could get the guitar player to unplug me while I'm playing tunes so that all that unswallowed beer I've forgotten about will drain right out and I can call out the next key more intelligibly.
I'm going for it.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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Pardon me, buddy, I'm not American, eh?
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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A sound investment, David. If you get sick of your Amercian lapdog of a government, you could always come for an extended visit.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
Re: Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
(Amercian?)
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
Re: Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
Well, our new guy wants a piece of the Star Wars program, so I guess there's morons in power everywhere these days. Don't take it too hard.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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"Well, our new guy wants a piece of the Star Wars program. . ."
We've been calling you The Maple Leaf State for years already here.
KFG
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by KFG
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Shows what you know,
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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And your mothers dress you funny.
KFG
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by KFG
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Excuse me, *we* dress our *mothers* funny, thank you very much.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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And don't get me started on your money.
(That two dollar bill I mentioned in the "What's in your case" thread is actually Canadian. Hey, ya never know where you'll wake up in the morning. I've got a Bermuda dime in my pick case too, just in case I wake up in Hamilton and have to call someone to come get me)
KFG
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by KFG
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I have a bunch of American two dollar bills I got as tips working in a hotel 12 years ago. I hear they're quite unique.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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For sufficiently low values of "unique."
But they are rare enough that I acutally once had a clueless kid at a convenience store call his manager over before he'd take it.
KFG
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by KFG
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i own the 6th, 7th, and 8th two dollar bills ever printed. My sisters have the 3rd, 4th and 5th, and the 9th, 10th and 11th. I have no idea if they're actually worth anything besides their actual face value.
My dad worked at the US Assay Office -- San Francisco Mint, y'see.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Zina Lee
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They're worth less and less everyday, Zina, the way the US economy is going.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Phantom Button
Re: Vitual session - bringing all you guys together
Jode and Donough are now playing together - "The Dawn / Glens of Aherlow (Reels)"
http://worldfiddlemusic.co.uk/virtualsession/
Jim
# Posted on February 8th 2005 by Worldfiddler