Just thought I'd let you in on some statistics here, after looking at figures in my site admin account, as in what the world decided to download from the Mighty Craic Online site, - remember, this is the top ten, and it's exactly what visitors decided to download just after seeing the pics, and reading the text, and the tune set names, without first having heard the audio (admittedly a large amount of visitors are members of thesession.org.....) The actual amounts of downloads per contributor average about 100 per month. The amounts of downloads are ranked from 1 to 10, with 1 being the highest number of downloads, and 10 the lowest.
1 : Ceciltguitar - St Patrick's Day
2: Jim Dorans - Parkinson's Glory reel set
3: Kerri Brown (just the photo)
4: Conan Mc Donnell - Jenny's Chickens set
5: Jack Gilder - unnamed
6: MM - Deep Channel set
7: Donough - Carolans Draught
8: Grego and Gzeg - Geese set
9: Ketida - Willie and Mary
10: Jode - The Dawn set
I just visited "Mighty Craic" for the first last week & enjoyed browsing the files. I trust none of the other contributers will take it as a snub if I single out Jode's "the Dawn Set" as particularly impressive. If you're reading this Jode: lovely fiddling.
Thanks again for your work to host the mighty craic online project.
I am not surprised that the top download was the first tune by what was the first alphabetical presenter, which for most of the month was me. Many people will click on the first tune available just out of ease of selection. You have put so much time into this already that I am hesitant to ask, but would it be possible to consider some sort of rotation so that everyone gets a chance to be at the top of the page?
I have hung out here long enough to know that although I have included traditional Irish tunes in my repertoire for a long time, I have not been "schooled" in the tradition. I am not really familiar with all the "proper" ornamentation, which, since participating in this site, I have come to know is really critical to "correct" interpretation of this music to those who are in this tradition....which is where this music came from and is mostly all about, and which I respect. What I am saying here, in a long winded, twisted, grammatically incorrect way, is that I am a little uncomfortable being at the top of the page representing a tradition in which I am really an admiring outsider. I wonder if those "in" the tradition have cringed at hearing my renditions. (In fact, I cringe a bit....when hearing the slight intonation problems and loss of the beat in spots.....) Hopefully they just get a good natured laugh. But my point is, do you really want these politically incorrect renditions at the top of the page? (I don't know how to do the emoticons). Well, at least it isn't ITM - rap fusion. (Just kidding, GRY, I have enjoyed listening to some of your tracks.)
Don't worry Cecil, by the time AaronB, ACT, Ainsha, Antikhntr, B2Jay, Banana512, Bannerman, Bard, BB, BegF, Berserker, BestCraic, Billie, BobHimself, Bodhran Bliss, Bren, Brendan, Buskersean, and Cath, to name but a few, have sent their tunes in, you'll be way down the list and complaining that no-one gets down as far as you ....
Which is all the more reason that people who's names begin with Z should get their fingers out now(!)
Wow... according to the list my doctoring of Kerri's photo won out over Kerri's fabrication of my mp3 submission. But what's even more amazing is that both of our pieces rated in the top 5. We could produce a winning CD if Kerri did the music and I did the graphics, including lots of doctored photos of Kerri.
Due respect to Kerri's fangs and all the rest, but people should also be checking out Mattrick's work! I am surprised he wasn't on the list. Killer stuff!
Hahaha, I'll bet you have it fine, Stefan. If it sounds like your driving over wee little hills all in a row on the road between Boyle and Gurteen -- you're there. I haven't recorded that tune, and I don't have a way to record myself onto mp3s, so I can't offer a woeful demonstration of how it sounds... sorry.
In Irish, bh is pronounced like a w or a v, depending on the situation. So "Pbbbbbbhhhttt" is pronounced "Pbbbvvvttt" or "Pbbbwwwttt" or maybe "Pbbbvwvttt", assuming that the b's and h's commute. I think the last one is right. It seems to mean that when bb drives her Volkswagon in Vermont using leaded gasoline, it'll be the day she quits drinking. I hope that helps.
My pick for the Pbbbwwwttt! emoticon (hope he works this time). I think the next person to use the computer my ask about the dried slobber marks on the monitor. It would help to have a little kid around to blame.
So when are Kerri and Jack getting married? It's so obvious they way they josh and rib each other in public - sounds like true love in disguise if you ask me. Come on, you guys, you're not foolin' anyone. When's the big day?
That's the emoticon for someone expecting to be killed by the wife for merely thinking about having a casual sexual relationship with a mad girl from Montreal?
I'd wondered what that one meant...
So where are all the submissions from the rest of you guys that haven't participated yet. Are you just waiting for the tune you sent to the original project or what??
I think it's time that everyone got up and sent in their contribution or else..................
Yeah I reckon Jode's contribution was really good but I've told him that already and I agree that it is a little weird that Mattick's doesn't rate a mention - maybe he was just too polished
So let's have some more tunes and maybe Jeremy could put in a section for this like a permanent discussion subject or linkage to the Craic site.
Well, now that I'm back home I can start sending stuff to Jim again from the original submissions. As for my own, I'm waiting til I get a little more accustomed to my new fiddle...that's my excuse and I'm standing by it...
Mighty Reverend Zina
Good to see you are yourself again. Can't wait for all those tune/recording submissions to start appearing in the craics.
As for your fiddle: If the new one is not as good as the old one (to which you were accustomed) then record on the old one. If the new one is better you should sound even better already. Anyway you must already have a recording.
Now what about Will's recording - I really want to hear that.
Just a suggestion for Will - do you think that you could do a set of tunes for Jack to record over to make a duet. Now that would be something!!!!
Yea, good idea, Donough. Will can record himself playing a single jig and I'll play it as a slide on another track. That would be something. But first I'd have to check with my collaboration partner and see if it would be ok. Kerri, what do you say... will you let me do it?
(I suppose she'll insist on getting to lay down a "fasht an' bad" guitar track though, if I get to do it)
Zina, I'm horrified, you were the first on the dibs list, with The Rakes of Clonmel/The White Petticoat/Trip to Athlone, if I remember. The reason that people want to hear you is not because they want to hear a perfect rendition of The White Petticoat, or because they want to hear you once you've learned to play like Paganini, but because they want to hear YOU , the way you play now. As possibly the most ubiquitous presence on the Session, not to say one of the prime movers and shakers behind the whole Mighty Craic thing, of course people want to hear you. It's fascinating (and reassuring) to hear real people playing, as opposed to famous players on records.
Ditto to Will (I don't buy the Little House On The Prairie thing about the nearest microphone being hundreds of miles away over the Snowy Mountains).
And Dow.
And Mountain Goat.
And Danny
And MICHAEL GILL!!!
Though maybe not Breandan, because I have a feeling he'd scare the pants off me(!)
I did submit some tunes that I taped with a fiddle player and a box player...they're kicking around somewhere. Jim emailed me asking for the titles, but as I originally submitted a fair few tracks I don't remember which they were. To be honest, even if I did hear them I might not know the titles anyway. Why don't you just post them as Jigs/Reels Gain Ainm, Jim?
PS - for a picture, I'm sure Aidan wouldn't mind you taking the one from his site in the Blythe Hill Tavern section (maybe best asking him first, though), and I don't mind.
Hey guys. Thanks for worrying about me Maarten. And the rest of you, I feel violated. I'm filing a lawsuit.
I think it's wicked that I get to be in the top ten twice. I'm going to assume people are downloading my photo *despite* the fangs, not because of them, and downloading my fabrication of Jack's session because of the sheer creative brilliance and hilarity of it.
To satisfy the curiosity about why I was so low profile all week-end, I was working for the Folk Alliance conference in Montreal, but the particular aspect of the thing I was assigned to (arranging transportation from a dozen hotels to five venues for sixty bands, with the occasional panicky pick-up of forgotten backline requirements) had been somewhat overlooked until I showed up on opening night. Three quarters of the bands expecting transportation had not provided any hotel information or any method of being contacted while on the road. I can't begin to describe how busy this made me all week-end. I barely had time to sleep, eat or pee. It was awesome. I want to do it again next week-end.
hey kerri, glad you survived ...
a friend (she plays fiddle too) of mine from belgium was working there too, so i guess i'll here all about the conference soon.
mm
Anyone get to hear Donough's addition to my track? It was posted on the virtual session site for a little while. Sweet accompaniment, which unfortunately for me, highlighted some of my rhythmic challenges! I was astounded by the ramifications of the transcontinental session.
There was some concert a few years back where one of the musicians "dialed it in", literally. Imagine. We did a internet video call with friends on the weekend via MSN and it is fascinating to see where technology is taking us. You could not play tunes that way due to the delay.
Reminds me of an outdoor concert that I went to a few years back. It took place in a university commons and the flute player was jamming with his own echo.
Donough, it wouldn't be half so horrifying as if you actually heard me play. ;) I never had most of the info on a lot of those Mighty Crack tracks, y'see, Max had all of those, and since I'm probably not mentally constituted to make a good stalker (ADD or something), I have no idea how to get them out of him.
I'm going to try and get Beth to lend me her mini-disc recorder the next time I go up to play with Will. That way we can do recordings right there. If I haven't gotten the new fiddle down by then, I probably don't deserve to own it or something.
Besides, then I can blame any clunkers on Will. *smirk*
I'm actually hooking up with Mattrick, to record some stuff together, after he emailed me about the tune I submitted for Jim Dorans, we got on to talking about recording, and its actually materialising.
A musician from Novia Scotia and one from Dublin - hooking up on music - Thanks to Mr. Dorans for the whole idea...
It really is quite exciting!
Very cool Stefan. Are you exchanging files via the internet? Actually, I never asked Donough how he did that accompaniment. Does Audacity handle this kind of stuff, or do you have cooler gear than just your computer?
Zina, you think *he's* bad, I still have some tapes and photos from the ORIGINAL mighty craic. I'll bet by this point their contributors would rather have them burned than posted.
Jode
To answer your query about the mixing of an accompaniment track. I think it could be done on audacity but I did it on Cooledit.
I am not that easy with your comments about me showing up any inconsistencies in your timing. It was more than likely my fault and anyway it's the job of the accompanist to keep with the melody player at all costs. Anyway it looks like no-one else heard it.
How did Kerri end up with all the Craic evidence. I had wondered about everyone's attitude to Kerri.
Kerri was going to be our first producer. Then she ended up moving. And then moving again. And then moving again. And, um, again. It was, what, eight times, Kerr?
Jim, I'm still trying to send those files, but Pete's been on his computer everytime I've been home, and that's the computer I'm using to send them with...
Yes, Audacity, ntrack, or any of the like multi-track recording programs will do it just fine. It's considered a necessary feature for such programs that they be able to handle each other's file formats, or at least be able to import a neutral one, because "mailing in" parts is common. When you see some famous person making a "guest" appearance on the album of someone you've never heard of odds are they "mailed in" the track. You send them, wherever they are, a reference track (and maybe a click track) and a check for a thousand bucks (or whatever) and they send you back their part.
The implication, of course, to the uninitiated, is that the unknown knows and is endorsed by the famous "guest," but the pros are pros. They play for money. Pay them and they'll play for you. It's that simple really.
And you don't even necessarily get to meet them in the process. The wonders of modern technology.
Mattrick, obviously, doesn't need to employ any of these famous people, his stuff is wonderful as it is, and no doubt will only grow more wonderful with the inclusion of Stefan.
Donough, no slight was intended!!! Not in the least. It sounded great! It was just that I slowed down in spots, perhaps to accomodate a roll or maybe I sped up out of fear that the heat was going to turn on and I would have to record the track again.
You stayed with me the whole time, but together, it was more noticeable. I think that is often the case. When you play solo, it is more difficult to tell when a person strays from the rhythm.
If we had recorded together, I have no doubt that we would have been dead on. Or as Kevin says above, I should have used a click track or metronome to keep me steady!!
Anyway, since I recorded it first, I get to take credit for the rythmic challenges!!!
wow, thanks for all kind compliments.... stefan and I will have the track finished sometime in 2007.. I think I'm waitin for Stefan and he's waiting for me!
Mighty craic Onine - update
Mighty craic Onine - update
Just thought I'd let you in on some statistics here, after looking at figures in my site admin account, as in what the world decided to download from the Mighty Craic Online site, - remember, this is the top ten, and it's exactly what visitors decided to download just after seeing the pics, and reading the text, and the tune set names, without first having heard the audio (admittedly a large amount of visitors are members of thesession.org.....) The actual amounts of downloads per contributor average about 100 per month. The amounts of downloads are ranked from 1 to 10, with 1 being the highest number of downloads, and 10 the lowest.
1 : Ceciltguitar - St Patrick's Day
2: Jim Dorans - Parkinson's Glory reel set
3: Kerri Brown (just the photo)
4: Conan Mc Donnell - Jenny's Chickens set
5: Jack Gilder - unnamed
6: MM - Deep Channel set
7: Donough - Carolans Draught
8: Grego and Gzeg - Geese set
9: Ketida - Willie and Mary
10: Jode - The Dawn set
Jim
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Worldfiddler
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Hi All,
I just visited "Mighty Craic" for the first last week & enjoyed browsing the files. I trust none of the other contributers will take it as a snub if I single out Jode's "the Dawn Set" as particularly impressive. If you're reading this Jode: lovely fiddling.
Cheers - Chris
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by ramblingpitchfork
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Jim, do you think you could post the link to the mighty craic in your profile or something? I can't find the link!!!
Cheers,
Armand
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by fiddlinviolinin
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http://worldfiddlemusic.co.uk/mightycraiconline/
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Ainsha
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Jim,
Thanks again for your work to host the mighty craic online project.
I am not surprised that the top download was the first tune by what was the first alphabetical presenter, which for most of the month was me. Many people will click on the first tune available just out of ease of selection. You have put so much time into this already that I am hesitant to ask, but would it be possible to consider some sort of rotation so that everyone gets a chance to be at the top of the page?
I have hung out here long enough to know that although I have included traditional Irish tunes in my repertoire for a long time, I have not been "schooled" in the tradition. I am not really familiar with all the "proper" ornamentation, which, since participating in this site, I have come to know is really critical to "correct" interpretation of this music to those who are in this tradition....which is where this music came from and is mostly all about, and which I respect. What I am saying here, in a long winded, twisted, grammatically incorrect way, is that I am a little uncomfortable being at the top of the page representing a tradition in which I am really an admiring outsider. I wonder if those "in" the tradition have cringed at hearing my renditions. (In fact, I cringe a bit....when hearing the slight intonation problems and loss of the beat in spots.....) Hopefully they just get a good natured laugh. But my point is, do you really want these politically incorrect renditions at the top of the page?
(I don't know how to do the emoticons). Well, at least it isn't ITM - rap fusion. (Just kidding, GRY, I have enjoyed listening to some of your tracks.)
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by ceciltguitar
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Hey, just putting in a smiley face generated an emoticon - now I know...........now, if only learning the "correct" ornamentation was that simple.
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by ceciltguitar
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I love Ian's lilting and Kerri's fangs of course.
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by slainte
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Don't worry Cecil, by the time AaronB, ACT, Ainsha, Antikhntr, B2Jay, Banana512, Bannerman, Bard, BB, BegF, Berserker, BestCraic, Billie, BobHimself, Bodhran Bliss, Bren, Brendan, Buskersean, and Cath, to name but a few, have sent their tunes in, you'll be way down the list and complaining that no-one gets down as far as you ....
Which is all the more reason that people who's names begin with Z should get their fingers out now(!)
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Ottery
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Pbbbbhhhhttthhht to you, Mark. *smirk*
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Don't worry Cecil - I was in the same boat for a while:
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/5539/comments#comment117636
C
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Conán McDonnell
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Yes, Pbbbbbbhhhttt to you Mark,
pbbbbbttttt to you with knobs on !
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by BegF
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Wow... according to the list my doctoring of Kerri's photo won out over Kerri's fabrication of my mp3 submission. But what's even more amazing is that both of our pieces rated in the top 5. We could produce a winning CD if Kerri did the music and I did the graphics, including lots of doctored photos of Kerri.
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Well, there's the quick answer, change your name to zecileguitar!
Did anyone download Kerri's MP3? Or were they all just interested in the photo?
Zina,
You're So Vain,
I bet you think that post is about you, About you ...
Pbbbbbbhhhttt back to you!
p.s. How do you pronounce 'Pbbbbbbhhhttt'
(I know: Pbbbbbbhhhttt)
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Ottery
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Thanks Chris! Check's in the mail.
Due respect to Kerri's fangs and all the rest, but people should also be checking out Mattrick's work! I am surprised he wasn't on the list. Killer stuff!
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Jode
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Kerri's mp3 is under my name, Mark. She's a hit! The fangs just elevate her mystique.
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Jack,
When are you going to put up the 7 Sisters, so I know how wrong I have it????????? ; )
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Hugo Chavez
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Hahaha, I'll bet you have it fine, Stefan. If it sounds like your driving over wee little hills all in a row on the road between Boyle and Gurteen -- you're there. I haven't recorded that tune, and I don't have a way to record myself onto mp3s, so I can't offer a woeful demonstration of how it sounds... sorry.
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Maybe we need an emoticon that makes the Pbbbhhhttt! sound.
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by CeolCairdeas
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:-p
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Zina Lee
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In Irish, bh is pronounced like a w or a v, depending on the situation. So "Pbbbbbbhhhttt" is pronounced "Pbbbvvvttt" or "Pbbbwwwttt" or maybe "Pbbbvwvttt", assuming that the b's and h's commute. I think the last one is right. It seems to mean that when bb drives her Volkswagon in Vermont using leaded gasoline, it'll be the day she quits drinking. I hope that helps.
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by GaryAMartin
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Will one of you please hose down this thread after you're done spraying slobber all over everything. Cheers
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Phantom Button
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**sends a massive wave of uisce through the thread, sanitizing and cheering simultaneously**
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Pádraig
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# Posted on February 28th 2005 by CeolCairdeas
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So when are Kerri and Jack getting married? It's so obvious they way they josh and rib each other in public - sounds like true love in disguise if you ask me. Come on, you guys, you're not foolin' anyone. When's the big day?
Jim
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Worldfiddler
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ooh ooh ooh!
Can I play at de weddin'?
a Phádraig
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Pádraig
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actually kerri hasn't been around for more then a week!
nobody wories?
mm
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by MM
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Married??!!! We haven't even had casual sex yet, we can't get married.
Besides -- my wife would kill me. :-o
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Phantom Button
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:-0
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Phantom Button
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# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Sorry, I couldn't remember the exact emoticon code for that.
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Phantom Button
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That's the emoticon for someone expecting to be killed by the wife for merely thinking about having a casual sexual relationship with a mad girl from Montreal?
I'd wondered what that one meant...
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Ottery
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I think that would be -|-<
(No head and no, um, er, dangly bits)
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Batlady
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All missing items seem appropriate in this case, BatLady.
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Jode
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'It seems to mean that when bb drives her Volkswagon in Vermont using leaded gasoline, it'll be the day she quits drinking. I hope that helps. '
I used to think that Vermont was called 'Vermouth' (god knows why) so dont think I'll be quitting drinking anytime soon
(thank god) Just kidding!
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by bb
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Ah, Batlady, of course, you are another one who can alphabetically proceed cecilguitar on the Mighty Craic webpage ....
Keep 'em coming!
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Ottery
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That's a sobering thought. I don't know if the world is ready for my version of Fingal's Cave...
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Batlady
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How about Fingal's Regatta? That must be worth a blast!
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Ottery
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I used to think that "fiddler on vermouth" was a town somewhere in southern Scotland...
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Jode
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So where are all the submissions from the rest of you guys that haven't participated yet. Are you just waiting for the tune you sent to the original project or what??
I think it's time that everyone got up and sent in their contribution or else..................
Yeah I reckon Jode's contribution was really good but I've told him that already and I agree that it is a little weird that Mattick's doesn't rate a mention - maybe he was just too polished
So let's have some more tunes and maybe Jeremy could put in a section for this like a permanent discussion subject or linkage to the Craic site.
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Donough
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Well, now that I'm back home I can start sending stuff to Jim again from the original submissions. As for my own, I'm waiting til I get a little more accustomed to my new fiddle...that's my excuse and I'm standing by it...
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Zina Lee
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Mighty Reverend Zina
Good to see you are yourself again. Can't wait for all those tune/recording submissions to start appearing in the craics.
As for your fiddle: If the new one is not as good as the old one (to which you were accustomed) then record on the old one. If the new one is better you should sound even better already. Anyway you must already have a recording.
Now what about Will's recording - I really want to hear that.
Just a suggestion for Will - do you think that you could do a set of tunes for Jack to record over to make a duet. Now that would be something!!!!
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Donough
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Yea, good idea, Donough. Will can record himself playing a single jig and I'll play it as a slide on another track. That would be something. But first I'd have to check with my collaboration partner and see if it would be ok. Kerri, what do you say... will you let me do it?
(I suppose she'll insist on getting to lay down a "fasht an' bad" guitar track though, if I get to do it)
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Phantom Button
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Zina, I'm horrified, you were the first on the dibs list, with The Rakes of Clonmel/The White Petticoat/Trip to Athlone, if I remember. The reason that people want to hear you is not because they want to hear a perfect rendition of The White Petticoat, or because they want to hear you once you've learned to play like Paganini, but because they want to hear YOU , the way you play now. As possibly the most ubiquitous presence on the Session, not to say one of the prime movers and shakers behind the whole Mighty Craic thing, of course people want to hear you. It's fascinating (and reassuring) to hear real people playing, as opposed to famous players on records.
Ditto to Will (I don't buy the Little House On The Prairie thing about the nearest microphone being hundreds of miles away over the Snowy Mountains).
And Dow.
And Mountain Goat.
And Danny
And MICHAEL GILL!!!
Though maybe not Breandan, because I have a feeling he'd scare the pants off me(!)
Mark
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Ottery
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Ottery, from what I'me heard Breandán has that effect on people before the flute makes it out of the case.
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Conán McDonnell
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I did submit some tunes that I taped with a fiddle player and a box player...they're kicking around somewhere. Jim emailed me asking for the titles, but as I originally submitted a fair few tracks I don't remember which they were. To be honest, even if I did hear them I might not know the titles anyway. Why don't you just post them as Jigs/Reels Gain Ainm, Jim?
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Key Maniac Lad
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PS - for a picture, I'm sure Aidan wouldn't mind you taking the one from his site in the Blythe Hill Tavern section (maybe best asking him first, though), and I don't mind.
http://www.paythereckoning.com/blythehill.html
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Key Maniac Lad
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Hey guys. Thanks for worrying about me Maarten. And the rest of you, I feel violated. I'm filing a lawsuit.
I think it's wicked that I get to be in the top ten twice. I'm going to assume people are downloading my photo *despite* the fangs, not because of them, and downloading my fabrication of Jack's session because of the sheer creative brilliance and hilarity of it.
To satisfy the curiosity about why I was so low profile all week-end, I was working for the Folk Alliance conference in Montreal, but the particular aspect of the thing I was assigned to (arranging transportation from a dozen hotels to five venues for sixty bands, with the occasional panicky pick-up of forgotten backline requirements) had been somewhat overlooked until I showed up on opening night. Three quarters of the bands expecting transportation had not provided any hotel information or any method of being contacted while on the road. I can't begin to describe how busy this made me all week-end. I barely had time to sleep, eat or pee. It was awesome. I want to do it again next week-end.
I've got my groove on now.
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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hey kerri, glad you survived ...
a friend (she plays fiddle too) of mine from belgium was working there too, so i guess i'll here all about the conference soon.
mm
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by MM
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I did better than survive. For the first time in years I wasn't bored. Turns out I need chaos to live.
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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Anyone get to hear Donough's addition to my track? It was posted on the virtual session site for a little while. Sweet accompaniment, which unfortunately for me, highlighted some of my rhythmic challenges! I was astounded by the ramifications of the transcontinental session.
There was some concert a few years back where one of the musicians "dialed it in", literally. Imagine. We did a internet video call with friends on the weekend via MSN and it is fascinating to see where technology is taking us. You could not play tunes that way due to the delay.
Reminds me of an outdoor concert that I went to a few years back. It took place in a university commons and the flute player was jamming with his own echo.
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Jode
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Donough, it wouldn't be half so horrifying as if you actually heard me play. ;) I never had most of the info on a lot of those Mighty Crack tracks, y'see, Max had all of those, and since I'm probably not mentally constituted to make a good stalker (ADD or something), I have no idea how to get them out of him.
I'm going to try and get Beth to lend me her mini-disc recorder the next time I go up to play with Will. That way we can do recordings right there. If I haven't gotten the new fiddle down by then, I probably don't deserve to own it or something.
Besides, then I can blame any clunkers on Will. *smirk*
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Zina Lee
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Jode - Re Technology....
I'm actually hooking up with Mattrick, to record some stuff together, after he emailed me about the tune I submitted for Jim Dorans, we got on to talking about recording, and its actually materialising.
A musician from Novia Scotia and one from Dublin - hooking up on music - Thanks to Mr. Dorans for the whole idea...
It really is quite exciting!
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Hugo Chavez
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Very cool Stefan. Are you exchanging files via the internet? Actually, I never asked Donough how he did that accompaniment. Does Audacity handle this kind of stuff, or do you have cooler gear than just your computer?
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Jode
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Zina, you think *he's* bad, I still have some tapes and photos from the ORIGINAL mighty craic. I'll bet by this point their contributors would rather have them burned than posted.
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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It appears that Ms Lee loves accompaniment.
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Will CPT
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Okay Kerri, so what's the dollar figure you have in mind?
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by grego
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I thought that was misery?
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Zina Lee
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So that's why Kerri gets so much love from people on this site. She's got the dirt on everybody!!!
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Jode
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You better believe it.
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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Jode
To answer your query about the mixing of an accompaniment track. I think it could be done on audacity but I did it on Cooledit.
I am not that easy with your comments about me showing up any inconsistencies in your timing. It was more than likely my fault and anyway it's the job of the accompanist to keep with the melody player at all costs. Anyway it looks like no-one else heard it.
How did Kerri end up with all the Craic evidence. I had wondered about everyone's attitude to Kerri.
# Posted on March 2nd 2005 by Donough
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Kerri was going to be our first producer. Then she ended up moving. And then moving again. And then moving again. And, um, again. It was, what, eight times, Kerr?
Jim, I'm still trying to send those files, but Pete's been on his computer everytime I've been home, and that's the computer I'm using to send them with...
# Posted on March 2nd 2005 by Zina Lee
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"I think it could be done on audacity. . ."
Yes, Audacity, ntrack, or any of the like multi-track recording programs will do it just fine. It's considered a necessary feature for such programs that they be able to handle each other's file formats, or at least be able to import a neutral one, because "mailing in" parts is common. When you see some famous person making a "guest" appearance on the album of someone you've never heard of odds are they "mailed in" the track. You send them, wherever they are, a reference track (and maybe a click track) and a check for a thousand bucks (or whatever) and they send you back their part.
The implication, of course, to the uninitiated, is that the unknown knows and is endorsed by the famous "guest," but the pros are pros. They play for money. Pay them and they'll play for you. It's that simple really.
And you don't even necessarily get to meet them in the process. The wonders of modern technology.
Mattrick, obviously, doesn't need to employ any of these famous people, his stuff is wonderful as it is, and no doubt will only grow more wonderful with the inclusion of Stefan.
KFG
# Posted on March 2nd 2005 by KFG
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Donough, no slight was intended!!! Not in the least. It sounded great! It was just that I slowed down in spots, perhaps to accomodate a roll or maybe I sped up out of fear that the heat was going to turn on and I would have to record the track again.
You stayed with me the whole time, but together, it was more noticeable. I think that is often the case. When you play solo, it is more difficult to tell when a person strays from the rhythm.
If we had recorded together, I have no doubt that we would have been dead on. Or as Kevin says above, I should have used a click track or metronome to keep me steady!!
Anyway, since I recorded it first, I get to take credit for the rythmic challenges!!!
# Posted on March 2nd 2005 by Jode
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wow, thanks for all kind compliments.... stefan and I will have the track finished sometime in 2007.. I think I'm waitin for Stefan and he's waiting for me!
# Posted on March 3rd 2005 by Mattrick