Key signature: Bminor
Submitted on October 13th 2007 by Mario.
This tune has been added to 75 tunebooks.
Also known as Flat World.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Flatworld
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Bmin
|:f ef|"Bm"df cf Bf|"G"G2 Bc dB|"Em"g2 gf ed|"F#m"c3 f ef|
"Bm"df cf Bf|"G"G2 gf ed|"A"cB ce dc|1"Bm"B3:|2"Bm"B4 F2||
|:"Bm"Bc dB ba|"G"g2 gf ed|"A"cd ec ag|"F#m"f2 fe dc|
"G"Bc dB gf|"Em"e2 ed cB|1"F#m"c2 ce ^de|c3 c =dc:|2"A"cB ce dc|"Bm"B3||
Just keep spinning and spinning...
One of the most beautiful waltzes ever!
Like so many of Andy Cutting's tunes, this piece is a real cracker.
It's often played with another of Andy's tunes, In a Continental Mood:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4830
Originally in A-Minor, but I transposed it up to B-Minor.
Let's go waltzin'!
# Posted on October 13th 2007 by Mario
Why B-Minor?
I would prefer the original key and the notation from Blowzabella with guitarchords:
T:Flatworld
R:waltz
C:Andy Cutting
B:Blowzabella / New Tunes for Dancing
B:1 Gilbert's Corner, Baltonsborough, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 8RB
B:ISBN 0-9549013-0-4 ISMN M-9002107-0-8
O:England
M:3/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=180
K:Am
ede|:"Am"ceBeAc|"F"F2ABcA|"Dm"f2fedc|"G"B3ede|!
"Am"ceBeAc|"F"F2fedc|"G"B2BdcB|1 "Am"A3ede:|2 "Am"A6|!
|:"Am"ABcAag|"F"f2fedc|"G"BcdBgf|"C"e2edcB|"F"ABcAfe|!
"Dm"d2dcBA|1 "Bm"B2Bd^cd|"E7"B3BcB:|2 "E7"B2BdcB|"Am"A3||
# Posted on October 15th 2007 by winfried
Well, I didn't take the melody from a printed source, Blowzabella or not, but from the 'Panic At The Café' recording by Nigel & Andy.
As a matter of fact, here in Germany, a lot of people tend to play the tune in B-Minor (at least the Irish fraction, the Bal Folk people play it in proper A-Minor), so I deceided to put it down in B instead of A.
# Posted on October 16th 2007 by Mario
Flatw'e'ld
I was taught this tune by Karen Tweed as 'Flatweld'
# Posted on November 7th 2007 by Lara Barnes
Yet Another Key...
The recording by Rodney Miller and Airdance is actually in E minor. Great key for flute and whistle and gives it a nice dark sound...
# Posted on February 22nd 2008 by dlovrien
"Flatworld" C: Andy Cutting ~ a take in e minor
T: Flatworld
C: Andy Cutting
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: e minor
|: B ^AB |\
GB FB EB | c2 EF GE | c2 cB AG | F3 B ^AB |
GB FB E/F/G | c3 B AG | FE FA GF |[1 E3 :|[2 E6 |]
|: EF G/F/E ed | c3 B AG | FG A/G/F dc | Bc Ac BG |
E>F GE cB | A3 G FE |[1 F2 FA ^GA | F2 F/E/D GF :|[2 F^E FA GF | E3 |]
# Posted on February 22nd 2008 by ceolachan
Flat World by Andy Cutting (I think)
Can anyone here please tell me the "original" key this tune was in? I have learnt it in A minor from various recordings on youtubey and have been playing it at a regular session only to be told that I'm in the wrong key and it should be E minor. I'm quite happy to play it in "their" key as opposed to "mine" but I would really like to know the correct key. If you know the album its on that would be a bonus for me)
The rather wonderful Laura Silverstein (check her out on Spotify) also plays it in A minor so I'm sort of hoping that A minor is "correct".
Happy Christmas and happy New Year to all btw.
# Posted on December 28th 2010 by onscuba
Re: Flat World by Andy Cutting (I think)
Well the dots are published in Blowzabella's "New Tunes for Dancing" in A minor , and I would guess that has come straight from the horses mouth.
# Posted on December 28th 2010 by skreech
Re: Flat World by Andy Cutting (I think)
Have you looked it up one the Tunes page? According to t
he comments here
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7859 , A minor is the original key.
For what it's worth, I've always heard it played in Am in sessions and that is my preferred key to play it in.
# Posted on December 28th 2010 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Original Key
Andy posted this on melodeon net
Just for information. I wrote it in the top octave in E minor on my D/G box which is where I recorded it and play it with Chris Wood. With Blowzabella I play it in A minor in the bottom octave still on my DG box. It makes me very happy that so many people like and play this tune.
http://forum.melodeon.net/index.php/topic,6810.msg97289/topicseen.html#new
# Posted on September 10th 2011 by fiddlingpea