Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on August 7th 2006 by Viking of Kiev.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Hopak
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
|:a2 e2|d/c/B cA|EA ce|d/c/B cA|
aa ee|d/c/B cA|EA ce|d/c/BA2:|
|:Ad f2|eg f2|fa2b|a/g/f/e/ fd|
Ad f2|eg f2|fa2b|a/g/f/e/ d2:|
Hopak = Gopak
This is a basic version of the staple Ukrainian trad dance tune from the central part of the country. It is no polka. It is Hopak and that`s it.
It is usually played a bit havier and slower than polkas.
There are different variants of Hopak.
# Posted on August 7th 2006 by Viking of Kiev
The Gopak slide
It is the original source for the slide already posted:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6074
# Posted on August 7th 2006 by Viking of Kiev
nice tune, thanks for posting it.
# Posted on August 8th 2006 by gian marco
Great tune.It is very close to the way I know it. A fiddler I know [Hungarian Slovak] puts in a third part .I don't know if it is a standard variation or a personal thing or if he is joining two tunes together.
Next maybe a Kozachok ?
# Posted on August 8th 2006 by McMandolin
I also had known a third part for this one...
# Posted on August 9th 2006 by ceolachan