Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on November 27th 2007 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 29 tunebooks.
Also known as The Gillard Family Slip.
X: 1
T: Grumpy Old Fart, The
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Emin
|: E2 B B^AB dcB | A2 F F2 ^E F=ED |
[1 E2 B B^AB dcB | e2 E E2 G FED :|
[2 E2 B B2 c dAg | e2 E E2 g fed ||
|: e2 E E2 g fed | B^AB dcB =AFD |
E2 e e2 f gfe |[1 a2 g f2 d AFD :|[2 abg ab/a/g fed |]
"The Grumpy Old Fart"
I couldn't very well call it "John Gillard's", he'll probably not like it anyway, and the name that kept sticking, "John Gillard's Gizzard" just didn't make any sense, not that any alternatives did either. But, checking his 'details' ~ I liked the possibilities of 'fart'...
Forgive me John...
# Posted on November 27th 2007 by ceolachan
E Dorian into e minor
This started its life in the kitchen, preparing a meal for our coming guests, Zina & John, and then went into e minor after they'd left...
If there were a pantomime of Robin Hood I think that John would make a good Friar Tuck, though he might prefer Little John and to call me out for a stick fight...
# Posted on November 27th 2007 by ceolachan
~ | B^AB dcB =AFD | ~
That was quicker than me, I'd missed that return to =A...
# Posted on November 27th 2007 by ceolachan
Huh?! ~ Someone has already tagged this and I've only just made the correction... Whoever you are, don't tell John, please!
# Posted on November 27th 2007 by ceolachan
Member: John Gillard
http://www.thesession.org/members/display/3296
Whom we found to be a 'gentleman', if with an edge... But I appreciate edge...
# Posted on November 27th 2007 by ceolachan
Who's the culprit? Tommy Hayes?
Nah, he used to like this sort of thing, but he's innocent.
I've waited to add the following, some craziness that comes on me now and then, but Tommy ain't the blame, even if he rhythmically drives things this way now and then. It's origins go a lot further back, way back... (to the time of galliards and beyond)
Here's some fun I have had with this little number (N=note) ~
~ | N2 N- N2 N NNN | ~ | N2 N- N N2 NNN | = | N2 N2 N2 NNN | ~
A-part, bar 2
~ | A2 F- F2 ^E F=ED | ~ | A2 F- F ^E2 F=ED | ~
bar 4
~ | e2 E- E2 G FED :| ~ | e2 E- E G2 FED :| ~
bar 8 & B-part, bar 1
~ | e2 E- E2 g fed |] ~ | e2 E- E g2 fed |] ~
# Posted on November 28th 2007 by ceolachan
I try to top:
A-part, bar 2
| A F2-F2 ^E F=ED |
# Posted on December 7th 2007 by swisspiper
You too? Yes, I too like to 'skip', ocassionally...
# Posted on December 9th 2007 by ceolachan