The Session: Tunes - The Ballycarbery (reel)

Ballycarbery Reel

I wrote this while hunting for razorshells in the mudflat in front of Ballycarbery Castle. A wild and wonderful place and a few morsels of delicious food at the end of it too.

# Posted on November 14th 2008 by pizak

5 self-compositions in a row? L-/

Alright, wenow are convinced you like your own music. Do you play anything else?

If you're going to be this prolific, and you feel the necessity to share, but you don't want to bother with the site's conventions, about contributing at least 5 trad tunes for every composition (see FAQs), maybe you could at least show the consideration to file your musings in your 'details', as the dear and generous 'reverend' does ~

http://www.thesession.org/members/display/11048

Then, maybe, someone might try one and like it and contribute it here, rather than as has happened more than once ~ swamping us with your genius... Honest, I'm being civil, I haven't commented on the tune, as others might... I'm resisting, besides, I try not to say anything about a melody unless I like it, trying to resist negative comment. Sometimes I don't hold to that rule, as is tempting now...

# Posted on November 14th 2008 by ceolachan

5-in-a-row ~ probably more?!

The 'history' only keeps track of your last 5 tune contributions. I can only say, the few times someone has joined here to contribute their tunes and has exceeded 5 in a row ~ they have, at least twice that I can remember ~ been deleted by the webmaster.

# Posted on November 14th 2008 by ceolachan

Not all ~ but you get the idea... Please, read the FAQs and show some consideration for the traditions this site is founded on...

# Posted on November 14th 2008 by ceolachan

Wow

Ok. Firstly, I apologize. I did not know about that convention.

The only few times I have found tunes not on here, I have posted them, for example
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3932

However, its pretty hard these days because such a large amount of traditional tunes are in here. However, I will happily comply now I know about the rule, and I will stop posting my own tunes too.

Paul

PS can someone explain the ideas behind this rule so I understand it better

# Posted on November 14th 2008 by pizak

The rule?

Well, this site, as I understand it is for tunes one has or might encounter in traditional Irish sessions. Self-composed tunes don't usually meet this purpose.

# Posted on November 14th 2008 by muspc

Session Tunes

In my experience every one of the tunes I've ever heard in an Irish session is already one of the 9082 tunes here. And this seems reflected by the frequency which which people get told a tune is already here when they post one.

I personally like the fact that people are posting new Irish tunes here, and I appreciate the feedback of others the few times I've posted my own tunes. But I certainly don't want to disrupt the ethos of this site.

Paul

# Posted on November 14th 2008 by pizak

Don't stop posting them, add them in your 'details', like Reverend. I and others do actually check 'details', and I will always give any tune found a try, at least once. I've even brought a few tunes found in 'details' into the light here after getting comfortable with them...

I regularly posted 'compositions' (that aren't mine) as do others, so there's no shortage of new tunes ~ over time and still coming, but there is something more alive about a tune having passed through the hands of others, the wrinkle and the wear, which just seem right, good, like a comfortable old pair of shoes or jeans.

The problem is when we get an outpouring from 'composers'. Hell, I even feel guilt about mine, and I more than meet the requirements of the FAQs, but I never contributed with that in mine, it is just that more tunes from other sources take hold of me than those that seem to drop out of the ether, courtesy of the muses, or a badly wired brain misfiring... There are tons more tunes that take hold of me ~ in all kinds of situations and humours, that never move to print or here...

No, I can promise you, as we keep being surprised, not ALL the tunes ever played in ALL the sessions of the world is here, or versions, partly what the 'comments' are for. I'm sitting on a slew of them as I type that aren't here, and there's tons more in recordings and notes all over the place here. That includes the surprise we all feel when an old standard suddenly shows up and we ask, isn't that already here, and we look ~ and it's a joy when it's not, as it is to get reacquainted with an old friend, or a different take on the old familiar.

Don't turn your muse off, that really wasn't my intention, just temper it and consider adding your favourite creations under your 'details', for the pleasures of those that wouldn't want to miss giving them a try, and friends you might have made there and here, where you can direct them. If they need the dots, there's always concertina.net's 'tune-o-tron'...

As far as FAQs, it is good practice to always check those out before signing up to anything, like small print in contracts, and in a sense, this is a contract, if open and basically social...

Sorry if my grouch was out, but it only scrapes the muzzle off when composition #4 or #5 or ~ hits the site, and I promise, it's toothless... I'm hardly alone here. Usually composition #1 has someone nodding in the direction of "read the FAQs, PLEASE!" ;-)

Having contributed a lot of 'new' tunes, and having learned many from their composers, I enjoy even the bad ones, in a sort of peverse way. Some great ones, like Vincent Broderick's "Haunted House", have become standards, worldwide... Tradition measures its health in part by such things... The good survive and the shight, well, they get composted down ~ eventually ~ hopefully!? :-/

# Posted on November 14th 2008 by ceolachan

History

c,
you and everybody else can open all the tunes by clicking your mouse on the number 'xx' of already posted tunes.

# Posted on November 14th 2008 by swisspiper

Feedback

Maybe we should not only tell you to find some yet unpublished tunes to submit but tell you what we think about your tunes. This one here I personally think is a bit boring with not enough melody in the arpeggio like patterns. Some of your other tunes are much better!

# Posted on November 14th 2008 by swisspiper

A balanced response swiss, as usual...

All this time here and I didn't know about the xx... I'll have to give it a try... :-/

# Posted on November 14th 2008 by ceolachan

In ones history ~

Number of tunes submitted: xx

Yes!, thanks swiss, something new for me, duh! I should have been able to figure that.

So Pizak, 7 submitted and only 5 are your compositions. Two are from 'other realms'... ;-)

# Posted on November 14th 2008 by ceolachan

Thanks

Thanks everyone for your comments. I have a cracking tune (that isn't on here) that I will submit that I learnt in Caherciveen last year. In the meantime I'll stick my own tunes in details.

Paul

# Posted on November 17th 2008 by pizak