Here is a fabulous 3/2 hornpipe from Northumbria, the Rusty Gulley.
Here’s a second video, with the chord pattern and rhythm:
And here are the dots:
Here’s a couple of PDFs: firstly he tune, and secondly the different chords that we tried.
Try adding the turns and triplets that we’ve been using recently in places where the melody moves by step, and look out for places where there are repeated notes – we will try some things out with those next time!
Here is the tune from January 18th’ class, Herbert Smith’s Four-Handed Reel. Despite the title it is a polka – the ‘four-handed reel’ refers to a dance figure and not to the nature of the tune! It goes rather nicely with Grandfather’s Tune and has a similar descending scale pattern that gives lots of opportunities for turns and triplets, as discussed last week. You can also vary the rhythm in the B part, sub-dividing or combining the notes in bars X , Y and Z.
This tune is a little unusual in that it has an extra two beats in the A music. It might be that this was added on purpose to help dancers get to where they need to be in the dance, or it might just be a quirk that caught on!
Herbert Smith (1892-1961) was known as the Fiddling Blacksmith of Blakeney – you can read about him here: https://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/h_smith.htm
Here’s a slower and a faster version of the tune:
And here are the dots, with the first set of chords:
Here’s the PDFs of the tune, and the alternative set of chords:
Here’s Grandfather’s Tune, aka Sheep Shearing, a polka from England. It was recorded for the 1941 Voice of the People series by the Dorset Trio.
Here’s the video demo:
Here’s a short video on the triplets and turns that we added to the descending scale patterns in the tune:
Here’s a PDF :
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