Here’s Monday’s tune, Vidar Valsen by Norwegian musician Vidar Skrede.
As a break from my face, here’s Blazin Fiddles‘ rendition of the tune:
Vidar Valsen
Month: January 2025
Rhythms for the Bath Hornpipe
We discussed two possible rhythms/grooves for hornpipes, swung and straight – the video below shows both and the dots show the swung rhythm. The idea is that you can pick any note from the arpeggio and play the rhythms on that note.
The Bath Hornpipe
Welcome back! We started the term with a jolly, bouncy tune called The Bath Hornpipe, from a manuscript of collector Frank Kidson. This tune turns up in various Yorkshire collections from around the 1840s and 1850s, sometimes under this title and sometimes as Newton’s Hornpipe. We are playing it as a dotted hornpipe… for now!
Here are the dots and video:
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