The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #43751   Message #919391
Posted By: treewind
27-Mar-03 - 03:48 AM
Thread Name: Accompanying another musician
Subject: RE: Accompanying another musician
Becky , if you're still here...
I looked again at your earlier posts and had some afterthoughts.

You mentioned going too far with arrangements.
For our workshop we has a recording of John Spiers and Jon Boden's version of "Adieu sweet lovely Nancy" as an example of how not to do it. Actually we never got that far in the workshop, and I wouldn't have described it in those terms (especially as Squeezy and Scrapy were booked guests themselves at the festival, and will be at St Neots too), but it seemed that the song had been subjugated to a mere component of a musical arrangement. Very exciting, but why give a song about parting lovers a musical treatment more like a chase scene from a thriller movie?

The line up of your band -
Looks like it might be a bit treble heavy, with concertina, fiddle and autoharp, all high pitched instruments. Am I right in thinking you've only got the guitar at the bass end? How does it work out in practice?

The other thing this thread has reminded me of - I was going to turn the material we prepared for our song accompaniment workshop into a web site, complete with sound clips. I am suddenly aware that it still hasn't happened...

Anahata