Subject: RE: Paul Brady's version of Arthur McBride
From:
Brendy
Date: 12 Sep 00 - 10:31 PM
Yo!
How's it hangin'? Well, I thought that I should lessen the waiting time for you all a wee bit, and post something that you could be 'getting on with'.
I have just finished the tabs for the introduction, and although there is a link at the bottom of the page to the rest of the song, I haven't quite finished it, and so the link will not work, if you click on it.
The introduction will probably prove to have been the more awkward part; I can re-use a lot of the diagrams in the rest of the song, so it wont be as time-consuming. I am assuming that you are all familiar with the tune, or that you have the Irvine/Brady album, so you can fine-tune the phrasing, etc. I only realised yesterday that I don't have my own copy of it in the apartment (I lent it to a friend a few months back - glad I remembered!), so what I've done is to write it as I remember it from the record, somewhere close to the way I play it myself. In the opening bars, for instance, I could not remember whether he used the plectrum to pick out all the notes, or used a combination of plectrum and fingers, like the way I have it annotated.
It is impossible to transpose the phrasing of a piece of music satisfactorily into tab, much less to be able to convey the soul and nuance that Paul Brady brings to this version. The notes are one thing, but it's the delivery that makes a classic. And in my opinion, his version is one of the most brilliant and clever, that I have ever had the pleasure to listen to and absorb. Anyway, you can wrap your heads around this, until I get the rest of the song finished. I wont be getting the album back until next week, but it'll hardly matter much, as the rest of it is fairly straightforward, anyway. Somewhere around Friday. G'luck! B. Arthur McBride " The Intro P.S. If you have any problems loading the page, or whatever, just refresh the thread, or send me a PM.
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