The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55688 Message #868499
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
16-Jan-03 - 01:39 PM
Thread Name: New Songs for Peace ... submissions req
Subject: RE: New Songs for Peace ... submissions req
Thanks jeffp - I thought it might be something like thta.
And thanks, daylia. I'm reasonably sure the pitch of the notes are right - but I'm never too sure about the timing and so forth. So if you could check that it'd be great.
It's written down in C because that way I didn't have to worry about all those sharps and flats. And anyway if I'm ever trying to work out a tune from print, it's easier if it's written in C, for the same reason. I don't take the key a song is written in as any indication that it'll necessarily be the one I'll be likely to sing it in. (And the key I sing a song in can vary from occasion to occasion, depending on what feels most comfortable.)
I sang it in D because that's where it felt comfortable when I taped it, and I take it that was the same reason Áine and Layne picked their key.
It might be handy though having a version of it in D, since it's a handy sort of key for folk sessions. Ab - well, I don't many people would be playing in that without capoing up from G or something like that.
I'll be sticking a copy of my CD, with my version and Áine's and the words and the tune, in the post to this project in a few days. Thanks for drawing my attention to it.