Tune Req: Do you use D A D G A D?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Do you use D A D G A D?
From: The Sandman
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 01:45 AM

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From: Brian Peters - PM
Date: 12 Sep 17 - 08:20 AM

the drone effect at the bass end is similar to that used by pipes players

True, but you can also use the higher-pitched strings as drones. For instance, if accompanying a modal tune in A with DADGAD, there's a nice combination of shapes on the middle strings around frets 9-7-5 that leaves the 2nd string open and droning on A throughout.''
A useful post.This idea has similiarities to sawmill tuning on 5 string banjo dgcd or maybe even two c cgcd, using top g string as high drone

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Do you use D A D G A D?
From: Stanron
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 05:23 AM

What about rounds? What about harmony in church and what about unaccompanied folk song collections reflecting the preconceptions of the collectors not what was there to be collected?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Do you use D A D G A D?
From: The Sandman
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 01:40 PM

Brian,i have sent you a message

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Do you use D A D G A D?
From: Brian Peters
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 07:36 AM

What about rounds? What about harmony in church and what about unaccompanied folk song collections reflecting the preconceptions of the collectors not what was there to be collected?

As I said, it depends on what you call 'folk song'. Most people would not consider church music in that bracket. I don't know about the incidence of rounds in traditional singing - not great I suspect.

Collectors like Sharp tended to ignore parlour and music hall songs, but I know of no evidence that there was any widespread use of instrumental accompaniments, that they chose not to record. Steve Roud's recent and very well-researched 'Folksong in England' is quite specific about the collectors' selectivity, and also notes the occasional incidence of part-singing, but concludes - along with everyone else who's studied the subject - that traditional singing was overwhelmingly solo and unaccompanied.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Do you use D A D G A D?
From: Stanron
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 08:24 AM

It does seem curious to me that the middle classes and the aspirant middle classes who sat in their withdrawing rooms playing music from scores are not considered to be 'folk'. It's a kind of reverse snobbery that says that only the music of the illiterate lower classes was worth collecting. No doubt the collectors assumed that they were already familiar with the material that they did not collect, but are we?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Do you use D A D G A D?
From: Brian Peters
Date: 17 Sep 17 - 06:35 PM

Not so much a matter of social class or inverted snobbery, I think, as the way in which the songs were transmitted and assimilated.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Do you use D A D G A D?
From: JHW
Date: 18 Sep 17 - 05:47 AM

Forgot about this. Example of my resonator guitar in open tuning as accompaniment. Click 'Remember Dear' track on the grey player thingy Here. Homemade two finger chords.