Share your latest musical accomplishment

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: GUEST,seamus kennedy
Date: 21 Jul 01 - 06:44 AM

finished mixing my new CD (out in September) with Mike Auldridge on Dobro, Mark Hillman on Uilleann pipes, EJ Jones (of Clandestine) on Highland pipes, small pipes and flute, Tad Marks on fiddle, Brad Hayford on bass, lead guitars, whistle and keyboards and my son Damian on percussion. Other than that, not much.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: annamill
Date: 21 Jul 01 - 12:28 PM

I picked up my guitar...

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 21 Jul 01 - 12:41 PM

LEJ'S WIFE: Some amazing acccomplishments from all the previous Mudcatters. I just wrote a modest blues regarding uneven pavement. It's low down and sincere.

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: Slushcan
Date: 21 Jul 01 - 01:40 PM

I rediscovered music after (mumble)years and actually started writing some tunes.

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: Chicken Charlie
Date: 21 Jul 01 - 03:17 PM

Actually came up with several things as a result of wife being gone visiting & being able to practice interminably w/o worry. (Dogs just go to sleep.) First was realizing how easy it is to change open-G guitar to open G-minor & with equivalent of a "square roll" pattern, did "Lazarus" in a minor. (Learned it off Dave Van Ronk record; his sounds E maj. to me.) Shady Grove and Ashville Junction also possible. #2 was on "lap" dulcimer (lap-top), doing, of all things, "Sloop John B" with the melody on the bottom, what I call "oboe style" and using the actual melody course for mandolinesque runs and fills. Also just decided to try "Blackjack Davey" on the "laptop." I think there are some instrument-song combos that are born to work naturally, and that was one, the other made-for-dulcimer-like-nothing-else tune being "False William."

Thanks for this thread, Kim!!!!!!!!

CC

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: Jande
Date: 21 Jul 01 - 06:24 PM

Got three more of my songs ("Just Like Makin' Love", "Morning Glory", and "Songwriter, Songbird" )recorded and up for download on MP3.com, plus a rendition of "Danny Boy".

If you want to hear them you can click here. Enjoy!

~ Jande (aka J. Seanna Rowe)

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 26 Mar 02 - 06:14 AM

I bought a guitar on Saturday, and I can strum along to fiddlers Green already.john

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: Larkin
Date: 26 Mar 02 - 06:54 AM

I was a pro musician from 1976 till about '85 . After 8 years break from playing and more or less giving up on Music . I 've just discovered a local irish session ( 3 actually ) and am playing more or less every day and have learnt 12 new songs since the beginning of February. Last week I was asked to join a band. I'm even going to buy a cittern in the next month or so. Weird how you can't escape music!

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: InOBU
Date: 26 Mar 02 - 07:00 AM

I was going to say, getting out of bed this morning... also one of the most challenging... but really folks, my latest MA can been seen in the post, about 3 days ago, "& another wee song from InOBU..." There is an old and a new song of mine in that post... Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: DonMeixner
Date: 26 Mar 02 - 07:22 AM

Finished a CD called "Finally" by The Flyin' Column, Its selling pretty good at our venues and we like it just fine.

Don

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 26 Mar 02 - 07:36 AM

My biggest musical accomplishment has been to improve my singing such that feedback from Mark (my husband and most rigorous critic) is usually positive rather than negative.

kris

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: bernil
Date: 26 Mar 02 - 11:50 AM

I'm not really a musician but at last I'm learning to play barré chords on my guitar. I've played the most common chords since I was young (for fun, for myself) and often needed for instance an F. It makes me very happy when it works and still happier when it happens to sound good! :-)

Berit

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: GUEST,jonesey
Date: 26 Mar 02 - 12:43 PM

All these small victories are on the mandolin. Making concerted effort to play Black Mountain Rag. Transposing melodies I already know into other keys. Learning new chord forms that force me to stretch my left hand. Painstakingly learning melodies of session tunes from the Walton 110 book.(I'm not good at notation) On and on it goes...lol

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: CarolC
Date: 26 Mar 02 - 04:11 PM

I'm in the process of learning a waltz called "Aanisen aalot" (the Waves of Lake Onega) by George de Godzinsky.

What makes this an accomplishment for me is that it uses chords on the treble (keyboard) side of my accordion as well as on the bass (button) side. This is the first piece I've ever played using chords on the treble side. I'm getting pretty good at it, and I really like it. It was a bit intimidating at first, but now it's actually quite fun.

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 26 Mar 02 - 04:29 PM

I survived a ten minute rick Fielding "introduction to Scruggs picking" lesson. Probably the most useful (and stressful) lesson I've had. Rick didn't have the pointer in his hand waiting to rap me on the knuckles when I messed up. I put the banjo away when I saw him reach for it.

Justa Picker, I can't wait to hear that. BeGrass?

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: Jeri
Date: 26 Mar 02 - 04:53 PM

I've managed to go from "note-note-clam-buzz-clam-ohshit" to note-note-buzz-note-note." Major accomplishment to make it through a song without a single "ohshit!"

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: 53
Date: 26 Mar 02 - 09:24 PM

After playing guitar for almost 38 years, I've finally started learning to sing.

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: Terry K
Date: 27 Mar 02 - 03:24 AM

My guitar class has a new teacher who has us all (only 4 or 5 of us) playing together at full volume. I've even been known to do the singing - major breakthrough!! I'm starting to get a real buzz from it. (No cheap jibes about "buzz" please!).

Cheers, Terry

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 27 Mar 02 - 10:55 AM

Playing a 25 minute spot at the Cambridge Folk Festival last year in the Club tent (Saturday evening, when our club runs the session). Fantastic.

Supporting Martin Simpson at our club - what a nice bloke he is, he even did my sound check. Just before his last song he took time to thank me and rememebered my full name! Equally fantastic.

And every other time I've played in public. What a hobby, eh?

Pete

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 27 Mar 02 - 06:57 PM

Howdy all! My latest accomplishment was I finally typed out my lyrics and music to a dozen tunes I wrote and sent them off to the copyright office. My winter 2000 collection. (patting myself on my back!)
Rustic

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 12:20 PM

Yes, Gruitersex, rhythm and rhyme definitely make things easier to remember.

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 12:35 PM

I played 3 or so recognizable tunes on the concertina at Rainycamp..I recognized them anyway...my coach did not even come close to guessing them. mg

Subject: RE: Share your latest musical accomplishment
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 01:34 PM

Just this morning, I learned "Nail That Catfish to a Tree" on hammered dulcimer. I already know "Shove That Pig's Foot a Little Farther in the Fire". Now I need to merge them seamlessly together into "The Animal Cruelty Medley".