I have a confession to make. I wrote this tune while I was in Harlaxton, England for a semester in college. Harlaxton Village is near Grantham Lincolnshire and University of Evansville has a campus there in a very large Manor house (the largest in the UK). I had just been in the Great Hall of the manor house practicing and came up with a new tune. I actually scrawled out the notes to it on another piece of sheet music – Blackbird by the Beatles if I remember correctly.
There was a girl there at Harlaxton, a friend, who asked me to write her a song soon after I had written this one. I hadn’t named it yet, so it became the song that I wrote for her. I called it Michelle in her honor. Kim Schug, after hearing this story gave it a subtitle – I just happened to have a song in my pocket.
Tonight, I am joined by Brent Hawley on guitar, and Jim Abraham on bass. We just finished our rehearsal for KRFC’s live at lunch program that we will be playing on soon. I hope you enjoy this raucous celtic-sounding reel.
you really should put out a book with the music you have written .. You have some really good stuff … I know I would love to buy it .. i am sure that many people would
Bruce
Hi Bruce. I’m going to do just that. Give me 30 days, and I will have it out. Now that’s a challenge to myself. 🙂
I'm looking forward to seeing that book. I hope you can meet that 30-day challenge you gave yourself.
I'm also collecting some tunes, but I don't have any originals (except one that was written for me by a friend at the Chicago Fair about 20 years ago). I'm using Lilypond to set the music. It's free, open-source software that does a better job of transcribing music than Finale Printmusic, but it's a bit harder to use, at least at first. You might like it, but the learning curve is probably too long to use it on your current project.
That's cool, Howard! Best of luck taking it on. Please send me a link to your videos. I did have Finale Notepad, but I recently bought the full version to do transcribing with. I think transcribing these tunes will be almost as much work as playing them – maybe more. 😉
Wonderful musical performance !
Thanks, Michael. Jim really rips on the bass, eh?
Nice tune Vi. I also love the funky bass. If you're looking for a tune (grin) I've got 300 or so new ones on my site glitchless.net Love your playing, tunefully Paul
PS I did all my books using abc2win it works great for putting multiple tunes on a single page.
Hi Paul, Thanks. I did checkout your site. That's quite a lot of tunes. I am working on transcribing all of my tunes, but it's a lot. I didn't realize how much I add to the melodies when I play them. 😉
Hi Paul, Thanks. I did checkout your site. That's quite a lot of tunes. I am working on transcribing all of my tunes, but it's a lot. I didn't realize how much I add to the melodies when I play them. 😉
Good to know.
Good to know.
Thanks, Michael.
Thanks, Michael.
I tried to keep them simple when I notate, it's a challenge as I tend to change things as I go. Occasionally I revise an uploaded version if I realize I never play it that way anymore.
I tried to keep them simple when I notate, it's a challenge as I tend to change things as I go. Occasionally I revise an uploaded version if I realize I never play it that way anymore.