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February 13, 2012

Michelle – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 44

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.

Article by Vi Wickam / Fiddle Tune a Day, Fiddling, Videos / college, Confession, fiddle, fiddle tune, grantham lincolnshire, Harlaxton, house, jim abraham, krfc, Song 15 Comments

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Comments

  1. Bruce Miller says

    August 24, 2013 at 5:45 am

    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

    Reply
    • Vi Wickam says

      August 31, 2013 at 12:48 pm

      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. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Howard Lee Harkness says

    September 21, 2013 at 2:37 am

    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.

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  3. Vi Wickam says

    September 22, 2013 at 4:32 pm

    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. 😉

    Reply
  4. Michael Friedman says

    January 26, 2014 at 10:04 pm

    Wonderful musical performance !

    Reply
    • Vi Wickam says

      January 27, 2014 at 8:36 am

      Thanks, Michael. Jim really rips on the bass, eh?

      Reply
  5. Paul Gitlitz says

    March 16, 2014 at 8:10 pm

    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

    Reply
  6. Paul Gitlitz says

    March 16, 2014 at 8:11 pm

    PS I did all my books using abc2win it works great for putting multiple tunes on a single page.

    Reply
  7. Vi Wickam says

    March 25, 2014 at 11:08 pm

    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. 😉

    Reply
  8. Vi Wickam says

    March 25, 2014 at 11:08 pm

    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. 😉

    Reply
  9. Vi Wickam says

    March 25, 2014 at 11:08 pm

    Good to know.

    Reply
  10. Vi Wickam says

    March 25, 2014 at 11:08 pm

    Good to know.

    Reply
  11. Vi Wickam says

    March 25, 2014 at 11:08 pm

    Thanks, Michael.

    Reply
  12. Vi Wickam says

    March 25, 2014 at 11:08 pm

    Thanks, Michael.

    Reply
  13. Paul Gitlitz says

    March 26, 2014 at 1:52 am

    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.

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  14. Paul Gitlitz says

    March 26, 2014 at 1:52 am

    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.

    Reply

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