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Post by brianr2 on May 19, 2014 10:24:02 GMT
If you could only take one tunebook with you to a desert (along with you favourite instrument and unlimited strings etc), what would it be and why? For me, it would have to be Rob Mackillop's "Scottish Guitar" - see HERE There is just something about his arrangements that touches me. They vary in difficulty but even seemingly the most straightforward have considerable depth and appeal. No matter how often I return to this book, I always seem to find something fresh. Though I am very long way from adequacy - if you want to hear how good Rob's tunes can sound, try vikingblues in Plucky Duck (which incidentally prompted me to start this one) - I enjoy playing them again and again. It is well worth reading Rob's introduction, about his approach to ornamentation and timing. The accompanying CD is superb and worth the cost ofnthe book by itself, if a little intimidating. So, what would you take to a desert island? Brian
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Post by walkingdecay on May 19, 2014 10:47:36 GMT
In general, just a good, well stocked Real Book (with notation as well as chords, because I have a habit of mixing up bridges between tunes!).
In folk terms I'd be torn between Cantiga's Renaissance Festival Favourites, which contains useful antique material from all over the world, and Pete Cooper's English Fiddle tunes For Violin, which ably demonstrates that Celts do not have all the best tunes.
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Post by leoroberts on May 19, 2014 12:49:54 GMT
I'd be hard pressed between "The Traveller's Tales" (Thomson/White) and "Butterfly" (Chesterton/Thomson/White).
Both have been gathering dust on my shelves for far too long and it may well be that I'd need to be stranded on a deswrt island to give me the time to do summat wiv 'em!
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Post by 007 on May 19, 2014 13:09:58 GMT
I think on deep reflection the complete Status quo songbook and no more than 3 chords sorted
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Post by scotch on May 19, 2014 13:58:07 GMT
If you could only take one tunebook with you to a desert (along with you favourite instrument and unlimited strings etc), what would it be and why? For me, it would have to be Rob Mackillop's "Scottish Guitar" - see HERE There is just something about his arrangements that touches me. They vary in difficulty but even seemingly the most straightforward have considerable depth and appeal. No matter how often I return to this book, I always seem to find something fresh. Though I am very long way from adequacy - if you want to hear how good Rob's tunes can sound, try vikingblues in Plucky Duck (which incidentally prompted me to start this one) - I enjoy playing them again and again. It is well worth reading Rob's introduction, about his approach to ornamentation and timing. The accompanying CD is superb and worth the cost ofnthe book by itself, if a little intimidating. So, what would you take to a desert island? Brian I've had that book for a couple months and strangely been really busy and haven't opened it. I'll have a good look at it later. I don't have many books but I would take my classical one. It has some great pieces in there hopefully have one or two of them In plucky soon
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Post by brianr2 on May 19, 2014 15:35:13 GMT
I'd be hard pressed between "The Traveller's Tales" (Thomson/White) and "Butterfly" (Chesterton/Thomson/White). Both have been gathering dust on my shelves for far too long and it may well be that I'd need to be stranded on a deswrt island to give me the time to do summat wiv 'em! Leo, great choice. The books from markthomson and ocarolan are both superb and worthy of a place on any desert island. As for 007, I can only pray that he is alone on his island. So wrong, and on so many levels.... Brian
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Post by ocarolan on May 19, 2014 16:02:01 GMT
Thanks chaps for kind words re my book - actually I might have to be v up myself and take it too - can't remember how to play some of the tunes in there now! Keith
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Post by vikingblues on May 19, 2014 18:07:56 GMT
It shouldn't be a surprise given what Brian has already said above that I'd probably have the Rob MacKillop along to baffle, excite, intimidate, and entertain me. Glad to know that others like this book too - I have had no other music book that has caught my attention and interest so fully. I find myself agreeing so much with the thoughts Rob McK expresses in his introduction - perhaps part of the reason it has clicked with me so well.
Hopefully on a desert island I'd find enough time and peace to be able to really work at it, and get much further along the road to making good music.
Could I take the opportunity to ask ... being relatively new here ... what's the story round the "Butterfly" book? Do I take it from what I found on an older thread that there are none available now?
Mark
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Post by brianr2 on May 19, 2014 18:33:32 GMT
Could I take the opportunity to ask ... being relatively new here ... what's the story round the "Butterfly" book? Do I take it from what I found on an older thread that there are none available now? Mark The "Butterfly" and "Traveller's Tale" tab books, by ocarolan and markthomson respectively, were the product of "road trips" generously arranged by davewhite, who kindly made available some of the instruments he had made to Forum members to try out. Pdf copies of the books may be available from the authors: both come highly recommended (the books and their authors!). Brian
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Post by ocarolan on May 19, 2014 19:27:58 GMT
............... Could I take the opportunity to ask ... being relatively new here ... what's the story round the "Butterfly" book? Do I take it from what I found on an older thread that there are none available now? Mark Mark, you can check out the tunes in my "Butterfly" collection on my Bandcamp page - link in my signature at the bottom of each post. If you like the tunes and are at all interested in the (notation/tab) book/CD/DVD of all the tunes then do PM me for more details as I do have a copy or two somewhere I'm sure - no obligation! The tunes are all played on a small all sapele 12 fret slot head guitar made by Dave White. Mark Thomson's great book is usually obtainable from Dave White who may have an odd copy, or may need to get one printed for you. Keith
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Post by slasher on May 20, 2014 14:25:09 GMT
Being a singer rather than an instrumentalist I would probably like to take one of the EFDSS songbooks. They did a series of four back in the sixties:- Marrow Bones, The Wanton Seed, The Foggy Dew, and The Constant Lovers. I can just about manage a pretty rough "Anji" on my standard tuned guitar and a similarly semi-competant "Planxty Irwin" on my DADGAD guitar. Perhaps I should take Sarah MaQuaid's DADGAD book and try to improve the DADGAD. As the man nearly sang- "Ocarolan, I am but a fool..."
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Post by Martin on May 20, 2014 15:02:28 GMT
It's good to see the love for Rob's 'Scottish Guitar' book. If I remember correctly, we had a thread/group going on the previous forum where we would learn tunes from this book as a group, and Rob joined up to help us along. Sadly it didn't really get going properly, but I'd love to get into that sort of thing again. Rob's a great fella, and I had the pleasure to spend an hour or so in his company last year when I bought a banjo from him As far as a book choice is concerned, there are a few, but I'd probably go for Ken Perlman's 'Melodic Clawhammer Banjo' as I've managed to get a few really superb arrangements of great tunes from that book.
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Post by scotch on May 20, 2014 15:14:55 GMT
I might have a look for that book Martin. Finally picked up the banjo again. Great fun to play but this claw hammer technique will take some getting used to.
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Post by Mike Floorstand on May 20, 2014 18:44:56 GMT
Would it be possible to be stranded on a desert archipelago with each island within swimming distance, rather than just be on the one island?
In which case I would have a guitar plus jazz standards real book on one island, mandolin plus O'Neill's on another, 5-string banjo with that Ken Perlman book on another. A tenor banjo on another island would be good, but maybe wouldn't need a book there - enough material from the other islands. An octave mandolin or bouzouki on another island, to practise chordal accompaniment, but not sure what book would be best to study that...
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Post by brianr2 on May 20, 2014 18:50:59 GMT
Would it be possible to be stranded on a desert archipelago with each island within swimming distance, rather than just be on the one island? In which case I would have a guitar plus jazz standards real book on one island, mandolin plus O'Neill's on another, 5-string banjo with that Ken Perlman book on another. A tenor banjo on another island would be good, but maybe wouldn't need a book there - enough material from the other islands. An octave mandolin or bouzouki on another island, to practise chordal accompaniment, but not sure what book would be best to study that... Sorry but this would constitute cheating within the terms of "desert island". You can only have one book and one instrument, I am afraid. Brian
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