Complex Rhythms (5/8, 7/8 ...)

Irish Flute
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Hello Everybody.

I would like to play some music from eastern Europe (macedonian,…) I’m looking for abc’s or sheet music of tunes in that rhythms, does somebody have any? any link?. And please, I don’t have keys in my flute so I prefer friendly keys (G, Em, D, Bm) if possible :wink:

Thanks, Victor.

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Hi Victor,

if you can give me your email address via PM I will send you a bunch of abc’s.

~Hans

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And here is a McGoldrick 7/8 tune, Waterman’s:

X:0
T:Waterman’s
C:Mike McGoldrick
Z:Richard Moon
M:7/8
L:1/8
K:Em
E2B2 BAG|A2GA B2E|GAA2 AGA|Bc BG AGF|!
E2B2 BAG|A2GA B2E|GAA2 ABG|AB GF E3:||!
g2e2 efg|f2 BA BdB|c2A2 ABG|AB cd eaf|!
g2e2 efg|f2 BA BdB|c2A2 ABG|AB GF EGB|!
g2e2 efg|a2 gf efd|b2 ag fga|g2 fe fdB|!
g2e2 efg|f2 BA BdB|c2A2 ABG|AB GF E3||

4

Very nice tune, thanks Hans.

5

Hey there. I play in a group that does all kinds of Eastern European music, like Greek, Croation, Bulgeraian, and most of it is in wierd rythems, like 6/7, 7/8, 9/8, or even 13/8. Here is a link to a site that has some music on it, and the message board there can help you find more probably.
http://www.tamburaland.com/
Hope that helps. :slight_smile:

6

I’ve got a setting of Grey Larsen’s “Thunderhead” for GHB that has some 7/8 bars in the B-part… I’ll have to dig for that.

Cheers,
Aaron

7

How do you count 6/7?

8

oops, i meant 6/8
:blush:

9

whew! :slight_smile:

10

Flook play various tunes in these time sig’s
from the Flook CD.

Munera de casa
Macedonian oro
Gentle Giant

I think I got the ABC from
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/index.php
or try
http://tunedb.woodenflute.com/

Use something like midinotate to get the sheet music from the midi file.
Get the midi file by pasting the ABC into
http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html

HTH

11

That would be quite a trick to be able to play in 6/7.

I’ll have to work on that one. :smiley:

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Hi,

You can search for metre in JC’s ABC Tunefinder by typing the metre in the search field and have it search in the code instead of title.
For example 7/8’s:

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/TuneFind?P=7%2F8&m=codes&M=&L=&K=&V=0&W=wide&limit=100&thresh=5&find=FIND

:slight_smile:

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Very useful! Thanks :slight_smile:

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He has a full 7/8 version of that tune Lunasa does it on the second track of the first album last tune in the set. Try the session for it.