Feedback please: A new tune 'Nagging Molly'

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I’ve been writing this new tune that jumped up and bit my quirky nerve, and have spent the last couple of days making sure I didn’t want to tweak it anymore. I really like it.

It’s a ‘tone-poem’ of sorts. If you imitate Molly nagging away you’ll get the right sound. The FASTER the better! I’ve been playing it at 120, to 138+bpm. It sounds really cool (and is a blast to play) if you can keep the ‘nagging’ sound going…

Here it is in ABC:




X: 2
T:Nagging Molly
M:6/8
L:1/8
C:Aldon Sanders
R:Jig
K:Em
|: ~e3 ~e3 | ~e3 BAG | ~e3 ~e3 | ~e3 bag | ~e3 ~e3 | ~e3 BAG | ~e3 ~f3 | bag ez2 :expressionless:
|: ~e3 Bdg | ~e3 ~f3 | ~e3 Bdg | fed ez2 | ~e3 Bdg | ~e3 ~f3 | bag egb | agd ez2 :expressionless:
|:ABB cBB|dBB eBB|gBB fBB|eBB cBB|ABB GBB|EBB cBB| ~e3 ~f3 | bag ez2 :expressionless:
|: ~e3 Bdg | ~e3 ~f3 | ~e3 Bdg | fed ez2 | ~e3 Bdg | ~e3 bag | bag egb | agd ez2 :expressionless:





I’d love to hear what you all think!

I’ll post an mp3 soon…

In the meantime, play it and get back to me…

Pllleeeeaaasseee??? :smiley:

Aldon

Edited to make the ABC look pretty on Tune-o-tron. Then edited to correct the first ABC version I put up… :blush:

Then edited again!

2

Okay, I’ve tried and tried to make this thing look right on the tune-o-tron over on concertina.net, but somehow keep getting one measure that takes up a whole staff line!

Help please!

Aldon

3

I wish I knew anything at all about ABC and could help you. I’ll check out the converter and give your tune a try. Congratulations on writing a tune! I don’t have any talent in the composing area. :smiley:

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It’s not your fault, it’s just that the staff is too long for the width that’s been set. Fortunately, it appears that the engine behind this online converter is some variation of abc2ps so you can use the %%scale command to make it fit. I.e.

X: 2
T:Nagging Molly
M:6/8
L:1/8
C:Aldon Sanders
%%scale 0.6
R:Jig
K:Em
|: ~e3 ~e3 | ~e3 BAG | ~e3 ~e3 | ~e3 bag | ~e3 ~e3 | ~e3 BAG | ~e3 ~f3 | bag ez2 :expressionless:
|: ~e3 Bdg | ~e3 ~f3 | ~e3 Bdg | fed ez2 | ~e3 Bdg | ~e3 ~f3 | bag egb | agd ez2 :expressionless:
|:ABB cBB|dBB eBB|gBB fBB|eBB cBB|ABB GBB|EBB cBB| ~e3 ~f3 | bag ez2 :expressionless:
|: ~e3 Bdg | ~e3 ~f3 | ~e3 Bdg | fed ez2 | ~e3 Bdg | ~e3 bag | bag egb | agd ez2 :expressionless:

Edited to add - there are a ton of other %% commands for abc2ps and its variants, I don’t know if the rest of them work but if they do it really opens up the possibilities…