Mash up’s are very popular at the moment ,I particularly like this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGNfVo3J-Qg
Have you ever, maybe by accident played the wrong second part of a tune you were playing and afterwards thought that it actually worked.
Do you on purpose play parts of different tunes that you think go well together,
or is the idea of trad tune mash up’s ITM sacrilege.
RORY
Do you on purpose play parts of different tunes that you think go well together,
Ennis’ version of the New Demesne is a classic, the first part he played is from Julia Delaney’s, which happens to be on the page opposite to the one the New Demesne is on in O’Neill’s. Works fine.
I do it all the time, because the second parts of so many A minor reels sound nearly alike.
Nearly the same for reels in D, and G.
I get the impression that in Irish dance music there were originally a huge number of first parts which were paired with a small number of interchangeable second parts.
There was a thread on this a while back, how in the old days the first part was called “the tune” and the second part was called “the turn” and a piper, when asked to play a certain tune, said “if you sing the tune I can turn it for you”.
There was a thread on this a while back, how in the old days the first part was called “the tune” and the second part was called “the turn” and a piper, when asked to play a certain tune, said “if you sing the tune I can turn it for you”.
That’s the response of the blind piper in the story of the priest who was breaking up a dance asking the piper if he knew the our father.
There’s also the one one where Padraig O Keeffe told a player who was continually playing the first part of a tune to ‘take it outside, you’ll have more room to turn it’.