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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Weaser P:
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Location: Cicero, NY | ...and let that be a lesson to ya. My Jersey boys'll get ya before you finish the sentence. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I listened though it a couple times on different days. Strictly speaking music wise, and not personal wise, I think the song needs some work. The lead solo, although having plenty of notes played really fast, does not seem to fit with a old style folk song.
Maybe all it needs is to be played 100 times to get familiar with it. Take it out to some open mic nights and get some feedback.
I admit to recording and playing some real turds myself. Some of them, after many tries, are still turds. Then there are the very few that eventually evolve into something I can be proud of.
I'd be interested in hearing a before and after recording. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Turds?
Little Miss Muffet, sat on her snuffet, eating some turds with whey. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Hey, I used to read that to my daughter when she was young. The next line was "Along came a spider and sat down besid'er and said 'Hey! Whatcha got there, baby?!?"
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Slipkid:
I listened though it a couple times on different days. Strictly speaking music wise, and not personal wise, I think the song needs some work. The lead solo, although having plenty of notes played really fast, does not seem to fit with a old style folk song.
Maybe all it needs is to be played 100 times to get familiar with it. Take it out to some open mic nights and get some feedback.
I admit to recording and playing some real turds myself. Some of them, after many tries, are still turds. Then there are the very few that eventually evolve into something I can be proud of.
I'd be interested in hearing a before and after recording. Thanks, Brad! I appreciate the thoughtful assessment. And, I concur. After some time (and, therefore some distance) that's pretty much what I concluded upon listening again. And you said it on the nose. The instrumental part needs a lot of refining, and the vocal part needs another singer! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | along came a spyder and sat down beside her so she ate that too. |
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Location: Tennessee | My kinda chick.
Keep working at it, Alan. It'll come together. Sometimes in those old folk songs, simplicity rules the day. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
My kinda chick.
Keep working at it, Alan. It'll come together. Sometimes in those old folk songs, simplicity rules the day. Thanks, Bobbo! I will... Sounds like another project for 2010: make a decent version of "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill." |
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Location: Lebanon, TN | Originally posted by AlanM:
Thanks, Bobbo! I will... Sounds like another project for 2010: make a decent version of "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill." [/QB] I remember learning this song to sing at our local folk club when I was 15 (32 yrs ago :( ). Sounds like we need a collab Allan. Message me and we can see what we can pul together. |
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Location: Flahdaw | C'mon...is it just me, or is this song just kinda weird? (not you, Alan, just the song) "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill?" There's a million old folk songs out there that might be better choices than this.
(I keep looking at my dog and thinking, get up off your lazy butt and do something!) |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Careful. He might be looking back and thinking the same thing! |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by dark bar:
C'mon...is it just me, or is this song just kinda weird? (not you, Alan, just the song) "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill?" There's a million old folk songs out there that might be better choices than this.
(I keep looking at my dog and thinking, get up off your lazy butt and do something!) Lol! I confess I liked the melody before I listened to the words. The words ARE kind of grim. And "tarriers" appears to have taken on a whole new meaning in this thread alone!
I'm mulling a possible song about getting my cats to do the laundry and dishes. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by AlanM:
I'm mulling a possible song about getting my cats to do the laundry and dishes. I believe that's Capo Mike's cue...  |
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| Originally posted by stellarjim:
Speaking of old folk songs, does anyone have chords for "St. James Infirmary"? (at least I think that's the correct name). It's an old folk blues song.
Jim Great song. I remember the first time I heard it at a 3 day thanksgiving jam about 35 years ago. |
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