![]() ![]() But, you’ll find all three versions in the download.Ĭowboy print on a handbag (- watercolor by Jani Freimann)īill Cheatham is another popular old-time fiddle tune. To save space, I’ve only included an image of the first version below. I’m recording it on my phone and the furnace keeps cutting in. I apologize in advance for the sound file. Just for fun, the third version is played an octave higher and moves up the neck for a few bars. The first two are very similar to each other, with some slight variations in the second. I’ve tabbed out 3 slightly different versions. As a result, with emphasis on the 1st and 4th beat, you can get the feel for that marching rhythm. The following setting is in the key of G Major, with a 6/8 time signature (count 6 beats per measure). This tune has been recorded by many different artists over the years. With a change of lyrics, the melody was used by some of the New York Regiments during the American Civil War and renamed ‘The New York Volunteer’. It’s an old English folk song that was (and still is) used in several different locales as a marching song. The melody actually comes from another old tune, ‘The Lincolnshire Poacher’. Today, California is the most populated state in the U.S.A. As a result, towns flourished all across the U.S., and travel ’off to California” was now cheaper, faster and much safer. On May 10th, 1869, the two railways had met, and the last spike was driven into the rail line at Promontory, Utah. Ten years later, they contracted the Union Pacific Railroad, and the Central Pacific railroad to build the ‘ Transcontinental Railway‘.Īfter the end of the civil war in 1865, there was a big push to finish the railway and join the country together. Sometime in 1853, Congress appropriated funds to survey, and establish routes that would connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Congress rushed to incorporate California into the Union. As a result, the population increased 1000-fold and, though it wasn’t even a Territory yet, U.S. Off to California Slowerĭuring the ‘ California gold rush‘, it’s estimated that over 130,000 people entered over the California Trail, and even more arrived by sea. The second version is slowed down a little, with a bit of a bounce. “Off to California” is in the key of G Major, and I’ve tabbed it out in 4/4 timing (without dotted notes). But sometimes, I just end up playing the hornpipe more like a reel. I’ll usually tab out a hornpipe without the dotted notes, then put the lilt and emphasis in wherever I want. You, of course, will play it how you like! Ta Da, Ta Da, Ta Da, Ta Da… I like the bounce to be a little less pronounced, but that’s just my opinion. I sometimes find that sounds a little static, or a little much, like. Hornpipes are supposed to have a little ‘lilt’, or a ‘bounce’ to them, and that’s often written with dotted quarter notes. If you look at those settings you’ll notice the dotted quarter notes. There are two settings in that publication (#1628 and #1629). The tune is one of many melodies collected by Francis O’Neill and later published in “ O’Neill’s Music of Ireland“. So we hope to record some backing tracks and add these on a separate Page.“Off to California” is a traditional Irish hornpipe. My Son now has a fully functional multi-track studio using a Macbook and Pro-Tools. I do this with a really old version of CAKEWALK, screen shot the result with SCREENPRESSO and tidy up with Paint Shop Pro. I have started to include standard notation where I have time. There are about 178 tunes here now and approaching 85,000 hits. At the moment I still need my Tab sheets or music notation to join in a session. The main thing I have learned is that being able to play the the scales for each key without looking or thinking is all-important to improvement. I’m trying to transcribe a tune a day, including now a video or Spotify link. I like transcribing the work of the 2009 Fleadh Comhaltas winners “The Dartry Ceili band” ![]() There are about 112 tunes here now and approaching 44,000 hits. ![]() So far there have been almost 26,000 views of the stuff here. I have now published over a hundred tunes and will try to refine all the content in Feb’ & March. ![]() Where available I’ll add a video showing the tune played properly. I hope to add slow tutorials for each tune using soundcloud or video. I will perfect the notation, and other content as I go along. In May 2011, I started to learn the Mandolin, banjo and tenor Banjo and this site will record my progress. ![]()
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