Jem Dunlop teaching this Wednesday!

While Nicole is away on tour in New Zealand with cloudstreet, Steve and Jem are teaching the class. This week, its Jem, the beautiful fiddle player from Witta. Don't miss this rare class!
And before Nicole went to New Zealand, we managed to get to part two of the Gold Ring. Here is part one and part two. As before, if you would like to hear them, copy and past the text including the header into http://www.folkinfo.org/songs/abcconvert.php, select abc2midi and click on "submit".

X: 1
T: Gold Ring, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
|:BAG A2d|cAF G2A|BAG A2d|cAG FGA|
BAG A2d|cAF GBd|~g3 afd|cAF G3:|
|:~B3 Bdc|A2A dcA|~G3 GFG|Add cAG|
B2B Bdc|A2A dcA|FDE F2d|[1 cAF G2A:|[2 cAF ~g3 |

The Gold Ring Project Part One. And the Orphan.

The Tunes Class has begun an odyssey. We are learning the seven-part jig, The Gold Ring. To make each part more separate and more memorable, we are only doing one part a week. This week was the beginning of the journey, with Part One. We thought about naming each part after the colours of the rainbow (ROYGBIV, there are seven refracted wavelengths, oh shut up Nicole), or the seven Chakras, or John suggested the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and three of their wives-or-girlfriends, but in the end simplicity won.

The Gold Ring, Part One.

This is the abc notation for the first part. If you would like to hear a midi file of it (how cool is this...) copy it including the header section and paste it into this link:

http://www.folkinfo.org/songs/abcconvert.php

Select abc2midi and click on "submit". It will create a sound file so you can hear the tune. I know its old-school, but its pretty cool.

X: 1

T: Gold Ring, The

M: 6/8?L: 1/8?R: jig

K: Gmaj

|:BAG A2d|cAF G2A|BAG A2d|cAG FGA|BAG A2d|cAF GBd|~g3 afd|cAF G3:|

I'll put an actual recording up asap, along with a recording of the main tune we learned, The Orphan, a jig in Em.

Nic