This is a relatively easy tune to play with fairly straightforward and accessible variations.
Other concepts/skills that I explore include how to “see” a chord progression in the structure of a tune, some of the advantages of using a left-hand lead (and for that matter using a consistent lead), accent shifts, and how to create variations using a variety of ideas. The backup is a super example of a vamp that follows a rising and falling bass line.
This simple tune in Am (A Aeolian) ends unresolved and has a spooky quality but seems to work at almost any tempo. Kenkolodner This reel is well-known in Scottish music circles. Recorded June 2016 Fenchurch Studios, Baltimore MD Thank you for your support - I hope you enjoy the tune! Please do not share your purchased music and videos. NOTE: Even if you already own the sheet music, your purchase ensures that you receive the latest updated versions, and future additions to new arranging ideas, backups and so forth as Ken experiments and develops his playing of the tune. It's like having private mini-tutorials from Ken that you can watch over and over! Watch your email for instructions after purchase*** ***Videos can be streamed, downloaded, or viewed in the Gumroad App on mobile devices.
Plus a video play-through of the arranged tune by Ken (shot from above). Sheet music for melody, backup, and arranging ideas. Option 2: $15 (Sheet music (PDF) PLUS a video play-through) Ken talks through the tune, chord choices, hammering patterns, backups, embellishments, arranging, play-throughs, and more on his dulcimer (shot from above so that you can see what he's doing). Option 1: $32 (Sheet music PLUS video lessons) I hope you will go for it! I recorded this many years ago on a CD (Glenelg) of Scottish National Fiddle Champion, Elke Baker, one of my favorite playing partners for years. Normally, for bells you’d say les cloches (f, pl). Les matines is a word that is not used much in modern french but it means bells. On the next line you’ll read: Sonnez les matines. This is a relatively easy tune to play with fairly straightforward and accessible variations. When you invert vous dormez (you are sleeping) to dormez-vous you get the question: Are you sleeping.
See the little bears, Sleeping until spring, Come with me and wake them, With a merry ring.This reel is well-known in Scottish music circles.
This is a variation of “sleeping bunnies” but we tell the children at our preschool to climb into their caves with full little tummies and sleep all winter! Wonder when they’ll wake up? Wonder when they’ll wake up? You will wake in springtime, In the warm, warm springtime, You will sleep all winter, Through the long, cold winter, The people in the town wear hats and gloves………. The ducks and the geese go flying south……. The squirrels in the trees get lots of nuts…………… The bears in the cave sleep all the time………… The weather’s getting cold so bundle up, winter’s coming soon. The weather’s getting cold so bundle up, bundle up, bundle up Hibernation Song (to tune of wheels on the bus) To the tune of Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear Turn Around Grizzly Bear oh Grizzly Bear is sleeping in his cave.īe so very quiet, oh so very quiet…if you shake him, if you wake him, (in a loud voice) HE WILL GET QUITE MAD!Ĭhildren come up, and making bear claws with their hands, all GRRRRROWL!