Your favorite kind of music to play? favorite pieces?

[deb-l]

Karen, do you record on youtube?

[Karen Johns]

Yup, I have a couple of videos up. One is an older one of me playing “Gentle Maiden” on my wire-strung Limerick (about two months after I built it, and the other one is of me playing my Voyageur to the Christmas song “Some Children See Him”. My digital camera is not the greatest for recording, so I am hesitant at making any more until I get something better,but you can look me up under the tags for the song if you like.

One of the best things about recording yourself is you can see the progress you have made. Even if you only tape-record yourself I highly recommend it.

New favorite song I’m currently working on: Summer Rain by Frank Voltz. Very “harpy”, relaxing, and beautiful chord modulations. Love the dramatic glissando in this one, and the waterfall arpeggios…very dreamy…

Karen

[Jessica A]

Karen, I can’t find either one on youtube.

[patricia-jaeger]

Sylvia,

My favorite pieces to play are the “standards” from the big band era, which have melodies and harmonies that seem to please any age. I do my own arrangements and do not sell or record them, but give them to my students when their ability matches the technique involved in the piece.

[michael-rockowitz]

Just for completeness, here’s the same set of chord changes for Inis Oirr, but in the key of G, which the notation that Karen Johns directed us to is written in:

A Section
3

[Karen Johns]

Umm, no, that is not the chord notations I directed- replace the Em with Bm (at least in part A), and 3 beats per each measure, totaling 8 chord changes. Part B is different as well.

[Sylvia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGhEYBqIOG8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRJKw9INXec

Here are the links to Gentle Maiden and Some Children so everyone can enjoy them.

[Karen Johns]

You are too kind, Sylvia. But thank you for the vote of confidence- it really means a lot…

Karen

[deb-l]

Nicely played Karen, very expressive.

[deb-l]

I found a nice version of Inis Oirr, by it’s other name, Inisheer in ‘The Fairy Reel’ by Reba Lunsford, for those of us who aren’t adept at music theory to make up the accompaniment in case anyone is interested.

[Ken H.]

Hi,

[Ken H.]

Have you seen the Bright Lilly grow was composed by Robert Johnson.

[deb-l]

Ken, we have some of the same favorites, just wondering who is

[Ken H.]

Hi Deb,

[jessica-wolff]

Whoever it was liked Dowland: I think “The King of Denmark’s Gaillard” would sound good on harp.

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