BONAPARTE'S RETREAT - using DDAD "Dead Man's" Cross Tuning
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- čas přidán 13. 03. 2014
- www.OnlineLessonVideos.com - Fiddle Lesson by Ian Walsh - visit the site for the Full Lesson + Sheet Music of the Basic Melody + Performance Mp3 Tracks by Ian Walsh
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Your playing is truly great Ian, I love the seamless hammered longbow while playing the melody at 1:10. Truly inspiring
You, my friend, are the Michael Jordan of Fiddling...
Awesome! I've been trying to learn this by ear for years...had no idea about DDAD tuning. (Should be easier now!) Thank You : D
I have heard many, many versions of this venerable old tune in my 53 years, but never, have I heard one whose beautifully simple arrangement of plaintiff drones, contrasted against euphoria-inducing high notes delivered at increasingly feverish pace, so CLEARLY, so...DISTINCTLY, conjure images of the beautiful green rolling moors, ancient Celtic ruins, the rocky Burren on the West coast of Clare, and Ireland's glorious Gaelic past.
+centerice This is actually an Appalachian tune! Shades of Irish to be sure, especially the way Mr. Walsh up there plays it, but it comes from a Kentucky fiddler by the name of William H. Stepp.
+Jake Blount I guess that explains the Gaelic sound it has.
Plaintive, or mournful, drones. A plaintiff is a person who files a lawsuit.
There is a gent named John Specker that explains the origines of this tune. It was from the defeat of Bonaparte at Waterloo. The Irish soldier mercenaries were going to suffer badly at the hands of the conquering British. The tune was carried far and wide to be known as Bonaparte's Retreat with many sources and many versions. All excellant.
@@robertshorthill6836 Thank you for that fascinating history!
LOVE your version of this Ian! Thank you for showing the tuning part in such detail. Adding to Favorites.
Phenomenal performance, Ian.
For those of you wondering why this song sounds familiar, I did your research and found out that the song "Hoe-down" by Aaron Copland, which you hear on the Beef, It's What's For Dinner commercials, borrowed HEAVILY from "Bonapart" here, as you can tell.
Custer Ranch whoa I never realized that. Now I can't unhear it!
Beautiful tune, well played.
A very good teacher, clear and well explained......
Excellent! Lots of good advise and instructive.
Absolutely fantastic, Would definitely take a detour when i'm in the states to pay for lessons in person if you do them :)
Soo, soo good! I'm a couple- year beginner but I just gotta learn to play this in cross tuning.
You are ridiculously good!
damn dude your time is incredible
I love this version
I always heard that this tuning came about because the British threatened any Scottish bagpipers with death if they played them after the British defeated them. So the fiddlers came up with this fiddle tuning to replicate the bagpipe sound and drone on their fiddles. The Brits never mentioned fiddles in their law. Great story, not sure if there's any truth in it.
Awesome!
Beat rendition I’ve heart yet!
Damn, this is great!!!!
you are a fiddling machine!
Come on, Ian, make a CD.
Thanks!
There is a Hurdy Gurdy version of Bparte's Retreat that sounds like a bagpipe. It is probably the closest version to the original fiddle version ever. Being in DDAD would be awasome on H. G. Probably would require a bit of retuning, but would be worth the effort.
There is also a Chinese folk instrument known as a pepa, tuned standard to DDAD. Humm... I wonder if any pepa player has done B's Retreat !?!
very nice and very tricky especially right hand
THIS IS GREEEEEEEAT
One piece of advice to anyone going for old-time or bluegrass fiddling, get geared tuning pegs! Those things save my life when it comes to different tunings.
I'm wearing out my regular pegs with the constant retuning in Old Time playing so I'm tempted to go for geared ones. Do they effect your tone in any way? Also, can I ask if you fitted these yourself and what make do you recommend? I assume you need a reamer.
Great sense of rhythm
I bought the whole lesson. I really love this tune but I feel like it's a bit above my skill level. I've gotten the B part pretty well nailed down with double stops and even a bit of bite with the bow. I cannot for the life of me, however, figure out a good way to bow the rest of the tune. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Get yourself a teacher! ;)
Nice :)
"Fiddle... About!, Fiddle... About..!"
Beef its whats for dinner.
Just have two fiddles with you...to keep from changing ur standard pitched one.
Would this open tuning be easier on a five string fiddle?
My name is Chris Young and my youtube channel is chrisyoungdoesmctell or Barbara Salisbury 10 videos,and I use a very cool tuning from Johnny Winters 1969 tuning for mandolin,D A E B,ON I CAN LOVEYOU BABY,I believe this tune was also used by Fleetwood Mac and Fairport Convention,and may ultimately delineate from German Mandolinero (12strimg)wich were popular in America before 1880.Peace and Love,Chris Young(the fiddle fool)
By the way....what kind of a tuner are you using in this video. My SNARK tuner recently got broken & I need to replace it. Thanks again for all the awesome tutorials! I'll be playing at the local pub, in no time! ; D
the tuning is no problem at all
Wonderful……if that don’t get your feet tapping…..you’re already dead!
The E string sounds better dropped a step