New Score added to the MUSIC LIBRARY

[thereallyniceman]

Site member Frank Coyne has kindly sent me a score for the MUSIC LIBRARY.

It is a J.E. Dallas composition that I have not seen before called The Connaught Banjo March. It looks quite interesting and has  1st 2nd banjo, piano and  1st and 2nd Mandolin parts too!!

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[Frank Coyne]

Hi Ian,

A really great clean up job, well done. Would love to hear it played! Best regards. Frank

[Joel Hooks]

I did a quick read through.  It has all the characteristics of a "thimble march."  It plays fine stroke or guitar style.

The bass solo is cool but for the most part it is rather typical of these things.

I'd do a down and dirty recording of it but I've committed all my time to other pieces in my notebook.

Thanks for sharing! 

[Trapdoor2]

I agree with Joel, this is a 'thimble march', the typical thimble 'roll' being shown by the small notes (arpeggios) in the A part. I cannot replicate that particular type of thimble-roll in my editor but I can get close (it won't let me end the arpeggios with the 5th string, it evidently works bottom-up from the tab so the MIDI comes out with the first note being the 5th string...and sounds scrambled).

I also cannot do grace-note triplets (or more than two notes), so the appogitura notes leading into the trio are 'faked in' and I can't make them work (easily) in the repeat.

With that in mind, here is a MIDI of "The Connaught" with both 1st and 2nd banjo parts. I started to add in the two mandolins but a few test measures revealed that they are simply lost amongst the banjo noise, so I left 'em out.

[thereallyniceman]

Brilliant Marc!   Thanks for taking time to do this for us.

I have added a player so we can play it without having to download it:

THE CONNAUGHT BANJO MARCH

It is not a bad march and I do like the Bass solo. Anyone know what the "Connaught" was?

 All I can see in Google is about a posh hotel!

[Frank Coyne]

Hi Ian/Marc,

A great job by all, brilliant, sounds great and really delighted to hear it. A nice march, Bass is attractive and catchy. Connaught (one of the Ireland’s four provinces) possibly refers to an Irish (UK) Regiment (?) Regards. Frank

[Frank Coyne]

Possibly this?

The Connaught Rangers ("The Devil's Own") was an Irish regiment of the British Army originally raised in 1793 as the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers), which gained a reputation both for indiscipline and for its prowess as shock troops and street-fighters with the bayonet while serving under the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War in Spain.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Trapdoor2]

I tend to set the two instruments into opposite channels (1st banjo to right, 2nd banjo to left) because while working on the piece, I am listening to my laptop's internal speakers...which are not very good and not physically separated by more than an inch or two. It is kind of like feeding a stereo input into a monaural output...ends up being a mashup.

So, this morning I'm at work and using my headphones and listening to it from here on the website. Whoa! Wiiiiiddddde separation! I feel like my eyeballs are shooting left and right trying to catch up with each banjo.

It is a cool tune, pretty easy. Getting all those 5-note rolls in there using fingerstyle techniques is a bit harder than with a thimble...but do-able. It took me an hour or two key it all in...much less for the 2nd banjo part.

Of course, if anyone wants the TAB...I'll send it forth.