Monday, April 25, 2016

4-Part High Drive

One of our popular jam tunes is Gordon Duncan's "The High Drive". The Potomac Valley Fiddle Club version gives only two parts (which Gordon recorded on "The Circular Breath", curiously in a very staccato version on a practice chanter). But he actually wrote two additional parts.



High Drive - 4 Part Version (pdf)

I haven't added chords for the last two parts; they're basically the same as the previous parts.

The last part is a little idiosyncratic - specifically the last line. Gordon inserts an additional bar of G-chord arpeggios between what should be bars 2 & 3, for a big super-final fancy ending. Most fiddlers who play the additional parts simply will repeat the first two lines of the final part, rather than use the second ending, but personally I think it's pretty cool.

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