St. Anne's Reel + Sally Gardens
Channel: Katy Adelson
Date: 2015-09-24

Here are two neat fiddle tunes, "St. Anne's Reel" and "Sally Gardens!"  I think St. Anne's is Canadian, and Sally Gardens is Irish.  I wanted to also include "St. Joseph's Reel" (also a neat Canadian tune) at the beginning, but I thought it would make the video too long.  I think these tunes go well together, and they also are good transition tunes into polkas!

St. Anne's is a really happy-sounding tune!  I thought I'd play two versions, the first version is a more simplified version that I learned when I was younger, and the second version has a lot more notes; I learned it about a month ago.  They both are really fun, but there is something really nice about the simple version.  I think it's a little catchier and easier to listen to. (=

Sally Garden's is one of those tunes that is really fun to play in sessions!  For some reason, everywhere I go, I hear it played differently.  I had the tune ingrained in my head differently than how the folks play it near where I live, and I clashed so badly when I tried to play it with everyone.. x_x;;  I think I've finally learned a version that is really similar to their version, and I thought I'd make a video of it.  Whenever I make a video of a tune, it becomes embedded in my mind so much more than all of the other tunes that I've learned over the years.  It's interesting that when this tune is played slowly, it sounds kind of sad and melancholy, but it becomes a happy bouncy tune when it's sped up!  It's weird how music can do that!

Fall is just around the corner!  A lot of these sunflowers aren't looking too happy anymore with the colder morning temperatures now happening.  I hope to make a few videos with the pretty fall colors, but the season is usually really short where I live.  Sometimes the weather jumps from summer to snow and knocks all the leaves off the trees, but hopefully that won't happen this year!  ^_^

Thank you for watching! =)

~Katy

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Software and equipment used:

Software used (for Macintosh):
Garageband for attempted sound mixing

Final Cut Pro for video editing
Lens Flare plugin from FCPEffects:
PicMonkey.com for the ending cards

Plugins for sound effects (I have A LOT to learn in this department!):
East West plugins – Goliath Virtual Instrument, Stormdrum II
Best Service Forest Kingdom II by Eduardo Tarilonte (See: bestservice.de)

Camera:
Canon 70D

Microphone for audio recording:
Blue Woodpecker