Si Bheag Si Mhor and Wildwood Flower on Autoharp

"Si Bheag Si Mhor" and Wildwood Flower, played on Autoharp by Nancy Cowan. Not at the same time though. :-P

After a couple months of intense self-instruction, I kinda don't suck at the autoharp anymore. I make these videos to get feedback from other musicians to improve my playing, so PLEASE feel free to give the good, bad, ugly, and whatever. I've been told I am talented, and I've been told I suck, but we all know talent is only about 10% of the total package! My mother-in-law coached me on not making faces when I mess up, so now I'm not making any faces at all! I know I need to work on stage presence, hence, these videos are here to help with that too.

If anyone has good ideas on how to get rid of the clanking sound from the keys, please let me know. I put felt under all of them, but it wasn't enough. Maybe I'm just pressing too hard.

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Music

Tags:

• wildwood
• flower
• si
• bheag
• mhor
• mor
• autoharp
• folk
• bluegrass
• irish
• celtic
• gaelic
• music
• acoustic
• beginner
• lessons

[Harphoney]

Thats a really nice video, i really liked wildwood flower, the beat was really good, keep on smilin,,,cute little dog you have to

autoharp player from Sask.

[nancywarren]

Thank you!

[mheffinger1]

I got an autoharp for Christmas. Have been taking dvd lessons from Evo Bluestein. Learning a lot and look forward to putting a song on utube.

[nancywarren]

Let me know when you do!

[mostlythemusic]

Hey nancy, i loved your rendition of Si Bheag Si Mhor, and was wondering what book you got the chords from, i cant seem to find chords on the internet and so was wondering if you could either recommend a book, or (being a bit cheeky here) even message me the chords, and i could work out the melody for them lol, anyway.. lovely video nancy.. and keep on playing :O)

[nancywarren]

I got this arrangement from a fiddle book called "Fiddler's Philharmonic". To make a long explanation short, I used C, G7, and F.

[KoalaLumpurPictures]

@barefootlarry: There is such a thing as Irish! A lot of people in Britain and America have somehow got the idea that the language of Ireland is called Gaelic, but in Ireland, it is called "Irish", and if you call it "Gaelic", everyone knows straight away that you are a visitor.

[yoybong]

I like your music.

[kgs812]

Hi, Nancy. From Australia. I love this tune and play it on fiddle. These chords are from the book Traditional Tunes for Two Fiddlers. It's in 3/4 time Key DMaj / eq bar lines one chord per bar start on beat 3. part A  pick upII: /D/Bm/G-A/D/G/A7/D/Bm/G/D/Bm/B­m/G/A7/D/D:II II:pick up on 3/D/A7/G/D/A7/D/G/A/F#m/Bm/G/A­7/G/A7/D/D:II Hope this is of use. Good Luck.

[Barefootlarry]

"(Irish for "So Big So Small)"

You might want to think about your description. There is no such thing as "Irish"... they speak Gaelic in Ireland, and Si Bheag Si Mhor means translates as "Little Hill Big Hill".

I don't know about the key clacks, never heard that before. You might want to find another autoharp player locally and make sure their instrument sounds the same way when you play it. You might have something wrong with yours, if not.

[KAZZD18GE]

Hello! Nancy,Konnichiwa.

I like these tunes.

I have to learn much more about Autoharp.

You play so nice.

[mostlythemusic]

thank you very much nancy, i thought those were the chords you were using, but i wanted to be 100% sure LOL Thanks again x