Tag: broadbeam cradle-song

I saw that you had the ukelele tabs for Light on the Horizon – do those work for guitar as well? I just got my first guitar and my end goal is to learn that. (also maybe ukelele but let’s not get ahead of ourselves) Do your other pieces from Sansukh have guitar tabs as well? or chords? Honestly I’m so new at this that I don’t even know the difference.

Sorry Nonnie, those aren’t a tab, they’re just the chords. You can use them on piano, uke, guitar or whatever. I can’t read or create a tab, I’m afraid! I can’t play guitar for TOFFEE. It’s ukelele only for me (and even then I can only strum chords – much like my piano playing, lololol)

No, I haven’t written up the chords for other songs! But I’d be happy to do so 🙂 *deep breath* HERE I GO. 

I’m not writing out all the words, just the basic chords of verse & chorus. This gets long – under the cut are the chords for 

  • Iron Hills for Me
  • Broadbeam Cradle-Song 
  • In Western Lands. 

Good luck with all your practice!

IRON HILLS FOR ME CHORDS

Verse

A                                           A/E 

My home is no great hall of stone,

A                                         A/E

No golden treasures greet me,

A                                              A/E

nor an ancient place of great renown, 

A             G#dim         A

no grandeur in its history. 

Chorus

D                            A 

Oh I long for jagged rusty skies

D                            A    E

and her savage wild beauty

D                      A/E   Fdim  F#min

I see her when I close my eyes,

D           E          A

The Iron Hills for me.

BROADBEAM CRADLE SONG CHORDS

Dm              Am7      Dm

It was a very special day

Dm                                 F      C    

The most special beyond measure

Dm                 Edim 

because it was upon that day

Dm           Gm          Dm

that Mahal made a treasure.

IN WESTERN LANDS CHORDS

Intro – Ooooh x 4

Em  A     Em   A

G   D   G D        A


Verse

                D                          A

In Western Lands beneath the sun,

      G7                       D    A

the flowers may rise in spring

      Bm           G  D

the trees may bud

     Em       A

the waters run

     Bm                D  A               Bm                         G   

the merry finches sing, or there may be tis cloudless night

                   D                       A                    Em

and swaying beeches bear the stars as jewels white,

              D                     A            Dsus4   D

the Elven stars amid their branching hair.

(cradlesong anon) so this major-key broadbeam cradlesong is becoming, conceptually, what bomfris sings to disith and durin to get them to sleep, so i’m probably going to change some stuff around if thats ok? i just have this image of bomfris rocking two cribs at once and singing them to sleep, and thorin (stonehelm) comes in in the middle and starts humming along, and it’s just very peaceful and quiet and full of love. not super harmonically complex, but just very warm.

(cradlesong anon) pt 2 im changing the lyrics a bit, so it’s for two treasures, and im gonna use your alto line but an octave or two down for thorin. bomfris’ line is gonna stay the same. im just feeling things about bomfris and thorin and little disith and durin and how loved they all are, idk. would that be ok, to change it like that? 

(cradlesong anon) pt 3 i just decided that the tenor line that comes in around measure 32 is going to be bombur singing along from the halls of mahal, watching over his daughter and grandchildren. and now i made myself sad.

Hey Nonnie! Absolutely – go nuts, move it around as much as you like! It’s your thing now, this major version is your baby and you can play around with it in any old way: lyrics, tune, harmonies, anything. It’s all yours, with my enthusiastic encouragement and blanket permission for WHATEVER! I can’t wait to hear what you come up with.

And omg ajhsdglajhasgdfsah that headcanon hurts my heart. A lot. In a completely wonderful, perfectly perfect way. Bomfris and Thorin and their tiny little surprises and BOMBUR HOW DARE YOU augh

actually, now that I come to think of it… wow, that is EXTREMELY fitting for a Sansukh song, that lil

soupçon

of angst in a casserole of love and happiness!

the broadbeam cradle song made me too goddamn sad in a minor key, so i was thinking about transposing it to major. then i realized how much of an undertaking that would be, and i’m not really sure where to start. do you have any advice? (i know the dwarves probably sing in minor most of the time because they have sad songs, and for the heartbreaking moment it was for the cradlesong should be in minor, but i feel like lullabies can be in major? idk)

Hey Nonnie! Yes absolutely lullabies can be in a major key! Tons of the most famous ones are, after all! This tune came to me in a minor key, is all 🙂

Yeah, sure! Here we go, a long answer/ramble on turning the main tune of the Cradle-Song from D Minor to D major. Not sure how much notation you can read, so I’m gonna go with pictures, and solfa, and sorry in advance if I am wordy and a bit of a drag.

The original key was D minor. It has just the one flat, right there in the key signature. The scale goes like this.

D  E  F  G  A  Bflat  C  D

The flat means that the note has been lowered by a step (a semitone).

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D Major, however, has two sharps. F# and C#. 

D  E  F#  G  A  B  C#  D

A sharp means that the note is RAISED by one step (a semitone). 

IDK if Solfa helps you more, but here’s another way of looking at it for you. In Solfa, these two notes would be here, in D Major (the ones that are bolded):

Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do

(We’d also have to raise ‘La’ a step, jsyk – it was the previously-flattened b-flat in the Dmin scale, but that’s not applicable to this tune bc I don’t use it!!)

So, if you raise ALL the ‘Mi’s and ‘Ti’s in the song by one step, you end up with something that looks like this:

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(yes yes, musos, I know I could have put them in the key sig instead, but this is more visual I guess. I dunno. It’s easier to see the sharps!)

Now, lets throw the words back on top of that. 

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And that sounds like this:

Broadbeam Cradle-Song – D Major (mp3)

Ta-raaaaaah!

belphegor1982:

rose-of-pollux replied to your post:
rose-of-pollux replied to your audio post:
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I haven’t heard the originals, no, but I’ll check them out when I get the chance!

Here, I’ll make it easier for you :3

A lovely lullaby the author’s mother used to sing to her, her grandmother to her mother, etc. Now she sings it to her daughter. It’s mostly wordless, with just two voices, very soothing.

The other songs were written to fit in the “Sansûkh” ‘verse. (It’s an amazing story, very long, stock-full of character development, in which Thorin and the other Dwarves who died in The Hobbit and prior watch (over) the Fellowship in general and Gimli in particular. It’s super long – 500,000 words and counting – but worth every minute of reading. It’s Gimli/Legolas, well-written, so respectful of canon you won’t know what’s Tolkien and what’s Determamfidd (the author), and the Dwarf culture is extensive and inclusive and amazing. Anyway.)

  • Broadbeam cradle song, choral version. The Broadbeams are a Dwarf clan. It’s gentle, feels a little sad, reminds me of Russian folk songs. The solo version is here.
  • Gimli’s Jig, played on the violin (because she also plays multiple instruments. Yep.)
  • The Iron Hills Soldier’s Song, choral version. That’s the original of the song I posted :o) Seriously one of my very favourites.
  • And my very favourite, Light on the Horizon, which is not only choral but also orchestral! The lyrics are beautiful, the build-up is awesome, and the melody and arrangements will sweep you off your feet and right into Middle-earth. What I wouldn’t give to hear this will a full orchestra and choir!!

Anyway, there you go :o)

*falls off my chair* okay I am trying not to cry, thank you SO much, seriously thank you thank you SO SO MUCH SO SO SO MUCH

Dets, I finally made it to the master post and just spent the last hour crying over the music. The sheer emotion. Iron Hills Soldier song!! And the Cradle song! I’m emotionally wiped. It’s just like I went back and reread Sansûkh with the music all playing in appropriate places.

Aaaaaaah I am so glad! SERIOUSLY so so glad – it’s my passion, music, and my livelihood, and so the pressure i put on myself when it comes to it is probably a bit too much but yeah, I am so SO GLAD you enjoyed it and that you emotionally connected with it!

*yodels joyously* THAT’S THE BEST FEEDBACK ANY MUSICIAN CAN HEAR TBH