Trollpolska - Scandi Folk Tune #12

[@Soundnfuree]

This has been one of my favorite Polskas for many years! Such a nice Nyckleharpa version. Tak

[@LiaTanith]

I love this. Very similar to how my grandfather used to play this although I never heard the name when he was still alive.

[@amyerickson4864]

I could never find fiddle music from Scandinavia I liked before I found your channel, thank you for posting!!

[@EmelieWaldken]

Am so glad to hear that =) Thanks

[@accordiontone2582]

Underbar låt, tack så jättemycket. Din kanal är toppen, väldigt lärorik. ❤🙏.

[@PsychedelicChameleon]

Hi again Emelie, this is a very nice tune. KZbin is showing the Norwegian "Trollhunter" movie for free now, just do a quick search if you want to watch it. Also, thank you for showing us your troll tail!

[@EmelieWaldken]

Love that movie =)

[@garysimkins2179]

OMG, I love, LOVE this music. Can I play this on the violin? , yes, I suppose, and I hope to see so much more of this lovely music from you.

[@EmelieWaldken]

Yes of course this is playable on violin/fiddle ! Do so, and have fun =)

[@russettrio]

Hey Emilie, I so loved not just your playing, but your humor, warmth and set up. So Very endearing:) I learned this some years ago but glad to be reminded of it. So thanks!

[@EmelieWaldken]

Thank you very much Aldo, your words are heartwarming !

[@Cactus521]

I love your videos, kisses and hugs from the US, you have the voice of an angel, the face of an angel, and your love of music has raised my old singing voice, I am a keyboardist and singer and my work is on Drooble, not nearly as melodic as your playing, your teaching and your voice. Your voice is hypnotic, that of a great teacher, and having recently been hurt in a major car accident, I was run over while walking in Phoenix, watching your videos has helped my pain because I always seek out music videos and lectures to listen to, living alone. I am an empty nester and I have a daughter just about your age who also teaches like you, I love the way young women teach in our world!

[@bienveillance57]

Great talent ! Thank you and greetings from eastern France !

[@EmelieWaldken]

Merci bien !

[@carlose.johansson739]

Mycket vackert, roligt och intressant ✨️🎶✨️

[@Thedeepseanomad]

Hold, on, damn, I actually thought you were swedish given your command of the music. I was just assuming your pronunciation was some strange attempt at pronouncing it to be easier to understand for the international viewers! lol! Yeah, I love the trollpolska by the way. Smörgåsklickarnas version on youtube is also pretty nice.

[@EmelieWaldken]

Yay, one more who believes me to be Swedish :) (I'm proud). I am actually also trying to pronounce swedish words in ways that are as easy as possible to understand for non-swedish speakers.

[@franklinduda]

Wow.! You have a tail, ... Thats so underscrible amazing, loved This tune and your way to play, im gonna try on a guitar

[@Thomas.Wright]

Cutest Troll Ever! Just don't get turned to stone; we'd really miss your music.

[@EmelieWaldken]

actually under sunlight I turn into an almost well-adapted human being ;)

[@Thomas.Wright]

@@EmelieWaldken Well that's no fun. :D

[@dididoo]

I'm really sorry to put you into such a state!

[@EmelieWaldken]

Hahaha hope you have a good laugh at it ^^

[@Alkusanat]

It may be a level 3 but i think I'll just jump into it... it's too good to not to try it :D Thank you and again, great video, great tune!

[@EmelieWaldken]

Haha, you crazy ^^ Have fun and don't get your motivation taken down if it's a little too tricky yet !

[@ianrowe9337]

Emelie, its easy to see how much you love & enjoy your lovely music ... this tune would be so easy to add words to it ... maybe called : The Fishermans Tale .... thanks again !

[@rafnaegels8913]

Cool Cool. I like how you elucidate everything you're doing.

[@TheUlfskarls]

Jag är supernöjd att upptäcka en schweizisk artist som spelar nyckelharpa och särskilt skandinavisk populärmusik!

[@EmelieWaldken]

Tack tack ! Jag skulle inte kalla folkmusik för populärmusik dock ^^ fast den är väl utvecklad i Sverige.

[@setaripantheon8801]

Awesome!

[@daveburklund2295]

You are too funny!

[@perborjel7928]

According to Swedish web pages Hans Börtas was from Rättvik.

[@danilodroghetti6427]

This is my first comment on KZbin. I play no instruments (even if I know music theories, to an extent), but I’m very interested in the history of music and instruments. I was completely unaware of the nyckelharpa before I stumbled on one of your videos, so I see them all. Since you’re a talented teacher (and performer, but there are very few videos of you performing only - perhaps on patreon?), maybe you would like to tell me if I’m mistaken thinking the nyckelharpa as a late evolution of the ancient ‘symphonia’ (with the bow in place of the revolving wheel)? With admiration for your life choice and talent.

[@EmelieWaldken]

Thank you very much for your nice message ! No the nyckelharpa is actually an evolution of the tagelharpa, jouhikko and other instruments where the nails are pressing on the strings (not the fingers' skin), but as its evolution happened at a similar time-period and in similar regions as the organistrum family (later to give the hurdy-gurdy), there are many similarities with that group of instruments - although the logic of the keyboard is totally different. There are indeed quite few videos of my live performances, wishing to fix that in not too long, I hope ! It's always super hard to get good live pictures and videos even more. I never take care of that myself when I play, I have enough to think about ^^

[@JustWickedSwede]

If I'm not totally wrong Hans Börtas lived i Rättvik, Dalarna.

[@EmelieWaldken]

Thank you for the info !

[@user3141592635]

Alla borde läsa alla Islandsböcker i Svensk översättning, sagorna eller berättelserna. "Nu fick han spjutet i skrevet, han som tände eld i taket" Den saken gillar jag väldigt mycket.

[@dididoo]

I've just looked at the shortie in the woods of the first part of the trollpolska about 20 times to try and understand when you pull and push the bow but I'm finding it very difficult to understand it all! I have noticed however that you don't always pull on the strong beat. Please explain it all to me. I didn't play the violin before the nyckel only piano and accordeon and if I don't have the signs above the notes I'm very handicapped. I don't want to get into bad habits from the start. learning nyckel only for 4 months. You maybe told me once not to worry about it so much but I want to do it all properly. As I do all my other hobbies, singing , sewing, ceramics, arts, sports and life in general. If not I'm not at all pleased. How can I sort this problem out?

[@EmelieWaldken]

I understand the difficulty, it takes a lot of time to get used to learning bowings by watching and imitating ! In general in this sort of polskas, the bow goes down on the 1st and 3rd beats, and up on the 2nd. It does vary of course, but if you take this as a basis and then adapt a bit depending on the melody, the feeling should be "correct" =)

[@dididoo]

Thankyou so much for answering so quickly, you are working late this evening! And of course there are also the triolets. But I've had an idea, seems I saw that it's possible to slow down the video and observe it better, I'll try tomorrow, thankyou very much for your help. I am most grateful 🎶

[@jeremymoore1746]

Emelie, at the beginning of the vid, there is a pic of a music book that looks like it has many interest tunes in it, does it have a name..,the book.... Jeremy... loved the horse tail. 🤓🎻🇬🇧

[@EmelieWaldken]

Hej Jeremy, yes this book is the fantastic Smålands folkmusik collected by Magnus Gustavsson. It's enormous and contains many tunes ! However, whether you should buy this book in particular or another one depends on which swedish region your prefer in terms of repertoire. Småland has a lot of slängpolskas ; if you prefer triplet polskas or other round polskas (polskas in 3-1), you should check regions a bit more to the north.

[@jeremymoore1746]

@@EmelieWaldken Thank you Emelie. (Or should I say ‘tack’)

[@user3141592635]

Du borde läsa alla Islandsböcker. Några är ganska fina, andra är mer gruvsamma :=)

[@user3141592635]

I Svea Artilleriregemente fanns aldrig tro på troll, vi trodde på vår Haubits-77 , Ak-4 och KSP-58, samt understöd av AJ-37 och andra saker.

[@sqwzbox]

Thank you for these videos, Emelie. I love this tune, but my small button box instruments do not have the #note needed, so it must be played with the natural. Also, the tempo of this tune seems to be more of a regular 1-2-3 that the irregular polska beat. Is that acceptable? Best wishes, from the USA,....Forrest.

[@EmelieWaldken]

Hej hej, what I explained in the Triplet-polska video is that these polskas are precisely regular ones - as opposed to the short first-beat polskas for example. They're not slängpolskas though. Have fun playing that one, no matter with which alterations :)

[@andreware6492]

Love it are you adding a "swing" to the notes as well?

[@CBMalloch]

You mention in some of your videos the presence and importance of "blue" notes, as being slightly different-pitched from the standard ones. How does one accomplish this on a nyckelharpa?

[@EmelieWaldken]

The nyckelharpa's keyboard can be tuned by turning the tangents slightly. One can also get a slightly higher note by pressing harder on a key - similar to bending on guitar. By combining both, one can achieve a whole range of blue notes on nyckelharpa - both on-the-spot and with some preparation (for the retuning).

[@Recrohin]

Have you heard of the danish band trolskapolska :)?

[@EmelieWaldken]

'Course ! They're amazing, funny-silly as heck and very good musicians at the same time. I basically like every project of Martin Seeberg.

[@Recrohin]

@@EmelieWaldken Haha gotcha! My fondness of folk tunes started with martins project Valravn - music which I still hold very dear! I just stumbled in to their concert at random and I'm so glad that I did! From there it's just been awesome to see where this wild music journey has taken me! Newest addition being your channel :D

[@trondvittfare7746]

Emelie, I have some info about the Trollpolska, how can we get in contact? email/sms/fb?

[@user3141592635]

Trollen kanske finns i Finnskogen, i Dalarne trots allt :) Se John Bauer.

[@user3141592635]

Jag kan som få, gå och sova i den mörka eller kolsvarta skogen, sova med min flicka i skogen utan att vara rädd.

[@obsc3n3skull]

I LOVED the video! I can't read sheets so is there anywhere where I can find the notes written down?

[@EmelieWaldken]

Wait... you say you can't read sheets but you would like to get notes ? ^^ Sorry I don't understand.

[@Jemtheflute]

@@EmelieWaldken ABC notation of some kind? It's pretty commonplace/standard for traditional music.

[@EmelieWaldken]

@@Jemtheflute Never used it

[@Jemtheflute]

@@EmelieWaldken Could be worth finding out about - there are absolutely huge Internet resources of trad music material using/based on it. Most now offer display in staff notation, but it's generated using ABC. And some people read direct from ABC.

[@Jemtheflute]

@@EmelieWaldken you can see an example in this document: app.box.com/s/qyntwcornkd8x60i7oozhcana6zz2310. That has staff notation done using the full computer form of ABC, also shown as it can be used in ABC software to transpose it or edit it to suit. Many people use a simple form of ABC where they simply write out the note names in rhythmic groups, maybe using capitals and minuscules to denote different octaves and with signs for ornaments, but without any designation of time or key signature or note lengths etc. I guess it's the latter that Obsc3n3 was requesting.

[@dididoo]

Oh what have I done! I've really slowed you down! Have you ever watched yourself slowed down? When you talk it's s if you'd just drunk a whole bottle of whiskey!!I hope this doesn't affect the way you feel at the moment !!!!🥴🥳😵‍💫😨😡???!!!***

[@connoryork6631]

Very pretty melody 💙

[@user3141592635]

I love the music, but I do not like Trolls much, if they would exist. :) Trolls are Belligerent entities, the foe of Humans.

[@EmelieWaldken]

Hm I don't really agree. I think trolls are just humanoid wild animals and/or spirits. I don't think they are AGAINST humans from the start, sure some have mischief in their blood, but mostly they are very disturbed by human activities, such as cutting down forests and building big grey cities.

[@Thomas.Wright]

I'm pretty sure she meant the ones from Scandinavian folklore, not from the Internet.

[@user3141592635]

@@Thomas.Wright The Scandinavian , and from Iceland, Trolls are the most belligerent and extremely dangerous. They live in the deep forest or in the fjäll without trees on Iceland. The old books says they exist on Iceland as well. (joking of cource)

[@itskarl7575]

@@EmelieWaldken Trolls in tradition do tend to have abrasive personalities, though. Not sure if you have this word in Swedish, but in many Norwegian dialects you are "trollat" ("trollish") if you have committed mischief out of malice.