just wondering if it's possible to listen to different tunes being played on the internet by requesting the name of a tune. It's great to be able to get the sheetmusic for different tunes but i'd like to be able to play the tune with a recording.
Does such a thing exist???
Type a title into a search engine like Google and add "mp3" then look around. You'll find fragments and whole tunes. Some are free and some will cost you. Some will be excellent and some may be pretty rough.
Try copying one of these into Google.
"paddy on the turnpike" mp3
"the wise maid" mp3
Another good way of hearing tunes is to go a f**king session! Try requesting "The Groves hornpipe, mp3, please", etc. Or you could play them yourself at home, then you could hear them at the same time. This saves energy and is recommended by "EcoTunes, Inc.", based in Letsby Avenue, Seldom, Wilts.
I like the Foinn session CDs as a resource for learning session tunes. The musicians are great, the recording is good, and you can listen to it and enjoy the benefits of being exposed to a good example for the music. I always recommend to people who want to build their repertoire of session tunes to get the recordings and make them the soundtrack of your life for a good while. They're all in playable keys and at any time you can sit and play along. The more you do this the more the tunes will sink into your subconscious and the easier it will be to learn the tunes in settings that are in context with most sessions.
I wonder in this high tech world if there is some software available such that a recording of a tune can be transcribed to the dots /or tabs ; ----so if you hear a certain interpretation of a tune by a player you can print out the sheet music /tab ornamentation and all !!?
Banjoian, I know of one such piece of software - it's called Intelliscore, and the link is http://www.intelliscore.net/ It's not particularly cheap.
I played around with an older version (lite?) some years ago out of curiosity. It worked ok, but the learning curve was steep. It needed careful control to get the right level of interpretation - have it set too sensitive and you'll get an unreadable mass of dots. And when a fiddler plays away from the "standard" tuning of the piano, as they all do, you can get some “interesting” results on the screen.
I suspect Intelliscore was originally intended to work best with keyboard instruments or other fixed pitch instruments. The latest version may address some of the issues mentioned above and may be easier to use. It can apparently handle polyphonic music.
thanks for that lazyhound.I know that the best way to learn a tune is to be able to hum /sing it ,but the dots do help me when I get stuck on a particular phrase.
listening to recordings of tunes
listening to recordings of tunes
just wondering if it's possible to listen to different tunes being played on the internet by requesting the name of a tune. It's great to be able to get the sheetmusic for different tunes but i'd like to be able to play the tune with a recording.
Does such a thing exist???
# Posted on August 30th 2007 by ChipZ
Re: listening to recordings of tunes
Youtube?
http://www.cdbaby.com/hullksiazek
# Posted on August 30th 2007 by reenactor
Re: listening to recordings of tunes
Do you know this one?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/sessions/swf/folkmenu.html
# Posted on August 30th 2007 by baruskaob
Re: listening to recordings of tunes
http://tunedb.woodenflute.com/
# Posted on August 30th 2007 by dafydd
Re: listening to recordings of tunes
Type a title into a search engine like Google and add "mp3" then look around. You'll find fragments and whole tunes. Some are free and some will cost you. Some will be excellent and some may be pretty rough.
Try copying one of these into Google.
"paddy on the turnpike" mp3
"the wise maid" mp3
# Posted on August 30th 2007 by ʎɹoʇısuɐɹʇ
Re: listening to recordings of tunes
http://irishflute.podbean.com/
This here is a deadly site that has clips of all kinds of tunes being played on the flute.
# Posted on August 30th 2007 by dannym
Re: listening to recordings of tunes
Another good way of hearing tunes is to go a f**king session! Try requesting "The Groves hornpipe, mp3, please", etc. Or you could play them yourself at home, then you could hear them at the same time. This saves energy and is recommended by "EcoTunes, Inc.", based in Letsby Avenue, Seldom, Wilts.
# Posted on August 30th 2007 by cyber-bullying is a criminal offence
Re: listening to recordings of tunes
Here's 220 tunes you can have a listen to or play along with on-line:-
http://comhaltas.ie/shop/detail/foinn_seisiun_cd_volume_1/
http://comhaltas.ie/shop/detail/foinn_seisiun_cd_volume_2/
# Posted on August 30th 2007 by Bannerman
Re: listening to recordings of tunes
I like the Foinn session CDs as a resource for learning session tunes. The musicians are great, the recording is good, and you can listen to it and enjoy the benefits of being exposed to a good example for the music. I always recommend to people who want to build their repertoire of session tunes to get the recordings and make them the soundtrack of your life for a good while. They're all in playable keys and at any time you can sit and play along. The more you do this the more the tunes will sink into your subconscious and the easier it will be to learn the tunes in settings that are in context with most sessions.
# Posted on August 30th 2007 by Phantom Button
Re: listening to recordings of tunes
That kind of session tends to be private round here maxF, and not that many tunes get played either.
# Posted on August 30th 2007 by TomB-R
Re: listening to recordings of tunes
These are winderful, is there anything similar in the Scottish tradition?
# Posted on August 30th 2007 by crfiddler
Re: listening to recordings of tunes
Yeh - Ayepod http://www.ayepod.net/webcasts/teaching/teaching.htm
# Posted on August 31st 2007 by Bren
Re: listening to recordings of tunes
I wonder in this high tech world if there is some software available such that a recording of a tune can be transcribed to the dots /or tabs ; ----so if you hear a certain interpretation of a tune by a player you can print out the sheet music /tab ornamentation and all !!?
# Posted on August 31st 2007 by banjoian
Re: listening to recordings of tunes
Banjoian, I know of one such piece of software - it's called Intelliscore, and the link is http://www.intelliscore.net/ It's not particularly cheap.
I played around with an older version (lite?) some years ago out of curiosity. It worked ok, but the learning curve was steep. It needed careful control to get the right level of interpretation - have it set too sensitive and you'll get an unreadable mass of dots. And when a fiddler plays away from the "standard" tuning of the piano, as they all do, you can get some “interesting” results on the screen.
I suspect Intelliscore was originally intended to work best with keyboard instruments or other fixed pitch instruments. The latest version may address some of the issues mentioned above and may be easier to use. It can apparently handle polyphonic music.
# Posted on August 31st 2007 by Trevor Jennings
Re: listening to recordings of tunes
thanks for that lazyhound.I know that the best way to learn a tune is to be able to hum /sing it ,but the dots do help me when I get stuck on a particular phrase.
# Posted on August 31st 2007 by banjoian