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What's Your Latest Tune?

Thought I'd post a message here on the Banjo forum! Talk about strange convergences....

ANYWAY! What's the latest tune you've learned? And why?

My latest is the jig Tickle Her Leg with the Barley Straw. Because it was on a tape I had in the car. After awhile I discovered I could simply play it. And I also like it, which helps - but I never really set out to learn it, y'know.

It's from one of Sharon Shannon's earlier CDs.

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by kris

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Talk about strange conveniences..........

Oh Kris, 'we are not worthy'! My oh my - what a wonder kid you are "I could simply play it" - Praise the Lord!!

"but I never really set out to learn it, y'know"
- what you lookin' for here kris - sympathy?
- reaches for Fiddle & starts lament.............................

Oh were reality that simple!

Truth is, most of us 'mere mortals' never really perfect a version of a tune, we are always working on it!!
The fun is with constantly improving & re-moulding our own version!

Phew! I feel much better now that I got that off my chest! :-)

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by Ptarmigan

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I've never had my leg tickled with a barley straw. Anyone know what it's like? Anyway, latest choon? - The Whistling Postman.

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by Cammy

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Ah ha Cammy, you've never lived Man!

Head for the nearest Barn now, wi' yer woman & do yer best! :-)

Oh yes, latest new tune - 3 part version of the Flax in Bloom - very tasty.

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by Ptarmigan

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Hey Jim Troy - what do you mean 'descended'?

Surely the word you were looking for was 'ascended' - yes? :-)

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by Ptarmigan

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... & No, they didn't.
I always take it wi' salt, an' a wee dash o' the 'cratur', of course!

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by Ptarmigan

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Aye, we are a' a happy smilin' clan up here, north o' 'the border'.

oops! - mentioned the 'B' word - Sorry!!

Bet that'll open a can o' worms!!

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by Ptarmigan

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Och Jim a see ye like Providence so ye canny be a' bad then! :-)

So let's just bury the hatchet.
Now just close your eyes and stand still a minute.........................

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by Ptarmigan

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...while I tickle your leg...

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by Cammy

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Listen, McGann (I'm gonna call you that now - it's gonna stick, just see if it doesn't) I never said I'd perfected it. I said I could play it.

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by kris

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Ah ha Cammy! So that's where Ken Dodd's 'Tickling Stick' went!!

Pssst Jim, I'd watch that Cammy fellow if I were you!
Must be true what they say about him! Nod Wink! :-)
I'd get rid of that kilt & go back tae denims!

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by Ptarmigan

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Hey, talking of nicknames 'Kristoferson'.

OK so you can play it!
Yer medal is in the post.
It's in that 4by4 fence post which is heading your way as we speak, horizontally at 60 miles per hour - now just stand still a minute.........................................THWACK!!!

McGann the exterminator man strikes again!!!! :-)

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by Ptarmigan

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Uh, are we still listing tunes? I've just learned a lovely slow air by J. Scott Skinner called The Sadness of Life--nice and morbid.

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by dmarie

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Well, that's cheered me up (she said, bandaging her bleeding head...)

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by kris

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Well that'll teach you to whisper in horses ears, won't it!!

Or perhaps with the Parelli method, you whisper in another orifice altogether? :-)

By the way, what was this thread all about?.............................

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by Ptarmigan

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Since we're wildly off topic anyway, this should tell you all you need to know about "horse whispering" McGann.

http://www.horse13.freeserve.co.uk/Momfah2/YIMan.htm

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by kris

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Thanks for that. My wife Sabine, who keeps a horse ( Welsh Cob x Appaloosa ) in the field next to our house will enjoy that.
She tells me to say it doesn't have spots!!

All Banjo related of course!! :-)

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by Ptarmigan

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Biddy from Sligo from the album Kitty Lie Over.

Why you ask?! Because I'm addicted to the lovely CD and because Caoimhin and Mick kick much ass playing together.

Cheers and I <3 Flat pipes,
Armand

# Posted on August 29th 2005 by armandale

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Set out to learn "The Plains of Boyle". While I was getting it into my head and fingers (for penny-whistle) I managed to acquire "The Market Raisen Quickstep" and "The Louth Quickstep" (from Red Horse by Geckoes). O yeah, and "The Grey Bull Waltz" by Kathryn Tickell. Next stop "Toss the Feathers". Or maybe some of the variations on "Drowsy Maggie".

# Posted on August 29th 2005 by Innocent Bystander

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While you are sorting out "Drowsy Maggie" you might like to investigate the Scottish tune "Sleepy Maggie"!

Now which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Who cares, they're both good tunes!

# Posted on August 29th 2005 by Ptarmigan

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still fighting with one of the most difficult ones: mouseskin shoes. good exercise for sleepy fingers (after some weeks of rest).

# Posted on August 29th 2005 by fiddlemax

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Latest for me: Sporting Nell, Bob McQuillens, Maid Behind the Bar, Pipers Farewell.

# Posted on August 29th 2005 by RogueFiddler

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Hrrmm . . .

One of Robbie Hannan's jigs is the most recent, along wih Gooseberry Buhs.

Both versions of Toss the Feathers are neat tunes and they work well together.

# Posted on August 29th 2005 by wormdiet

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er, that was supposed to be Gooseberry Bush!

# Posted on August 29th 2005 by wormdiet

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Ptarmigan, the "Drowsy Maggie" in the tunes section here has seven variations. The Comments mention Sleepy Maggie and emphasize that it isn't the same tune. Ye couldn't email us the ABC if yez have it, could you? Or if one of those variants is it, which one? (But I'm still going for "Toss the Feathers" and its three variants, and maybe the Slow Air "Eire". YES! a SLOW AIR! >gasp!< They still exist!)

# Posted on August 29th 2005 by Innocent Bystander

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Hey Bystander, I just checked out Sleepy Maggie at Tunes &

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/787

is the tune I know as Sleepy Maggie.

However, you should get someone like 'kenny' to double check, to be sure, to be sure! :-)

# Posted on August 29th 2005 by Ptarmigan

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Just checked out the dots for Sleepy Maggie in the 'Scottish Fiddler's Session Tune Book &

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/787

is the same tune - so it's oficial!! Enjoy :-)

# Posted on August 29th 2005 by Ptarmigan

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Or official even! ;-(

# Posted on August 29th 2005 by Ptarmigan