...is it your resolution to learn this upcoming year? Or tunes. No more than five listed here, though, please.
Bucks of Oranmore, and Duke of Leinster, because both tunes refuse to stick in my head no matter how many times I try to learn them. I've tried, god knows I've tried...but I'm going to give it another shot this year.
I can't say that I resolve to play tunes. I've resolved to learn the D minor Partita on fiddle and Solace on piano, but I don't think that's the sort of thing you have in mind.
Tunes take me, I don't take them. Right now the one that's taken me is the Westphalia Waltz.
All that said Bang Your Frog on the Sofa hasn't stuck yet, and I would like it to.
In my pending file (ABCs of tunes not properly learned yet) are:
Morrisons
The Fourpenny Bit
Green Garters
The Kid on the Mountain
and half a dozen others. The Kid on the Mountain I sort of know from the Planxty Album. I *think* I've learned The Bucks by playing it at the end of every practice.
And I've recently come across the Proper, Official version of the Allegro in A Minor by Matteo Carcassi. It seems that I've been playing an "advanced" beginners version... Nuts! Still - only four bars of different music to learn!
Oh - and Taim im mo Chodladh...
That's the main one that has been on the list for a while and really has to be learned given where I live. Few others that'll be attacked in upcoming weeks are:
The Way to Shercock
Paddy Taylor's (reel)
And the last one that I actually have a name for that needs to be learned is:
The Hall of Fame (composed by a local session leader)
Other more common tunes will be interspersed I'm sure, but the above 4 are the ones that jump out at me right now.
I LOVE The Commodore, Jase -- and of course important to learn in Baltimore. And I'm not going to make any comments on rough stuff or not because, ahem, this is a family site...
kfg...d minor is a favorite along with the g minor...Szeryng and later Milstein are always close to the cd player, followed not too closely by Grimeaux
Julia Fischer is a permanent resident in mine at the moment, and I'm trying not to, literally, follow her too closely. They have laws against that now.
The Tempest. Still. I almost got it last year but, as someone else said, it didn't stick.
The Clogger's Quilt
Glen Grant
Down the Broom. The Down the Brae thread reminded me of this tune and its a good one to relearn.
The Gatehouse Maid
Dr. Gilbert's. Maybe I should write it out on the fiddle bow...
Fel, Chris Langan, the Dublin piper who lived in Toronto, actually recommended to his students to put a little Vaseline (I think!) on the fingers to help with closing the chanter. Yuck! Maybe you could find a waxy friend?
There are a few tunes I want to learn from people at my local session - Tory Island, Brian Quinn's, a couple of Paddy Kelly tunes, maybe a couple of Bb hornpipes for a bit of fun, some Ed Reavy tunes, some Charlie Lennon tunes including Ladies' Choice #2 so I can put it with #1 which I learnt this year, and some other assorted tunes I don't have names for yet.
Update -- I've NEARLY got Duke of Leinster, and we'll see whether I have it really and truly out at a session this weekend. It'd be nice to have a NY resolution out of the way BEFORE the New Year, don't you think?
Try to get aural sources for those 70 tunes. Don't just rely on the dots. Trying to un-learn the way you think it goes based on the dots will be harder when you come across it later on and hear the way it's played.
Thanks for the tip. What I do, since there are so many regional variations in these tunes, is to compare my printout with what I hear at our session; make the changes; and learn them that way.
Right, Greg -- I also adjust my versions to match what the people I'm playing with are doing, but the reason you want aural sources is to pick up the parts that can't be written. If you don't do that you end up just playing the melody and not the music and inventing your own way to fill in between the lines. This is the danger with relying on written music to learn tunes.
If someone has already spent years learning aurally and has a firm grip on the style they can learn tunes from a written source with great success, but if you don't have this understanding before you try it you will be making up the music rather than learning it the way it goes. I've heard players who started out with the dots and they always sound like they're just playing the melody with strange stylings. Only a few of them have the gumption to go through the very tuff process of re-learning the music to get it to sound right. All of them regret having not learned by ear first.
I cannot list all the tunes I will be learning this year, because there are too many! After 75 weeks (that's how long I've been playing) I know only 50 tunes. So over the next 52 weeks I want to learn 50 more. These include:
The Galtee Reel
The Old Grey Goose
The Traveler
Bucks of Oranmore
Lark in the morning
(These are not in any order or even on the top of my list, they are simply 5 of more than 100 tunes I'm dying to get my fingers around)
Quick, what tune...
Quick, what tune...
...is it your resolution to learn this upcoming year? Or tunes. No more than five listed here, though, please.
Bucks of Oranmore, and Duke of Leinster, because both tunes refuse to stick in my head no matter how many times I try to learn them. I've tried, god knows I've tried...but I'm going to give it another shot this year.
# Posted on December 28th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Zina stop looking at my play list!!- those two plus the salamanca
# Posted on December 28th 2005 by I_Fel
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I can't say that I resolve to play tunes. I've resolved to learn the D minor Partita on fiddle and Solace on piano, but I don't think that's the sort of thing you have in mind.
Tunes take me, I don't take them. Right now the one that's taken me is the Westphalia Waltz.
All that said Bang Your Frog on the Sofa hasn't stuck yet, and I would like it to.
KFG
# Posted on December 28th 2005 by KFG
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Farewell to Whalley Range
Road to Rio
Farewell to Ireland (again)
Scatter the Mud
Health to the Ladies
# Posted on December 28th 2005 by Q
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And Cherish the Ladies
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
# Posted on December 28th 2005 by I_Fel
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The Gatehouse Maid
The Flagstones of Memory
The Trip to Cullinstown
Sailing into Walpole's Marsh
Cregg's Pipes
# Posted on December 28th 2005 by sergeant fox
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Don't feel bad Kevin, Bang Your Frog hasn't stuck yet with me either....
# Posted on December 28th 2005 by Will Harmon
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"All that said Bang Your Frog on the Sofa hasn't stuck yet, and I would like it to"
Try banging it a little harder.
# Posted on December 28th 2005 by Phantom Button
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"Don't feel bad Kevin, Bang Your Frog hasn't stuck yet with me either...."
It really is quite the psychological experience to realize you can't join in on one of your own compositions, innit?
"Try banging it a little harder."
Ahhhhhhhh, I didn't realize she was into the rough stuff.
KFG
# Posted on December 28th 2005 by KFG
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In my pending file (ABCs of tunes not properly learned yet) are:
Morrisons
The Fourpenny Bit
Green Garters
The Kid on the Mountain
and half a dozen others. The Kid on the Mountain I sort of know from the Planxty Album. I *think* I've learned The Bucks by playing it at the end of every practice.
And I've recently come across the Proper, Official version of the Allegro in A Minor by Matteo Carcassi. It seems that I've been playing an "advanced" beginners version... Nuts! Still - only four bars of different music to learn!
Oh - and Taim im mo Chodladh...
# Posted on December 28th 2005 by Innocent Bystander
Re: Quick, what tune...
The Commodore
That's the main one that has been on the list for a while and really has to be learned given where I live. Few others that'll be attacked in upcoming weeks are:
The Way to Shercock
Paddy Taylor's (reel)
And the last one that I actually have a name for that needs to be learned is:
The Hall of Fame (composed by a local session leader)
Other more common tunes will be interspersed I'm sure, but the above 4 are the ones that jump out at me right now.
# Posted on December 28th 2005 by Jason G
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I LOVE The Commodore, Jase -- and of course important to learn in Baltimore.
And I'm not going to make any comments on rough stuff or not because, ahem, this is a family site...
# Posted on December 28th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Oh, I don't know. As I understand it some families like to get together and roll their own these days.
KFG
# Posted on December 28th 2005 by KFG
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What I'd like to know is; which tunes did you say you would finally learn last year -- and did or didn't?
# Posted on December 28th 2005 by Phantom Button
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The Donegal Tinker already... sigh...
Pete
# Posted on December 28th 2005 by Reverend
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# Posted on December 29th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Dare I say it- The Kesh-took me while to get the stacato bits the way I want them ( that and a cooperative reed)
# Posted on December 29th 2005 by I_Fel
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kfg...d minor is a favorite along with the g minor...Szeryng and later Milstein are always close to the cd player, followed not too closely by Grimeaux
# Posted on December 29th 2005 by Sunnybear
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oops, I meant "closely" not "not too"
# Posted on December 29th 2005 by Sunnybear
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Julia Fischer is a permanent resident in mine at the moment, and I'm trying not to, literally, follow her too closely. They have laws against that now.
What's wit dat?
KFG
# Posted on December 29th 2005 by KFG
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The Tempest. Still. I almost got it last year but, as someone else said, it didn't stick.
The Clogger's Quilt
Glen Grant
Down the Broom. The Down the Brae thread reminded me of this tune and its a good one to relearn.
The Gatehouse Maid
# Posted on December 29th 2005 by John Culhane
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Dr. Gilbert's. Maybe I should write it out on the fiddle bow...
Fel, Chris Langan, the Dublin piper who lived in Toronto, actually recommended to his students to put a little Vaseline (I think!) on the fingers to help with closing the chanter. Yuck! Maybe you could find a waxy friend?
# Posted on December 29th 2005 by KLR
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There are a few tunes I want to learn from people at my local session - Tory Island, Brian Quinn's, a couple of Paddy Kelly tunes, maybe a couple of Bb hornpipes for a bit of fun, some Ed Reavy tunes, some Charlie Lennon tunes including Ladies' Choice #2 so I can put it with #1 which I learnt this year, and some other assorted tunes I don't have names for yet.
# Posted on December 29th 2005 by Dr. Dow
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Oh and heaps of Paddy O'Brien tunes. I'm going to work my way through the book this year if I have time.
# Posted on December 29th 2005 by Dr. Dow
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belle catherine as in "play on " by celtic fiddle festival
lady Walpole´s Reel
6/8 du Petit Sarny
the volunteer
the black cat jig
# Posted on December 29th 2005 by spike
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The Wounded Hussar !!
# Posted on December 29th 2005 by the wounded hussar
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oohhh..the next Hahn? How is she in your residence...how is her JSB?
# Posted on December 29th 2005 by Sunnybear
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Kevin-Glands showed me that, using ordinary hand lotion to become temporary gasket grease. Hope to see you in Seattle in 2006.
# Posted on December 29th 2005 by I_Fel
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Update -- I've NEARLY got Duke of Leinster, and we'll see whether I have it really and truly out at a session this weekend.
It'd be nice to have a NY resolution out of the way BEFORE the New Year, don't you think?
# Posted on December 29th 2005 by Zina Lee
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I've got 70 tunes in my session.org tunebook and I'm going to learn them this year if it kills me (and it just might...)
# Posted on December 30th 2005 by Greg the Piano Tuner
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Try to get aural sources for those 70 tunes. Don't just rely on the dots. Trying to un-learn the way you think it goes based on the dots will be harder when you come across it later on and hear the way it's played.
# Posted on December 30th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Thanks for the tip. What I do, since there are so many regional variations in these tunes, is to compare my printout with what I hear at our session; make the changes; and learn them that way.
# Posted on December 30th 2005 by Greg the Piano Tuner
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Ah loads!! Over 100 still to be learned out of the Comhaltas Book. Nice ones in it that have really caught me and I need to learn are:
1) Bucks of Oranmore
2) New Copperplate
3) Old Copperplate
4) Kid on the Mountain
5) Trip to Durrow
I gaurantee that by the time I finally have them by heart, I'll be sick of them! But thats just the way it goes.!
# Posted on December 30th 2005 by 52Paddy
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Right, Greg -- I also adjust my versions to match what the people I'm playing with are doing, but the reason you want aural sources is to pick up the parts that can't be written. If you don't do that you end up just playing the melody and not the music and inventing your own way to fill in between the lines. This is the danger with relying on written music to learn tunes.
If someone has already spent years learning aurally and has a firm grip on the style they can learn tunes from a written source with great success, but if you don't have this understanding before you try it you will be making up the music rather than learning it the way it goes. I've heard players who started out with the dots and they always sound like they're just playing the melody with strange stylings. Only a few of them have the gumption to go through the very tuff process of re-learning the music to get it to sound right. All of them regret having not learned by ear first.
# Posted on December 30th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Nothing to add to that, just to say it's true, Greg.
# Posted on December 30th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Good advice.
# Posted on December 31st 2005 by Greg the Piano Tuner
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I cannot list all the tunes I will be learning this year, because there are too many! After 75 weeks (that's how long I've been playing) I know only 50 tunes. So over the next 52 weeks I want to learn 50 more. These include:
The Galtee Reel
The Old Grey Goose
The Traveler
Bucks of Oranmore
Lark in the morning
(These are not in any order or even on the top of my list, they are simply 5 of more than 100 tunes I'm dying to get my fingers around)
# Posted on January 3rd 2006 by Shrog