Here we go.
I am fed up with my stale repertoire and hereby publicly pledge to learn at least 1 new tune a fortnight. If I don't achieve this then I will heap opprobrium upon myself. It may not sound like much but it's more than I have done recently.
If anyone would care to join me in this declaration they are more than welcome!
Who said guys can't commit?
I think you can buy a 28k bag at some hardware shops and occasional petrol stations. Unfortuneatley it is not smokeless so there are restrictions on where it can be used.
That's exactly what I am trying to do- working my way through Dows' List one at a time, one new one a week...now on a temporary detour as I add my GHB to my daily practice workout
I'd be interested. I looked at my repertoire to find out I don't know enough reels. I'm starting to pick them up from the Comhaltas Session books. It became pretty obvious to me at a recent trip to Ireland. Maybe it's an exaggeration, but it seems like 80% of the tunes played at sessions were reels.
Is there consensus that we're going to use KML's list above? DOW's list?
>>It became pretty obvious to me at a recent trip to Ireland. Maybe it's an exaggeration, but it seems like 80% of the tunes played at sessions were reels.
On my recent trip to Ireland, I played in a session where it was even higher than that. In fact, over 2-1/2 hours, it was 100% reels except for one set of jigs ... which started while the session alpha stepped outside for a smoke. Upon his return, he muttered "Enough with the %^&*@#' jigs," and that was that.
Laitch: Thanks for posting the DOW 50. That's a nice listing. Wish I had seen that a few months before my trip.
Csharpd: I guess it wasn't an exaggeration at all then. I did talk with some folks at the sessions that would like to play some other stuff, but I think that's where personalities come into play. They were all brilliant sessions, nonetheless. Can't wait to go back and give it another go.
I like the pledge idea. I'm a rank beginner; started one row melodeon in January of this year and made a resolution to learn at least 20 tunes I could play competently. I know that sounds kinda sad and pathetic, but you gotta start somewhere (I'm a recovering guitarist!) That's almost one every fortnight. So far I think I making good progress. I'll rededicate myself and take the pledge. Thanks too for the link to Dow's list, I was looking for that.
Ok then.
I think what we should all do, then, is to choose a list of our own preference, and then come back to this discussion about once a week and report on our progress!
What do you think, children?!
Seriously!
("recovering guitarist" - I like that!)
Would this be the first running thread, by the way? (and, yes, it will quickly move towards the back of the queue)
Well I am up for it - looking through my file of music I have more reels in there than anything else (prob around 150) but ask me to play one in a session on the whistle and I will be pretty stuck trying to remember what I have learned. I need to spend some time making sets of tunes up and working out what goes well with what so that I can play sets and not be on guitar all night.
I will get on to Dow and Danny's lists eventually but want to focus on what I have already supposedly "learned" for now rather than making my list of tunes even more unwieldy.
A recent set of jigs I have been playing would be:
The Lisnagun (in C), Legacy (in G), Jimmy Wards (in D) and Sandy Broons (in D).
It is a nice wee set and all the tunes are on this site. But this might be my only proper set just now having forgotten the rest! :-S
I will post the results of my efforts here along with everyone elses.
This year, I appear to be learning about 2.5 tunes per week ... but since I can never remember what tunes I know and, in any case, when I learn a new one, an old one falls, at least temporarily, off the back, I'm not sure what use it is ...
Learning The Old Pensioner at the moment, which is about right for me right now ...
Bit of a bugger, this tune-learning lark. I can play at least five times as many tunes as we ever play at our sessions, but getting the other fellers to even consider new ones is an uphill struggle (they must think the same about me as well). So, in my present circumstances, the motivation to learn even more new ones is somewhat lacking. Ah, to live in the inner city!
Not much better here in deepest SE London, Steve. Especially if it's the same crew most weeks. Max and I attend the same session. There are a few tunes outside, on both sides, his and mine, of our mutual repertoire, but not a great deal. At least not a great deal that get played at the session.
In the past, I would not have been willing to commit to more than one tune a month, as more than that wouldn't stick in my head reliably. But I seem to be reaching some sort of "higher quantum state" lately, and the tune learning is coming faster. So I will certainly strive to match your one per fortnight!
As long as no one ask we list the tunes we've learned- I'm afraid my are quite begginerish for the most part yet! I hate the thought of muscians worldwide pointing and laughing
Mine are all beginnerish, nothing to be ashamed of! I am deliberately focusing on the standards, like Dow list tunes. Where else would you begin except at the beginning?
Good point! Besides I'm really just learning my instrument at the same time as the tunes. The folks out here in the hinterland don't mind playing the "classics" as I'd like to think of them!
pledge
pledge
Here we go.
I am fed up with my stale repertoire and hereby publicly pledge to learn at least 1 new tune a fortnight. If I don't achieve this then I will heap opprobrium upon myself. It may not sound like much but it's more than I have done recently.
If anyone would care to join me in this declaration they are more than welcome!
Who said guys can't commit?
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by maxF
Re: pledge
I use Pledge to polish my existing repertoire. But it's still not coming up shiny. Permanently tarnished I suspect. So maybe I'll join you, max.
Let's start with O Connor Donn's
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1660
then jigs:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/693
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/839
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1698
then Vincent Broderick's Reels:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2040
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/353
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/433
and while we're at it,
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2601
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/569
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3059
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/166 (which is very like one of the Broderick's)
also:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1849
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2192
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/50
and of course:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/226
How's that for starters? Any more?
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: pledge
Where can you buy opprobrium?
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by nicholas
Re: pledge
That would be room 3. This is the room for arguments.
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by halfwaythere
Re: pledge
I think you can buy a 28k bag at some hardware shops and occasional petrol stations. Unfortuneatley it is not smokeless so there are restrictions on where it can be used.
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by Free Reed
Re: pledge
Thanks, Danny for the list.
I'll try and get the first few down by Thursday.
Oh, and nicholas, opprobrium is free, you don't have to buy it.
Max
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by maxF
Re: pledge
That's exactly what I am trying to do- working my way through Dows' List one at a time, one new one a week...now on a temporary detour as I add my GHB to my daily practice workout
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by Greg the Piano Tuner
Re: pledge
I'd be interested. I looked at my repertoire to find out I don't know enough reels. I'm starting to pick them up from the Comhaltas Session books. It became pretty obvious to me at a recent trip to Ireland. Maybe it's an exaggeration, but it seems like 80% of the tunes played at sessions were reels.
Is there consensus that we're going to use KML's list above? DOW's list?
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by nofrets
Re: pledge
Can someone post a link to Dows 50
thanks
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by dinn2
Re: pledge
Dow's 50
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/13056#comment268197
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by joesmith
Re: pledge
Thanks
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by dinn2
Re: pledge
>>It became pretty obvious to me at a recent trip to Ireland. Maybe it's an exaggeration, but it seems like 80% of the tunes played at sessions were reels.
On my recent trip to Ireland, I played in a session where it was even higher than that. In fact, over 2-1/2 hours, it was 100% reels except for one set of jigs ... which started while the session alpha stepped outside for a smoke. Upon his return, he muttered "Enough with the %^&*@#' jigs," and that was that.
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by csharpd
Re: pledge
Laitch: Thanks for posting the DOW 50. That's a nice listing. Wish I had seen that a few months before my trip.
Csharpd: I guess it wasn't an exaggeration at all then. I did talk with some folks at the sessions that would like to play some other stuff, but I think that's where personalities come into play. They were all brilliant sessions, nonetheless. Can't wait to go back and give it another go.
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by nofrets
Re: pledge
I like the pledge idea. I'm a rank beginner; started one row melodeon in January of this year and made a resolution to learn at least 20 tunes I could play competently. I know that sounds kinda sad and pathetic, but you gotta start somewhere (I'm a recovering guitarist!) That's almost one every fortnight. So far I think I making good progress. I'll rededicate myself and take the pledge. Thanks too for the link to Dow's list, I was looking for that.
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by PatrickJWK
Re: pledge
Ok then.
I think what we should all do, then, is to choose a list of our own preference, and then come back to this discussion about once a week and report on our progress!
What do you think, children?!
Seriously!
("recovering guitarist" - I like that!)
Would this be the first running thread, by the way? (and, yes, it will quickly move towards the back of the queue)
Max
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by maxF
Re: pledge
Forgot to mention this one, should it all go pear shaped:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1423
(Not actually serious about that one, it's not really a whistle or flute tune, unless your name begins with M and ends with att Molloy.)
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: pledge
Well I am up for it - looking through my file of music I have more reels in there than anything else (prob around 150) but ask me to play one in a session on the whistle and I will be pretty stuck trying to remember what I have learned. I need to spend some time making sets of tunes up and working out what goes well with what so that I can play sets and not be on guitar all night.
I will get on to Dow and Danny's lists eventually but want to focus on what I have already supposedly "learned" for now rather than making my list of tunes even more unwieldy.
A recent set of jigs I have been playing would be:
The Lisnagun (in C), Legacy (in G), Jimmy Wards (in D) and Sandy Broons (in D).
It is a nice wee set and all the tunes are on this site. But this might be my only proper set just now having forgotten the rest! :-S
I will post the results of my efforts here along with everyone elses.
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
Re: pledge
Don't seem to be that organised ...
This year, I appear to be learning about 2.5 tunes per week ... but since I can never remember what tunes I know and, in any case, when I learn a new one, an old one falls, at least temporarily, off the back, I'm not sure what use it is ...
Learning The Old Pensioner at the moment, which is about right for me right now ...
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by benhall.1
Re: pledge
Bit of a bugger, this tune-learning lark. I can play at least five times as many tunes as we ever play at our sessions, but getting the other fellers to even consider new ones is an uphill struggle (they must think the same about me as well). So, in my present circumstances, the motivation to learn even more new ones is somewhat lacking. Ah, to live in the inner city!
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by Steve Shaw
Re: pledge
Not much better here in deepest SE London, Steve. Especially if it's the same crew most weeks. Max and I attend the same session. There are a few tunes outside, on both sides, his and mine, of our mutual repertoire, but not a great deal. At least not a great deal that get played at the session.
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: pledge
But yeah, much the same as yourself - I imagine I know many more that never get played out.
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: pledge
In the past, I would not have been willing to commit to more than one tune a month, as more than that wouldn't stick in my head reliably. But I seem to be reaching some sort of "higher quantum state" lately, and the tune learning is coming faster. So I will certainly strive to match your one per fortnight!
# Posted on September 17th 2007 by AlBrown
Re: pledge
As long as no one ask we list the tunes we've learned- I'm afraid my are quite begginerish for the most part yet! I hate the thought of muscians worldwide pointing and laughing
# Posted on September 17th 2007 by PatrickJWK
Re: pledge
Mine are all beginnerish, nothing to be ashamed of! I am deliberately focusing on the standards, like Dow list tunes. Where else would you begin except at the beginning?
# Posted on September 17th 2007 by AlBrown
Re: pledge
Good point! Besides I'm really just learning my instrument at the same time as the tunes. The folks out here in the hinterland don't mind playing the "classics" as I'd like to think of them!
# Posted on September 17th 2007 by PatrickJWK
Re: pledge
Anyone like to report learning one (or more) since this started?
# Posted on September 18th 2007 by maxF
Re: pledge
Britches Full of Stiches
!
# Posted on September 19th 2007 by PatrickJWK
Re: pledge
Blacksmith reel.
# Posted on September 19th 2007 by jig
Re: pledge
o.k. o.k. ,you got me... i promise to learn a new tune for the blythe next time i am up (working tommorow night).......see you in 2023 !
# Posted on September 19th 2007 by billy
Re: pledge
Well done guys! Sad to say I'm only halfway to the Chancellor's (but I did say it was 1 a fortnight with me!)
See you soon, Billy
# Posted on September 20th 2007 by maxF
Re: pledge
Oh sure, you guys and your pledges to learn more tunes, look what happened to me!
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/15211
I'm just teasing, dangers of the game. Those Maids will sort themselves out soon enough I'm sure.
# Posted on September 20th 2007 by SWFL Fiddler