after first tune thread(my first was A Nation once Again) after
quite a few years playing,I now play most of Paddy Fahy,s and
Paddy oBrien,s Compositions also tunes like The Bantry Hornpipe 4 parts,Paddy Kelly,s 4 parts. I am looking for help in getting The Moving Cloud(reel)also The Contradiction.Thanks.
The moving cloud is, i think, a 5 part Scottish reel. Although there are a number of versions around with less parts.
I am concentrating on playing the tunes i already know, to improve my playing of them. Trying to remember tunes i learnt years ago but that slipped away from my memory. For example 'the moving cloud' and ''The Contradiction'! both recently resurrected as a result of visiting this site! Thank you thesession.org!
I tried learning the Salamanca reel in 2004. Took me 3 years to get the tune. Learning it was sporadic-I'd go back to it; forget it for a few months, etc.
Talk about learning a tune when you are ready for it.
I suggested Lord Gordon's as her next fleadh tune this May or June. I'm not sure if she played it in Tullamore, but she won the U15 flute and whistle this year again. I'm twice older, but will never ever catch up with her.
Actually, i think im going the other way now..... i take great delight in a simple 'little' tune that i dont have to spend months/years learning, that sounds every bit as good as the more tricky stuff.
Saying that I still have a few projects that i am working on that are exceedingly hard but they aren't trad so....
The Doon Reel sits so well on the concertina, I´d almost swear the tune was written for that instrument.
Every time I pick up the box I have to play it.
I´ve set myself the target of learning The Morning Thrush and Colonel Fraser before - wait for it - next summer !
I've a great admiration for tunes progressing from G to F (you know the ones: Bunch of Keys, Paddy's Kelly 4 part etc). Not the easiest tunes on banjo and much more suited to accordion but my repertoire, you'll find is made up of box tunes (hence the influences from a lot of box players). Also like Phil Cunningham tunes in A major (Wing Commander Donald McKensie's) and Frank's Reel...
Reading over my last post I realise that some of you may think that I think Phil Cunningham composed Frank's Reel. I know it was John McCusker and I was relating it to Phil Cunningham, just mentioning it as an example of an A major tune I play.
I've recently returned to the Chicago reel; it was one of the first tunes my teacher taught me and while I learned all the notes, I hated it immensely, I just couldn't make it feel like music. since moving from Chicago I decided i wanted to know it, you know, for street cred (oh! you're from Chicago? play this tune...) and I'm really getting into it.
The Chicago reel is one of those all-time greats with its "C/Am" feel to it plus a top rate melody. It was the Stockton's Wing recording of this that first got me hooked on the tune where they follow it with "Never was piping so Gay" and "Castle Kelly".
Tunes you have progressed to.
Tunes you have progressed to.
after first tune thread(my first was A Nation once Again) after
quite a few years playing,I now play most of Paddy Fahy,s and
Paddy oBrien,s Compositions also tunes like The Bantry Hornpipe 4 parts,Paddy Kelly,s 4 parts. I am looking for help in getting The Moving Cloud(reel)also The Contradiction.Thanks.
# Posted on September 22nd 2007 by gooseinthenettles
Re: Tunes you have progressed to.
The moving cloud is, i think, a 5 part Scottish reel. Although there are a number of versions around with less parts.
I am concentrating on playing the tunes i already know, to improve my playing of them. Trying to remember tunes i learnt years ago but that slipped away from my memory. For example 'the moving cloud' and ''The Contradiction'! both recently resurrected as a result of visiting this site! Thank you thesession.org!
# Posted on September 22nd 2007 by jig
Re: Tunes you have progressed to.
The Contradiction, I find, is harder on the flute than the box. But anyway that's about the upper limit of my complexity these days.
# Posted on September 22nd 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Tunes you have progressed to.
I tried learning the Salamanca reel in 2004. Took me 3 years to get the tune. Learning it was sporadic-I'd go back to it; forget it for a few months, etc.
Talk about learning a tune when you are ready for it.
# Posted on September 22nd 2007 by I_Fel
Re: Tunes you have progressed to.
Have you come across this?
http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_209_1_orla_mcauliffe
I suggested Lord Gordon's as her next fleadh tune this May or June. I'm not sure if she played it in Tullamore, but she won the U15 flute and whistle this year again. I'm twice older, but will never ever catch up with her.
# Posted on September 22nd 2007 by slainte
Re: Tunes you have progressed to.
Actually, i think im going the other way now..... i take great delight in a simple 'little' tune that i dont have to spend months/years learning, that sounds every bit as good as the more tricky stuff.
Saying that I still have a few projects that i am working on that are exceedingly hard but they aren't trad so....
# Posted on September 22nd 2007 by jig
Re: Tunes you have progressed to.
The Doon Reel sits so well on the concertina, I´d almost swear the tune was written for that instrument.
Every time I pick up the box I have to play it.
I´ve set myself the target of learning The Morning Thrush and Colonel Fraser before - wait for it - next summer !
# Posted on September 22nd 2007 by murfbox
Re: Tunes you have progressed to.
Thank you slainte,what a great rendition of The Moving Cloud
and what is the second reel called?
# Posted on September 22nd 2007 by gooseinthenettles
Re: Tunes you have progressed to.
I've a great admiration for tunes progressing from G to F (you know the ones: Bunch of Keys, Paddy's Kelly 4 part etc). Not the easiest tunes on banjo and much more suited to accordion but my repertoire, you'll find is made up of box tunes (hence the influences from a lot of box players). Also like Phil Cunningham tunes in A major (Wing Commander Donald McKensie's) and Frank's Reel...
# Posted on September 23rd 2007 by PaddyCmusic
Re: Tunes you have progressed to.
Of course Gerry ´banjo´O´Connor has made the moving cloud one of his set pieces. An interesting version. he also had a book out with the dots.
# Posted on September 23rd 2007 by jig
Re: Tunes you have progressed to.
Reading over my last post I realise that some of you may think that I think Phil Cunningham composed Frank's Reel. I know it was John McCusker and I was relating it to Phil Cunningham, just mentioning it as an example of an A major tune I play.
# Posted on September 23rd 2007 by PaddyCmusic
Re: Tunes you have progressed to.
I've recently returned to the Chicago reel; it was one of the first tunes my teacher taught me and while I learned all the notes, I hated it immensely, I just couldn't make it feel like music. since moving from Chicago I decided i wanted to know it, you know, for street cred (oh! you're from Chicago? play this tune...) and I'm really getting into it.
# Posted on September 25th 2007 by matan_fiddler
Re: Tunes you have progressed to.
The Chicago reel is one of those all-time greats with its "C/Am" feel to it plus a top rate melody. It was the Stockton's Wing recording of this that first got me hooked on the tune where they follow it with "Never was piping so Gay" and "Castle Kelly".
# Posted on September 25th 2007 by Bannerman