Not a very inspired thread this one, but sometimes it's essential to recap where you're at, and for us to pick up some ideas.
What relatively new or unusual tunes are you playing or learning at present, with the hope of bringing them out soon at your local session or gig?
Bear in mind of course that one person's new or unusual tune is a staple in someone else's standard repertoire.When I say "unusual" I don't really mean completely weird. Just "different" or even just "new" for you. Or even "very old but haven't touched for ages."
Would you mind putting a link to it here also?
Reverend gave my Mary McMahon's when we were at the Cody session a couple weeks ago. It's a well-built little reel, fun on fiddle. Haven't tried it on flute yet. http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1934
And I'm learning Stoney Brennan, a Vincent Broderick reel, from my fluter friend just returned from a month in Ireland. I'll post it here if someone else doesn't beat me to it.
According to your definitions, Will, I can answer either "All" or "none" to that question. Everything I am learning is new to me, and compared to many of you, what I am trying to learn is old and common ass opposed to new and unusual. :D
I have recently re-learned Flying to the Fleadh (a very lovely slip jig) which I found quite difficult at first. It's almost ready to be played in public (though I attempted it too soon this past week and really flubbed it up!).
A set of three jigs played in Canberra from Liz Doherty's
Quare Imagination -- Le Tourment, Pacific Ave. and Betty Annes'.
The settings of the first two are a bit different from what's posted
here on the yella board. I haven't heard the album, mind you, just
how my partners in crime have learned it.
I've been working on a few tunes over the past few days. The first one is a Paddy O'Brien (Nenagh) tune called The Nervous Man which I got from Trian's album. http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3247
Martin Hayes puts the Green Gowned Lass after Martin Rochford's. I already knew it in G but decided to try it in F. A difficult tune it turns out to be in F but worth sticking with. http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1015
And finally, I've been working on Finbarr Dwyer's tune The Kylebrack Rambles in Ddor/mix (alternates between both modes.) I haven't got around to fully learning it yet so it's currently "work in progress." http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/361
Martin Wynne’s No. 2 (listed here as No. 1 but it’s No. 2 on Brian Conway on First Through the Gate and I figure he should know) http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/347
For a given definition of "new" AND "unusual", one that has gained some popularity in sessions around here recently is Will CPT's own Letting The Ranch Go Fallow. http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7159
Great tune! I even have a recording of my band doing it in my profile.
As for what's newest to me:
Miser's Purse
Mossy Banks,
and finally got around to learning the Swedish Jig.
It's an early addition to this site, and it's in 317 tunebooks, and apparently it's been recorded by all manner of hotshots, so it can't be that obscure - but I've never heard it at a session. I fell in love with it a few months ago from a Buddy MacMaster CD, and I've been obsessed with it ever since. I have two other recordings of it, all from the east coast of my continent - Maritimers and New Englanders, is this reel a popular session tune around your parts? One of these years I'll play it in public.
I've also recently imported this simple march, Danse Breton (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6932), from a session in Winnipeg, and have started playing it at a handful of sessions in town. It's more beautiful than anything that simple has any right to be. Beginners who've never picked up any tune at speed and who are unaccustomed to learning by ear are playing this one through the third time around. The more experienced musicians I've played with have come up with some lovely variations and I should really hassle them about sharing them with me.
It comes up every few months here; Michael Coleman made
the Tarbolton set famous -
Tarbolton / Longford Collector / Sailors Bonnet. Session vets
put this in the same category as the Kesh jig. It's an awkward
thing on the fiddle, but the more I play it the more I like it.
I've some crows nesting in the eaves of my house (they've evicted the blackbirds who were former tenants).
As part of a coordinated campaign to drive them away I've set up an electric piano and 50 watt amplifier in the room adjacent to their nest. I've tried all kinds of music from reggae to funk and a barrage of white noise, but have just discovered that these crows really hate traditional music. The 'Hidden Fermanagh' book was handy so I've hit them with a barrage of 'The Lamentation of the Dead Perch', a nifty little jig in G which I've certainly never heard in a session, especially with the amplifier's volume turned up to 11.
Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
Not a very inspired thread this one, but sometimes it's essential to recap where you're at, and for us to pick up some ideas.
What relatively new or unusual tunes are you playing or learning at present, with the hope of bringing them out soon at your local session or gig?
Bear in mind of course that one person's new or unusual tune is a staple in someone else's standard repertoire.When I say "unusual" I don't really mean completely weird. Just "different" or even just "new" for you. Or even "very old but haven't touched for ages."
Would you mind putting a link to it here also?
Getting the ball rolling:
Me?
Recently---
Imelda Rolands
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2735
Connemara Stocking
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/614
Salamanca Sister (- sorry, not on this database)
Pay the Girl her Fourpence
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5999
There are several others but I can't recall them just now (a bit like being in a session, eh?)
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
Reverend gave my Mary McMahon's when we were at the Cody session a couple weeks ago. It's a well-built little reel, fun on fiddle. Haven't tried it on flute yet. http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1934
And I'm learning Stoney Brennan, a Vincent Broderick reel, from my fluter friend just returned from a month in Ireland. I'll post it here if someone else doesn't beat me to it.
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by Will CPT
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
According to your definitions, Will, I can answer either "All" or "none" to that question. Everything I am learning is new to me, and compared to many of you, what I am trying to learn is old and common ass opposed to new and unusual. :D
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by Ron Foreman
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
Two I have been working, both in G major, are:
Suckey's Delight
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8345
Flowing Tide
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2580
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by jasbas
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
I have to, don't I?
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8515
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
A pair of highlands:
Cluain Ard: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8519
All White in Monaghan: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8528
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by slainte
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
I have recently re-learned Flying to the Fleadh (a very lovely slip jig) which I found quite difficult at first. It's almost ready to be played in public (though I attempted it too soon this past week and really flubbed it up!).
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by Andee
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
Yo - Danny :
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2964
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by Kenny
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
Its not new or unusual.. but I have just learned it and will unviel it soon... verry soooon ha ha ha ha..
Its Sean Ryans tune, the singing kettle. Really nice reel.
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by session savage
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
I,ve just bought a fiddle so I,m relearning everything I know!
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by pencross
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
Kenny - spot on. Well done & thanks. Great tune isn't it?
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
A set of three jigs played in Canberra from Liz Doherty's
Quare Imagination -- Le Tourment, Pacific Ave. and Betty Annes'.
The settings of the first two are a bit different from what's posted
here on the yella board. I haven't heard the album, mind you, just
how my partners in crime have learned it.
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by Hup
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
Oops - I won't get full marks if I don't do this:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6148
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6153
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6156
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by Hup
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
Wow - I particularly like Betty Anne's. Thanks.
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
I've been working on a few tunes over the past few days. The first one is a Paddy O'Brien (Nenagh) tune called The Nervous Man which I got from Trian's album. http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3247
I've also learned Martin Rochford's from Martin Hayes "Live in Seattle album. http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1062
Martin Hayes puts the Green Gowned Lass after Martin Rochford's. I already knew it in G but decided to try it in F. A difficult tune it turns out to be in F but worth sticking with. http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1015
And finally, I've been working on Finbarr Dwyer's tune The Kylebrack Rambles in Ddor/mix (alternates between both modes.) I haven't got around to fully learning it yet so it's currently "work in progress." http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/361
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by PaddyCmusic
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
I requested it recently but I nearly worked the reel bit out now.
It's new, unusual and a real cracker.
http://www.shetland-music.com/downloads/Hillswick.mp3
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by kuec
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
What a coincidence - I was practicing the Kylebrack rambler just yesterday. Cracking tune.
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
Here’s a snapshot of a beginner/intermediate player (4 years) – it’s nothing too exotic I’m afraid, just working on some basic repertoire tunes:
Scotsman Over the Border – got it last night from my fiddle teacher
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/548
Maudabawn Chapel from Maureen Fitzpatrick’s setting on The Best of Ed Reavy and from the dots (gasp) in the Reavy book
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/302
Star of Munster (Gm) from Kathleen Collins first album, but I’m also listening to Michael Gorman’s take on Sligo Champion album
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/197
Martin Wynne’s No. 2 (listed here as No. 1 but it’s No. 2 on Brian Conway on First Through the Gate and I figure he should know)
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/347
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by fidkid
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
last week i bought a book of James Scott Skinner tunes in a second hand shop: The Scottish Violinist
theres a couple of tunes in there that are unusual (to my ears).
one in particular: The Mains of Gartley,
i think its called, it has a classical flavour, sounds good on the banjo.
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by DubChieftain
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
For a given definition of "new" AND "unusual", one that has gained some popularity in sessions around here recently is Will CPT's own Letting The Ranch Go Fallow. http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7159
Great tune! I even have a recording of my band doing it in my profile.
As for what's newest to me:
Miser's Purse
Mossy Banks,
and finally got around to learning the Swedish Jig.
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by Reverend
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
We've been playing Imelda Roland's too - great tune. Also The Little Thatched Cabin
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4244
I'm almost ready to unleash the Galway Rambler
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/634
The Fairy Reel
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2944
Young Tom Ennis
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/131
and Tune for Frankie
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1885
and I keep trying to introduce Pride of Rockchapel from the new Matt Molloy/John Carty CD but it always gets turned into Banks of Lough Gowna.
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by airport
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
How unusual is the Tarbolton?
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/560
It's an early addition to this site, and it's in 317 tunebooks, and apparently it's been recorded by all manner of hotshots, so it can't be that obscure - but I've never heard it at a session. I fell in love with it a few months ago from a Buddy MacMaster CD, and I've been obsessed with it ever since. I have two other recordings of it, all from the east coast of my continent - Maritimers and New Englanders, is this reel a popular session tune around your parts? One of these years I'll play it in public.
I've also recently imported this simple march, Danse Breton (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6932), from a session in Winnipeg, and have started playing it at a handful of sessions in town. It's more beautiful than anything that simple has any right to be. Beginners who've never picked up any tune at speed and who are unaccustomed to learning by ear are playing this one through the third time around. The more experienced musicians I've played with have come up with some lovely variations and I should really hassle them about sharing them with me.
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by Tall, Dark, and Mysterious
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
FWIW, I hear the Tarbolton in sessions quite often around here. Great tune.
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by Reverend
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
It comes up every few months here; Michael Coleman made
the Tarbolton set famous -
Tarbolton / Longford Collector / Sailors Bonnet. Session vets
put this in the same category as the Kesh jig. It's an awkward
thing on the fiddle, but the more I play it the more I like it.
# Posted on May 16th 2008 by Hup
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
I've some crows nesting in the eaves of my house (they've evicted the blackbirds who were former tenants).
As part of a coordinated campaign to drive them away I've set up an electric piano and 50 watt amplifier in the room adjacent to their nest. I've tried all kinds of music from reggae to funk and a barrage of white noise, but have just discovered that these crows really hate traditional music. The 'Hidden Fermanagh' book was handy so I've hit them with a barrage of 'The Lamentation of the Dead Perch', a nifty little jig in G which I've certainly never heard in a session, especially with the amplifier's volume turned up to 11.
# Posted on May 16th 2008 by Floss the Tethers
Re: Your latest "new" or "unusual" tunes, please
Here is one:
X:1
T: Home Again
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:Hornpipe
K:G
||: Bc | (3ddd dB cdcA | BcBG c2Bc | dBGB cA=FA | cdcA c2 Bc|
| dBGB (3ddd cB | cA=FA c2Bc |dgdc BG=FA | =FGG=F G2 :||
K:F
||:DB, |G,DFA cAFD | B,DFA AcAF | FGGG GAGF |cAFD B,2 B,A, |
|G,DFA cAFD | B,DFA c2de |cdAG FDEC | A,DDF D2 :||
Both weird and a llittle odd. We are learning to play it in our session .
Mike Keyes
http://www.banjosessions.com
# Posted on May 18th 2008 by mikeyes