Hi everyone,
I was at the All Ireland fleadh at the weekend, and I was watching several gig-rig performances and buskers. I noticed that the tunes that are played here are ones that you always seem to hear, yet you don't know them; they always seem rare enough. I believe that if i were to join a session, i would find myself sitting there because i wouldn't know a lot of the tunes.
My question is that i wish to know if anyone else has noticed this, and also if you could please post some names of tunes that are somewhat complicated and rare, yet would be lively enough to play on a gig rig or something like that.
Hope i am being clear enough, i would love a load of replies.
I'm not sure I've noticed this, but some good tunes are The Broken Pledge,, a three-two called Charlesworth Hornpipe, Laurel's Reel, and Drunken Sailor
Click 'Members' on the left
Then click the 'Tunebook' tab at the top of the page
You are now looking at a listing of the most popular tunes on this site by how often they have been added to folks' tunebooks.
This means...absolutely nothing.
However, if you learn a few on that first page that's a great place to start. I'm sure you could pop into just about any session on the planet and fire off a few of those.
Search for member "will harmon", click on his profile, click on the link to the lists of tunes that he (with some contributions by many other members of this site) compiled a few years ago, and start learning them. You'll be grand by the time you're 80 years old.
I think the older you get the more you lose touch with the tunes that are been played by today's young players. However I remember playing 'The King of the Clan' one night at a session and was surprised that the younger players had never heard the tune. Seeing 'The Broken Pledge' mentioned further up the page reminded me that in the early sixties, The Broken Pledge and Paddy Murphy's Wife were a very popular set to play. Alas it was a different Paddy Murphy's Wife than the one shown in the Tune Base on here. Maybe Paddy got divorced and remarried since then.
My guess that Power27 already knows the common session tunes.
He is trying to find out what's trendy in Ireland at the moment. I'd like
to know that myself.
Power27 - I see from your profile that you are 15 years old (or were when you wrote your description), so you are probably somwehwat at the mercy of parents and other dinosaurs for getting out and about. But the simple answer is, get to as many sessions as you can, in as many places as possible. Pester your folks to take you to all the fleadhs and summer schools. If you're exposed to enough music, you'll start to hear the same tunes cropping up again and again. You already recognise the tunes you like - that's the first stage. Once you hear them a few times, they'll stick in your head, so you'll be able to sing them back. Then you're only one step away from playing them. If you come across a tune you particularly like, it'll probably go in quicker - and you can always ask one of the players for a name, if you want to seek out recordings or sheet music, or even, if the situation's right, get them to one side and learn it one-to-one. But, the more tunes you learn, the quicker and easier it becomes.
Sessions...
Sessions...
Hi everyone,
I was at the All Ireland fleadh at the weekend, and I was watching several gig-rig performances and buskers. I noticed that the tunes that are played here are ones that you always seem to hear, yet you don't know them; they always seem rare enough. I believe that if i were to join a session, i would find myself sitting there because i wouldn't know a lot of the tunes.
My question is that i wish to know if anyone else has noticed this, and also if you could please post some names of tunes that are somewhat complicated and rare, yet would be lively enough to play on a gig rig or something like that.
Hope i am being clear enough, i would love a load of replies.
Thanks in advance.
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by Power27
Re: Sessions...
Start here: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by Ptarmigan
Re: Sessions...
I'm not sure I've noticed this, but some good tunes are The Broken Pledge,, a three-two called Charlesworth Hornpipe, Laurel's Reel, and Drunken Sailor
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by buailteoir
Re: Sessions...
Click 'Members' on the left
Then click the 'Tunebook' tab at the top of the page
You are now looking at a listing of the most popular tunes on this site by how often they have been added to folks' tunebooks.
This means...absolutely nothing.
However, if you learn a few on that first page that's a great place to start. I'm sure you could pop into just about any session on the planet and fire off a few of those.
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Sessions...
Ha ha, that's 'Members' on the RIGHT, it's still AM in the US, and I'm off to get more coffee. Good morning! [rubs eyes]
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Sessions...
Search for member "will harmon", click on his profile, click on the link to the lists of tunes that he (with some contributions by many other members of this site) compiled a few years ago, and start learning them. You'll be grand by the time you're 80 years old.
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by browndog
Re: Sessions...
I think the older you get the more you lose touch with the tunes that are been played by today's young players. However I remember playing 'The King of the Clan' one night at a session and was surprised that the younger players had never heard the tune. Seeing 'The Broken Pledge' mentioned further up the page reminded me that in the early sixties, The Broken Pledge and Paddy Murphy's Wife were a very popular set to play. Alas it was a different Paddy Murphy's Wife than the one shown in the Tune Base on here. Maybe Paddy got divorced and remarried since then.
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by Free Reed
Re: Sessions...
Jeez Ptarmigan, that was a useless response
# Posted on August 25th 2009 by Hup
Re: Sessions...
My guess that Power27 already knows the common session tunes.
He is trying to find out what's trendy in Ireland at the moment. I'd like
to know that myself.
# Posted on August 25th 2009 by Hup
Re: Sessions...
Power27 - I see from your profile that you are 15 years old (or were when you wrote your description), so you are probably somwehwat at the mercy of parents and other dinosaurs for getting out and about. But the simple answer is, get to as many sessions as you can, in as many places as possible. Pester your folks to take you to all the fleadhs and summer schools. If you're exposed to enough music, you'll start to hear the same tunes cropping up again and again. You already recognise the tunes you like - that's the first stage. Once you hear them a few times, they'll stick in your head, so you'll be able to sing them back. Then you're only one step away from playing them. If you come across a tune you particularly like, it'll probably go in quicker - and you can always ask one of the players for a name, if you want to seek out recordings or sheet music, or even, if the situation's right, get them to one side and learn it one-to-one. But, the more tunes you learn, the quicker and easier it becomes.
# Posted on August 25th 2009 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Re: Sessions...
no shortage of online Irish radio stations to her what tunes are currently being recorded/played.
(isn't this where the youngsters pick them up from?)
# Posted on August 26th 2009 by geoffwright
Re: Sessions...
Thanks very much all. The advice is appreciated.
# Posted on August 27th 2009 by Power27