everything i needed to know about real life i learned on the session.org
here are the rules i have learned on this forum that i know i can apply to "real life"sessions, or to playing irish music in general, as per the overseers of all that is right and good in the world
1. if you play a bodhran, don't
2. never say the word "celtic"
3. don't mispell any woords
4. don't sing at a session
5. don't play at a session unless you are really good
6. don't contemplate trying to get better without actually playing and asking for help, remember that no one here was ever a beginner at any time
7. if you play guitar, don't use a capo
8. if you play guitar make sure you play in drop d
9. actually, anything you can play with a capo or in some other tuning, you could learn to play in standard tuning, if you would only apply yourself
10. never, i mean never ever never learn music from sheet music or abcs, even though this site provides sheet music and abcs for every tune here
11. martin hayes plays too slow
12. tho old players are better and more traditional
13. the new players are better and there is no tradition
14. only learn tunes by ear, if you can't do that yet or you are having trouble, then you should just go play classical music
15. don't listen to mahavishnu orchestra while trying to type a list of rules, it only makes things more confusing
I am not sure all these lessons are valid, but I do want to point out that it is doubly bad if you pronounce the word celtic as sell-tick (unless you are talking about the Boston basketball team).
Nice one Currach...I like it !
Might I suggest that you expand the number of rules to 16 ?
That is :-
16.Every time you pick up your Instrument,take out a CD for a listen, or even think about Irish Traditional Music....doff yer cap and pay yer respects to Leahcim Llig.... I.T.M's Keeper of the Flame...
Ha, good set of rules, but I offer two slight modifications. First, you can say "celtic" as long as you pronounce it "seltic" (or, preferably, "Li-ver-pool"), and, second, everybody has to just shut up a little bit so that the mouth organ can be heard. Oh, and try not to get your gig bag handle tangled up round your music stand's feet.
I don't really see the bad thing with mixed sessions, i.e. that both tunes and songs are being played at a session?
I think a song or two every now and then can be a good contribution to a session! Of course I wouldn't want songs to SUBSTITUTE tunes, but that's a totally different story, isn't it?
As long as the tune to song ratio is like 20:1 or thereabouts, I wouldn't really bother if a fella wanted to sing a song at our session!
25. Songs should only be sung by session regulars while their "mates" are outside for a fag or something stronger. "Drop in" singers should be discouraged.
26. Evince Godwin's Law at the earliest opportunity. Strict rules (except the secret ones that we don't tell anybody so that we can laugh at them or slag them mercilessly when people break them) are for Nazis anyway.
27. Always ask the other musicians at the session if they prefer that you play the bodhran with the jingles or the tuneable one. As a fellow musician you thus show your appreciation of others wishes.
31) Thou shalt not criticize a Liz Caroll composition no matter how tedious, unmusical, unlistenable, or pointless it seems...Especially within earshot of Irish Americans who live vicariously through her achievements!
35. Stomp your feet like crazy and exacerbate the effect by removing whatever was covering them and wearing a succession of pairs of flip-flops. They'll soon have your attention at the bar.
38.
If a visiting musician starts a tune and doesn't play it your satisfaction, be sure and play it again "properly" immediately afterwards and at twice the speed.
39.
If a visiting musician starts a tune but plays it in a different key, don't try to adapt/transpose. Rather "sit on your hands", exchange knowing glances between yourself and the other regulars then
"be sure and play it again "properly" immediately afterwards and at twice the speed.
40. Practice your scales and arpeggios by playing tunes instead of scales and arpeggios.
41. Don't ask for the dots if you have a recording, and llig is lurking nearby.
44.
If you are in the process of building a website dedicated to "celtic" music or famous Irish composers, be sure to mention this at every session you visit.
47.
When visiting a session, please note that "Reserved for Musicians" only means the regulars and their "mates" and doesn't include yourself unless your name happens to be Tommy Peoples, Liz Carroll etc. Nor does it include bodhran players, guitarists, or singers whether regular or not.
48.
Regulars who arrive first at a session should check to ensure that there is sufficient space for everyone, then rearrange the chairs so that no more than the optimum number of 4-6 musicians may be seated at any one time.
If a "rated" player or a "mate" should arrive later, a space or chair can magically appear.
49. Bow down and worship whenever somebody mentions that Kevin Burke swears by a metronome. (Personally, I've always wondered whether 'by' is more probably replaced by 'at'.)
52. Starting the same tune a second time during the session, presuming that the tune-starter was present when the tune was started the first time, gets a yellow card.
53. Mustard Board denizens will passive-aggressively bitch and moan about all the things that annoy them in sessions in a tongue-and-cheek thread about session "rules."
Reverend is far too modest to tell you that he can sell you a t-shirt with "Rules of this Session" printed on it, and they're not bad, though I have my own version.
1. Thou shalt not establish thy session pub on the top of an
exceeding high mountain, as did the men of Durham when
Samuel the smith denied them licence to play in their former
abode; for to attain thereto is a weariness of the flesh.
2. Only a fool thinketh, "The grass is greener in another
session", for it never is,
3. And if it was, he would covet the seat of honour and smite
his instrument overmuch to the discomfiture of the people
4. And roar, "Who is equal to me? Let him give account,
5. And oppose his banjo to mine!"
6. The prudent then see trouble coming and leave
7. But the ears of the laggard shall tingle,
8. And all will resort to the self-same session that the bringer
of discord has just left.
The style of music shall not be referred to as "Irish traditional music" nor "Irish music" but shall be called "this music" and such terminology can be used ad nauseam and as frequently as desired. Even as much as 50 times in one paragraph.
Americans shall call the music ITM as it really irritates actual ,Irish people who play it. The wicks of Scottish musicians can be irritated in a similar fashion by using the abbreviation STM. It's a good way for folk not from Ireland or Scotland, but who play/dabble with the music, of identifying themselves.
This can also be achieved by assuming the way you run your session in a desert backwater is the way sessions should be run not just where the music actually comes from but all over world
e.g. tune, Michael row your boat ashore, tune, may the circle not be broken, tune, fields of athenry, tune, etc
Just the other day an ATM in Wishaw was giving people twice the money they asked for. The BBC said that the queue for that machine had more than 100 people in it.
>If a visiting musician starts a tune and doesn't play it your satisfaction, be sure and play it again "properly" immediately afterwards and at twice the speed.
As a perennial "visiting musician" that happens to me a lot. I just tell them , Oh yeah, but I was playing the Lower Torry Scottish version.
rules
rules
everything i needed to know about real life i learned on the session.org
here are the rules i have learned on this forum that i know i can apply to "real life"sessions, or to playing irish music in general, as per the overseers of all that is right and good in the world
1. if you play a bodhran, don't
2. never say the word "celtic"
3. don't mispell any woords
4. don't sing at a session
5. don't play at a session unless you are really good
6. don't contemplate trying to get better without actually playing and asking for help, remember that no one here was ever a beginner at any time
7. if you play guitar, don't use a capo
8. if you play guitar make sure you play in drop d
9. actually, anything you can play with a capo or in some other tuning, you could learn to play in standard tuning, if you would only apply yourself
10. never, i mean never ever never learn music from sheet music or abcs, even though this site provides sheet music and abcs for every tune here
11. martin hayes plays too slow
12. tho old players are better and more traditional
13. the new players are better and there is no tradition
14. only learn tunes by ear, if you can't do that yet or you are having trouble, then you should just go play classical music
15. don't listen to mahavishnu orchestra while trying to type a list of rules, it only makes things more confusing
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by currach
Re: rules
You missed the one about criticising Liz Carroll.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Weejie
Re: rules
I am not sure all these lessons are valid, but I do want to point out that it is doubly bad if you pronounce the word celtic as sell-tick (unless you are talking about the Boston basketball team).
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by AlBrown
Re: rules
Nothing about banjos? Also, never say song if it is a tune.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by pipersgrip
Re: rules
Nice one Currach...I like it !
Might I suggest that you expand the number of rules to 16 ?
That is :-
16.Every time you pick up your Instrument,take out a CD for a listen, or even think about Irish Traditional Music....doff yer cap and pay yer respects to Leahcim Llig.... I.T.M's Keeper of the Flame...
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by zoukboy
Re: rules
Haha, funny! Don't forget this one: Don't be yourself, you'll get slagged for it.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by fiddlelearner
Re: rules
Oh and Sillyness is fround upon in these parts.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by fiddlelearner
Re: rules
"unless you are talking about the Boston basketball team"
What? Don't forget Parkheid!
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Weejie
Re: rules
I wasn't aware that basketball was so popular in that part of Lincolnshire
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Rudall the time
Re: rules
"Don't be yourself, you'll get slagged for it."
Nice one, Jerone. And as for silliness, there are those of us who positively welcome it.
Carry on.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by ethical blend
Re: rules
17. Neeevvvverr sloooooow doooooown theeee muuuusic when leaaaaaarniiiiiing by eeeeeeeeeeeear
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Theirlandais
Re: rules
18. Sessions are NOT performances. But it depends on how you define "performance."
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: rules
"17. Neeevvvverr sloooooow doooooown theeee muuuusic when leaaaaaarniiiiiing by eeeeeeeeeeeear"
Hey, I second that! lol XP. Everyone knows that you get more experience points when you learn how to do it the hard way(well, us gamers do anyway :P)
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by fiddlelearner
Re: rules
Ha, good set of rules, but I offer two slight modifications. First, you can say "celtic" as long as you pronounce it "seltic" (or, preferably, "Li-ver-pool"), and, second, everybody has to just shut up a little bit so that the mouth organ can be heard. Oh, and try not to get your gig bag handle tangled up round your music stand's feet.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Steve Shaw
Re: rules
19. If you are not sure if you can play a tune, don't start.
(Unless you are part of the inner circle with your "mates")
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Johnny Jay
Re: rules
20. Don't attempt to remember tune titles. It only encourages beginners to ask for them.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Johnny Jay
Re: rules
21. Never give a sucker an even break.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by MacCruiskeen
Re: rules
22 Never Practise. I've not done it for twenty years.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Johnny Jay
Re: rules
23 Never ask a serious question on this board. You will only get totally confused with the replies.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Bernie
Re: rules
I don't really see the bad thing with mixed sessions, i.e. that both tunes and songs are being played at a session?
I think a song or two every now and then can be a good contribution to a session! Of course I wouldn't want songs to SUBSTITUTE tunes, but that's a totally different story, isn't it?
As long as the tune to song ratio is like 20:1 or thereabouts, I wouldn't really bother if a fella wanted to sing a song at our session!
To each his own, I guess..
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Mattias Holm
Re: rules
24. As soon as the "song" issue comes up, SOMEONE will always say they like mixed sessions.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: rules
25. Songs should only be sung by session regulars while their "mates" are outside for a fag or something stronger. "Drop in" singers should be discouraged.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Johnny Jay
Re: rules
26. Evince Godwin's Law at the earliest opportunity. Strict rules (except the secret ones that we don't tell anybody so that we can laugh at them or slag them mercilessly when people break them) are for Nazis anyway.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by ethical blend
Re: rules
27. Always ask the other musicians at the session if they prefer that you play the bodhran with the jingles or the tuneable one. As a fellow musician you thus show your appreciation of others wishes.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by john knoss
Re: rules
28.Make sure you play your piano accordion good and loud with plenty of rich bass,and place yourself in the centre to give everyone full advantage.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by lucy farr
Re: rules
29. Noodling! No!
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: rules
Corrollary to 29. "Accompanying" tunes you don't know with the basses of your accordion is still noodling
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: rules
30) If you do write your own compositions, make sure you write 5 trad tunes to compensate.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by SmashTheWindows
Re: rules
Weejie: you beat me to the Liz Carroll Rule.
How about a corollary:
31) Thou shalt not criticize a Liz Caroll composition no matter how tedious, unmusical, unlistenable, or pointless it seems...Especially within earshot of Irish Americans who live vicariously through her achievements!
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Seosamh Ui Sinan
Re: rules
32. NO BAGPIPES! (Unless they're uillean)
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by plunk111
Re: rules
Some would say no pipes, either...no flutes, no boxes, just fiddles. Lots and lots of fiddles. : P
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Seosamh Ui Sinan
Re: rules
33. Mixed sessions are for hacks who can't play very well or for very long because they don't know enough tunes.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Seosamh Ui Sinan
Re: rules
Always make fun of the instruments you don't play yourself, especially if they involve animal skins or the equivalent.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by AlBrown
Re: rules
Or reeds
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Seosamh Ui Sinan
Re: rules
Oi!
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Steve Shaw
Re: rules
Good, roundabout way of dissing someone you don't like in the session: "Hey, what's that tune called? It sounds really difficult to play..."
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Steve Shaw
Re: rules
34. Always mention how musically gifted your friends are... (The rule of indirect self praise)
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Theirlandais
Re: rules
John J - you rock! Biting satire, indeed...
m.d.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by emmdee
Re: rules
Corrollary to rule 34....then drop names you say you've sessioned with but go on to say deprecatingly that you don't know them that well.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by john knoss
Re: rules
35. Stomp your feet like crazy and exacerbate the effect by removing whatever was covering them and wearing a succession of pairs of flip-flops. They'll soon have your attention at the bar.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by MacCruiskeen
Re: rules
currach, just out of curiosity, were you thinking of my comment when you wrote rule #14?
Re: Dots and learning by ear
Posted on October 29th 2011 by Babs Gordon
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/28701#comment609906
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Batgirl has left the GPL ;)
Re: rules
36. If a particular thread doesn't interest you, change the subject of the thread to something that does, and rant away...
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Theirlandais
F*cking hell it's Fred Titmus
37. Always obey the session leader's commands.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by MacCruiskeen
Re: rules
38.
If a visiting musician starts a tune and doesn't play it your satisfaction, be sure and play it again "properly" immediately afterwards and at twice the speed.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Johnny Jay
enough with the rules, I'm going to play
Bye
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Batgirl has left the GPL ;)
Re: rules
39.
If a visiting musician starts a tune but plays it in a different key, don't try to adapt/transpose. Rather "sit on your hands", exchange knowing glances between yourself and the other regulars then
"be sure and play it again "properly" immediately afterwards and at twice the speed.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Johnny Jay
Re: rules
40. Practice your scales and arpeggios by playing tunes instead of scales and arpeggios.
41. Don't ask for the dots if you have a recording, and llig is lurking nearby.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Reverend
Re: rules
42. Definitely ask for the dots if you have a recording and llig is lurking nearby. It's more fun.
43. Don't post videos of yourself playing a tune on YouTube unless you've previously shown it to your therapist and gained her/his approval.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by MacCruiskeen
Re: rules
44.
If you are in the process of building a website dedicated to "celtic" music or famous Irish composers, be sure to mention this at every session you visit.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Johnny Jay
Re: rules
45. Don't play in tune, then explain afterwards that "that's how Tommy Peoples does it"
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by SmashTheWindows
Re: rules
46. Don't tell Tommy Peoples to his face that that's how he does it.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by MacCruiskeen
Re: rules
47.
When visiting a session, please note that "Reserved for Musicians" only means the regulars and their "mates" and doesn't include yourself unless your name happens to be Tommy Peoples, Liz Carroll etc. Nor does it include bodhran players, guitarists, or singers whether regular or not.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Johnny Jay
Re: rules
48.
Regulars who arrive first at a session should check to ensure that there is sufficient space for everyone, then rearrange the chairs so that no more than the optimum number of 4-6 musicians may be seated at any one time.
If a "rated" player or a "mate" should arrive later, a space or chair can magically appear.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Johnny Jay
Re: rules
49. Bow down and worship whenever somebody mentions that Kevin Burke swears by a metronome. (Personally, I've always wondered whether 'by' is more probably replaced by 'at'.)
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by MacCruiskeen
Re: rules
50. Never cross the session police.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by millionyears_bc
Re: rules
51...
When you have learned to play more than 50 tunes, it's time to stop keeping a list.
"The tunebook is in your head" as someone once said.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Johnny Jay
Re: rules
52. Starting the same tune a second time during the session, presuming that the tune-starter was present when the tune was started the first time, gets a yellow card.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: rules
53. Letting random punters have a wee go on your bodhran while everyone else is playing a tune gets a red card.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: rules
52. etirw ruoy eman sdrawkcab fi ouy kniht er'uoy trams
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Theirlandais
Re: rules
Will we be allowed to print these rules for reference or must we commit them to memory?
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Boots MacAllen
Re: rules
Don't follow any rules, including this one.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by AlBrown
Re: rules
53. Mustard Board denizens will passive-aggressively bitch and moan about all the things that annoy them in sessions in a tongue-and-cheek thread about session "rules."
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: rules
Aw, John J - you're on fire!! (kneels in worship at yer feet)
Certain other denizens conspicuous by their absence from this thread. Lovin' it...
m.d.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by emmdee
Re: rules
53. Rule 53 will be a triplet.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by MacCruiskeen
Re: rules
54. Recorder players shall be sneered at, but tolerated in the absence of another wind instrument at the session.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Conical bore
Re: rules
55. Recorder players will not be tolerated at any session even if said session consists only of three bodhranistas and a comb-and-bog paper merchant.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by MacCruiskeen
Re: rules
I had a rule once. But it got broke when I twanged it too hard under the desk, and the teacher heard and I got 6 of the belt.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Rudall the time
Re: rules
Reverend is far too modest to tell you that he can sell you a t-shirt with "Rules of this Session" printed on it, and they're not bad, though I have my own version.
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Guernsey Pete
Re: rules
@ MacCruiskeen
Would that really count as a session?
# Posted on November 5th 2011 by Mattias Holm
Re: rules
1. Thou shalt not establish thy session pub on the top of an
exceeding high mountain, as did the men of Durham when
Samuel the smith denied them licence to play in their former
abode; for to attain thereto is a weariness of the flesh.
2. Only a fool thinketh, "The grass is greener in another
session", for it never is,
3. And if it was, he would covet the seat of honour and smite
his instrument overmuch to the discomfiture of the people
4. And roar, "Who is equal to me? Let him give account,
5. And oppose his banjo to mine!"
6. The prudent then see trouble coming and leave
7. But the ears of the laggard shall tingle,
8. And all will resort to the self-same session that the bringer
of discord has just left.
9. This has all happened before,
10. And it will all happen again.
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by nicholas
Re: rules
Songs are fine as long as you call them tunes.
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Re: rules
nice one, nicholas. Did that come from the King James translation of said rules?
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by AlBrown
Re: rules
17. If you have really good chops, use them to their full. Then be sure to show genuine modesty when you're finished the tune.
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by Worldfiddler
Re: rules
56. The second of the three rule 53's isn't a rule, just a fact. And so is this rule.
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by Whiddler
Re: rules
>> Reverend is far too modest to tell you that he can sell you a t-shirt with "Rules of this Session" printed on it
Modest, eh? Nah... Just didn't think of posting a link until you mentioned it, Pete!
http://www.cafepress.com/itmgoodies/5356768
Might be time for a new version, after reading this thread, but I'm not sure I can be bothered....
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by Reverend
Re: rules
57. This is a SESSION, not a fe***n' PERFORMANCE!
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by Piece
Re: rules
The style of music shall not be referred to as "Irish traditional music" nor "Irish music" but shall be called "this music" and such terminology can be used ad nauseam and as frequently as desired. Even as much as 50 times in one paragraph.
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by Weejie
Re: rules
Americans shall call the music ITM as it really irritates actual ,Irish people who play it. The wicks of Scottish musicians can be irritated in a similar fashion by using the abbreviation STM. It's a good way for folk not from Ireland or Scotland, but who play/dabble with the music, of identifying themselves.
This can also be achieved by assuming the way you run your session in a desert backwater is the way sessions should be run not just where the music actually comes from but all over world
e.g. tune, Michael row your boat ashore, tune, may the circle not be broken, tune, fields of athenry, tune, etc
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by TheCat
Re: rules
Does the acronym "STM" sound to anyone else like some disease you really don't want?
As in: "The World Health Organisation is reporting rising numbers of cases of STM in developing nations."
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: rules
It might be closely related to MSR.
*cha-ching*
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: rules
I suppose the "ATM" players just do it for the cash?
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by Johnny Jay
Re: rules
Well, I've noticed that ATM players are not too keen to show you what they are doing.
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by Weejie
Re: rules
@ TheSilverSpear
Hahaha, yeah I totally agree!
I think STM sounds like some kind of nasty STD, doesn't it?
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by Mattias Holm
Re: rules
I don't know, Sexually Transmitted Music. There's a ring to it I think.
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by Prof. Prlwytzkofski
Re: rules
HAHA, I would love to get a thorough definition of what Sexually Transmitted Music is, Prof. Prlwytzkofski!
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by Mattias Holm
Re: rules
Someone was ready to take their notes out of an ATM somewhere the other day and a snake popped out. US or OZ or Africa or some such place.
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by nicholas
STM ~ Sexually Transmitted Music
Guy goes into a bar with an octopus in a bucket. He plonks the bucket on the bar . . .
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by Batgirl has left the GPL ;)
Re: rules
Just the other day an ATM in Wishaw was giving people twice the money they asked for. The BBC said that the queue for that machine had more than 100 people in it.
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: rules
"and a snake popped out"
Plenty of snakes in the banking business these days. No surprise that their machines contain them too.
# Posted on November 6th 2011 by Weejie
Re: rules
@ TheSilverSpear
It's a pity that doesn't happen more often!
# Posted on November 7th 2011 by Mattias Holm
Re: rules
Another rule -- if you want to avoid work, waste some time on
social networking sites like this one, then go to lunch.
# Posted on November 7th 2011 by Hup
Re: rules
I think I'll take that piece of advice of yours, Hup!
# Posted on November 7th 2011 by Mattias Holm
Re: rules
Bucking Frilliant!
4. Don't sing in a session?
When am I going to go to the bar and talk loudly to other musicians if there are no singers?
141. Always start off with Winster Gallop, Salmontails or Jimmy Allen
# Posted on November 7th 2011 by geoffwright
Re: rules
>If a visiting musician starts a tune and doesn't play it your satisfaction, be sure and play it again "properly" immediately afterwards and at twice the speed.
As a perennial "visiting musician" that happens to me a lot. I just tell them , Oh yeah, but I was playing the Lower Torry Scottish version.
# Posted on November 7th 2011 by Bren
Re: rules
"Always start off with Winster Gallop, Salmontails or Jimmy Allen..."
Oh, yes. People compete to buy you expensive drinks to stop you playing them. I'd forgotten that old wheeze, thanks for reminding me.
# Posted on November 7th 2011 by nicholas
Re: rules
And here I thought it was MTD ("Musically-Transmitted Diseases") which you might catch if you don't practice "safe sax".
Laurence
# Posted on November 8th 2011 by fauxcelt
Re: rules
Always play one one more repeat after
the guitar player wants to quit.
# Posted on November 17th 2011 by dogmageek