Currently working on The Gold Ring, Colonel Frazier's and The Drunken Landlady. Also trying to 'hone' Michael Ferry's (Farewell To Chernobyl) having learnt it from Gary Shannon's Lose The Head.
Reminds me, need to get off here and get some practicing done before the missus get's home!
I picked up The High Reel last week in about ten minutes. . . it was one of those tunes I knew on GHB about 20 years ago, ported over to a new instrument with a different name.
Working on some tunes I picked off of David Power's album. Steampacket and Jenny Picking Cockles.
Hey Q - The Wedding Reel is not the right name. It's actually MacLeod's Farewell. For the sake of Donald Shaw's peace of mind we shouldn't perpetuate Lunasa's error. I say "we" because it's also one of my favourite tunes and I have had to work really hard to stop calling it the Wedding Reel.
Jim, I've tried learning Trip to Nenagh a couple of times, but I've no recording of it, and I can't get my head round the key: the version here is in mainly in Dmix, but the one I've got from Brendan Mulkere's class is mainly in Dmaj, and both of them put the c naturals, c sharps and f naturals in different places... To my ear, which is admittedly not that familiar with the ins and outs of modes, Brendan's version sounds best, but with all his c sharps played as naturals. Er, but he probably knows best. I wish I could just hear it played on a flute, at speed. Could you record it and send it to me?
All of a sudden, without intending to, I've verged onto the Scottish side of the street:
"250 to Vigo"
"The Snuff Wife"
"The Lasses Fashion"
and, ulp, "Nelson Mandela's Welcome to the City of Glasgow"
...but that said, I've also been tussling with "Betsy's Delight," by the Kane sisters.
And just to annoy my teenage daughters, and somewhat amuse my missus, I've even tried "Walking on the Moon." Can't quite get that Sting impersonation down, though.
Working some jigs I picked up at the East Coast Tionol from Patrick Ourceau; An Buachaill Dreoite, Willie Clancy's setting of Padgin O'Rafferty, and Paddy Canny's setting of Rakes of Clonmel. Also, working on a few polkas; Scartaglen, the polka set from Kevin Burke's Up Close CD (A Polka, The Finnish, Jessica's Polka). Also a real nice polka Paddy O'Brien (the breathing) wrote and recorded with Chulura called Mike Coogan's polka. Newest reels include The Colliers and the Templehouse.
Hello all, my first post. I'm also working on some Paddy (Offaly) O'Brien tunes: Sarah's Delight, The Small Hills of Offaly, and The Antrim Rose. I mainly play the fiddle by ear, but was very happy to find the sheet music of these three tunes on this site. I'm enjoying the discussions.
Actually in the past 45 minutes I've pretty much gotten The Beauty Spot internalized. Now it;s just a few months of polishing before it sees the light of day.
Ciamar a tha thu, bean an ti ar lar? Yeah, Paddy O'Brien (O) tunes are worth getting..the ones I know are The Hills of Offaly and The Antrim Rose..but ye'd have to play them around a few times till I remembered them. But I would.
Trying to tighten up some tunes I have been playing forever. This afternoon I was working on "Off the California." Yesterday I did "Have a Drink with Me."
Working on The Hermit of Killarney and have been having fun with Planxty Madam Maxwell. Lately mastered Girls of Farranfore and A Fig for a Kiss. I picked up Glenn Weisers "Cetic guitar" and have been strugling with tabulature for South Wind. I bought an Irish fute and am trying to get a (any) note out of it.
At the moment I'm trying to get the tunes down that were played at the Dave Williams memorial session, which you can see at kerrywhistles.com. Have a look here:
Been working on the jig The Rambler (learning it from the James Morrison recording, which I love) and also McDermotts - as played by Sean Maguire more or less.
Tunes yesterday, Tunes tomorrow... forever Tunes Today!
Tunes yesterday, Tunes tomorrow... forever Tunes Today!
Haven't had one of these for a while. What are the most recent tunes you've added to your repertoire, what are you working on and what's next?
As for me, I've just about got The Coven and The Wedding Reel down. Busy working on By Golly, and thinking of starting on Black Pat's and Sean Ryan's.
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by Q
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Thanks Q, I knew there was something I meant to do - and it was to learn By Golly!
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by Ottery
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Currently working on The Gold Ring, Colonel Frazier's and The Drunken Landlady. Also trying to 'hone' Michael Ferry's (Farewell To Chernobyl) having learnt it from Gary Shannon's Lose The Head.
Reminds me, need to get off here and get some practicing done before the missus get's home!
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by NeilC
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Jim, The Cocktail, isn't it? I think Kenny alread posted it. You can listen to Desi Wilkinson and Paul McGrattan play the tune on the latest edition of Culan: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/genres/folk/aod.shtml?ulster/culan
By the way, I'm working on Scots pipe march called "Men of Argyll." I actually posted it to this site last year but forgot how it goes.
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by slainte
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Sorry, Paul McGrattan doesn't play The Cocktail on the programme.
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by slainte
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I picked up The High Reel last week in about ten minutes. . . it was one of those tunes I knew on GHB about 20 years ago, ported over to a new instrument with a different name.
Working on some tunes I picked off of David Power's album. Steampacket and Jenny Picking Cockles.
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by wormdiet
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Maids of Tulla from the Live at Mona's disc that someone posted here a couple of weeks ago. Great tune!
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by GaryAMartin
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Hey Q - The Wedding Reel is not the right name. It's actually MacLeod's Farewell. For the sake of Donald Shaw's peace of mind we shouldn't perpetuate Lunasa's error. I say "we" because it's also one of my favourite tunes and I have had to work really hard to stop calling it the Wedding Reel.
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by ian clark
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Jim, I've tried learning Trip to Nenagh a couple of times, but I've no recording of it, and I can't get my head round the key: the version here is in mainly in Dmix, but the one I've got from Brendan Mulkere's class is mainly in Dmaj, and both of them put the c naturals, c sharps and f naturals in different places... To my ear, which is admittedly not that familiar with the ins and outs of modes, Brendan's version sounds best, but with all his c sharps played as naturals. Er, but he probably knows best. I wish I could just hear it played on a flute, at speed. Could you record it and send it to me?
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by Q
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To my shame, I already knew that Ian. I usually refer to it as "The Wedding Macleody thing-a-ma-whatsit".
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by Q
For jim troy
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1670
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by Kenny
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All of a sudden, without intending to, I've verged onto the Scottish side of the street:
"250 to Vigo"
"The Snuff Wife"
"The Lasses Fashion"
and, ulp, "Nelson Mandela's Welcome to the City of Glasgow"
...but that said, I've also been tussling with "Betsy's Delight," by the Kane sisters.
And just to annoy my teenage daughters, and somewhat amuse my missus, I've even tried "Walking on the Moon." Can't quite get that Sting impersonation down, though.
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by sts
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Working some jigs I picked up at the East Coast Tionol from Patrick Ourceau; An Buachaill Dreoite, Willie Clancy's setting of Padgin O'Rafferty, and Paddy Canny's setting of Rakes of Clonmel. Also, working on a few polkas; Scartaglen, the polka set from Kevin Burke's Up Close CD (A Polka, The Finnish, Jessica's Polka). Also a real nice polka Paddy O'Brien (the breathing) wrote and recorded with Chulura called Mike Coogan's polka. Newest reels include The Colliers and the Templehouse.
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by RogueFiddler
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Hello all, my first post. I'm also working on some Paddy (Offaly) O'Brien tunes: Sarah's Delight, The Small Hills of Offaly, and The Antrim Rose. I mainly play the fiddle by ear, but was very happy to find the sheet music of these three tunes on this site. I'm enjoying the discussions.
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by beanatiarlar
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Actually in the past 45 minutes I've pretty much gotten The Beauty Spot internalized. Now it;s just a few months of polishing before it sees the light of day.
# Posted on November 23rd 2005 by wormdiet
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Some of the (unrecorded) Polkas and Slides that our M comes out with at our wee occasional seshes.
# Posted on November 23rd 2005 by Key Maniac Lad
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Ciamar a tha thu, bean an ti ar lar? Yeah, Paddy O'Brien (O) tunes are worth getting..the ones I know are The Hills of Offaly and The Antrim Rose..but ye'd have to play them around a few times till I remembered them. But I would.
# Posted on November 23rd 2005 by Key Maniac Lad
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Trying to tighten up some tunes I have been playing forever. This afternoon I was working on "Off the California." Yesterday I did "Have a Drink with Me."
# Posted on November 23rd 2005 by Unseen122
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Working on The Hermit of Killarney and have been having fun with Planxty Madam Maxwell. Lately mastered Girls of Farranfore and A Fig for a Kiss. I picked up Glenn Weisers "Cetic guitar" and have been strugling with tabulature for South Wind. I bought an Irish fute and am trying to get a (any) note out of it.
# Posted on November 23rd 2005 by feardearg
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I just posted Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh's version of Trip to Nenagh, for those who are interested.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/831
At the moment I'm trying to get the tunes down that were played at the Dave Williams memorial session, which you can see at kerrywhistles.com. Have a look here:
http://www.kerrywhistles.com/dl.php?group=23
# Posted on November 23rd 2005 by Bleedin' Heart
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Been working on the jig The Rambler (learning it from the James Morrison recording, which I love) and also McDermotts - as played by Sean Maguire more or less.
# Posted on November 23rd 2005 by kris