Now, besides playing in sessions and hearing tunes over and over and over again week after week, where did you get a lot of your tunes from?
I got a lot of mine from recordings. I think I am up to 12 (tunes) from Lunasa's first album. I am pretty sure if I looked through my whole CD collection, I would know at least a tune from every single one of them.
I've been collecting tunes for 20 years or so now -- so it's hard to say. But when you way out in the outback of ITM as we are here on the West Coast of the US, many of them come from popular recordings. After a few people have learned them off of popular recordings they'll begin teaching them to other people themselves, or people will pick them up in sessions where they're being played by the folks who learned them from a recording. For example, I might overhear someone asking someone else where they learned the tune, and they'll say so and so taught me, but I happen to know the so and so they're talking about, and I know they got it off the same recording I did. But the recording as the source is lost at that point.
I think that I usually know the source of tunes I learn is because I make it a point to learn the names. This often results in reinforcing the recorded source, or whatever source it is that I got the tune. If you ask me where I got a tune, 9 times out of ten I'll know.
But then -- I'm an anorak – I’m supposed to know these things.
Hi andee... I remembered hearing it on my last trip to Ireland, but after being called an anorak in the tunes section one day it prompted me to initiate the discussion; "What is an Anorak?" Here's the link. http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/6494
I don't get out much to sessions (this is about to change).
I have a database of over 34,000 tunes in ABC (lots of repeats, different variations, etc) and I listen to the midis until I find one that might be a great one to learn.
I also look in tune books to see which ones pop up often. I conclude which tunes other people are more likely to know. I am a confessed reader of spots.
Lastly, I studied the top hundred tunes on this site to see likely well known tunes.
I am surprised, using these faulty means, how often I can join in when I have the chance to attend sessions.
When I started out it was from O'Neill's because recordings were hard to come by and real musicians were impossible to come by. Slowly that started to change - first I got a few recordings, then began to meet musicians and learn tunes from all these. Recorded sources and printed sources have always remained important to me - but many of the recorded sources I have used the most have been "private" recordings as opposed to albums. I do still value learning tunes from real live people, but what can I say -- I'm an anti-social ba****d and don't get out much!
Kris,
We might see more of you now the smoking ban has come into force.
I've been a bit anti-social too, of late. Just saving myself for the festival season.
Well, let's see -- if it's "besides playing in sessions", and you don't have a teacher, isn't the answer going to be either from books or from recordings? In my case, from recordings, particularly _Music of Sligo_, _Mountain Road_, _Music from the Coleman Country_, _Music at Matt Molloy's_ and _Fortune Favours the Merry_.
I have learned a small number of nice tunes at various workshops over the years, though as often as not these are Canadian tunes rather than Irish.
My wife gets a lot through books, as she sightreads music a lot better than me. Mine I usually hear at a session, find the name, find it in a book or on this website, and start the long slow learning process.
I was cheeky at my local session and gave a really good musician at a blank audio tape, pleading eyes and a "pretty, pretty please record tunes slowly for me" and he did! On at least four occasions over the years. Most really good musicians are just wonderfully encouraging.
An older musician friend taught me many tunes.
The ABCtunes program and Henri Norbic collection is brilliant.
Classes too.
Seldom if from books even though I own a few.
"if it's "besides playing in sessions", and you don't have a teacher, isn't the answer going to be either from books or from recordings?"
Nobody has yet mentioned learning them from little men in pointed hats, when lost in the fields on dark, moonless nights - probably because the little men in pointed hats told them not to mention it.
Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
Now, besides playing in sessions and hearing tunes over and over and over again week after week, where did you get a lot of your tunes from?
I got a lot of mine from recordings. I think I am up to 12 (tunes) from Lunasa's first album. I am pretty sure if I looked through my whole CD collection, I would know at least a tune from every single one of them.
# Posted on March 27th 2006 by Unseen122
Re: Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
I have asked certain people to teach me tunes they know.
# Posted on March 27th 2006 by m
Re: Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
I have gotten 90 % of my tunes from my teacher. She teaches me tunes by ear either tunes she suggests or ones I ask her to show me.
The rest from other teachers in workshop situations, and also a good handful from cds. Occasionally a friend will teach me a tune.
# Posted on March 27th 2006 by Andee
Re: Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
I've been collecting tunes for 20 years or so now -- so it's hard to say. But when you way out in the outback of ITM as we are here on the West Coast of the US, many of them come from popular recordings. After a few people have learned them off of popular recordings they'll begin teaching them to other people themselves, or people will pick them up in sessions where they're being played by the folks who learned them from a recording. For example, I might overhear someone asking someone else where they learned the tune, and they'll say so and so taught me, but I happen to know the so and so they're talking about, and I know they got it off the same recording I did. But the recording as the source is lost at that point.
I think that I usually know the source of tunes I learn is because I make it a point to learn the names. This often results in reinforcing the recorded source, or whatever source it is that I got the tune. If you ask me where I got a tune, 9 times out of ten I'll know.
But then -- I'm an anorak – I’m supposed to know these things.
# Posted on March 27th 2006 by Phantom Button
Re: Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
What's an anorak? I'm too lazy to look in up right now...
# Posted on March 27th 2006 by Andee
Re: Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
oops...look *it* up
# Posted on March 27th 2006 by Andee
Re: Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
Hi andee... I remembered hearing it on my last trip to Ireland, but after being called an anorak in the tunes section one day it prompted me to initiate the discussion; "What is an Anorak?" Here's the link. http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/6494
# Posted on March 27th 2006 by Phantom Button
Re: Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
Ha! I guess I'm an anorak too, then. For the record, I also love stone circles as you do....
# Posted on March 27th 2006 by Andee
Re: Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
Most I get from sittin' and listenin' at my local. But my favorite ones are probably recorded sources.
# Posted on March 27th 2006 by Farr
Re: Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
I don't get out much to sessions (this is about to change).
I have a database of over 34,000 tunes in ABC (lots of repeats, different variations, etc) and I listen to the midis until I find one that might be a great one to learn.
I also look in tune books to see which ones pop up often. I conclude which tunes other people are more likely to know. I am a confessed reader of spots.
Lastly, I studied the top hundred tunes on this site to see likely well known tunes.
I am surprised, using these faulty means, how often I can join in when I have the chance to attend sessions.
# Posted on March 27th 2006 by feardearg
Re: Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
When I started out it was from O'Neill's because recordings were hard to come by and real musicians were impossible to come by. Slowly that started to change - first I got a few recordings, then began to meet musicians and learn tunes from all these. Recorded sources and printed sources have always remained important to me - but many of the recorded sources I have used the most have been "private" recordings as opposed to albums. I do still value learning tunes from real live people, but what can I say -- I'm an anti-social ba****d and don't get out much!
# Posted on March 27th 2006 by kris
Re: Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
Kris,
We might see more of you now the smoking ban has come into force.
I've been a bit anti-social too, of late. Just saving myself for the festival season.
# Posted on March 27th 2006 by Johannes J
Re: Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
Well, let's see -- if it's "besides playing in sessions", and you don't have a teacher, isn't the answer going to be either from books or from recordings? In my case, from recordings, particularly _Music of Sligo_, _Mountain Road_, _Music from the Coleman Country_, _Music at Matt Molloy's_ and _Fortune Favours the Merry_.
I have learned a small number of nice tunes at various workshops over the years, though as often as not these are Canadian tunes rather than Irish.
# Posted on March 27th 2006 by Sol Foster
Re: Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
My wife gets a lot through books, as she sightreads music a lot better than me. Mine I usually hear at a session, find the name, find it in a book or on this website, and start the long slow learning process.
# Posted on March 27th 2006 by AlBrown
Re: Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
I was cheeky at my local session and gave a really good musician at a blank audio tape, pleading eyes and a "pretty, pretty please record tunes slowly for me" and he did! On at least four occasions over the years. Most really good musicians are just wonderfully encouraging.
An older musician friend taught me many tunes.
The ABCtunes program and Henri Norbic collection is brilliant.
Classes too.
Seldom if from books even though I own a few.
# Posted on March 27th 2006 by gtag
Re: Where did You get the Most Tunes From?
"if it's "besides playing in sessions", and you don't have a teacher, isn't the answer going to be either from books or from recordings?"
Nobody has yet mentioned learning them from little men in pointed hats, when lost in the fields on dark, moonless nights - probably because the little men in pointed hats told them not to mention it.
# Posted on March 29th 2006 by granama