What tunes are ye working on?

[Wormdiet]

I've been trying to challenge myself a bit lately and learn some (of what I consider to be) difficult tunes. At the moment, I'm plugging away at "Gravel Walk." That second part with the octave jumps initially gave some trouble. The 4th part is unique in the way it uses the C natural, too.

Now it's your turn:

[Bloomfield]

The 4th part is unique in the way it uses the C natural, too.

Hardly unique. There are several tunes that have a c-natural as a rocking pedal, like the Chicago Reel, and some aren't even Irish, like La Bastraigne (sp?).

Recently I was buffing up on some contra dance stuff (like Galopede and Sasha).

Working now on The Haunted House (Vincent Broderick) and The Banshee's Wail, great jigs I am learning off Catherine McEvoy's first CD. Yummy stuff. (McGiveney's Fancy/Mrs. Galvin's off the same CD is next. And then The First Clan March of the O'Sullivans )

[monkey587]

The 4th part is unique in the way it uses the C natural, too.

Hardly unique. There are several tunes that have a c-natural as a rocking pedal, like the Chicago Reel, and some aren't even Irish, like La Bastraigne (sp?).

Recently I was buffing up on some contra dance stuff (like Galopede and Sasha).

Working now on The Haunted House (Vincent Broderick) and The Banshee's Wail, great jigs I am learning off Catherine McEvoy's first CD. Yummy stuff. (McGiveney's Fancy/Mrs. Galvin's off the same CD is next. And then The First Clan March of the O'Sullivans )

McGivney's Fancy's one of my favorites. There's are great versions of it on Randal Bays & Roger Landes's "House to House" CD and Kelly/Obrien/Sproule's CD

I love Banshee's Wail, too. I used to play it on guitar in Gm, and then when I found someone else who knew it (on D whistle), he played it in Dm, so I started playing it in Em, until I ran into someone else who knew it (on D flute) and he played it in Am............

[slowair]

Right now I'm working on The Green Fields of France. Lovely piece, especially when someone has a good voice. Voice with whistle accompaniment is such fun.

Then it's going to be Off to California.

Just got done learning Julia Delaney. Somehow that tune just was in me. I think it's my Irish spirit guide. He must've been a muscian.

Mike

[BillChin]

I'm spending most of my time on the new flute so the tunes are very simple. I have a new one that I'm calling "Pick me a daisy." It goes up and down on the lower octave so I can work on intonation, and breath control before moving up to the second octave.

[ErikT]

I've been working on Guns of the Magnificant Seven, Foxhunter, Caribou and still trying to get Jolly Tinker. I really like Gravel Walks, Worm; good luck with that. It's taken me about 2 years to bring it up to session speed - and I still like someone else to 'lead' it. For some reason I keep on wanting to play the second part (all 8 measures) twice.

Erik

[barstool]

hornpipes!

The Steamboat Hornpipe.
The Derry Hornpipe.
Harvest Home.

I have a love for the "happiness" in hornpipes

~B

[monkey587]

I've been working on Guns of the Magnificant Seven, Foxhunter, Caribou and still trying to get Jolly Tinker. I really like Gravel Walks, Worm; good luck with that. It's taken me about 2 years to bring it up to session speed - and I still like someone else to 'lead' it. For some reason I keep on wanting to play the second part (all 8 measures) twice.

Erik

Ooh, Guns is one of my favorites. You can make either friends or enemies for life by playing that at a session, depending on whether anyone else knows it or not...

[fearfaoin]

I just acquired Eel in the Sink. For some reason that tune was hard for me when I first tried it a
few months ago. This week, it was relatively easy to memorize. That's a nice ego boost, I suppose.
Perhaps I just needed to let it marinate.

Now I need to start writing down the names of tunes I don't know in session so I can learn them later...

[colomon]

Let's see: I've been polishing up "Clogger's Quilt", "Kitty's Wedding" (the hornpipe), "Percy on the Table", and "O'Rourke's". I also recently learned "Planxty Hewlett" for my sister's wedding (three weeks ago), and while I haven't been playing it on whistle, I've been working on learning it on one-row button accordion. (Also practicing several Newfoundland singles on the one-row.)

I'm working (albeit pretty lazily) on learning "The Wild Irishman" and "Roaring Mary". And I intend to (any day now) tackle "Woman of the House", "Anlon McKinney", "Mind the Dresser", "The New Road", and "The Duke of Leinster".

[ErikT]

Perhaps I just needed to let it marinate.

That's the way that it works for me. I can't get stressed out about it. I just have to wait a couple months as I continue to practice the tune. For me, it's like a conveyer belt - a long one. As one new tune is put on at the beginning of the belt another completed one is coming off the far end.

Monkey: Shhh. Don't tell.

[seisflutes]

On the pipes I'm working on:
Colonel Fraiser(Argh! ) and What, No Watermelon?(by Kirk Lynch).
Haven't been playing them on the whistle though. Nor flute. I should learn another whistle tune soon.

[ErikT]

Do you have the ABC's for "What, no Watermelon?"

[seisflutes]

Unfortunatly no, I don't. I'm learning it from the Augusta 20 Years of Irish Music CD thingie. I'm not even quite sure of all the notes in the A part yet, or I'd write it out for you.

[dfernandez77]

I'm practicing network device commands, Exchange server, and.....

OH! Tunes..... :roll:

Where are my priorities. I promised I would leard that un-named tune from Wanderer's last review.

I'll be puttin' down the books and pickin' up the whistle tonight. Or maybe I can do it while I apply security patches to half a dozen production servers.