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Sets are like 15 or 20 minutes long? Like for Dancing? Oof! Makes me tired just thinking about it.

I always picture everything Scott's or I.T. or Cape Breton, played like Natalie McMaster. I love Uptempo, but I don't bow like that. When I visited Cape Breton I didn't let on I could play. Compared to even the old men, I could no way keep up. 

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Gotta have stamina of you want to play for dances. Imagine doing it solo. That's how I did over half of the dances I played in my first year as a dance fiddler. Thankfully I found some seasoned players to be the band (our own JonD is one of them - plays a mean guitar, bouzouki, and lately pretty good fiddle).

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Quincy, both fairly easy ones, but black velvet band is a classic. Luke Kelly made any tune sound excellent, for me anyway, he had a wonderful voice.

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I adore this tune version , I'll do anything within my reach to master this tune on my fiddle as soon as possible! You really pointed this one out for me :-D

Cool, I did not know you guys (JonD and Chickenman) play together! :-)

Working on a pair of simple tunes...""Rath Amhain & Hare in the Corn"...
already halfway in there by vaguely playing along at sesh, but I wanted to finally learn them proper!

Mick o’Brien and Caimhin o’Raghallaigh playing them gorgeously (not in usual key)


 

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Cool, I did not know you guys (JonD and Chickenman) play together! :-)

Working on a pair of simple tunes...""Rath Amhain & Hare in the Corn"...
already halfway in there by vaguely playing along at sesh, but I wanted to finally learn them proper!

Mick o’Brien and Caimhin o’Raghallaigh playing them gorgeously (not in usual key)


 

 

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I've driven about 7 hours just to hang out at Lee's house and play tunes and he's done the same 

This is a list of some of the new bunch of tunes I'm working on. Some tunes I transcribed from the playing of Dave Swarbrick, Kevin Burke and The Chieftains. The others I found on thesession.com and in my tune book collection, many tunes composed by O'Carolan. The basis on which I selected these tunes is that they are 'popular, pretty melodies'. I've memorised all the dots, but I may have to peek at the tablet once in awhile.

The Young Black cow.
Carthy's march.

Promenade.

Morgan Magan.
Give Me Your Hand.
O'Carolan's Concerto.
O'Carolan's Welcome.

Fairies' Lament.
Inisheer.
The Butterfly.
Calliope House.
King Of Laoise.

The Parson's Farewell. Playford, need to scour the 'Dancing master's' tune book for more pirate tunes.

Sugar Tree Stomp - the Stuart Brothers version (by Arthur Smith,1937)

the Boiled Buzzard's version of JP Fraley's version of Bitter Creek 

Foghorn's version of Clyde Davenport's version of New Broom

working on adding vocals to Honest Farmer - the Dry Branch Fire Squad version - but I'm following tradition and changing a few of the lyrics (everyone else seems to have done that - hence: "tradition" - )

Tony, I really like your thorough citing of sources.

John Smith's version of Jeff Johnson's version of Tommy James' version of "Bonaparte's Retreat" that he learned from the notation in Ryan's Mammoth collection. It's like the begat list in the bible. 

I wish my recollection was as complete.

I continue to play tunes that simply fly into my head. But yeah, I usually do them all in D.

Got to thumping around on an old trap of a banjer.
It takes guts to upload anything so disgusting: (No, not Ol Indiana)

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Tony, I really like your thorough citing of sources.

John Smith's version of Jeff Johnson's version of Tommy James' version of "Bonaparte's Retreat" that he learned from the notation in Ryan's Mammoth collection. It's like the begat list in the bible. 

I wish my recollection was as complete.

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,,,the result of a few folks who enjoyed telling me:  "That's not how "_____+" played it."   So, the extra qualifier helps explain, but that doesn't always work. When it doesn't - I spring the "that's that way I play it - today."

Don't let me mislead you - I don't have all that on call at will.    But - I do know where to find it - most of the time! 

Today it seemed to click. I unhooked the keyboard from the looper. Simply ran the keyboard into the mixer. The goal being to not have drums on the loop. But as I picked up the guitar I just, well, counted on my fingers to stay in time, then whistle the tune(melody) as I played/made the loop. I know I've tried this before, but this time it worked! Maybe it was the easy tunes?

Cottoneye Joe, St. Anne's Reel, Rubber Dolly, and Maple Sugar.

No playing here.

Here at mom and dad’s house with NO musical instrument…48 hours now…desperation is setting in…I even said to my husband, “we could go to the local music store and get a cheap guitar to keep here!”

I won’t get an instrument in my hands again until december 5…Auuuggh!
Lotsa good eating is planned at least…

I know I should have thrown the tin whistle in my backpack!!

I'm in GDAE today playing a fiddled up version of the offical Flemish anthem, while humming the complete lyrics , I might even want learn to sing them together with my playing.
If I play it with the fierce intention that lies in the original tune, it sounds very belligerent, but I'm in the Kempen area and here we are a little more gentle and bring something in of the touch of Liège.

Fiddle for the world and my Ziva for the win!

NCnotes - Sounds like time for a ukulele. I've even seen some pretty good looking inexpensive ones for sale in outdoor equipment stores.

Quincy - For years I heated with a Lange woodstove from Denmark. Cast in the sides was a scene of St. Hubert (with his dog of course) kneeling in prayer before the miraculous stag with the crucifix growing between its antlers, before becoming the first bishop of Liège. I felt very pan-European, although I was burning good American oak, hickory, ash, and maple.

Maghera Mountain Reel..

One thing I'm working on is a Herman Johnson version of Hell Among the Yearlings (Jeanine Orme transcription).

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I'm in GDAE today playing a fiddled up version of the offical Flemish anthem, while humming the complete lyrics , I might even want learn to sing them together with my playing.
If I play it with the fierce intention that lies in the original tune, it sounds very belligerent, but I'm in the Kempen area and here we are a little more gentle and bring something in of the touch of Liège.

Fiddle for the world and my Ziva for the win!

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My wife and I went on Bike and Barge tour in 2019 on a smaller hotel boat call Fiep (since renamed La Mar) through that area. (If I understand the map correctly.) We really liked Hasselt! The Jenevermuseum (Gin Museum) was a fun surprise.

Whiskey Before Breakfast, Red Haired Boy, Blackberry Blossom I like these tunes and am trying to learn how to play them better.

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NCnotes - Sounds like time for a ukulele. I've even seen some pretty good looking inexpensive ones for sale in outdoor equipment stores.

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A few years ago I accompanied my wife on an extended trip to visit her grandparents' birthplaces in Europe. I was working on some challenging classical pieces at the time and didn't want to lose momentum. I also did not want to take a good instrument on such a trip, so I bought plastic ukulele (waterproof!) and restrung it to GDAE. It fit in my backpack, was nice and quiet in a hotel room, and let me work on my music whenever I wanted. Of course it was plucking rather than bowing, but it allowed me to work out many of the details of the music.

I still have that uke, though it's mostly a decoration -- red plastic, very cute...

I'm learning Forty Miles From Georgetown Without Any Whiskey. Next up will probably be Green Mountain Petronella.

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NCnotes - Sounds like time for a ukulele. I've even seen some pretty good looking inexpensive ones for sale in outdoor equipment stores.

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Was going nuts and this past weekend, went to Guitar Center at the local mall and picked up a Cordoba mini II, 580 mm scale length. Sounds better than expected for its small size and price! Small enough to shove in a closet and keep here for my visits...

My mom (now 84) was with me and nothing has changed! She kept saying "is it NEW?" She is still scarred by the day long ago when my violin teacher made her purchase a very old "beat-up" looking violin for me 

Guiliani etude on the Cordoba Mini (iPhone voice memo)...snipped when mom started talking to me! 

It's just practice! But Iove to practice.

 

My mom (now 84) was with me and nothing has changed! She kept saying "is it NEW?" She is still scarred by the day long ago when my violin teacher made her purchase a very old "beat-up" looking violin for me 

 

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NCNotes, your mom sounds like my mom except mine would have never been prepared to buy me something that was not brand new and she would have probably thought or even worse insisted that I needed a new violin teacher if my former irl teacher would have suggested an already used instrument.  

Did you know that there exists an instrument that carries the name 'vedel' which is seen as a medieval fiddle? I showed interest in a vedel on a second hand website, but did not respond anymore, because you know- I like my more contemporary fiddles.

But here are a few links (in dutch yes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSbkp9TUxM8&list=RDKSbkp9TUxM8&start_radio=1

see also:

https://music.africamuseum.be/determination/dutch/instruments/vedel.html

Let's all keep the spirit alive :-D

Anja,Bedankt! yes, I have seen some kind of “vedel” when I saw the local Early Music Ensemble… and players had violinish objects that they held on their knee!

Latest tunes here:
Tom Billy’s / Mooncoin ( great set, seems consistently liked by “punters”)

Limestone Rock reel

What’s everybody playing? :-)