Do you ever get tunes confused
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Do you ever get tunes confused
When I play the Welsh tune Suo Gan, I keep getting it confused with the 'concerning hobbits' theme from LOTR..
They both start very similarly and i end up playing a kind of hybrid hobbit tune..
They both start very similarly and i end up playing a kind of hybrid hobbit tune..
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Do I ever get tunes confused? Yes, all the time. I think this happens to everyone who knows more than a few.
I think the stupidest thing I've done recently was accidentally start a tune I didn't (and don't) actually know at a session. In my head, what I thought was "I'll start 'Star Above the Garter'" but what came out was "Strike the Gay Harp." Luckily pretty much everyone else at our local session does know that tune, so it worked out okay, but man, did I feel stupid.
I think the stupidest thing I've done recently was accidentally start a tune I didn't (and don't) actually know at a session. In my head, what I thought was "I'll start 'Star Above the Garter'" but what came out was "Strike the Gay Harp." Luckily pretty much everyone else at our local session does know that tune, so it worked out okay, but man, did I feel stupid.
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Re: Do you ever get tunes confused
Nah. It's not like any two Irish tunes sound anything alike.monkey wrote:When I play the Welsh tune Suo Gan, I keep getting it confused with the 'concerning hobbits' theme from LOTR..
They both start very similarly and i end up playing a kind of hybrid hobbit tune..
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Yeah, I confuse tunes all the time, like everyone else does. If you know more than a few, and keep learning new ones, it becomes impossible to keep all the tunes appart. It's not unusual for me to start playing tunes I don't know eighter. Might be a tune from an old record or something that you've had in your head for ages. The fact that the reportoire is virtually endless and that many tunes sound so much alike makes it impossible to not confuse tunes from time to time.
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I used to be a strictly "learn from the dots" kind of guy, but in the last year or so, my ear has improved, and I've started picking up new tunes in session from other players, mainly jigs.
On the tunes I've learned in session, I frequently mix and match A and B parts, especially when I've just learned a few new tunes at roughly the same time and they are in the same key.
This sorts itself out as I keep playing the tunes in session, I finally get it in my head which body goes with which head, to avoid Frankentunes.
--James
On the tunes I've learned in session, I frequently mix and match A and B parts, especially when I've just learned a few new tunes at roughly the same time and they are in the same key.
This sorts itself out as I keep playing the tunes in session, I finally get it in my head which body goes with which head, to avoid Frankentunes.
--James
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I embarrased myself at a session once by starting playing the A part to St. Anne's Reel but somehow I played the B part to the Galway Hornpipe. I don't take full responsibility though; when I said I wanted to do St. Anne's Reel, the guy heading up the session said: "Why don't we swing it?" So I put a little swing in the tune, making it sound more like a fast paced hornpipe... when it came to the B part I guess Galway fit right in there... after all the first three or four notes of the B part to both songs are identical .
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Do I ever get tunes confused ? Up to and including today , I'd have to say that was a major ....... YES !!! The real killer is to be in the middle of a performance and forget the tune that you're supposed to play. Nothing quite like standing in front of a group of people , with a piece of pipe in your hand , totally blank , and feeling very much like the village idiot !!
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I have a hard time remembering the first few bars of some tunes. It seems to depend on what order I play them in. "Hector the Hero" has been particularly easy to forget lately. What I do is start on a bar I do remember; when I get to the end and start the A part over, it just flows. No sessions around here so I'm playing by myself and it doesn't matter much.
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at a large jam, half of us didn't hear the "let's change to this tune now" and kept on playing one song, half heard it and changed to the other. It actually wound up sounding good together - so a lot of people here play them that way now!!!!
And, for some reason, I can remember the "B" parts of songs better then the "A" parts, so I often have to start on the B.
I just call it all "improvisation" or "jazz"......
And, for some reason, I can remember the "B" parts of songs better then the "A" parts, so I often have to start on the B.
I just call it all "improvisation" or "jazz"......