What tunes are you currently working on?

walrii · Post by **walrii** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:53 pm

anniemcu wrote:I finally learned that one by sitting in the car for a couple of hours

I practice quite a bit in my truck. I have an mp3 player hooked into the radio, a couple whistles in the glove box and my tune book on the seat - it's just a handy place to sit and work on things. Friends come up, a little embarressed, and tap on the window. I've given up trying to explain.

hathair_bláth · Post by **hathair_bláth** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:14 pm

What am I working on right now? Trying to figure out how to play the darn thing.....

A-Musing · Post by **A-Musing** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:58 pm

I'm glad I'm not the only one spending a lot of time in a vehicle, happily wailing away on a whistle! Parking lots, driveways, byways BEWARE!!! The whistlers have ARRIVED!

That said, I'd prefer an empty cathedral.........

boomerang · Post by **boomerang** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:24 am

Some interesting tunes i have been having fun with lately are:
The Old Grey Gander
More Luck To us
Miss Monaghan
The Merry Harriers

Look Em Up on JC'S Tunefinder
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind
Regards
David

cavefish · Post by **cavefish** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:13 am

does anybody have a good jackie colemans reel with no background music------i have been a 'by ear player' for years and then i had lifes affairs take me away from my music for awhile -but now i have to learn to read music-

all over again-----------but i still would like a solo tune either straight or with ornamentation

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:20 am

Tongs by the Fire and Fig for a Kiss are my newest. Also a new polka set we started at session: Micky Chewing Bubblegum, Maid of Ardaugh, and Finnish Polka.

Leel · Post by **Leel** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:55 am

Sean Ryan's Hornpipes as per Larry Nugent: The Windy Gap

Basch · Post by **Basch** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:30 am

Star of county down And Foggy Dew

sweet potato · Post by **sweet potato** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:41 am

[quote="straycat82"]I'm working on a jig called Patsy Geary's and a reel called Julia Delaney... those F naturals are a pain.[/quote]

Try playing those tunes on a C whistle (if you have one). Julia Delaney sounds great there (I don't know Patsy Geary's).

Laura

straycat82 · Post by **straycat82** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:53 am

Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look at that. So far I've only figured the tune out by ear from a Bothy Band record.

Kerry · Post by **Kerry** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:29 pm

I'm currently working on Fisher's Hornpipe and A Trip to Sligo.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:00 am

working on
Sir Roger de Coverley
Kiss me Under the Coverlet &
An Phis Fliuch
as some kind of a set.
Recently heard "Far from Home" which seems to go nicely with "The Temperance Reel" (or would if I could play it fast enough).
I hate the fact that it's also called "Johnny Todd" as it won't fit in my brain with the Liverpool ballad "Johnny Todd" which I've known from time immoral. (I had an uncle in Liverpool called Johnny Todd and it was HIS tune. BEFORE Z-cars. For 'merkins: Z-Cars was an old, old, old UK cop show which had "Johnny Todd" as the theme tune.)

Easily_Deluded_Fool · Post by **Easily_Deluded_Fool** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:25 am

204 - Variations on the Scottish Air: "Cock up your Beaver"

http://www.oldmusicproject.com/occ/tunes.html

So much feistier than the version on
http://tunedb.woodenflute.com/

I'm learning it for my mother-in-laws party

cavefish · Post by **cavefish** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:58 am

boys of 25

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:40 pm

sixpenny money, east at glendart, the butterfly and the whistling banshee.