Favorite Tune of the Moment

PhilO · Post by **PhilO** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:31 pm

What is your favorite current newly learned/learning tune; you know, the one that makes you feel more alive than almost anything else? Mine is The Templehouse Jig (Michael Coleman). I discovered this by chance laying on my teachers music stand (the tune, not me) and can neither stop playing it nor hearing it in my head. I LOVE THIS TUNE.

Philo

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:37 pm

I've recently rediscovered the Dublin Reel.

blitzen · Post by **blitzen** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:52 pm

Reel by John Mccusker I found on The session website called For All the Cows. Reminds me of my childhood on a dairy farm. Wish I "played" the whistle at that age instead of trying to learn at 60. The cows were lucky I waited.

Black Mage · Post by **Black Mage** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:03 pm

It's not ITM, but lately "Men of Erin" by The Elders has been cycling through my head.

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:06 pm

I've got a wonderful old jig stuck in my head these days, can't seem to play enough of it: Munster Buttermilk. That's my favorite right now on whistle, and I seem to prefer Gen or Oak or Feadog on this one over my smoother, more expensive whistles. It likes a bit of bite.

On the flute I'd say it's probably Roarin' Mary.

--James

michael_coleman · Post by **michael_coleman** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:20 pm

The Street Player. Its composed by Ed Reavey and a great flute/whistle tune.

Skyclad01 · Post by **Skyclad01** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:29 pm

For me its The Irish Washer Woman

colomon · Post by **colomon** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:37 pm

"Trim the Velvet". (When I'm not playing my latest composition.)

Wormdiet · Post by **Wormdiet** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:20 pm

FOr recently picked up tunes, I'm really enjoying Crooked Road to Dublin, which I picked up from a piano accordion version.

For "revisited" tunes, Gravel Walks appeals to me more and more and more. I also just figured out how to play "The High Reel" which has bugged the bejaysus out of me everytime I had heard it recently. Turns out I had learned it eons ago on a different instrument by a different name ("Sandy Duff"). So when I sat down to get the fingering for flute, it came in a matter of about five minutes

PhilO · Post by **PhilO** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:31 pm

peeplj wrote:I've got a wonderful old jig stuck in my head these days, can't seem to play enough of it: Munster Buttermilk. That's my favorite right now on whistle, and I seem to prefer Gen or Oak or Feadog on this one over my smoother, more expensive whistles. It likes a bit of bite.

--James

Ah, Munster Buttermilk; that is competing for my limited head space as well...

Philo

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:46 pm

Top of the Cork Road, a sweet little jig

I also just discovered Tripping Up the Stairs, which I really like.

Chiffed · Post by **Chiffed** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:56 pm

Every slipjig I can find. I catch my family humming Butterfly, Foxhunters, Rocky Road, and a coupla others, simply because I play them too much.

Also, The Leaving of Liverpool (low whistle) and Spoot O'Skerry (Bb Flute).

The one I sing in the shower is the first reel from Flook's Eb Reels (I don't know which album). What is that tune?

chrysophylax · Post by **chrysophylax** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:07 am

Ahh, slip jigs. Boys of Ballysodare and the Snowy Path.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:08 am

I finally got a handle on Tar Road to Sligo, which has a cool lilt to it.

And I like to play Jump at the Sun on C whistle, though I can't get
anyone to join in on it. The accidentals in the A part are fun to
play around with. You can vary the first 2 measures as:
|DFA ^G2 A |^G2 A ^G2 A |
which really adds some tension (though you have to be careful you
don't start sounding like a car alarm -- try it, you'll see what I mean).

Jon-M · Post by **Jon-M** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:35 am

Farrell O'Gara.