Favorite Tune of the Moment
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Favorite Tune of the Moment
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.
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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
On the flute I'd say it's probably Roarin' Mary.
--James
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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
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
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Doing it backwards since 2005.
Doing it backwards since 2005.
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Ah, Munster Buttermilk; that is competing for my limited head space as well...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
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Top of the Cork Road, a sweet little jig
I also just discovered Tripping Up the Stairs, which I really like.
I also just discovered Tripping Up the Stairs, which I really like.
"Meon an phobail a thogail trid an chultur"
(The people’s spirit is raised through culture)
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(The people’s spirit is raised through culture)
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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?
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?
Happily tooting when my dogs let me.
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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).
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).