fast ,but easy tunes
- TinwhistleJulian
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fast ,but easy tunes
Hello Dudes and Girls
Which fast tunes do you like to play that are also not too difficult to play?
I personally like the swallow´s tail (jig an reel)
Maggie in the woods
and i try actually to play the fermoy lassies again
Which fast tunes do you like to play that are also not too difficult to play?
I personally like the swallow´s tail (jig an reel)
Maggie in the woods
and i try actually to play the fermoy lassies again
Julian O`Donovan
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The long and winding road ,that leads..............
´´We all have the same heaven above us ,but not all the same horizon ´´ (Konrad Adenauer)
The long and winding road ,that leads..............
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I find most double jigs relatively easy to get the notes to...but be warned...the rhythm is as important, if not more so, and you really don't want to be speeding these tunes up if you don't have the rhythm down cold.
Some of the "easy" ones our slow session likes are Lilting Banshee, The Geese in the Bog and Out on the Ocean.
Redwolf
Some of the "easy" ones our slow session likes are Lilting Banshee, The Geese in the Bog and Out on the Ocean.
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Anything for John Joe--reel, is easy.
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I think it's probably more a matter of referring to dance tunes versus airs etc, rather than actual BPM. A lot of us started with the slow tunes, like Danny Boy, and Cockels and Mussels, and Amazing Grace before we moved up to the dance tunes.Loren wrote:For the sake of reference, I'm wondering what tempo(s) (MM) are being considered "fast" for purposes of this discussion?
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Morpeth Rant, Roxburgh Castle are good played swift. Yeah, they're not Irish, but I'm too respectful of ITM to play hell-for-leather. When I went to some of the sessions in Dublin a couple of weeks ago (cheers, flanum!) I was super-impressed that most good musicians played tunes at a much slower pace than you get with some of the Lunasa-flash-Harrys you get on CD these days!
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'Off to California' is a good easy one. Also 'Road to Lisdoonvarna', 'Blackthorn Stick', 'Boys of Bluehill', etc....
I enjoy playing 'Americanized' fiddle tunes like 'Jefferson and Liberty', 'Year of Jubilo', 'The Girl I Left Behind', 'Gary Owen', 'Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine', 'Wild Hog in the Woods', 'Rockingham Cindy', 'Quince Dillon's High 'D'', 'Over the Waterfall', and others. They sort of straddle the Celtic/Appalachian divide.
I enjoy playing 'Americanized' fiddle tunes like 'Jefferson and Liberty', 'Year of Jubilo', 'The Girl I Left Behind', 'Gary Owen', 'Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine', 'Wild Hog in the Woods', 'Rockingham Cindy', 'Quince Dillon's High 'D'', 'Over the Waterfall', and others. They sort of straddle the Celtic/Appalachian divide.
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