How many tunes do you know?

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 8:42 pm

I have also been playing a year and I thought I was doing terribly with my meagre list of known (as in by memory) tunes (and songs) . Now I don't feel quite so badly.

So far:
Donnybrook Fair
Kesh Jig
Off to California
Out On the Ocean
Jim Ward's
Maggie in the Wood
Shi Big Shi More

For Ireland I'll Not Say Her Name
Foggy Dew
Ashoken Farewell
Gile Mear
Boolavogue
Parting Glass
South Wind
Shenadoah

Ones I have learned by ear and therefore do not have to memorize, but I KNOW them!

Amazing Grace
Auld Lang Syne
My Love is Like a Red Red Rose
Red Is the Rose
Simple Gifts
Song of Joy

Close:

Planxty Irwin
Blarney pilgrim
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 8:44 pm

Thanks Kar. I play whistle in quiet a few tunes in our community/church Christmas whoopee. Medival tunes fit right in . I'll check them out.

JohnPalmer · Post by **JohnPalmer** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 9:09 pm

Is anyone actually reading these lists?

Blackbird · Post by **Blackbird** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 11:10 pm

Yes, I'm reading them. Since I never did compile a list of my own, I'm using them to jog my memory. Tomorrow I'm planning to remind myself of all the tunes I haven't played in a while and start keeping my own list current. It's awful when the session leader looks at you and says "What tunes do you know?" and your mind comes up blank.

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 7:29 pm

Yup, I read them...as a relatively new player I found it interesting to see what others were learning.

liz

ChrisLaughlin · Post by **ChrisLaughlin** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 8:27 pm

Hot Cross Buns
Twinkle-Twinkle
Mary Had a Little Lamb
The Kesh Jig
Danny Boy
The Theme From the Titanic

Chris

Azalin · Post by **Azalin** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 9:03 pm

Chris,

You know the "Mary Had a Little Lamb" ??? Man, that's an impressive list! Haha! Look at what lessons in Ireland can give...

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 9:23 pm

Smoke on the water

All along the watchtower

Iron Man

Eruption

JohnPalmer · Post by **JohnPalmer** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 9:47 pm

Yeah Chris. Now that's a list!

Hey, if you can play those songs, you are there.

JP

DazedinLA · Post by **DazedinLA** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 10:02 pm

Whistle (4.5 months):

Over the Ocean
Rambling Pitchfork
Father Kellys
Temperance Reel
Cherish the Ladies
Lark in the Morning
Kesh
Foxhungers
Boys of Blue Hill
Galway hornpipe
Silver Spear
Maid Behind the Bar
Rights of Man
Off to California
Connaughtman's Rambles
My Darling Asleep

Fiddle (2.5 months):

Lark in the Morning
Rambling Pitchfork
Father Kelly's
Connaughtman's Rambles
The Windmill
Tommy Peoples
The Wedding Reel
Crested Hens
Silver Spear
Silver Spire
Maid behind the Bar
Over the Ocean
Cherish the Ladies
Dinkie Dorrians
Kesh
Is This Love
No Woman No Cry
Get Up Stand Up

Bodhran (10 minutes):

I Want You To Want Me
Yellow Submarine
OOPS I Did It Again
99 Luft Balloons
Freebird
Bad Moon Rising

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Walden · Post by **Walden** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 11:52 pm

I couldn't catalogue the number of songs and tunes I have committed to memory. I mostly know hymns and Gospel music, and a few old ballad tunes and folk songs. But I don't have too many jigs, hornpipes and fiddle tunes in general memorized.

ChrisLaughlin · Post by **ChrisLaughlin** » Fri Sep 06, 2002 7:00 am

John/Az,
What can I say - I guess I just have a gift!
Chris

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Fri Sep 06, 2002 7:13 am

sh*t Chris, And I thought we had topped it doing th Teddy Bear's Picnic with the half holing in the second part. I gues you beat us to it so.

ChrisLaughlin · Post by **ChrisLaughlin** » Fri Sep 06, 2002 7:22 am

Peter, you know Teddy Bear's Picnic? Is that the version played by Micho Russel or Seamus Ennis? Either way, would you be so kind as to post a transcription of it when you get the chance?
Chris

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Fri Sep 06, 2002 7:24 am

Ok you smart guys who know so many tunes....this may sound like piddlewash to you, but for those of us who are new, knowing a number of tunes is big stuff.

Some day, when I have been playing long enough to know too many tunes to list, I won't list them either. I assume you're just 'funnin', but it comes across like a put down of the newbies.