What tunes are you currently working on?

HampshireWhistler · Post by **HampshireWhistler** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:52 pm

Hello All...Just wondering what tunes everyones working on or playing currently. I've been working on Morrison's jig, Kesh jig, and The Cook in the Kitchen. As far as reels go, I'm working on Temperance Reel. Reels seem to be more challenging than jigs. I have several other jig/reel tunes under my belt and the jigs always seem to come easier. It's going pretty well thanks to Michael Eskin's site:http://www.tradlessons.com/ I highly recommend this site! It's great!

Happy Whistling!

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:01 pm

I'll bet they all sound great on the Burke, huh? Yeah...I don't want to know.

Right now...I was working on Si Bheag Si Mhor, which is a waltz I think. Great tune...although not when *I* play it

I'm still working on Roscommon Jig, also known as the Hag's Purse, and I think I finally have the Swallowtail Jig down. But my practice time is sporadic because I just never seem to find time to actually sit down with the tunes.

So there you go!

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:11 pm

Bucks of Oranmore...still. I simply don't get the last two parts.

colomon · Post by **colomon** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:16 pm

Peter Horan's version of the Ed Reavy hornpipe "Lad O'Beirne's". Also the Rufus Guinchard double "Skipper Lost His Guernsey".

ISU Trout Bum · Post by **ISU Trout Bum** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:24 pm

Been trying my hand a few reels (which seem much more difficult to me too!) - Chicago Reel, The Drunken Landlady, and Ships are Sailing.

Also messing around w/Haste to the Wedding (but, I've almost got that one down

)

HampshireWhistler · Post by **HampshireWhistler** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:30 pm

Right now...I was working on Si Bheag Si Mhor

If you like Carolan tunes you may want to try Planxty Irwin. A very nice tune and easy to learn.

straycat82 · Post by **straycat82** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:58 pm

I'm working on a jig called Patsy Geary's and a reel called Julia Delaney... those F naturals are a pain.

hydromel89 · Post by **hydromel89** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:31 pm

I am curently wroking on Split Rock, Colley's Reel (again and again), Morrison Jig (again and agina and again and again...!), Breton breeze, La Scottish du Mali and Saint Patrick Andro... plus some slow airs... plus...

Tekcirc · Post by **Tekcirc** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:35 pm

The Limestone Rock and Star of Munster are the reels I am working on.
The Kid on the Mountain is my current jig.

Nathan

HampshireWhistler · Post by **HampshireWhistler** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:46 pm

I've heard Kid on the Mountain played as a slip jig also. Very good tune.

A-Musing · Post by **A-Musing** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:37 pm

I've been trying to play the King O' the Fairies for seven years. Don't think I've EVER gotten it right, all the way through...with any kind of pace or end-to-end coherence. A world record?
(I play many other songs and tunes reasonably well...but this one feels like running through a dark forest.)

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:35 pm

I took a couple of months off from learning tunes, and am apparently trying to make up for that...

... This past week, I've been learning

Willafjord
Spootiskerry
Star Above the Garter
Man of the House
Inisheer
and Margaret's Watlz

and still working on just about all the tunes I've ever learned...

but especially Morrison's
Tar Road to Sligo
Trip to Sligo

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:38 pm

A-Musing wrote:I've been trying to play the King O' the Fairies for seven years. Don't think I've EVER gotten it right, all the way through...with any kind of pace or end-to-end coherence. A world record?
(I play many other songs and tunes reasonably well...but this one feels like running through a dark forest.)

I finally learned that one by sitting in the car for a couple of hours while my daughter and husband did something (can't even remember what) in a building I didn't have any interest in sitting in. I had a tape of it and the dots with me and just played and played and played.

Nowadays, the family may wish I'd go sit in the car, 'cause I tend to do the same thing with each tune while I'm learning it.

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:43 pm

im working on the new potatoes.

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:03 pm

Fintan McManus', a great reel with an odd C part. That tune is just solidly stuck in my head and won't go away.

--James