What are you working on?

sbfluter · Post by **sbfluter** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 7:31 pm

All these topics about buying and selling. Does anybody play their flutes? If so, what tunes are you working on?

I was working on Kid on the Mountain today, and Balleydesmond Polka. Among a lot of other tunes I was playing, of course.

TheSpoonMan · Post by **TheSpoonMan** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:02 pm

I've been trying to learn a few tunes a day, usually a set of three. It's been going well, but the Skylark reel's got me stumped- and I'm too afraid to look at the sheet music

cadancer · Post by **cadancer** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:10 pm

Dever the Dancer/Kid on the Mountain/Dever the Dancer
Tomgranes Castle/The Honeysuckle/The Rights of Man
Molly Put the Kettle On/The Turnpike Gate/The Green Mountain
Fisher's Hornpipe
Road to Lisdoonvarna
From www.whistlethis.com "The New Copperplate"

...and...

Getting a good tone out of my new flute.

...john

P.S. Thanks to C&F for the Dever suggestion. I like it a lot.

sbfluter · Post by **sbfluter** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:12 pm

Ooh. Fisher's Hornpipe. I have a version with a Bb in it. It's a lot of fun to do on my keyless flute.

scheky · Post by **scheky** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:13 pm

sbfluter wrote:All these topics about buying and selling. Does anybody play their flutes? If so, what tunes are you working on?

I was working on Kid on the Mountain today, and Balleydesmond Polka. Among a lot of other tunes I was playing, of course.

Which Ballydesmond? I have 2 down pat and I was messing around learning 3 today. Of course I spent most of the weekend on finger exercises more than anything else...sometimes it's good to woodshed.

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:37 pm

I don't really have a tune I'm working steadily on right now.

I play through several tunes and then will try to sightread some new tunes every day.

This helps me a lot with picking up new tunes in session.

I've also been working on learning the Bach sonatas on all three kinds of flutes that I play (Baroque, keyed simple-system, and Boehm-system). This is really helpng with technical proficiency--plus, it's a lot of fun.

--James

eilam · Post by **eilam** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:45 pm

finally put some time to learn Trip to Pakistan, the violin players played it last session and i liked it...............even recorded it (of coarse it's on this "new to me" flute by R.Cameron, which i know has great potential, but so far, and can't find the right embouchure for it, i feel that i need to further work on a tighter focused one to make this flute buzz, anyway, recording came out pretty crappy, but if i know how to post it i would, just to easy my conscience for cocus and all the rest of you that post clips

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besides that, i went on a killer hike

Jon C. · Post by **Jon C.** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:57 pm

sbfluter wrote:All these topics about buying and selling. Does anybody play their flutes? If so, what tunes are you working on?

I was working on Kid on the Mountain today, and Balleydesmond Polka. Among a lot of other tunes I was playing, of course.

When I am not buying and selling flutes, and repairing poor broken flutes, I am working on "McGivney's Fancy Hornpipe". It is track 50 in
June McCormack's book.

Jayhawk · Post by **Jayhawk** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:52 pm

I've been working on Peeler's Jacket and Glenn Allen.

Eric

TheSpoonMan · Post by **TheSpoonMan** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:57 pm

scheky wrote:
sbfluter wrote:All these topics about buying and selling. Does anybody play their flutes? If so, what tunes are you working on?

I was working on Kid on the Mountain today, and Balleydesmond Polka. Among a lot of other tunes I was playing, of course.
Which Ballydesmond? I have 2 down pat and I was messing around learning 3 today. Of course I spent most of the weekend on finger exercises more than anything else...sometimes it's good to woodshed.

And which 2 and 3? What I know as 2, a friend of mien two states away knows as 1, what I know as 3 he knows as 2 , and what I know as 1 he's never heard of, and vice versa...

sbfluter · Post by **sbfluter** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:09 pm

Which Ballydesmond?

I'm not sure. Eliam gave me a tune book and it was page one and seems to have about 5 parts to it. Reminds me of The Top of Maol at first.

daiv · Post by **daiv** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:46 pm

i usually play concertina. when i play any instrument, i usually work on technique and musicality. when i have a lot of time to play music, i work on trying to figure out tunes stuck in my head that i dont play and often dont know where i heard it.

Flutered · Post by **Flutered** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:58 am

TheSpoonMan wrote:I've been trying to learn a few tunes a day, usually a set of three. It's been going well, but the Skylark reel's got me stumped- and I'm too afraid to look at the sheet music

Three tunes a day! That's some target

Hammy Hamilton does a great version of the Skylark on his Moneymusk CD.

Me? My older lad who plays box was learning John Doherty's Mazurka over the weekend so I annoyed him by noodling and joining in as well - very catchy tunes those mazurkas but not many in the tradition. So I learnt Vincent Campbell's as well, as the two of them are in the Foinn Sessiun book, though in D rather than G as it goes a wee bit low for a D flute in G!!

jemtheflute · Post by **jemtheflute** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:09 am

Working on? Nothing really new currently. I seem to pick up most of my tunes at sessions these days, don't know I know them and can only play them if someone else starts 'em, but then I'm away......! Last ITM tunes I learnt properly are Master Crowley's and Paddy Fahey's (the one that starts D2 AD F#EF#G | Adc#e d2de | .....) which I know well enough by heart now but am not confident at "playing them out" - last time I tried I "fell off" well and truly!

Oh, and I recently picked up a bit more consistently on a tune I have busked at in sessions for quite a while, to whit, Captain O'Kane/The Wounded Hussar. A piper at our local session has always played it occasionally and I had it in my mind's ear - in A minor. But now a pupil I teach has acquired it for himself and learnt it (from an online source) in G minor: he wanted advice on playing and ornamenting and varying it, so I've now got it in G minor too. Lovely tune, BTW.

Mostly I only tend to deliberately learn new stuff in "need to" situations - upcoming gig, material set by others type scenarios. I'm rather the same with proper practice - only do it when I have a specific requirement/target to meet. Otherwise, I just tootle for my own casual amusement at home, when I've got a chance, playing through stuff I know. There is almost always a flute out about the house to pick up. This morning I had a bash at part of the CPE Bach A minor solo sonata on a boxwood 1-key early C19th flute I acquired (for myself, not to sell) a few months back and which I am still exploring. I do put flutes I'm working on through their paces as they come near ready and after I'm satisfied with them, so I can describe them and do sound sample clips on them.

I really respect and kind-of envy people who have the commitment/self-discipline to systematically learn new material just for the sake of it!

Gordon · Post by **Gordon** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:49 am

When I first started out, I learned a very large batch of tunes in one specific style from a teacher, and afterwards began picking up other tunes from sessions and off albums in other styles. Recently, I've been backtracking a bit and re-examining all the old tunes with what I hope is my own take on them, stylistically speaking. As for the tunes themselves, I have a few that are tricky enough to always run through (Lads of Laois comes to mind), but I generally try to keep moving forward and not play the same tunes over and over (I bore easily), unless I can't get it out of my head -- then, playing it a lot usually exorcises it.

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