Top 5 tunes - what are yours?
Top 5 tunes - what are yours?
Just a fun Friday post.
What are your top 5 favorite tunes to play? These can be ones you like to play in sessions or solo, practice with, play around at home with, whatever...
Still getting back into the groove but my top 5 at the moment are:
The Butterfly
King of the Fairies
The Mason's Apron
The Red-Haired Boy
The Keel Row
These are the ones I sort of fall into all the time when I start practicing. I'm not sure where any sessions are around here right now so I have no idea what's currently in fashion to play at sessions anymore. I know most of these used to be fairly popular though (The Keel Row, not so much but the other 4 definitely)
Let me know what your current favorites are...
What are your top 5 favorite tunes to play? These can be ones you like to play in sessions or solo, practice with, play around at home with, whatever...
Still getting back into the groove but my top 5 at the moment are:
The Butterfly
King of the Fairies
The Mason's Apron
The Red-Haired Boy
The Keel Row
These are the ones I sort of fall into all the time when I start practicing. I'm not sure where any sessions are around here right now so I have no idea what's currently in fashion to play at sessions anymore. I know most of these used to be fairly popular though (The Keel Row, not so much but the other 4 definitely)
Let me know what your current favorites are...
-Jim
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Bucks of Oranmore
Cuigui lasses
McFadden's handsome daughter
Mrs. Crehans
Willie Coleman's
Sailing into Walpole's marsh
Just six fine Irish traditional tunes I play a lot these days amongst others
Cuigui lasses
McFadden's handsome daughter
Mrs. Crehans
Willie Coleman's
Sailing into Walpole's marsh
Just six fine Irish traditional tunes I play a lot these days amongst others
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Newest fave (learned from our own Rob Sharer) is the Monaghan Jig
Farewell to Ireland
Rainbow's End
Boil the Breakfast Early
O'Mahoney's Hornpipe
Farewell to Ireland
Rainbow's End
Boil the Breakfast Early
O'Mahoney's Hornpipe
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I've been putzing around with the following trying to work on my timing and ornaments (though I usually throw in some standard hornpipes and simple jigs as well):
Cooley's Reel
Temperance Reel
Dunmore Lassies
Monaghan Jig (also inspired by Rob, though I've got a slightly different version)
Morrison's Jig
Cooley's Reel
Temperance Reel
Dunmore Lassies
Monaghan Jig (also inspired by Rob, though I've got a slightly different version)
Morrison's Jig
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Cool thread idea... could be a good way to run across some nice new tunes.
I wouldn't call these my top 5, but they're the top tunes I'm enjoying playing/learning to play right now:
1. The Wise Maid
2. The Glass of Beer
3. The Humours of Castlefin
4. Rose in the Heather
5. The Merry Blacksmith
I wouldn't call these my top 5, but they're the top tunes I'm enjoying playing/learning to play right now:
1. The Wise Maid
2. The Glass of Beer
3. The Humours of Castlefin
4. Rose in the Heather
5. The Merry Blacksmith
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Re: Monaghan Jig
I just looked at the dots at thesession.org and it looks like a good one. Where can I hear Rob's version?
I just looked at the dots at thesession.org and it looks like a good one. Where can I hear Rob's version?
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Currently playing/working on:
Christy Barry's #2
Kitty's Rambles
Tailor's Twist
Brown Coffin
Christy Barry's #2
Kitty's Rambles
Tailor's Twist
Brown Coffin
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Rob has a link to it in his signature here on the board as well.Thomaston wrote:Re: Monaghan Jig
I just looked at the dots at thesession.org and it looks like a good one. Where can I hear Rob's version?
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Wow, this is a great thread for me to put a "should learn" tune list together! Thanks!
My flute teacher scheduled me in my first recital, so I'm playing a set with three (very simple) tunes that I've fallen in love with:
Arin Boat
Green Mountain
Silver Spear
Another Air that I absolutely love is Aisling Gheal
and for number 5: The tune (don't know the name) that's the first tune of Michael Clarkson's "Irish Flute Tunes" Podcast introduction set:
http://irishflute.podbean.com/mf/web/kqvhbb/intro1.mp3
When I first heard that tune, I thought I'd never be able to do anything like that. Recently, I've been feeling like I might eventually be able to pull it off.
My flute teacher scheduled me in my first recital, so I'm playing a set with three (very simple) tunes that I've fallen in love with:
Arin Boat
Green Mountain
Silver Spear
Another Air that I absolutely love is Aisling Gheal
and for number 5: The tune (don't know the name) that's the first tune of Michael Clarkson's "Irish Flute Tunes" Podcast introduction set:
http://irishflute.podbean.com/mf/web/kqvhbb/intro1.mp3
When I first heard that tune, I thought I'd never be able to do anything like that. Recently, I've been feeling like I might eventually be able to pull it off.
John Metta
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Almost able to play a whole tune on his Ormiston Pratten
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oddly enough, Rob was the OP on the thread I linked to.Akiba wrote:Rob has a link to it in his signature here on the board as well.Thomaston wrote:Re: Monaghan Jig
I just looked at the dots at thesession.org and it looks like a good one. Where can I hear Rob's version?
what also includes a link to the band's site, what has links to the CD's sound samples
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At present these are the most played tunes on my iMind, and very often I find myself playing these on flute/accordion too.
The Caucaus At Secaucaus
I Buried my Wife And Danced On Her Grave
Reel Beatrice
Contradiction Reel
The Cow That Ate The Blanket
The Caucaus At Secaucaus
I Buried my Wife And Danced On Her Grave
Reel Beatrice
Contradiction Reel
The Cow That Ate The Blanket
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Re: Top 5 tunes - what are yours?
The top 5 change regularly, currently:
Golden Keyboard
Gallagher's Frolics
Haste to the Wedding
Strayaway Child
Earl's Chair
Thanks for a great question,
Lewis
Golden Keyboard
Gallagher's Frolics
Haste to the Wedding
Strayaway Child
Earl's Chair
Thanks for a great question,
Lewis
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This is a quite impossible question to answer for me...
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Off the top of my head...some tunes that tend to fall under the fingers these days when I have the flute in hand:
Fr. O'Grady's Visit to Bocca
George White's Favorite
The Hare's Paw
Jim Conroy's
The Green Fields of Woodford
Fr. O'Grady's Visit to Bocca
George White's Favorite
The Hare's Paw
Jim Conroy's
The Green Fields of Woodford