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Late with Tune 41 because I've had a poxy cold, so combining it and Tune 42 in the same post - Tune 41 is a reel called "John Brennan's":
And Tune 42 is short and sweet, a jig called "Jig in A", learnt from Angelina Carberry years ago. I was only able to get through the A and B parts once because they were testing the fire alarms in by building just as I went to record this tune - that means that every minute the alarms sounded for a solid hour!
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You did great not a singel sniffle!
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Here's the Tune for Week 43, a reel called "The Thrush in the Storm":
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Very nice I found it particularly relaxing! Thanks!
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Great playing, Jill. So, only 9 more weeks and tunes to complete your year! It has been a fantastic project and effort on your part.
Now, what do you follow it up with? :confused::mandosmiley:
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John Kelly
Great playing, Jill. So, only 9 more weeks and tunes to complete your year! It has been a fantastic project and effort on your part.
Now, what do you follow it up with? :confused::mandosmiley:
Cheers John! I'm chuffed that I've managed to stay the course with the project! As to what to follow it up with, I amn't sure, though I'll probably have to focus all my attention on getting my organic farm/farm animal sanctuary off the ground in 2020, if, fingers crossed, we finally close on the property in the next few weeks! Once I've got the time I may embark on a Tune-A-Month project, with all 12 tunes being original compositions.
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Jill McAuley
Cheers John! I'm chuffed that I've managed to stay the course with the project! As to what to follow it up with, I amn't sure, though I'll probably have to focus all my attention on getting my organic farm/farm animal sanctuary off the ground in 2020, if, fingers crossed, we finally close on the property in the next few weeks! Once I've got the time I may embark on a Tune-A-Month project, with all 12 tunes being original compositions.
Now those are fine goals worthy of pursuing! Farms critters and music go hand in hand!
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Have to agree with John...may your diligence reap reward!
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Week 44 of the Tune A Week Project - perfect timing as it's Halloween I've chosen "The Haunted House" a great jig by Vincent Broderick, ghostly lights on the headstock aren't the result of an apparition, it's just the reflection of the vivarium that houses 7 small tree frogs that's right across from me!:
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Keeping in mind I'm the guy on the outside looking in. I love this one but Haunted House, seems like a worng name to me. When I listened to it I coudl visualize a shepard wandering aorund with his flcok over the hills, literaly this is what comes to my mind. I have no idea how this soung could be related to a haunted house. Nevertheless great tune I loved it!
Maybe you could get your future critters to follow you around while playing this one!
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Here's what I found on thesession.org about the tune's background:
"Young lads, Vincent & Peter were out on the bicycle one late night, returning from playing out, when they heard music. Naturally they came to a stop. They were attracted to the sound and searched for it, coming to a large house all lit up and folks could be seen dancing through the windows, all gussied up and in their finery. The two of them paused for awhile to listen and watch the goings on, but they were tired and eventually made their way home. The next day, curious, and not remembering such a place on the way before, a road well travelled by them, they returned. All they could find were ruins, a grand house long gone to ruin.
This tune came on them, so really, there’s almost no claim to it except by those ghosts…"
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Wow great story! That would make a great Halloween show! Thanks
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Here's the tune for Week 45 - a great Finbarr Dwyer reel called "The Holly Bush":
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Another gem, Jill. Just curious, are you already familiar with these tunes or are you actually learning a new one each week before posting? Whatever the case, they are well executed at a nice toe-tapping tempo...thanks!
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Love it! In a previous post, we discussed your thumb movement. I was curious how it would work out so I have tried it a few times and found it is oddly quickly reactive for instance I think it helps pull off those triplets you have mastered. I am going to play with it a bit more and see what happens. I also have found it tends to help with timing a bit because it is always on a downstroke. I am not good at triplets but here how it seems to have worked out. I perceive that on the first downstroke it lets me react into the move quicker and lets me put a bit more resistance, grip, on the pick for the up and subsequent downstroke. Rather than losing my pick in the strings as has happened before. Yes Yes I have dropped my pick between the strings before then spent a minute fishing it out of the Oval hole, everyone feel free to laugh now because my 2-year-old at the time thought it was funny and started coming over and asking for my pick only to shove it into the oval hole and laugh while I worked on fishing it out. And as any nutty dad would do I laughed with him and gave it to him when he asked again. I digress sorry.
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wildpikr
Another gem, Jill. Just curious, are you already familiar with these tunes or are you actually learning a new one each week before posting? Whatever the case, they are well executed at a nice toe-tapping tempo...thanks!
The bulk of these tunes are new ones I've learned with a few here and there being tunes I learned ages ago (like 11 years ago) that dropped off my radar and haven't been played since then - this tune would be in the latter category!
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Love it! In a previous post, we discussed your thumb movement. I was curious how it would work out so I have tried it a few times and found it is oddly quickly reactive for instance I think it helps pull off those triplets you have mastered. I am going to play with it a bit more and see what happens. I also have found it tends to help with timing a bit because it is always on a downstroke. I am not good at triplets but here how it seems to have worked out. I perceive that on the first downstroke it lets me react into the move quicker and lets me put a bit more resistance, grip, on the pick for the up and subsequent downstroke. Rather than losing my pick in the strings as has happened before. Yes Yes I have dropped my pick between the strings before then spent a minute fishing it out of the Oval hole, everyone feel free to laugh now because my 2-year-old at the time thought it was funny and started coming over and asking for my pick only to shove it into the oval hole and laugh while I worked on fishing it out. And as any nutty dad would do I laughed with him and gave it to him when he asked again. I digress sorry.
Interesting that it's working for you! I was unaware that I did it at all until Marla Fibish pointed it out to me at a lesson years ago. I've been self-conscious about it ever since, but find it really difficult to try to eliminate that thumb movement from my playing, so at this stage I've kind of resigned meself to it and figure if it isn't impeding my playing then it's all good.
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Jill McAuley
Interesting that it's working for you! I was unaware that I did it at all until Marla Fibish pointed it out to me at a lesson years ago. I've been self-conscious about it ever since, but find it really difficult to try to eliminate that thumb movement from my playing, so at this stage I've kind of resigned meself to it and figure if it isn't impeding my playing then it's all good.
In Ireland I see lots of players that use that flexible thumb picking style particularly banjo players & nearly all of them are great players! I think it comes from starting off picking tunes rather than starting off strumming chords, plus a bit of the 'monkey see monkey do'. Initial learning remains totally ingrained! Keep up the good work Jill
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In Ireland I see lots of players that use that flexible thumb picking style particularly banjo players & nearly all of them are great players! I think it comes from starting off picking tunes rather than starting off strumming chords, plus a bit of the 'monkey see monkey do'. Initial learning remains totally ingrained! Keep up the good work Jill
Cheers Marty!
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Week 46 (only 6 tunes left!) - a great reel, "The Bird in the Bush"
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Looks like you were burning the midnight oil on this one!
Nice tune and thanks for taking the time to post.
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Jill McAuley
Week 46 (only 6 tunes left!) - a great reel, "The Bird in the Bush"
Very nicley played Jill!,
Is the next tune going to be " Worth two in the hand"? ;)
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Fiddler I know plays Dowd's Number 9 and then Bird in the Bush as a set. Nicely done!
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Here's the tune for Week 47, a lovely wee jig written by Sean Ryan, called "A Thousand Farewells":
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A great wee jig indeed, Jill!