I'm a long time-bodhran player who played in sessions for many years in Glasgow but have been away from the scene for a while. I've recently become the happy owner of an OM and, while it was originally bought for accompanying songs, I have a hankering for learning some tunes and seeking out a session to play in again.
Digging through my hard drive I've found a few collections of music for tunes but (and I'm aware this is to be expected with trad tunes) they all seem to be different:
Dow's list: https://thesession.org/discussions/32793
John Walsh's Collection: http://www.ceolas.org/pub/tunes/tune...ssionTunes.pdf
Paddy O'Brien's Sets: http://www.ceolas.org/pub/tunes/tunes.pdf/POB.pdf
I'm no great musician, so learning tunes by ear is beyond me at this stage. I'm going to have to combine the dots with recordings to learn them.
So, I ask: are these documents a good place to learn the tunes as I'll hear them played in a session, or is there somewhere better?
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