June 2005

Monthly Archive

26 Jun 2005

Saddle the Pony

A Double Jig for Week 31, which I've recorded. Alan Ng lists other sources.

I picked this one up from Ray, Brian, and Paul of Selmer, Tennessee. They were up in Nashville for a few tunes with a bodhran maker and a bodhran player who were on the way from Florida and Dallas to Asheville for the Swannanoa Gathering… it’s complicated. Anyway, after they had played it 3 times, I had already picked up three quarters of it, so I pestered them to teach me the last few measures. I’m getting better at picking tunes up by ear—or else this is a really easy one.

 

19 Jun 2005

Walsh’s

A Hornpipe for Week 30, which I've recorded. Alan Ng lists other sources.

Revisiting Walsh’s, this time in the key of A so I won’t get strange looks at the sessions any more.

 

12 Jun 2005

Humors of Ballymanus

A Slip Jig for Week 29, which I've recorded. Alan Ng lists other sources.

First slip jig at Tune A Week! I keep hearing this one at sessions and really wanting to play along. I’m still pretty choppy with it; some of the bellows changes are Really Hard.

 

6 Jun 2005

CD wish list

Thanks to a nifty new feature of Wordpress 1.5, this is now somewhere else.

 

5 Jun 2005

Boys of Blue Hill

A Hornpipe for Week 28, which I've recorded. Alan Ng lists other sources.

This is Gearóid ÓhAllmhuráin’s version of a tune I’ve known for many years. The framework of the version I knew is in there, but his variations make it quite different. I’ve been working on this off and on for months, and I finally got it, and a couple of new tricks for ornamentation along with it.