A Tune A Week

Right after Keeffe’s on the Jackie Daly record. I haven’t listened hard enough to be sure, but I’m betting he plays this one on the C row too. I am. It’s very strange to have D and B on the draw now; I’ve been ignoring those for a year, so I’m not used to it at all.

From Jackie Daly’s recording, Traditional Accordion and Concertina Music from Sliabh Luachra. It’s one of those I could hum along with from hearing it so many times, but had never actually learned to play until now. He plays it in C, along the row from what I can tell based on which notes are especially legato on the recording. I originally started learning across the rows on my “standard” scale, but then decided to go with the C row for kicks. There are some quick bellows changes either way. I wonder if other people in Nashville know this one, and play it in C. . . guess I’ll find out.

A nice E minor tune that Arcady plays after Toss the Feathers. If I tried to play this with my usual D scale, there would be too many notes in the same direction, and the keys would be too close together; so I’m moving the high B and D to the C row. That means some tricky bits with the bellows in the B part, so I may have to re-evaluate this once I start picking up speed. We’ll see. Em is a tricky key on this instrument.

From Jackie Daly. I’ve actually known this one for a while, and I’m just brushing up on it and sneaking it in for this month-long spell when I didn’t actually learn any new tunes… Heh. I’m honest, I swear.

Did I mention that my definition of “one per week” might not coincide with yours?