A Tune A Week

I was snared by an Altan recording on YouTube. Noel Hill plays this on The Irish Concertina Volume 2 but with a dramatically different rhythm which I don’t understand at all yet. A dilemma: play E minor tunes with the old fingering or the new one? Probably it will depend on whether the C is sharp.

Learned from Mary MacNamara’s Traditional Music From East Clare. Can’t find it at Alan Ng’s; he hasn’t indexed Mary MacNamara yet apparently. It’s at thesession.org, listed under the wrong key and (as usual, there) jumbled up with several other tunes that share the name. But the sheet music is right…

From The Corner House, by The Irish Tradition, after much peer urging. I have learned this using a new (for me) G/Am scale: E, G, and d on the left push; F#, A, and e on the left draw; B, f#, and a on the right draw; and c, g, and b on the right push. Actually the only new thing in there for me is the use of the right hand B/c instead of the left hand c/B, but whoa, it’s a doozy.