Tunes are up!

Hey, guys! So sorry it took me so long to do this. Things have been super busy! Anyway - I'm planning to see you tomorrow night at the slow session from 7:30-9:00 PM. Remember, cost is $3 donation to Old Songs to help maintain this wonderful resource!

Tomorrow's new Jig Session Set will be: Willie Coleman's Jig/Tripping up Stairs/Out on the Ocean. I'll have links up on the tunes page shortly and you'll be able to download the PDFs. In the meantime you can access them through the links below...

All the best,

Hilary

Link to Willie Coleman's Jig PDF
Link to Tripping up Stairs PDF
Link to Out on the Ocean

April Slow Session Next Wednesday April 11!

I can't believe it is already April! Where did the time go? I hope you all had a great St. Patrick's month. I know at least one of you went and saw Martin Hayes down in the Kingston area last month. I'd love to know who else you went to see/hear and what tunes you're playing these days!

Just a quick reminder that our slow session is next Wednesday from 7:30-9:00 PM. We'll be playing the tunes that we have on the session list on this blog.

This month's new session set is: Willie Coleman's Jig/Tripping up Stairs/Out on the Ocean. I will have PDFs posted and link to the tunes by tomorrow, but you probably all already know these tunes!

So, brush up and be ready for our fun session next week! Remember, even the pros practice their tunes before a session! Lord knows, I'll be practicing!

See you all soon and have a great weekend,

Hilary

Nice Session for March!

I meant to just log on quickly and say how nice the session was last week. We will continue to play the session sets and review new tunes. I will be adding one or two more session sets either from last season or compiled of new tunes for next month. I will also include a few more new teaching tunes just to keep things fresh.

Madame Bonaparte continues to present challenges, so I should have a suggested bowing technique video for our fiddlers in the next week. I'm also interested in how whistle and flute players would phrase that "tricky" section in the B part (BdGd BdGd / ceAe ceAe / BdGd BdGd / F#ADA F#ADA). I think all other instruments would be forced by the nature of their construction to phrase as required by picking, pushing or pulling, but I could be wrong. I will be exploring that as well. 

I'm interested in your thoughts and/or demonstrations, so send video or audio with explanations if you want, or simply post for discussion's sake!

Cheers,

Hilary

March Session Tonight!

Hey, Friends,

Tonight's session will be an actual session. We'll be playing the sets of tunes we learned for last month as well as the session sets we've used in the 2011 fall "semester." Hope you have time to brush up for the fun!

New attendees are always welcome. If you don't have time between work and the session to print out sheet music for the tunes on the list, we'll have a few copies tonight that you can have. Otherwise, if you've got time to print them out (if you need them), you can get the links from the Slow Session Tunes link. The PDFs and MP3s are hosted in the Google Cloud and you can download and print them right form the links on the page.

Feel free to email me @ Fidilkid [at] hotmail [dot] com if you have any problems with downloads or access to the tunes!

See you tonight!

Hilary