"Flute Obsession" and Music Request

Irish Flute
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Aanvil recommended the “Wooden Flute Obsession” series (1-3) to me over the weekend.

Big Thank You !!!

(thanks Doc too, whew that was fast!)

I am taking everyone’s advice and working on tunes by ear. However, it is still faster for me at present to block out the tunes with the music first. I am not quite ready to go “cold turkey”.

And along those lines, I would really like to obtain the music for:

“Flute Obsession 2”
track 5: Brian Lennon
Colonel Rodger’s Favourite/The Happy Days of Youth/Lucky in Love

track 6: Kevin Crawford
The Hut in the Bog/Creggs Pipes

Super-nice tunes !!!

Has anyone transcribed them?

Thanks in advance,

…john

(Ah.. okay, so it is a Yo-Yo Ma (equivalent) on the instrument and I only have enough talent to play the washboard… A guy can dream !
Process, Baby… Process)

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have you tried www.thesession.org? or Jc’s tunefinder?

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Outstanding!

Thanks… I found one so far.

…john

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Also try searching on the Fiddler’s Companion. Here: http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc/

There’s probably a new site, but I still use this one, which is indexed differently. Do a search for your tunes, like “Hut”, and look at the alternative names. Some have the ABCs, or are close in version.

Alan Ng’s irishtune.info can also help you find additional recordings and alternative names for tunes, but not the ABCs or music notation for each. He might have the first 2 bars of a transcription to get you started. For instnace, WFO’s “Hut in the Bog” http://www.irishtune.info/tune/285/

Kevin Krell

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Of course, as you may well realise, the transcriptions you find are unlikely to match the tunes you hear on the CD. Can be helpful at times for a difficult passage but can also be misleading as many tunes have variations.

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Sometimes, what I do is go to thesession.org and click on “Recordings”

If you type Wooden Flute Obsession into the Search, it will bring up all those great CD’s, then just click on which CD you want to search and you’ll get a listing of all the tracks on the CD. All the transcribed ones are highlighted…
Click on one and you’ll bring up the tune ~ et voila!

M

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Dixie , i am impressed . just did that , and it works

i am impressed .

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Dixie , i am impressed . just did that , and it works

i am impressed .

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i seem to be doubly impressed , apologies .
repetition , 4 faults .

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Thanks everyone !!!

So Kevin…

Maybe a new project. “Twenty favorite flute obsession tunes broken down”. An intermediate player’s path to playing like the “pros”.

:slight_smile:

…john

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Thanks M.

Notes on the “Hut in the Bog” from “thesession.org” :

Correction, the Kevin Crawford tune is completely different and can be found as the Cashmere Shawl on the data base.

Posted on March 10th 2007 by prouse

Well… some of the notes were the same.

…john

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You can sometimes get funny results with searches like that on thesession.org!! Click on a highlighted tune and it will link you to a transcription for a tune WITH THAT NAME i.e. could be a completely different tune with the same name. Did you ever figure out how many ‘Tom Billy’s’ or ‘Mugs of Brown Ale’ there are etc :wink:
Ditto for loads of other tunes

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I am going to check this one out against the CD for Crawford’s track.

http://thesession.org/tunes/sheetmusic/cashmereshawl1_4305.gif

…john

P.S. I did a “view source” on the browser and text search for “gif” to come up with a URL that only had the music.

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Should come bundled with Best Practise :smiley:

/MarcusR

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Heya John,

Told ya!

Tons of good tunes on those CDs.

You’ll be busy if nothing else just learning from what you like.

I put a pdf of the 3 part version (closer but not exact) Crawford did linked below.

http://www.cherbopub.com/temp/thehuntinthebog.pdf


I saw Mr. Krell milling about Saturday night… I bet he had disks on his person then. I didn’t think to go over and ask ( I was playing at the time anyway)


I think the best advise we heard that weekend was to just listen to the tunes you are wanting to learn over and over and over until you can hum it just so… or at least hear it in your head.

It will make it easier to learn I think.

It works for me anyway.

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Marcus,

Best Practice looks like a great idea!

Here’s mine:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

I use it to paste multiple copies of a music phrase together. In that way, I can put it on a CD and work on it. I used it to splice June McCormack’s very good ornament examples together (3 times each). I came up with a CD of about 12 minutes of ornament practice to begin each practice session.

…john

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Aanvil,

Fortunately, I have a repeat button on my car’s CD player. When I hear a tune I like, I hit the button.

The downside is that 3 min/tune X 5 times thru X 90 tunes on each CD… geez.

On the other hand, all tunes are equal… only some tunes are more equal than others.

I’ve listened to the tunes at the top of this thread “a whole bunch”. Can’t quite sing them yet, but I’m trying.

Hope you are well.

…john

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The Bothies on youtube doing Pretty Peg/Craigs (Greggs) Pipes…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOrReDJEpNQ