This song is nice for key practice. It uses only keyed notes in the key of Ab. Get a horse, a western saddle, a 10 gallon hat, a 5 key flute, build a fire at night, and do it.
Eb Ab Ab C eb
Oh Ber ry me not
F eb C Db C
on the lone prair ee
Ab Ab Ab C Bb
Where the cy- otes yell
C Bb Db F Ab
and the wind blows free
The Beatles, Here, There, and Everywhere
Oh Berry me…can be good cross-fingering practice on the M&E keyless but I find it inconvenient to use my left heel for the Db !
(more Yoga needed perhaps ?)
Havn’t tried the Beatles yet…
What could you suggest for practising 1 key in a single tune?
For instance, is there a tune that could help for Fnat key?
Thanks.
Some tunes I know with a few Fnats in them:
The Little Heathy Hill (tune)
The Fisherman’s lilt (reel)
The Piper’s Chair (jig)
The first I learned from Bulmer and Sharpley, 1st book.
The other two are in CRE I.
cheers,
Jeroen
Thanks!
The Yellow Tinker (reel) is a good Fnat key workout; for jigs there’s always Dwyer’s (John Dwyer’s, I think?). As I recall, The Moving Cloud is also most often keyed in F (tho’ I’ve sold out and do it in G).
And don’t forget, transposing is good for you – so if you know something sensible in G, say, like Foxhunter’s Reel, try transposing it to A or, what the heck, down to Eb or F.
Incidentally, I forgot which Beatles song Jim mentioned in his post so spent about 20 minutes murdering myself last night on that funny little descending line from “All You Need Is Love.” 