I just ordered a few new CD’s that I am enjoying quite a bit. They are all great! SO far, here are just a few of my favorites:
Late ~ In the Night
The Tap Room Trio
Happy to Meet
Double-Barrelled
Yesterday was such a perfect day. Balmy, sunny (for a change). Did some yard work, planted a few nice plants, then sat on the porch swing with my flute playing a few tunes I’m working on. I feel for those still stuck deep in the snow
Mary
WAITING FOR WFO 2 ~ Kevin!!!
I’ve got a question… Do you guys work on multiple tunes at once? I’m wondering because I only know a handful of tunes. I learn one, go onto the next and practice that. When I’m just messing around I play through all the tunes I know. (So I only mess around for about 10 minutes… ) But I can’t learn more than one at a time, or I don’t seem to learn any. Just the case of being a beginner?
Tony
I do that too… I have to concentrate on a single tune at a time or I don’t make any progress. If I try to work on 2 or 3 at the same time I end up not learning any of them.
I know about 50 tunes now but I’ve been stuck at that number for a few months now…it seems like if I learn a new one, I forget an old one I haven’t played for a while. I guess I need to make a list and make sure to play through all of them periodically.
-Brett
I learn them in batches, maybe five or six at a time. I might learn three on whistle and three on concertina, then transfer them across. I might also learn them on guitar and bouzouki or flute. Once I pick my batch I won’t move on until I can at least play all of them through without stumbling. I regularly play through all the tunes I know—over a period of a couple of weeks anyway—so I don’t lost them and so I can work on interpretation and ornamentation without having to worry about just getting the tune right. Some tunes come very quickly, others take a while. Some are dead easy on one instrument but much harder for me on another.
BTW, I wouldn’t even dream of learning to accompany a tune on guitar or 'zouk until I’ve learnt it on a melody instrument.