I noticed this new item by L.E. on The Whistle Shop web site and wonder if anyone got it yet and does it have different tunes from his 121 Irish Seesion Tunes Book/4 CD set.
Joe
Joe:
I have both, and hav had them for quite some time, so I wouldn’t categorize either of them as a new publication, though the one you mention may be new to the whistle shop…I have no way of knowing. I’ll take a look and see how different they are when I get home (a few hours), as I haven’t looked in the irish tinwhistle tunebook in a while, and don’t remember what’s in it.
On 2002-09-16 11:34, jmssmh wrote:
I noticed this new item by L.E. on The Whistle Shop web site and wonder if anyone got it yet and does it have different tunes from his 121 Irish Seesion Tunes Book/4 CD set.Joe
I think this is new, do not confuse it with his “The Complete Irish Tinwhistle Tutor”.
Joe
Hi Jssmmh,
Did I get that right? L.E. McCullough
does have a new book out with 125 tunes
with all of 4 CD’s. We just got them
a week ago for the first time. By Oak
Publications and Book w/CD’s is $29.95
retail. Haven’t had time to give it a
good look over yet, but it’s probably
a great collection and well worth the
cost.
Kelhorn Mike
They are not redundant issues…they are different.
You can see the tunebook contents at the bottom of the whistleshop’s web page:
http://www.thewhistleshop.com/catalog/tutorials/irishmusicsongbooks/complete/tunebook.htm
If you want to see the contents of the session book go to:
http://www.homespuntapes.com/prodpg/prodpg.asp?prodID=615&prodType=
I just wish L.E. would come out with these in a CD-ROM for computer where you had total control of the playback speed as well as looping features…looping features could be great for learning sections by ear…as well as getting the ornamentation right. …but I digress…the Session book is great as it is. It has really helped me.
Loke
On 2002-09-16 11:54, jmssmh wrote:
I think this is new, do not confuse it with his “The Complete Irish Tinwhistle Tutor”.Joe
You’re quite right, Joe…I thought the tutor was the book being referred to, but I was wrong 
I have no idea what’s in the new book.
The question remains - how different is it from “121 Favorite Irish Session Tunes” by L.E., published in 1999 by Homespun, and distributed by Hal-Leonard? This is also a book-with-four-CDs package. Has Oak Publishing perhaps bought the rights from Homespun?
“It takes a long time to sound like yourself” --Miles Davis
[ This Message was edited by: CDon on 2002-09-16 22:51 ]
Looking at the list of tunes, the new book appears to be “all-new”. At least, I didn’t recognize any of the tune names as being from 121 FIST. So this looks like a sequel, effectively.
I just met L.E. this past weekend. He had a bunch of stuff, but did not mention anything about this “new” item. He was very friendly, a great teacher (very encouraging for beginners), and very modest. The new collection looks real nifty: I like the tune selection. I see one Vincent Broderick tune(The Rookery) and one Ed Reavy tune (Lad O’Beirne’s) right of the bat.
I picked up ‘Feadanista’ from L.E., which is now out on CD as are some of his other older works that were previously available on vinyl. It is a very fun listen, especially if you enjoy music at mortal speeds. This is not pure trad, for sure. There is a great sampling of flavor of many world traditional musics on within this recording.
Since this is a thread about a resource for learning tunes, I also picked up ‘The Paddy O’Brien Tune Collection: A Personal Treasury of Irish Jigs and Reels’ from Paddy himself. It has 400 reels and 100 jigs on 12 cassettes with a book that says where Paddy learned each tune or something he knows about it. There are many tunes with multiple setting of tunes with the same name. I haven’t had time to get through much of it, but it is solo accordian played at a real nice pace with a tasteful amount of variation and ornaments.
http://www.soltec.net/~daglenn/chulrua1.html
I just wish L.E. would come out with these in a CD-ROM for computer where you had total control of the playback speed as well as looping features…looping features could be great for learning sections by ear…
Not to digress too much, but it’s fairly easy to find software to do this for any audio CD-ROM. Roni Music (easily found on the Web) has some useful tools.
You can also get a CD player with these features built-in. It’s called the “Superscope” and Homespun tapes, amongst others, sells it. I have one and it’s a joy, although the slowdown effect built into it isn’t a good as some of the better and more recent software solutions.
– Scott
On 2002-09-17 01:38, colomon wrote:
Looking at the list of tunes, the new book appears to be “all-new”. At least, I didn’t recognize any of the tune names as being from 121 FIST. So this looks like a sequel, effectively.
Thanks… It would indeed appear to be new. I finally found my copy of 121 FIST… Misfiled of course.