Im guessing every Flute Player has a bunch of tunes that they just like to play, that seem to just flow well on the Flute…often an easy tune, that may or may not even be played at your local sessions.I’m talking about those tunes that you play everyday day in day out and just don’t seem to get tired of.
I’ve got some here I’ll list and would really love to hear from other C&F Flute Players about their favorite Tunes. I keep a big list of these Tunes so they’ll come to mind when I’m playing. I haven’t looked, but I’d guess alot of these Tunes would be in the Session Tune section.
I find all of these Tunes just wonderful to play on the Flute
BenS
Ambrose Moloney
Duke of Leinster
Pile Of Bricks
Lady On The Island
Morning Star
John Egan Reel
Green Fields Of Rosbeigh
Knotted Cord
Mountain Road
Martin Wynne
Jackie Coleman
Milltown Jig
Gone For His Tea
Silver Spire
Boyne Hunt
Camererion
Choice Wife
Glass Of beer
Coal Miner
Tim Maloney
Boy In The Boat
here is a set of jigs that I had been wanting to play for years, but as I had only a keyless flute I couldn’t. But now with my new Murray flute I began to work on this set that I learned from Cathal McConnell (actually from his CD only, not from the man himself): Scotland-Ireland / The Hangover / The Fermanagh Curves.
I love Cathal, would marry him any day if he would have me
I don’t know most of those tunes on your list, Mr. Fandango, but you’ve got some good ones listed there. A few of my flute favorites at the moment, in no particular order:
Gone for His Tea
Maggie’s Pancakes (taught to me by Eilam)
The Reconciliation (in G major)
Gravelwalk
The Flogging Reel, cause I love throwing that F natural in the 3rd part
Calum Iain (a nice Scottish tune I just learned)
Humors of Tullycrine (in G minor so I can use my lovely keys)
The Golden Castle (also in G minor, I think)
Jenny’s Chickens
The Cow That Ate the Blanket
I’ve been enjoying playing some hornpipes. Not enough hornpipes are played, in my opinion. Those fiddle players are always horning in with reels reels reels. Not enough slip jigs, either.
One’s been stuck in my head for a little bit now (the way I learn tunes-like taking in a stray cat-when a tune wanders into my mind, I just go with it), and I’m working it out now; I like it a lot, ever since I heard him play it: Molloy’s version of Dunmore Lassies from The Chieftains’ Long Black Veil cd.
I was on the Comhaltas website and was listening to 3 teenagers play Hunters House(#238)
This tune is really nice and the kids did an awesome job! Will I ever play that well?
The dots are on the session website, the B part of the tune is a little tricky with a jump from low B to high G back to low b to high A back to low B up to high G again and back again to low B…whew!.. the kids of course play it effortlessly:o
I hope to learn this tune and get admiring looks from people at the next session
BenS
by the way, that B part is similiar to the 4th part of Gravel Walks with the high G,then A and back to high G thing, except you are dropping down to the low B in between instead of C like you do in Gravel Walks.
My current favourite slow tune - a Welsh air Lliw Lili Ymysg Y Drain - link to one of the video demos I did for Doug Tipple recently. No time now to do a list like some above (some good stuff there!), but a particular favourite reel is The Gooseberry Bush (also on my YouTube page).
Repeal of the Union/Toss the Feathers (the Em one)
Lament for Limerick
The Sligo Maid
Strike the Gay Harp
Wollop the Spot
Independence Hornpipe
The Graf Spey (in D of course)
Christmas Eve/Lucy Campbells
There are probably more that I can’t remember right now.
a set from ‘Live at Monas’ - Miss Thorntons & My Love is in America
Hammy Hamiltons jigs followed by Headwood Crossing
The Broken Pledge - the Em Paul McGratten version
The Torn Jacket , The Peelers Jacket
The Girl Who Broke My Heart
The Rookery - most Vincent Broderick tunes seem to roll off the flute
The Highest Hill in Sligo - a Reavey tune that sits pretty well and is fun to play.
