You're favorite tune is....

Irish Flute
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Is you’re favorite tune is the one you are learning?

What tune are you currently learning?
I am learning a very simple tune called Balquhidder Lasses. It is currently my favorite.

X:517
T:Balquidder Lasses
S:Jim Coon, internet
Z:Nigel Gatherer
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:Edor
BA | G2 FG EFGA | B2 B2 e4 | d2 A2 ABAF | DEFG A2
BA | G2 FG EFGA | B2 B2 e4 | d2 A2 BAGF | E6 :expressionless:
B2 | e2 ef e2 B2 | efgf e2 Bc | d2 de dAFA | DEFG A2
B2 | e2 ef e2 B2 | efgf e2 Bc | d2 A2 BAGF | E6
B2 | e2 ef e2 B2 | efgf e2 Bc | d2 de dAFA | DEFG A2
BA | G2 FG EFGA | B2 B2 e4 | d2 A2 BAGF | E6 |]
http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html

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Let’s see. . .

THe latest for me is “Floating Crowbar.”

I think “Butterfly” is my fave to play in a session. We have a pianist who puts a nice accompaniment to it - sounds like jazz. Very cool.

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I’m working on a set from Mairead and Frankie’s second (I think) album. It’s three slip jigs, with the Fairy Jig sandwiched between two different versions of the Humours of Whiskey.

There’s something about triple time that I just love. I’ve never been much into reels, have always liked jigs and waltzes, but recently I’ve really been getting into mazurkas and slip jigs. Slip jigs are almost too much of a good thing, being in triple-triple time.

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Nice tune, I.D.10-t! Thanks for sharing this with us!

My favorite tune changes from day to day. It depends on my mood, who I’m playing with, and a gazillion other things. Often, my favorite tune is the one I am trying to learn, or the one just beyond my grasp.

But overall, I think it would probably be Gravel Walk. I have a recording by a band called Colcannon with an awesome flute solo. (Rod Garnett is the player.)

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Today my favorite tune is “Farewell to Chernobyl”. In E minor.

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My favorite tune is usually the one I’m learning at the moment, but there are a few that I always love, even though I’ve known them for ages:
Ships are Sailing
Christmas Eve
Micho Russell’s Mason’s Apron
Reel of Rio
Dick Gossip

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Maudabawn Chapel. I worked out a version that’ll fit on the flute, but I haven’t learned it yet, unfortunately…

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For me that song is O’Connell’s Lamentation. Was one of the first songs I really wanted to play well. Still trying to play it right.

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My favorites are usually hornpipes, and at present, it’s the Home Ruler. As far as reels go, I think I’m boring and like “Banish Misfortune.”

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I’m currently going over Catherine and John McEvoy’s album “The Kilmore Fancy” and must say that my favourite to play from that album is Darby the driver / The spotted dog. Excellent jigs!

David

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There’s a reel version of it?

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Wow, sorry, that’s a glaring mistake. I should know better than to try and be coherent in the early morning after a late night. That’s a jig, right? I’m betting whoever started this thread had the same experience when spelling the title “You’re” instead of “Your”. C’est la vie. On the subject of reels though, I am still working up the point where I can play fast enough to make them sound anything like they ought.

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Oh, geez, if we’re talkiing about a tune just beyond our grasp, that would be Deirdre Havlin and Deanta’s version of King George. (It’s on the first WFO as well as Deanta’s second album, Ready for the Storm) It’s the simplest damn tune, but there’s something she does that I just don’t understand. Heck, everything she does in that tune. Soon as my teacher’s back (August, YAY), I’m gonna sit down and dissect it with him, and I’m gonna learn it, dammit, if it takes till the day I die.

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This morning I](http://learningtowhistle.blogspot.com/2005/06/tunes-jesu-joy-of-mans-desiring.html%22%3EI) started fooling around with Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. It’s usually transcribed in G and works well on the whistle. I suspect it would be just as nice on the flute.

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If I could play Maid in the Cherry Tree like Dan Gordon, it would be awesome. Unfortunately, I have to play it like Mary for now.

M

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Tomeen O’dea’s, The brides favorite, Tie the Bonnet, and Curnilius Curtin’s Big Ballon are my current favorite tunes.

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That is a cool tune.

I can’t choose just one so lets see:

Siobhan (Sp?) O’Donnel’s
Sully’s No. 6
The Boys of Ballysadare (Slip Jig version)
Colonel Frazier (5 Part version)
The Maid at the Spinning Wheel

Now what do all of these tunes, execpt the last one, have in common?

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ah, cornelius curtis’ big balloon, long time fav of mine!

maudabawn chapel is a grand fiddle tune, i played around with that one to make it a flute tune! those kind of tunes are the most fun tunes to work out, a bit of creative license helps.

currently nailing down sean ryan’s ‘the trip to nenagh’. heard fiddlers playing it a long time ago. it sang on the fiddles. it works well on the flute too, at least i tink so.

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I wish I could play the A part with birls, naturally. Still working on converting mine to cranns.

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This Week’s Tune I Love Most: The Girl That Broke My Heart
This Week’s Tune I Hate Most: The Girl That Broke My Heart

F naturals out the wazoo.

Played at a session with my Paddy O’Brien (RIP)-obsessed pals last Thursday; so it’s back on the plate & off to the woodshed; I’ve avoided it long enough …

(the rest of the set = The Rainy Day & Captain Kelly —> ripping fun!)