Tag: tunes
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Fiddle practice log 10/11/2021
Fiddle practice log for 10/11/2021 features me playing with one of my favorite Andre Brunet tunes, Ciel d’automne, to see if I could figure out where I want to put slurs in the A part!
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Fiddle practice log 9/22/2021
Fiddle practice, mostly focusing on Feller from Fortune, and specifically the B part of that. Tried to figure out how the fingering of the B part works, so that I can then work on slurs and bow directions later.
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Fiddle practice log 9/20/2021
10-minute fiddle practice log, featuring Anna doinking around with the first tune from Great Big Sea’s “Fortune” set, a jaunty little jig where the A part of the first tune is in a nice comfortable D. Can she do this? YES SHE CAN.
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My next Quebec tunes challenge
I have identified the next Quebec tunes set I wish to learn: the recording “Gigue à trois”, which appears on the Le Vent du Nord album Les amants du Saint-Laurent! The first tune in this set is locatable in sheet music form right over here. However, checking it out, I note a problem in that…
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Quebec tunes sheet music
I had a couple different people hitting my site today looking for sheet music to La Bottine Souriante tunes–specifically, “Hommage à Philippe Brunea” and “Valse d’hiver”. Since I am not actually a sheet music site, I direct interested parties to these links: Montreal Session Tunebook: Tunes from Quebec (which has both of the tunes in…
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Some tunes practice tonight
Rossignolet is rapidly becoming my practice flute of choice–at least, as long as I’m not trying to play along with any recording that isn’t actually in A. If I pretend I’m playing a D flute and ignore how I’m actually a fourth up, this flute’s responsiveness is wonderful for just trying to get fingering patterns…
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Newfoundland tunes hunt for the weekend
Lest y’all think I am neglecting the Newfoundland side of my musical fandom, let me assure you all that this is NOT the case. I have been playing the ever-lovin’ daylights out of the awesome live “Little Beggarman” track on the GBS XX box set, in no small part because it ends with two jigs…
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So apparently my brain wants to write tunes now!
Those of you who roleplayed with me back in the day on AetherMUSH may remember that Faanshi wrote a song called “Ride Upon the Wyvern” in memory of her lost first love, Lyre Talespinner. Not only did I have lyrics for that, I also had a melody, even though I never actually wrote it down…
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Quebecois tunes roundup post!
I’ve been chatting a lot with Dreamwidth user fluterbev lately, and we’ve started swapping pointers to each other’s favorite tunes! I promised her I’d do a post with some pointers to various Quebec tunes I’ve been working on learning lately, not only for her but for anybody else out there who might be interested in…
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Another tune I figured out!
To follow up on yesterday’s post of musical squee, I am delighted to report that that wasn’t actually the only fun musical thing I pulled off this weekend! As I reported earlier this week, session folks are encouraging me to learn Genticorum’s lovely little ditty “Valse de poeles” (Waltz of the Stoves). It was played…