- all tunes and sheet music
- to Spring 2020 Tunes
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Extended Season 2020
Alderman’s Hat EAR TUNE WEEK 8 VIDEO The Alderman’s Hat Ideas for the tune How to develop ideas
Billy Sullivan’s REVISITED — VIDEO – Bowing
Bodavalsen REVISITED — VIDEO Bodavalen
Booth Shot Lincoln REVISITED — Try out the new trick (see Hunting the Buffalo) of cross tuning AEAE on this familiar tune. TUNE GENTLY, now is not a time to break strings. Your instruments can definitely handle it, but just go gentle — VIDEO Cross tuned Or just have some fun with Booth Shot Lincoln by adding lots of shuffles! (No cross tuning necessary!) — Shuffles And here is Davor playing Booth Shot Lincoln on mandolin–fun to play along!
Carpathian Tune REVISITED – VIDEO The Carpathian Tune
The Carraroe REVISITED — VIDEO The Carraroe bowing
Don Tremain’s Reel EAR TUNE WEEK #9. Don Tremaine’s Reel with Harmony VIDEO Don Tremain’s Reel 3-1 Bowing on Don Remain’s Harmony
East Tennessee Blues EAR TUNE WEEK #4 — VIDEO East Tennessee Blues More ideas Guitar back up
Flickorna Svensson REVISITED — VIDEO Flickorna Svensson
Flowers Of Spring EAR TUNE WEEK #5 — VIDEO Flowers of Spring Thoughts on bowing
Galtee Ranger EAR TUNE WEEK #3 — VIDEO Galtee Ranger The Galtee Ranger lends itself to lots of rolls and cuts. I’ve broken this into two videos, the first on adding the left hand ornament known as a roll and the second focusing on the right hand ornament known as a bowed triplet or a cut.
Green Willis (The Raw Recruit) REVISITED VIDEO 3-1 bowing
Hunting The Buffalo EAR TUNE WEEK #1 — VIDEO Hunting the Buffalo Now try out the ear tune cross tuned in AEAE. TUNE GENTLY, now is not a time to break strings. Your instruments can definitely handle it, but just go gentle —– Learning to cross tune
Lady Anne Montgomery REVISITED — VIDEO Lady Anne Montgomery – mssing about
Marie Sauce ton Pain EAR TUNE WEEK #2 — VIDEO Marie Sauce ton Pain AND On guitar
Off She Goes – with a harmony REVISITED — VIDEO Off She Goes harmonies Explore some harmony ideas for this tune from Spring 2020
The Orphan REVISITED — VIDEO The Orphan with lots of rolls and a few slides
Peeler Creek EAR TUNE WEEK #7 — VIDEO Peeler Creek Drones and harmonies
Polska from Mora REVISITED — VIDEO Polska from Mora
Saint-Jean REVISITED — VIDEO Reel St. Jean with lots of cuts
Tillsammans (Swedish for together) EAR TUNE WEEK #6 — VIDEO Tillsammans
Wind That Shakes the Barley REVISITED — VIDEO Getting more groove in your bowing (ignore what I say, focus on what I’m doing)
Summer Season sneak preview–medleys!
Flowers of Spring, Off She Goes, and The Cat in the Corner
Things to do with tunes
QUEBECOIS TUNES — Marie Sauce ton Pain, Glise ‘a Sherbrooke, L’Oiseau Bleu — Adding a bounce to your bow and adding some extra arpeggiated notes
VIDEO Jigging a Reel and Reeling a Jig
3-1 bowing on Our Run and Tracy’s Turn VIDEO
Annika’s Exercises, Tips and Scales
DOODLING on your instrument- a very useful and beneficial component of practice In this video I look briefly at the 4 important components of practice and then delve into that 4th one (which is the most neglected) of “make something up” I look at 3 ways to do this: gentle doodles, re-writting endings, and exploring arpeggios over chord sequences. Backing track for that 1 4 1 5 chord sequence from the DOODLING video in 3 keys for you to doodle around on
Scale and arpeggio bonus exercise
Intro to Chopping And then by request, I took on the topic of chopping… as I mention in the video, there are so many other great resources out there for this, so if chopping intrigues you, check out some other tutorials too!
Tips for shoulder, back, neck, hand pain so here are just a few thoughts and tips on avoiding that or dealing with it if it’s already set in
Discussion — bringing tunes to life in different styles