Recommended listening for Irish Fiddle Variation
Here’s a playlist of tunes currently in the Irish Fiddle Variation course as well as in the main course.
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Here’s a playlist of tunes currently in the Irish Fiddle Variation course as well as in the main course.
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Thanks for putting this together. I always ask for tune names at the local sessions, hoping to do as lhume says and start absorbing by osmosis while I’m sat at work. But it’s a lot of effort trying to find a decent recording and get organised with a playlist.
The other problem I have is that if I ever stray outside of my regular sessions I find I don’t know anything they’re playing. So it’s always nice to hear other people’s takes on a “recommended Irish” playlist and fill in more gaps. Actually having said that, I reckon I’m already familiar with a good 3/4 of this list, so it’s quite nice to think that maybe I’m on the way to turning up a random session and having enough of a shared repertoire to play into the early hours!
Some mighty good stuff there laddie, seems I need to practice more to be able to this that stuff…
how lovely! I’m drawn to the celtic airs, they are poignant…melodic and lively and what a nice blending of instruments and harmony
What a treasure to hear this! Thank you!
You’re welcome Hikerchic 🙂
Great for listening while I work at my paying job. Hopefully learning by osmosis. 😉
Osmosis + practice
Thanks for searching out all of these excellent examples of Irish music. I enjoyed each and everyone one of them and will go back and listen again and again. I love how some start out slow and get faster and faster…so fast, I think it must be a miracle to be able to do that. :). Love John Galway & Matt Malloy playing together. Makes me want to get my tin whistle back out….. And Sinead O’Connor’s lovely performance of Danny Boy.
Thanks again for all the time and effort you put into these lessons,
linda
You’re welcome Linda 🙂
You can also start slow and play faster. Perhaps not as fast as these videos yet, though you can still do that NOW to some extent.
I just noticed that Kerfunken is in a different key in the first video: G major. I teach it in D major. Maybe they play it in G because Kesh jig is also in G…