Publishing 100 Fiddle Tunes in a Year
Here’s yet another jig with updated endings. That original idea was economical, but confusing. This way is the standard approach in music notation for endings and repeats. Let’s go with it!
And Off She Goes pdf.
In the present edition of 43 Fiddle Tunes in Tab, I have ornaments as inserted alternatives to certain bars. When I [...]
As long as I’m updating those ending transitions of Irish jigs from my book…..
Here is O’Keefe’s Slide.
And a nice little pdf of O’Keefe’s Slide.
Even today a purse is not just a small bag for carrying money. It can be the prize in a contest.
The hunter may think of his quarry as a prize. But a animal taken by the hunter may not fit into a small bag. The hunter’s purse may be the small bag he made out [...]
This is just the tune by itself. I play through it a couple of times on video.
There is a favorite trick fiddlers do in jigs. We change the accented rhythm to imply a time of 3-4 instead of the normal 6-8 jig rhythm.
This lasts for only a few beats. Rock players and jazz cats do this to. So did classical music composers. It’s a good trick.
In the video performance of Ten [...]
If you saw the movie, Julie & Julia, and I recommend it, you saw the story of two inspiring motivations for success.
I have two inspirational hits from this film. One is the inspiration of Julia Childs. She was unfocused until she enrolled in Cordon Bleu to learn to cook French cuisine. That was the pivotal [...]
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