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Top Ten Trad Session tunes

  • 24-06-2008 04:00PM
    #1
    lucylu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭


    So what would your Top 10 tunes that everyone should know before joining in a Session :)


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  • #2
    banjopaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 931 ✭✭✭banjopaul


    Depends a whole lot on the individual session!

    I'll give 10 fairly universally known ones though;
    1)Cooley's reel
    2)St.Anne's reel
    3)Kesh jig
    4)The Foxhunters jig
    5)The maid behind the bar
    6)Over the moor to maggie
    7)The silver spear
    8)The mountain road
    9)The wind that shakes the barley
    10)The merry blacksmith

    all basic enough tunes most would know.


  • #3
    session savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭session savage


    Aaaah, ok, lets see.... in no particular order;

    REELS
    1. The singing kettle
    2. The Gooseberry fair
    3. Crowleys
    4. The silver spear
    5. The fermoy lassies
    6. The cup of tea
    7. The Maid behind the bar
    8. The Musical Priest
    9. Cooley's
    10. St. Annes reel.

    JIGS.
    1. The Kesh
    2. Charlie Hunters 1
    3. Charlie Hunters 2
    4. Last nights fun
    5. The jig of slurs
    6. The Blarney Pilgrim
    7. The Eavesdropper
    8. Geese in the bog
    9. My Darling asleep
    10. Out on the ocean

    HORNPIPES
    1. The Rights of man
    2. Harvest home
    3. The Liverpool hornpipe
    4. Murphy's Hornpipe
    5. ??

    OTHERS (polkas marches etc)

    1. the kerry polka (a must lol )
    2. An Cuilin
    3. The Marino waltz


  • #4
    carthach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭carthach


    Might be handy as well:-

    http://www.thesession.org/members/

    (then click on tunebook)


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