Resurrecting this thread:
Just googling Dennis Crowther's no.3 and found this thread, somehow I missed it first time round!
I too have thought about learning Beatrice Hill's but again thought it too similar to Crowther's no.3 and therefore confusion sets in.
I stumbled on this early last year, a link to Shropshire tunes from JK below.
At the time it was a work in progress with no tunes there, and by chance looked again last week to discover the tunes have been sorted.
Check out this link, and on the right hand side - Shropshire tunes and video.
You have a list of tunes, dots, and the video is JK playing each one, a fabulous learning source!
https://www.tuneworks.co.uk/Why I've been digging around is that the tune notated for DC's no3 starts off with a triplet which sounds odd - different - to how I remember it.
I've checked on JK's 'Garrick's Delight' cd which accompanies his ( excellent ) English Choice tune book and he plays it there as I remember it, a strong pulse, maybe a famous 'JK zip' as he calls it, but no triplet. That has been the version I've previously learnt.
Before pressing 'send' to this post I've just gone and played this usingthe new dots and listened to the cd track. I think my confusing triplet JK plays really fast on the cd, which he calls his 'zip' and there lies my confusion.
Anyway, I'm off for a play and try and sort this out in my head and hands.
Please do check out this Shropshire Tune source, not largem, but really good. The bonus is John playing them firstly simple melody then full on. Just him.... lovely in my book!
cheers
Q
PS.... I'm sure there was a post here a couple of years back from the grandson of Beatrice Hill, not realising how famous her tune was. From memory he was holding her one row and vowing to learn to play it!