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The last set for this season (it's now officially summer):

The Lost Jig: https://youtu.be/rabp_Hf48DM

The Fairy Dance: https://youtu.be/63qo4t-wCyY

For technical Mel.net reasons, the third link is in a following email. Actually, for beginning players I'd say it was a particularly good one because it doesn't use too many notes...

Please let me know how you get on with the tunes!

Gavin
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Re: For learning by ear: Fairy Dance, Lost Jig and Dem Golden Slippers
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2017, 02:24:24 PM »

Oh Dem Golden Slippers: https://youtu.be/7Lg8_P-A_pE

Have fun with the tunes, and a great summer.

Gavin

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Re: For learning by ear: Fairy Dance, Lost Jig and Dem Golden Slippers
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2017, 10:24:12 PM »

Thanks. Great stuff. Only trouble is I keep starting new tunes before finishing the ones I'm working on as I tend to get bored before I've mastered them. Really need a microphone so I can post my lack of progress! Have just about mastered the Fiery clockface. Took me ages as you didn't do a tutorial for that one and had some issues working out what you were playing! But having heard it I had to play it.
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Re: For learning by ear: Fairy Dance, Lost Jig and Dem Golden Slippers
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2017, 09:33:17 AM »

''Tune hopping''  can easily become a habit  to the detriment of really developing/mastering playing technique.  Better to use a relatively small number of tunes as vehicles for the development of  instrumental skills aand technique which once reasonably mastered should make it easier to add  'new' tunes to the repertoire. 

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Re: For learning by ear: Fairy Dance, Lost Jig and Dem Golden Slippers
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2017, 11:56:14 AM »

Oh Dem Golden Slippers: https://youtu.be/7Lg8_P-A_pE

Have fun with the tunes, and a great summer.

Gavin

oh dem golden slippers is one of my favourite tunes and I sometimes use it for circassian circle dance  aat ceilidhs.  It works very well as it has a 'jaunty' rhythm . I combine it with Swanee River and yellow rose of texas  using the same rhythm.

george :||:
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Re: For learning by ear: Fairy Dance, Lost Jig and Dem Golden Slippers
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2017, 07:42:08 PM »

Arh. Already I have bad habits. I will take your sage advice and concentrate on fewer tunes to a decent level. I keep hearing things I want to try. Mostly way beyond my skill level so it doesn't go too well. Simple tunes played well are a better idea. And even simple tunes on the Melodeon can sound amazing. Which is why I'm hooked! 
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Re: For learning by ear: Fairy Dance, Lost Jig and Dem Golden Slippers
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2017, 09:20:12 PM »

You are absolutely right George. As an experiment I have spent the week concentrating on two tunes. The Fairy Dance and Dem Golden slippers. I have now got one pretty decent and the other very close. I can't play the chords at speed though. Thats just the simple version. I really need to limit the number of new tunes I'm messing with and that will speed progress no end. By the end of August I will have been playing for six months. So far to go.
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Re: For learning by ear: Fairy Dance, Lost Jig and Dem Golden Slippers
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2017, 12:00:18 AM »

As an experiment I have spent the week concentrating on two tunes.
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 I have now got one pretty decent and the other very close.
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I really need to limit the number of new tunes I'm messing with and that will speed progress no end.
It's so hard to do. But amazing results if you do. Well I wish would have limited my numbers of tunes I messed with.
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Re: For learning by ear: Fairy Dance, Lost Jig and Dem Golden Slippers
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2017, 09:08:22 AM »

I have the opposite problem myself. After 50 years of playing I have accumulated a large number of tunes,  some honed to perfection (says he!) and others that are ok to play along with others. Some I havn't a clue what they are called, 'cos I have probably forgotten!   

The result is that I tend to dig out old tunes  and   relearn them  and only occasionaly bother to learn a genuinely new to me tune.

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