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Tunes that you enjoy primarily because they feel good to play
Jesse Smith:
This topic might be too individual to be practically useful, but I thought it would be interesting to hear about.
I have primarily learned tunes for one or two reasons:
1) It's the next tune in my tutor book.
2) Something about the sound of the tune in a recorded version caught my interest; I like the melody itself.
But I have found some tunes have sections that are physically very satisfying to play, entirely besides the sound of it. There is just something pleasing about the fingering pattern or the mental shapes that playing the tune creates.
Are there tunes for that didn't particularly catch your ear's interest at first, but once you learned them you found that you enjoy playing them because the physical act of playing them is particularly pleasing to you?
xgx:
Roxburgh Castle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3qInzAf6EE a slightly laconic but easy on the ear version
this is closer to my playing,,, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHBO8CGAIeQ
seeing the cloggies dancing to it seems to add another dimension and lift
stumbled across this whilst on a fruitless search for for melodeon version that I liked ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_mutu6GneE sorfly long tho...
robotmay:
Stoney Steps Hornpipe is particularly enjoyable in the upper octave of a box. It's a bit of a pain in the lower octave I find, but the tune just flows if you move it up and all the keys are easier to reach. That's the tune that introduced me to playing hornpipes in the upper octave of C on a G/C (and it works nicely)! ;D
Lester:
Albert's Last Dance (A Cutting) particularly the B music which upsets guitarists as they strum along ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YirC4LmWbpo
Tone Dumb Greg:
--- Quote from: Lester on June 05, 2018, 03:23:49 PM ---Albert's Last Dance (A Cutting) particularly the B music which upsets guitarists as they strum along ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YirC4LmWbpo
--- End quote ---
Sadist. Didn't realise this was by Mr Cutting.
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