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05 Jun 08 - 07:07 PM (#2358835) Subject: Easiest session tune for fiddle beginner From: Mo the caller We were playing in a pub tonight and a family came in with a lad who was learning the fiddle. He was very attentive and had a big grin on his face, his father says he has a good ear, but is lacking in technique, as yet. Knowing the joy when I play an easy tune and everyone joins in, what are the best tunes for him to learn that we will know to play together? For my recorder I would say Salmon Tails, Winster Galop, Oh Susannah, Camptown races are tunes I can get my fingers round and people will lift them and raise the roof. Are they easy for a novice fiddler, or are there others? |
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06 Jun 08 - 02:20 AM (#2359055) Subject: RE: Easiest session tune for fiddle beginner From: Dave Hanson Egans Polka, simple but effective if played well. eric |
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06 Jun 08 - 02:56 AM (#2359062) Subject: RE: Easiest session tune for fiddle beginner From: GUEST,Paul Burke Salmon Tails should be a good starter- nice easy rhythm, good effective tune without the need for complicated finger movements, not a big range, and plenty of capability for decoration as he gets better. |
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06 Jun 08 - 03:45 AM (#2359070) Subject: RE: Easiest session tune for fiddle beginner From: Banjovey Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine, the American, not the Irish version |
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06 Jun 08 - 03:46 AM (#2359071) Subject: RE: Easiest session tune for fiddle beginner From: open mike many young fiddlers start out with boil them cabbage down, and red haired boy (little beggar man)is one that many players know. |
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06 Jun 08 - 03:59 AM (#2359077) Subject: RE: Easiest session tune for fiddle beginner From: Jack Campin In Scotland most fiddlers start with Mairi's Wedding. |
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06 Jun 08 - 04:11 AM (#2359084) Subject: RE: Easiest session tune for fiddle beginner From: davyr Donkey Riding. |
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06 Jun 08 - 04:17 AM (#2359088) Subject: RE: Easiest session tune for fiddle beginner From: Mr Happy 'Er indoors [L Plates fiddler] best initial sesh tune has been 'Sally Gardens', also 'Inisheer' |
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06 Jun 08 - 06:09 AM (#2359151) Subject: RE: Easiest session tune for fiddle beginner From: GUEST,Ebor_fiddler Have a look at the "Easy Session tune Music (dots)" thread; it has a lot in common with this one. |
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06 Jun 08 - 06:37 AM (#2359162) Subject: RE: Easiest session tune for fiddle beginner From: banjoman Great to see you encouraging young people to join in sessions even if they are beginners. Well done Pete |
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06 Jun 08 - 07:09 AM (#2359179) Subject: RE: Easiest session tune for fiddle beginner From: greg stephens (Copied in from the other similar thread) I would say after many decades pondering the "easy tunes for a session" question, that the best answer is Winster Gallop and Cripple Creek. Now, these are both easy, and both very well known(and easy to join in). They may not be the tunes that experienced players necessarily choose to play at a session, but they are great for that virginity losing moment when the diffident beginner turns up, and somebody asks "What do you know? Start something up".Either of these tunes will cheer people up, show the beginner in a good light, and most important it will get everbody else at the session instantly joining in. What more could you want? |
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06 Jun 08 - 07:32 AM (#2359191) Subject: RE: Easiest session tune for fiddle beginner From: Grab Can you have a "new chestnut", like an "old chestnut" but something relatively recent that everyone knows and everyone plays? :-) If so, Ashokan Farewell probably fits that category. As with Sally Gardens, a slowish air should ensure that the beginner won't find themselves overtaken by the experienced players upping the tempo, as can happen with jigs and reels. Graham. |
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06 Jun 08 - 07:36 AM (#2359194) Subject: RE: Easiest session tune for fiddle beginner From: GUEST,Gulliver in the sun A starter's book that I saw for Irish fiddle started with the Britches Full of Stitches, a polka. An easy jig is East at Glendart, the Tulla reel is easy and a good air is Inisheer, as already mentioned. I don't think that the Red-haired Boy is all that easy--I'm still trying to get it right! Don |