What we did Jan 31:

• Finger twisters: 0414 - 2434 - 2434 - 2414 in all 5 finger patterns
• Sight-reading: Boys of the Lough (apply finger patterns) to Julia Delaney (what finger patterns?)
• Chords for those two tunes
• Filling in chords (where just the changes are shown)
• Review: Angeline through Rock the Cradle Joe (Start on page 1, each tune twice through, turn pages...)
• Review: Sailor's Wife to Lads of Dunse
• Ways to play the same tune differently (It's not the tune, it's the way you play it.)
• Improv, using voices as well

For next week, Feb 7:

• Listen to medley with Boys of the Lough and Julia Delaney. Play them. If you like the tune in the middle, we can play that one too.
• If you've forgotten where to find the new listening tunes, email me.
• Faster finger twister (watch that low 2nd finger.)
• Continue page-turning review with Green Mountain Petronella
• Suggestions for changing tunes (can apply to all review pieces)
  • Vary bowing
  • Change pitch (different key)
  • Change tempo
  • Dynamics
  • Ornaments, including turns, hammer-ons, pull-offs...
  • Drones and double stops
  • Harmonies

And, as always:

Spend lots of time listening to the tunes in the Frog Point book.

Every week: Finger twisters: 0414 - 2434 - 2434 - 2414 in all your finger patterns

Core tunes for everyone: first section of the Frog Point book:

(MP3 sound files of all the Frog Point book tunes)

• Angeline the Baker
• The Road to Boston
• The Ash Grove
• Jamie Allen
• Davy Knick-Knack
• Old Joe Clark
• Rock the Cradle Joe
• Green Mountain Petronella
• The Girl I Left Behind Me
• Off She Goes
• John Ryan's Polka
• The Rose Tree
• Nancy
• The Dark Isle
• Arran Boat Song
• The Dragoon
• The Gael
• The Boy's Lament for His Dragon

Later group core tunes:

• Campbell's Farewell to Red Gap
• Drummond Castle
• The Muckin' o' Geordie's Byre
• Scollay's Reel
• Morrison's Jig
• The Road to Lisdoonvarna
• Miss MacLeod's
• Kesh Jig
• Barrowburn Reel
• Liberty
• Swallowtail Jig
• Da Full-Rigged Ship / Da New-Rigged Ship
• Ste. Anne's Reel
• Miss Shepherd
• Cherry Tree Reel
• Old Grey Cat
• Woodchopper's Reel
• The Left-Handed Fiddler

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