Tune resource

[JeffD]

I think many will find this helpful.

http://music.gordfisch.net/montrealsession/complete.php

[Ben Cooper]

Wow!

[Joseph Baker]

Wow, indeed!
What a resource!
Thank you for posting this.

Joseph Baker

[James Rankine]

Thanks for this. Amazing number of tunes. Glad I don't play in the Montreal session, seems you have to learn quite a lot of tunes.

[Pete Braccio]

Wow! Great link!

[Dave Weiss]

Holy crappinoli! That'll keep me busy for a couple of days. Thanks for sharing.

[Dave Hanson]

Nice one Jeff.

Dave H

[kmmando]

That's an amazing piece of work! Tremendous archive.

[JeffD]

It is pretty awesome.

So many tunes, so little time. Gotta get to it....

[BBarton]

Now I know I won't run out of tunes (as if) -- Merci beaucoup!!

[Fretless]

The site also has an awesome abc editor. I abandoned concertina.net a number of years ago after getting frustrated because their software didn't accept some of the formatting functions (I haven't been back so maybe they've updated by now).

Not that I'm a control freak....

Fretless

[jso]

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing!

[fentonjames]

whoa nelly!!!!

[DougC]

We should put together a list of tune resources. Not that we'll need one after this Montreal find. But I often go to irishtune.info http://irishtune.info because it lists recordings as well as books and abc's.

[Pete Braccio]

Hi Doug,

I started putting together a tune resource list based upon what I had downloaded. I've got a bunch of PDF tune books (and the sites that I got them from) available from my website.

Pete

[Brandon Flynn]

Thanks! Thinking about venturing into Irish music, but I know that I'll have to know the tunes! This resource should come in handy to that end.

[DougC]

Hi Doug,

I started putting together a tune resource list based upon what I had downloaded. I've got a bunch of PDF tune books (and the sites that I got them from) available from my website.

Pete

I'll check out your website. But I wish Mandolin Cafe would have some sort of button or link to a tune resource list.

What do the Tune a week players do?

[Pete Braccio]

Hey Doug,

There are two searchable tune lists on the Cafe main page. Look in the upper left hand corner for Tablature and TablEdit. However, the big repository is on Mandozine.com. This is linked from the TablEdit page on the Cafe site as well.

Basically what it comes down to is that there are a couple of HUGE tune repositories out there already in two main formats, ABC and TEF. The Trad community has been using ABC for a long time, the mandolin community uses TEF a lot (I'm guessing mostly due to John Baxter's Mandozine site). Trying to get all the files from the sites already listed as well as from thesession.org, http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind, and all the other sites would be hellacious.

Or, maybe I'm misunderstanding you and you just want a list of tune sites.

Pete

[DougC]

Hey Doug,

There are two searchable tune lists on the Cafe main page. Look in the upper left hand corner for Tablature and TablEdit. However, the big repository is on Mandozine.com. This is linked from the TablEdit page on the Cafe site as well.

Basically what it comes down to is that there are a couple of HUGE tune repositories out there already in two main formats, ABC and TEF. The Trad community has been using ABC for a long time, the mandolin community uses TEF a lot (I'm guessing mostly due to John Baxter's Mandozine site). Trying to get all the files from the sites already listed as well as from thesession.org, http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind, and all the other sites would be hellacious.

Or, maybe I'm misunderstanding you and you just want a list of tune sites.

Pete

Maybe Mandolin Cafe could include ABC's with the TAB stuff. I'm really thinking of others when I suggest this. I've been using ABC's since the early 1990's and I have graduated to real musical notation! Kidding aside, Mandozine is a great place to start looking for tunes. Over the years I have developed my own system of finding and working with resources on the net and in books. I just wonder how folks on Mandolin Cafe find things and if it could be easier somehow.

A quick search for Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch on the ABC tune website showed 18 results. Mandozine showed zero.

[Pasha Alden]

Wondered, does anyone know of a site that contains some Celtic tunes being played, I would learn best with pitch. So perhaps a site where tunes are played slower, or even at their correct rate and then can be downloaded?
With thanks

Pasha Alden

[MikeyG]

Wondered, does anyone know of a site that contains some Celtic tunes being played, I would learn best with pitch. So perhaps a site where tunes are played slower, or even at their correct rate and then can be downloaded?
With thanks

Pasha Alden

Pasha - There are a few (approximately 30) that can be accessed here:

http://mandolinsessions.com/?cat=8

There are also back issues where you can find several more.

I'm the author of those articles so if you have any complaints, you know who to contact. :-)

MikeyG

[EdSherry]

Pasha -- also check out the BBC's "Virtual Session" website for a combination of notation and sound files on a number of medleys of Irish tunes of various sorts:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/.../folkmenu.html
.

[derbex]

Pasha -your computer can play abc files one way or another, it's nothing like a real player but you would get pitch and tempo from it, and you could adjust both the tempo and the key to play along with.

I sometimes use the app on my phone which I can load abc files into and play along with, it's more of musically aware metronome than a musician if you see what I mean.

[DougC]

Pasha -your computer can play abc files one way or another, it's nothing like a real player but you would get pitch and tempo from it, and you could adjust both the tempo and the key to play along with.

I sometimes use the app on my phone which I can load abc files into and play along with, it's more of musically aware metronome than a musician if you see what I mean.

I agree that the ABC format is the best. It takes a bit of time to get it set up. But once it is, you have access to thousands of tunes. I could send Pasha my book of 70 tunes.

Now I use a website that is more for experts looking for recordings of tunes. Just today I found that they added a button where you can hear the tune too. Here is the page for Blarney Pilgrim jig. http://www.irishtune.info/tune/175/

The BBC link is great. I'm glad it is still online.

There are other websites that play the tune for you too. I'll try to remember them. Help folks! My memory fails me.

[Pasha Alden]

Thanks to JeffD