Sunday - 21 I am about to practice - although probably first I'll go over my tunes for my Clare class. There's a third optional tune and likely I'll tackle that too. Then I'll go off and play them on the c'tina and that may be it for music. Duangare Castle, the O'Mahoney hornpipe, and...... Oh, I'll come back with the other name. And I will review what I can remember of The Sheep in the Boat, both air and jig. The jig is a Junior Crehan composition and I have it in the book his daughter put together too. Can't remember what key he has it in in there, something a bit higher than D I bet, to avoid the low notes for the fluters and pipers.
Monday - 22 - Kind of obliged to work on the above tunes - and added the 'optional' hornpipe Tuamgraney Castle which I liked. On the CD they gave us, however, are two barndances that I am MAD about - think will sound GREAT on the harp or c'tina - Joe Bane's and the Gypsy Princess - Jack Talty playing with someone else, two concertinas, just gorgeous. I know a beautiful slow reel on the harp called Joe Bane's, a real killer, that I got off a Kate MacNamara c'tina album. Lots of good cross-over. I did moodle a bit with the Sheeps and got that same feeling of hopelessness I've always had about them, that I'll never quite get them right. It's very odd how some tunes just never make it into your repertoire despite quite a lot of work.
Tuesday - 23
Wednesday - 24
Thursday - 25
Friday - 26
Saturday - 27 The reality is...... busy busy week and with the Clare class, I have to settle down and learn those tune, jigs this week - one of them, the Humours of Kilclogher is very harp friendly. The others are fine, most jigs are, Patsy Geary's and...... Rooms of Dooagh which is certainly quite a name.
Lots of interesting tunes there--ones I've not heard--will have to look them up! I do like barndances. I'm feeling a bit hopeless as well with the Sheeps at the moment....
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