Weds 14th July, 2021

Big Tunes for Step 4

2021 Block 4 Social Play-along Recording
If you “Watch on YouTube” you can use the timestamps in the Video Description (click SHOW MORE under the channel name and “Recording of Live Call” on the YouTube video page) to jump to the different tunes in the Play-along.

These are the tunes we played in the Social Evening call for Block 4. The four video tutorial tunes from this block:

• Westmorland
• Kilnamona Barndance
• Porthole of the Kelp
• White Fryars Hornpipe

plus, the Live Teaching tunes we have learnt so far. This includes many of the tunes which were part of the Big Tunes list previously. If you have all the Live Teaching tunes to date printed out, then you won’t need this, but here is a pdf of the basic notation:

• NEFS Live Teaching Tunes (to July 2021)

This includes the following tunes:

• Harlequin Air – Worksheet
• Bonny Kate – Worksheet
• Rusty Gulley Worksheet / The Dusty Miller Worksheet / Reed House Rant – Worksheet
• Kemp’s Jig – Worksheet (Ideas for double stops etc.)
• Upstairs and To Bed – Worksheet
• Maison de Glace – Worksheet
• Foxhunter’s Jig – Worksheet
• The Summerhill Hornpipe – Worksheet (pdf)
• Roxburgh Castle – Worksheet
• Jacob – Worksheet
• Polka de l’Aveyron – Worksheet
• Lucy Farr’s Barndance – Worksheet
• Waltz For Polle – Worksheet
• Emma från Finland – Worksheet

Weds 26th May, 2021

Big Tunes for the Month of Maying

2021 Block 3 Social Play-along Recording
If you “Watch on YouTube” you can use the timestamps in the Video Description to jump to the different tunes in the Play-along.

If you have the Video Tutorial tune worksheets from this block and all the Live Teaching tunes, you only need Rusty Gulley and Dusty Miller for this evening, which you might have from our previous Big Tunes (Big Tunes List, page 2)

Big Tunes – May Full list
(this includes basic scores for the four new Video Tutorial tunes and the Live Teaching tunes, as well as all previous Big Tunes)

Big Tunes – May Supplement
(the new Video Tutorial tunes and Waltz for Polle. The Summerhill Hornpipe is in the full list)

Tune list (with audio links):

• Feed the Ducks
• La Belle Catherine
• Get the Rigger
• Country Lass

• Waltz For Polle (Wim Poesen)
• The Summerhill Hornpipe (Robin Dunn)
• Reed House Rant / Rusty Gulley / Dusty Miller
• Kemp’s Jig
• Polka de l’Aveyron
• Lucy Farr’s Barndance
• Roxburgh Castle
• Jacob
• Emma från Finland
• The Foxhunter’s Jig
• Maison de Glace
• Bonny Kate

Other audio files are all linked below if you’d like to listen to any before the call.

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Weds 31st March, 2021

Big Tunes with a Spring in your Step

2021 Block 2 Social Play-along Recording
If you “Watch on YouTube” you can use the timestamps in the Video Description to jump to the different tunes in the Play-along.

Tune List

The four Block 2 Video Tutorial Tunes:

• Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch (Notation – pdf)
• Stay-at-Home Jig (Notation – pdf)
• In Memory of Coleman (Notation – pdf)
• Old French Reel (Notation – pdf)

Live Teaching tunes from Blocks 2, 1, and last year’s Block 6 (if you weren’t in the Live Teaching calls this block, notation for these is in the NEFS Big Tunes Supplement, March 2021)

• The Foxhunter’s Jig
• Roxburgh Castle
• Maison de Glace
• Bonny Kate
• Emma från Finland
• Jacob

Live Teaching tunes from 2020 Block 5 (notation for these is on the Live Teaching page or in the NEFS Big Tunes, March 2021 file)

• Reed House Rant (page 2)
• Lucy Farr’s Barndance (page 3)
• Polka de l’Aveyron (page 3)
• Kemp’s Jig (page 3)

A few more also from the full Big Tunes list (NEFS Big Tunes, March 2021):

• Rusty Gully / Dusty Miller / Reed House Rant (page 2)
• Calum’s Waltz (page 1)
• The Dark Island (page 8)

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Weds 9th December, 2020

Big Tunes for a Seasonal Lockdown

• Block 6 Social Play-along Recording

Tune List

Block 6 tunes:

• Roland and Cynthia Taylor (Notation – pdf)
• The North Star (Notation – pdf)
• The Glencoe March (Notation – pdf)
• Miss Sophia Campbell (Notation – pdf)
• Miss Fordyce, Ayton (Notation – pdf)
• Miss Catherine Maxwell ( Air / Hornpipe ) (Notation – pdf)

Live Teaching tunes:

• Emma från Finland (Notation – pdf)
• Jacob (Notation – pdf)
• Reed House Rant (Notation for these is in the Big Tunes file)
• Lucy Farr’s Barndance
• Polka de l’Aveyron
• Kemp’s Jig

Seasonal tunes

• Branle de l’Official (Ding Dong Merrily) (Notation – pdf)
• Puer Nobis (Unto Us a Son is Born) (Notation – pdf)

Selection from previous Big Tunes:
(pdf of all previous Big Tunes)

• Dark Island
• Swing Bridge Rant
• Lord Lovat’s Lament
• Lad with the Trousers On
• Ballydesmond No. 2
• Rusty Gully / Dusty Miller (to go with Reed House Rant)
• Calum’s Waltz

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Weds 21st October, 2020

Big Tunes for Layers, Tiers and Cake

• Block 5 Social Play-along Recording

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NEFS Big Tunes for 21st October 2020 (pdf)

Block 5 audio files:

• The Ruffian’s Rant
• Lord Lovat’s Lament
• Calum’s Waltz
• The Swing Bridge Rant
• Baltic Square Jig
• Winter Sunlight
• Kemps’s Jig
• Polka de l’Aveyron
• Lucy Farr’s Barndance
• Reed House Rant

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Weds 15th July, 2020

Big Tunes for Easing a Lockdown

Thank you to those who joined us for our end of block social event – I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Here’s the video of the call recording so if you missed it you can watch it now, or come back later to have another go! The notation and audio for the tunes are below.

We will play through the six tunes taught in this block (below – two versions of Humours of Whiskey), and choose a few more from our previous social sessions and play-alongs – a full list of audio files to listen to is at the bottom of this page. The audio files below are the full speed versions of each tune, but we will play them at a steadier speed in the live session.

NEFS Big Tunes for 15th July 2020 (pdf)

Audio Files:

• Lad with the Trousers On
• Humours of Whiskey Bm
• Humours of Whiskey Em
• Elizabeth Kelly’s Delight
• Touching Cloth
• Frank Gilruth’s
• Da Sweerie Box

Here’s a zip file to download (42.9 MB) with the pdf of the notation and all of the audio files.

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Weds 3rd June 2020

We had a wonderful evening playing through lots of tunes from this block and other favourites from our Big Tunes for Lockdown. Here’s the video of the call recording so if you missed it you can play-along, or if you enjoyed it you can do it again!

Here is a selection of tunes for our Social Play-along on Weds 3rd June and details of the Zoom call.

We will play through the six tunes taught in this block (the last six on the list), and choose a few more from our previous social sessions and play-along. The audio files below are the full speed versions of each tune, but we will play many of them at a steadier speed in the live session.

NEFS Big Tunes for 3rd June 2020 (pdf)

Audio files:

• Andrew’s March
• Midnight on the Water
• Calum’s Waltz
• Wasn’t I The Happy Lass Last Year
• The Hexhamshire Lass
• The Rusty Gulley
• The Dusty Miller
• The Reed House Rant
• Peter’s Peerie Boat
• Lucy Farr’s Barndance
• Cuckold Came Out Of The Amery
• Morgan Magan
• Glen Cottage
• The Ballydesmond No. 2
• The Banks of the Allan
• The Rolling Waves
• Reel O’Whirlie
• Peacock’s March
• The Summerhill Hornpipe
• Shirley’s Reel

Here’s a zip file to download (32.5 MB) with the pdf of the notation and all the audio files.