2025 Block 6 – Live Teaching
Welcome to Block 6 of 2025
Weds 5th November – Weds 3rd December, with an optional social Zoom play-along session on Weds 10th December.
Social Play-along Session
Wednesday 10th December
7.00 – 9.00 pm (call open from 6.55 pm)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89700181344?pwd=fbpAVj19PiEydYChm0sD6pF2GPE2Du.1
Meeting ID: 897 0018 1344
Passcode: nefs2025b6
Video Tunes from 2025 Blocks 5 and 6 (pdf) – if you don’t already have these:
– Kom til mig om natten / Polka from Charlie Harris’ Reel / The Gamekeeper’s Cottage (Jenna Reid)
Here is the playlist for the evening. All tunes are in the Live Tunes or Live Tune Sets documents, or the Video Tunes document above.
- Elliot Finn MacDonald (Finlay MacDonald) – LT 23
- La Planète – LT 20
- Gilsland Hornpipe / The Summerhill Hornpipe (R. Dunn) – LS 14
- Kom til mig om natten – VT
- Out on the Ocean – LT 08
- De Montford (Jo Freya) – LT 23
- Rusty Gulley / Dusty Miller / Reed House Rant – LS 02
- Gamekeeper’s Cottage (Jenna Reid) – VT
- Jenny Lind – LT 19
- Charlie Harris’ Polka – VT
- Yule Sea (Frankie Cleeve) – LT 22
- Shirley’s Reel (W. Taylor) – LT 21
- Mona’s Delight / Jacob – LS 09
- Andet Brudestykke – LT 23
- Midnight on the Water (Luke Thomasson) – LT 12
- John Walsh’s Polka – LT 21
- Plane Tree – LT 18
- Josefin’s Dopvals (Roger Tallroth) – LT 17
Live Teaching Call Recordings
- 2025 Block 6 Week 1: 5th Nov 2025 – Andet Brudestykke (taught phrase by phrase) / Yule Sea (Frankie Cleeve)
- 2025 Block 6 Week 2: 12th Nov 2025 – Andet Brudestykke (recap and further ideas) / Elliot Finn MacDonald (Finlay MacDonald) (recap and further ideas)
- 2025 Block 6 Week 3: 19th Nov 2025 – De Montford (Jo Freya) (taught phrase by phrase) / Jenny Lind (revised in parts)
- 2025 Block 6 Week 4: 26th Nov 2025 – De Montford (Jo Freya) / Andet Brudestykke / Gilsland Hornpipe & The Summerhill Hornpipe (Robin Dunn) / Elliot Finn MacDonald (Finlay MacDonald)
- 2025 Block 6 Week 5: 3rd Dec 2025 – Andet Brudestykke / De Montford (Jo Freya) / Yule Sea (Frankie Cleeve) / Elliot Finn MacDonald (Finlay MacDonald) / Gilsland Hornpipe & The Summerhill Hornpipe (Robin Dunn) / Jenny Lind
New Live Tunes for 2025 Block 6
| Notation (pdf) | Audio (mp3) | Zip file |
| Andet Brudestykke – Notation | Andet Brudestykke (Full) Andet Brudestykke (Steady) | Andet Brudestykke – zip file |
| De Montford (Jo Freya) – Notation | De Montford (Full) | De Montford – zip |
Revision Tunes
| Notation (pdf) | Audio (mp3) | Zip file |
| Elliot Finn MacDonald (Finlay MacDonald) – Notation | Elliot’s (Full) Elliot’s (Mid) Elliot’s (Steady) | Elliot’s – zip file |
| Yule Sea (Frankie Cleeve) – Notation | Yule Sea (Full) Yule Sea (Mid) Yule Sea (Steady) | Yule Sea – zip file |
| Jenny Lind – Notation | Jenny Lind (Full) Jenny Lind (Steady) | Jenny Lind – zip file |
| Gilsland Hornpipe & The Summerhill Hornpipe – Notation (LTS) Gilsland Hornpipe – Notation Summerhill Hornpipe, The (Robin Dunn) – Notation | Gilsland Hornpipe (Full) Gilsland Hornpipe (Steady) The Summerhill Hornpipe (Free) The Summerhill Hornpipe (Steady) | Gilsland Hornpipe – zip file The Summerhill Hornpipe – zip file |
Latest NEFS Live Tunes updates: December 2025 – up to and including tunes from 2025 Blocks 6 Live Teaching. The most recent Live Tune Sets document is April 2024.
- NEFS Live Tunes – Dec 2025
- NEFS Live Tunes – Dec 2025 – Bowed Version
- NEFS Live Tune Sets – Apr 2024
Index of NEFS Live Tunes and Sets
Some Live Tune Harmonies – just for fun, if you want to try them!
Full Resources of Live Tunes
For full notation and audio files of all previous Live Tunes, and Zoom call recordings of the Live Teaching calls, please see the web page:
Live Teaching Resources