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.