A list of tunes I can play through with varying degrees of recognizability. I find myself thinking I need to dedicate more time to learning to play these better rather than learning new tunes for a while. How do you balance these two somewhat competing interests?
non-standard tunings, modulation, and modalities are indicated A Major Ash Grove Ashokan Farewell Autumn Waltz Black Jack Grove AEAE Boil the Cabbage Down Candy Girl AEAE Cindy AEAE Clayhole Waltz Cluck Old hen Cripple Creek Devils Dream Genevieve's Waltz Greasy Coat AEAE Hommage a Edmund Parizeau Irish Polka AEAE Jenny Get Around AEAE Jenny Lind AEAE Jim Shank AEAE Liza Jane Meeting of the Waters AEAE My Own House Waltz AEAE New Year's a-Coming AEAE Old Joe Clark Old Resting Chair Robertson's Reel Shortnin' Bread AEAE Spring's All Muddy and the Pond's All Dry AEAE Wildwood Flower Blue Mountain Waltz A/E
Modal A Bonaparte's March Ador Cold Frosty Morning Ador Hannah At the Spring House Amin Old John Tate Amin June Apple Amix Red Haired Boy Amix
Bb Major Dad's Waltz Flowers From Heaven Harry Brandt's Waltz Plow Boy Hop
C Major Billy in the Lowground Brytva John's Waltz Candlelight Waltz East Tennessee Blues Karlstad Schottische C/D Limburger Cheese Pick the Wood Rochester Schottische Saturday Night Breakdown Stone's Rag Thea's Waltz C/G
D Major Angelina Baker Arkansas Traveler ADAE Avalon Quickstep Barlow Knife Barn Dance 1 Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine Cherry Blossom Waltz Chicken Reel Chirps and Grain Courting Days Waltz Cricket on the Hearth Decorah Waltz English Schottische Erik's Polka Evening Star Waltz Faded Love Fisher's Hornpipe Five Miles From Town ADAE Flop eared Mule D/A Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato Vine Green Willis Harvest Home Jack Wilson ADAE Kinne Kulle Schottische D/G Liberty Little Gal’ll Fool Me Mississippi Sawyer Norwegian Polka Oak Ridge Stomp Over the Waterfall Peacock Rag Peek-a-boo Waltz Pig Ankle Rag Rachel Ragtime Annie Rocky Road To Jordan Rose in the Mountain Round the Horn Run Down Boot Saturday Waltz (Lordags Valsen) Skurdalsdansen Soldiers Joy St Anne's Reel Too Young To Marry Wild Hog in the Woods ADAD Wind That Shakes the Barley Winder Slide ADAE Woodchoppers' Reel
Modal D Sally in the Garden Dm
Modal E Swallowtail Jig Edor Crossing To Ireland Emin Nobel Franz Emin Rights of Man Emin
F Major Chop the Eggs Gust Ellingson's Schottische
G Major Alfred Blagen's Hoppwaltz Chased Old Satan GDGD Cora Dye Country Waltz Cumberland Gap Darling Nellie Gray Down Home Rag Down Yonder Ebenezer Frenchies Reel Genette Burgess' Waltz Girl I left Behind Me Girl With the Blue Dress On Golden Slippers Gypsy Dance Herb Geving's Waltz Hog House Rag Irish Washerwoman Jennifer's Waltz Jenny Lind Polka Melvin Leiran's Schottische Mr. Fisher's Old German Waltz Orevalsen Rebels' Raid Red Wing Seneca Square Dance Shoes and Stockings Sommarvals Tell Her Lies And Feed Her Candy GDGD Turkey in the Straw Twin Sisters Twinkle Twinkle (Jenny Baker) Westby Waltz Westphalia Waltz Wiggen
Modal G Frank Richards Waltz Gm Johan Arndt's Polka Gm/Bb
edited to add keys of F and G
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FiddleJammer Says: Thursday, March 27, 2008 @12:45:03 AM
"Learning tunes" and "learning your instrument" are 2 different skills. My motto is 'Always learn new tunes'. Always have a few new tunes on the back burner that you're bringing into more frequent play. Your brain can handle both tasks. As your technical skill improves, you'll have that many more tunes in your repertoire. When a certain finger pattern clicks for you, you'll be able to apply that mastery to a number of different tunes that have that certain finger pattern repeated. Congrats on keeping a tune list. That's a step in the right direction towards remembering more and more tunes, imho.
