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(Due to technical problems, this blog only contains material up to April 2011. Tunes from later months will be restored in due course).
I'm writing this as a regular at the monthly Walthamstow Folk Club Traditional Tunes Session details of which are here. We start with a 'slow and steady' session, and get a bit more adventurous later.
We concentrate on the English folk repertoire, interpreted broadly. Many of us play by ear, and we encourage this. However, we know some people like to see the 'dots'. Our online tunebook currently includes Winster Gallop, Salmon Tails, Rakes of Mallow, Uncle Bernard's, Rattling Bog, Jamie Allen, The Princess Royal, Jenny Lind, Brighton Camp, The Swiss Boy, The Curly Headed Ploughboy, Donkey Riding, Bobby Shaftoe, Bear Dance, I'll Go And Enlist, and Michael Turner's Waltz.
This blog will pick up on some tunes we've played that aren't in our tunebook and will use FolkTuneFinder's tools to display them. I try to list the tunes in the order they were played, and I hope to give a feel for the sort of things we play in the slow bit and the faster bit. I mostly don't annotate recently composed tunes, for reasons explained here.
To see notes for tunes played in a particular month you can select from the menu at the top or the sidebar. There is also a combined list of tunes here. I'm also using the new 'Group Tune list' facility for a Walthamstow Tune list
If you spot a mistake or would like to suggest a better (easier?) version, please feel free to leave a comment on one of my session related entries on the Walthamstow blog. Please note that some of the midi files attached to the tunes play much faster than we do on Tuesday nights.
I'm writing this mostly for people who are already coming to the monthly session. But even if you don't - feel welcome to use these tunes - they belong to everybody! Please do feel very welcome to come and play with us on the second Tuesday of the month, or indeed, come to the very wonderful Walthamstow Folk Club on Sunday night.
- May 2011 - slow tunes before the break
- Recently composed tunes
- Some of the tunes we've played in Walthamstow
- October 2010 - faster tunes after the break
- November 2010 - faster tunes after the break
- April 2010 tunes - slow and steady
- About this Walthamstow Tunes session blog
- August 2010 - tunes from an unofficial session
- December 2010 - slow and steady
- June 2010 - slow and steady
- January 2010 - tunes we played slowly
- February 2010 - tunes played slowly
- May 2010 - faster tunes after the break
- February 2011 - slow and steady
- January 2010 - 10 tunes played more quickly
- February 2011 - faster tunes after the break
- October 2010 - slow and steady
- March 2011 - things we probably played faster
- January 2011 - slow and steady at our new home
- January 2011 - faster tunes after the break
- September 2010 session - where's my notebook?
- June 2010 - 10 faster tunes after the break
- May 2010 - slow and steady
- April 2010 tunes - faster tunes after the break
- March 2010 tunes - 10 allegedly faster tunes after the beer break
- March 2010 tunes - slow and steady
- April 2011
- March 2011 - manuscript found in a smartphone
- December 2010 - faster tunes after the break
- November 2010 - slow and steady
- March 2009 - 10 tunes not in the tunebook
- February 2010 - 10 tunes played more quickly
- July 2010 - I forgot to take notes
