Detailed tuition for playing traditional music on the English concertina. Learn 87 easy, popular and well-known traditional tunes: core repertoire for pub sessions, country dances, ceilidhs, barn dances and hoe-downs. A book for adults who don’t have the luxury of a teacher. Crammed to bursting with, English concertina tuition, tunes and information about traditional music. It’s a combination of a tutor and a tune book, with realistic expectations.
Contents
Foreword by David Ledsam Music Basics for Squeezers Fingering Chart The English Concertina The Scale of C Major The Musical Ladder The Key of G Major 4/4 Time Play Some Sea Songs Traditional Music Play Some English Tunes The Key of D Major Play Country Dance Tunes 6/8 Time Play Cotswold Morris Tunes 3/4 Time Play Some Welsh Tunes 2/4 Time Play Some American Reels Slip Jigs and Slides Play Sliabh Luachra Tunes The Key of E Minor Play Some Playford Tunes The Key of A Minor Play Some Irish Tunes The Hornpipe Rhythm Play Northumbrian Tunes The Key of A Major Play Some Scottish Tunes Rants and Double Reels Play Some Easy Melodies Double Jigs
Tunes Little Brown Jug Go Tell Aunt Rhody Skip to My Lou Lightly Row Shepherds’ Hey Bobby Shaftoe
This Old Man The Muffin Man Donkey Riding New York Girls South Australia Johnny Come Down to Hilo Winster Gallop Jimmy Allen Rattlin’ Bog British Grenadiers Uncle Bernard’s Winster Processional Buttered Peas The Tip Top Polka Banbury Bill Harper’s Frolic Nelly Bly My Love She’s but a Lassie Yet I Have a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue The Huntsman’s Chorus The Rose Tree Cock o’ the North MacNamara’s Band Hey Away Shave the Donkey Laudanum Bunches Swaggering Boney Michael Turner’s Waltz The South Wind Shoe the Donkey Sweet Jenny Jones All Through the Night Men of Harlech Camptown Races Egan’s Polka Chinese Breakdown Buffalo Girls The Road to Boston Uncle Reuben Angelina Baker Drops of Brandy The Star Above the Garter
Dennis Enright’s Slide Scotland The Brosna Slide Maggie in the Wood Scattery Island Tom Sullivan’s Polka God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen The Rigged Ship Newcastle Jack’s Maggot Hunt the Squirrel Grimstock Tralee Gaol Spancil Hill The Enniskillen Dragoon Sonny’s Mazurka Rakes of Mallow The Derry Boat The Keel Row Katie Bairdie Green Grow the Rushes Some Say the Devil’s Dead Salmon Tails up the Water Hexham Races The Redesdale Hornpipe A Hundred Pipers Roxburgh Castle Peat Fire Flame The Duke of Perth Kate Dalrymple Durham Rangers Drowsy Maggie Jack Broke da Prison Door Timmy O’Connor’s The Ash Grove Goodbye Girls I’m Going to Boston The Rambler The Bush on the Hill The Blackthorn Stick
