Paul Hardy's Session Tunebook 2017
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29 Jan, 2018 Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2017 Introduction This tunebook contains tunes I have learned to play on my English concertina, that are played at folk music sessions: particularly around Cambridge (England) and Redlands (California), and at some UK concertina gatherings like those at Kilve in Somerset. They should also be playable on other folk melody instruments like fiddle, whistle, flute, or dulcimer. Most are traditional tunes from the British Isles, including many English, Irish, and Scottish dance tunes, but others are an eclectic mix of session favourites. Many have been learned by ear or handouts from various sessions in the UK and US, while others have been adapted from Internet resources, in abc, midi or visual score formats. All are believed free of current copyright (unless noted explicitly), or else appear to have been placed in the public domain as part of the ongoing live folk music tradition. Please let me know if you are the owner of any that are under access restrictions and I’ll remove them. I have tried to present simple versions of most tunes, without much decoration and interpretation, so add your own triplets, grace notes and variations. I have included guitar chords, sometimes refined from computer-generated ones - use these as guidance, not definitive! Tunes in 4/4 time that have the rhythm indication "Hornpipe" should usually be ’swung’ - lengthen the first and shorten the second in every pair of quavers - as in "Thursday". Elsewhere these are sometimes written as ’dotted quaver, semiquaver’, but that ratio of 3:1 seems too high - perhaps try for around 2:1. This tunebook has been prepared using the abcm2ps software, with help from abc2midi, abcmus, Melody Assistant, ABCexplorer, and EasyABC. A big thank you goes to those creative and dedicated people who give their time to create and maintain low-cost or free and open source software for abc music editing and output. Thanks also go to Greenshoots (www.greenshootsmusic.org.uk) for the slow sessions near Cambridge in England that let me learn many of these tunes, and then refined them (with special thanks to the Brind family for chord revisions); to the Chiltinas concertina group near Bedford and the WCCP Kilve weekends in Somerset that gave me concertina technique and playing confidence; the Ceili House Band in Redlands in California that opened my ears to the range of Irish music; and the celtic jam sessions at Green Valley Lake in the nearby San Bernadino Mountains that broadened my repertoire. The current version of this tunebook, in ABC and in PDF forms, is downloadable for free from Paul’s web site at www.paulhardy.net, or you can order there a printed and bound copy (via Lulu.com). Find there also Paul Hardy’s Annex Tunebook for new and improved tunes and errata since last major release of the Session Tunebook, and the Basic Tunebook, with about 60 of the most common and simpler tunes. See also Paul Hardy’s Xmas Tunebook with about 60 Christmas tunes and carols. Copyright Paul Hardy ([email protected]) 2004-2018. Work is licenced under a Creative Commons "Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike" by-nc-sa licence. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ - Contact Paul Hardy for commercial licensing. Original tunebook started July 2004. This 2017 edition is of 31 August 2017 with minor edits to 29 January 2018. Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2017 © 2004-2018 cc by-nc-sa 1 29 Jan, 2018 Abbots Bromley Horn Dance Jig Abbots Bromley Horn Dance Trad. = 60 England, Thaxted Em B7 Em B7 Em Em B7 Em B7 Em 6 8 Am D Em D Em C D B7 Em Em Am Em Am Em B7 Em3 Em Am Em Am Em B7 Em Reel Aiken Drum Trad. Before 1820 = 140 Willie Wood Scotland There’s a Man Came to our Town DGDE7A7DGA7D 4 4 DGDEmA7DGA7D Polka Albert Farmer’s Bonfire Tune Trad. = 140 England, Surrey D G A7 D G A7 D 4 4 DEmA7D GA7D Hornpipe Alexander’s Hornpipe Trad. = 160 Sandlark Hornpipe Ireland DAEmDA3 4 4 3 3 3 D A Em D A D 3 DGAD 3 DGAAD 3 2 Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2017 © 2004-2018 cc by-nc-sa 29 Jan, 2018 Alexandra Park Reel Alexandra Park Trad. Kerr 1875 = 150 Scotland, Glasgow GCDGD 4 4 GCDGDG DEmAmBmC D DEmAmBmCD G March All in a Garden Green Trad. = 90 Harwood Hall England G D Em G C Am D C G Am D7 G 2 2 GCD7GEmAmD7G Am Bm C Am D G Hornpipe Alston Clog Hornpipe Trad. = 120 England, Lancashire DA7EmDADA 4 4 DA7DADAD DGEA7 DA7DADAD Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2017 © 2004-2018 cc by-nc-sa 3 29 Jan, 2018 Amazing Grace Waltz Amazing Grace Carrell and Clayton 1831 = 100 USA Words by Newton 1779 GCGD 3 4 GCGEmDG3 March American Patrol F. W. Meacham 1885 = 160 USA Made popular by Glen Miller G CAm 3 4 4 GA7D G 3 C D Am D7 G CG C GCGD7 GCGD7G Polka Angeline the Baker Trad. = 100 Angelina Baker USA DGDGD 2 2 DGDGD 4 Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2017 © 2004-2018 cc by-nc-sa 29 Jan, 2018 Anne Fraser MacKenzie Jig Anne Fraser MacKenzie Trad. = 100 Scotland GD GD GD G D 6 8 GD GAmD G GCGD Em D G Am D G March Ap Shenkin Trad. AABA The Tempest Wales = 100 A GCG AmD7 6 8 GCGD7GFINE B GD G C G D7 GD G D G EmD Em Waltz Ar Eirinn Trad. = 90 For Ireland, I Won’t Say Her Name Ireland G Am7 G Em D 3 4 GC GCDCDG GCEmGEmD G C G C D Am7 D G Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2017 © 2004-2018 cc by-nc-sa 5 29 Jan, 2018 Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch Air Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch Trad. = 120 Scotland Em C G D Em C Bm Em 3 4 C G Am Em G C Bm Em Em G D Em G Bm Em Waltz Archie’s Fancy Billy Pigg 1902-1968 = 120 England, Borders GCD7CG 3 4 3 3 GCAmDG GAmDAmDG 3 3 GEmAmDAmDG Waltz Arran Boat Trad. = 90 Scotland Em D Em D Em 3 4 Em G D Em G C Em G D Em D Em 6 Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2017 © 2004-2018 cc by-nc-sa 29 Jan, 2018 Ash Grove, The Waltz The Ash Grove Trad. = 100 Wales DG Am D G C G DG 3 4 G D7 G Em D A D GAmDGCGDG Air Ashokan Farewell Jay Ungar 1983 = 80 USA D D7 G Bm D G A7 3 4 DD7GBmD A7D DGDBmGA7 D C G D A7 D Hornpipe Astley’s Hornpipe Trad. = 160 Ashley’s Hornpipe England GEmCGAmG 4 4 G Em C G Am G D7 G GDEmDGDGD GAmDEmG D GD7G Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2017 © 2004-2018 cc by-nc-sa 7 29 Jan, 2018 Atholl Highlanders, The March The Atholl Highlanders Trad. = 100 Scotland AGAGA 6 8 AGADA ADAGA ADADA A GA A DA AGAEm AGADA Reel Aunt Hessy’s White Horse Trad. = 200 Aunt Hessie; Aunt Hassie South Africa GD7G 4 4 GD7G GG C G D7 D7 G 8 Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2017 © 2004-2018 cc by-nc-sa 29 Jan, 2018 Away to the Maypole March Away to the Maypole Trad. = 70 All Around The Maypole, How They Trot England DGDADDGDAD 2 2 DAEADGDAD Polka Ballydesmond Polka 1 Trad. = 100 Ireland Am G Am G Am 2 2 Am G Am G Am Polka Ballydesmond Polka 2 Trad. = 100 Ireland Am G F Em G Am G Am G Am G Am 2 2 Am G Am G Am G Am G Am Jig Bang Upp Trad. = 120 England, Norfolk DGDADGDA7D 6 8 DA D GD EmA7DA D G A7D D G A7 D G A7 D Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2017 © 2004-2018 cc by-nc-sa 9 29 Jan, 2018 Banish Misfortune Jig Banish Misfortune Trad. = 100 Ireland DC DCD C 6 8 DC D C D C D DC DCDCD DC DC D C D CDCD Hornpipe The Barber’s Pole James Hill 1850 = 140 England, Tyneside GDG A D 4 4 GDG AmG GDCGAmGA7D GDG AmG 10 Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2017 © 2004-2018 cc by-nc-sa 29 Jan, 2018 Battle of the Somme Waltz Battle of the Somme Pipe Major William Laurie (1882-1916) = 70 Scotland DGDGDA 9 8 DGDGDAD AD GDA DGDGDAD Jig Bean Setting England, Headington = 120 G D7 G D7 G 6 8 GD7CGD7G Polka Bear Dance Trad. = 100 Flanders Em G D Em D Em D Em D Em 2 2 Em D Em D Em D Em D Em D Em Am C G Am G Am G Am G Am Am G Am G Am G Am G Am G Am Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2017 © 2004-2018 cc by-nc-sa 11 29 Jan, 2018 Beatrice Hill’s Three-Handed Reel Reel Beatrice Hill’s Three-Handed Reel Trad. = 140 England DAGA7DA7 4 4 DAGA7D DA7 D DA7 D Polka Because He Was a Bonny Lad Trad. = 100 Scotland G C G D7 G Am D7 G C G C D G 4 4 GC GD7GC G GC GD7GDCGCDG Reel La Belle Catherine Trad. = 120 Canada, Quebec D A G D G D A7 D 4 4 DGDGDA7D 6 4 4 3 3 4 3 D A G D G D A7 D DGDA DGDGDA7D 12 Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2017 © 2004-2018 cc by-nc-sa 29 Jan, 2018 Bewicks Hornpipe Hornpipe Bewicks Hornpipe England, Northumberland = 130 DGD GA7 4 4 DGDA7D D A7 D Em A7 D A7 D A7 D Hornpipe Bielbie’s Hornpipe Trad.