"Dots" is musician slang for written music — you knew that, right? Here are a bunch of tunes, mostly ones I've taught at festival workshops or the like, organised in collections by where and when I taught them.
The tunes are stored in ABC format — learn more about ABC format — which is then converted on-the-fly into PNG images or PDF documents, as you demand them. This means the images can be a bit slow to load sometimes, but it helps me keep costs down and reduces my workload. Hooray! I notated these tunes over many years and in lots of different contexts so don't expect them to be consistent. Some are really simple, some are a bit more complicated, but they are all pretty simple compared to anything a person might actually play in real life. Do not take these as any more than mnemonics.
With regard to the MIDI playback — I provide this functionality with misgivings. If musical notation itself is a bad friend in folk music, MIDI is something like a mortal enemy. It's been very useful to me in editing my ABC code, but it is objectively terrible: there's no swing, grace notes and trills aren't always rendered according to my intentions, polskas are just awful... none of which is exactly a bug or an error, they're just in the nature of the way MIDI and ABC interact. I hope it will prove useful for people whose sight-reading isn't that great, but please please please remember — the tunes do not sound like this!
Collections
- Tunes I wrote
- Whitby 2024
- Newhaven, 2023
- Lewes, 2023
- Whitby, 2022
- Broadstairs, 2022
- Halsway Manor, 2022
- Dungworth, 2022
- Sidmouth, 2022
- Lewes, 2016
- Irländska Låtar, 2021
- Sweet Sunny South, 2021
- London Fiddle Convention, 2020
- Cabot Old School House, 2019
- Whitby, 2019
- TradMad Camp, 2019
- Halsway Manor, 2019
- Westport, 2018
- Whitby, 2016
- Whitby, 2015
- Whitby, 2014
- Whitby, 2013
- Whitby, 2012
- Broadstairs, 2012
- Lewes, 2011
- Broadstairs, 2011
- Sedburgh, 2011
- Whitby, 2010
- Lewes, 2010
- SFHS, 2009
- Brigg Fiddle Festival, 2008
- Lewes, 2005
- Dent Folk Festival, 2005
- Littlebourne, 2005
- Sweet Sunny South, 2005
- Gooik, 2005
Tunes
- 1082
- Adventslåten av Gustav Jernberg
- Ale Brider
- Avalon Quickstep
- Bessarabye Hora
- Betsy Likens
- Billy in the Low Ground
- Blågeta
- Boatman's Song
- Brudmarsch från Nås
- Down in the Swamp
- Ducks on the Pond
- Eddy Kelly's No. 1
- Eddy Kelly's No. 2
- Farewell to Connaught
- Fine Times At Our House
- Five Miles of Ellum Wood
- Flop-Eared Mule — complicated
- Flop-Eared Mule — simple
- Fraher's Jig
- From Galway to Dublin
- Gills Brudpolska
- Glory In The Meeting House
- Halling efter Per Löf
- Hell Frozen Over
- Hjortingens Polska av Hjort Anders Olsson
- Jackie McCarthy's
- Jenny Run Away In The Mud In The Night
- Joe Cooley’s Reel
- Johnny Allen's
- Johnson Boys
- Julianne Johnson
- June Apple
- Kruspolskan
- Little Dutch Girl
- Little Rabbit
- Marsch efter Hans Dalfors från Ore
- Mineola Rag
- Molly Put The Kettle On [A]
- Molly Put The Kettle On [G]
- Mrs Dwyer's Hornpipe
- Muddy Road
- Old Christmas
- Over the Road to Maysville
- Paddy Fahey's Number 20
- Polska efter 'Mofatt' Anders Jonasson
- Polska efter Blank Anders
- Polska efter Kings Selma Olofsdotter
- Polska efter Lars i Kontere
- Polska efter Pål Karl Persson
- Ragtime Annie
- Red Fox
- Rock the Cradle - a serving suggestion
- Rock the Cradle - simple version
- Rolling River
- Roscoe's Waltz
- Roulette
- Säckpiplåt efter Carl Valström
- Sales Tax Toddle
- Sally Gooden
- Sandy Boys
- Sheep Shelled Corn by the Rattling of his Horn
- Shuffle bowing patterns
- Sonias Brudmarsch
- Sörmländsk Brudlåt
- Southern Aristocracy
- Springlek från Malung efter Troskari Erik
- Still House
- Sugar in the Gourd
- Sullivan's Hollow
- Texas
- The Beauty Spot
- The Black Joak
- The Cameronian
- The Elusive Magpie
- The Killimor Jig
- The Little Yellow Dog Came Running Through The Meeting House
- The Maid In The Meadow
- The Old Bunch Of Keys
- The Orphan
- The Peeler's Jacket
- The Perfect Camping Holiday
- The Pride of Petravore
- The Rathcool Girl
- The Rover in the Bog
- The Shooting Star
- The Tempest
- The Thrill of Embarkation
- Tune For Gabi
- Ukrainian Dance Tune
- Unser Oide Kath
- Vals efter Carl Johann Björklund
- Vals efter Erik "Nirsa" Nilsson
- Vals efter Lasse Nilsson från Skåne
- Yew Piney Mountain
- Гопак