The Banjo Buddy Tune Book - 365 Traditional Irish Tunes

€45.00

Notated in ABCs, stave and TAB, this collection of 365 Irish traditional tunes represents some of the most popular music played in Ireland and abroad today. 

From simple polkas, mazurkas and barndances, to technical reels, jigs and slides, this tune book contains all the tunes you need to be session ready on almost any melody instrument!

Throughout this entire collection, tunes are presented in their simplest form, without adding many variations, embellishment, or decoration.

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Notated in ABCs, stave and TAB, this collection of 365 Irish traditional tunes represents some of the most popular music played in Ireland and abroad today. 

From simple polkas, mazurkas and barndances, to technical reels, jigs and slides, this tune book contains all the tunes you need to be session ready on almost any melody instrument!

Throughout this entire collection, tunes are presented in their simplest form, without adding many variations, embellishment, or decoration.

Notated in ABCs, stave and TAB, this collection of 365 Irish traditional tunes represents some of the most popular music played in Ireland and abroad today. 

From simple polkas, mazurkas and barndances, to technical reels, jigs and slides, this tune book contains all the tunes you need to be session ready on almost any melody instrument!

Throughout this entire collection, tunes are presented in their simplest form, without adding many variations, embellishment, or decoration.

CONTENTS: This comprehensive tune compilation includes 40 Polkas, 111 Jigs, 124 Reels, 25 Slip Jigs, 26 Hornpipes, 17 Barndances, 14 Slides, 5 Mazurkas and 3 Marches. Each tune is notated in ABCs, stave and banjo/mandolin TAB.

AUDIO: After purchasing and receiving the book, you can gain access to a DropBox folder, with over 750 recordings, where each tune is presented at a slow and medium pace. These sound files contain computer-generated audio, converted to MP3 format. They are intended to give you an impression of the melody, supporting you when practising the tunes.

With time, these computer-generated melodies may be substituted with real recordings.

COPYRIGHT INFO: I am indebted and enormously grateful to the following musicians and composers for their permission to use material for which they hold copyright: Adam Sutherland, Brendan Ring, Caroline Regan, Colin Farrell, Ellen Gibling, Gian Marco Pietrasanta, Joanie Madden, John Carty, John McCusker, John McEvoy, John Walsh, Johnny Harling, Kevin Sewell, Máirtín O'Connor, Mark Kelly, Martin and Savannah Donohoe, Michael McGoldrick, Niamh Ridley, Pádraig McGovern, Padraig Rynne & Tomas Callister. What a mighty session that would be!