7 May 2008

== PeterO contact info ==


PeterO's website for
San Diego Folk Heritage (SDFH) Community Band (CB)
"The More The Merrier"

General info:

Table of contents:

Recent significant changes to website:

Tunebooks

Among the tunebooks suggested by the Community Band playlist(s) for transcriptions, the following are available for purchase:
  1. Fiddler's Fakebook
  2. Portland Collection (vol 1)
  3. Portland Collection: Vol 2
  4. The Waltz Book (vol 1)
from: CDSS, Elderly, Amazon, ...

Respect copyrights and also support the people who have
spent many hours creating these resources:
Please purchase the tunebooks!

If you download a tune transcription from this Community Band website, and if the indicated source is an available-for-purchase tunebook, please do not use the transcription until you have purchased the tunebook. (The purpose of this website is to provide transcriptions in a convenient form for playing with the Community Band, and sometimes to provide a local variant of a tune.)

MP3s of the Community Band playing

These mp3s are intended for music practice. Each recording includes one tune played twice and is edited to permit looping without any breaks.

MP3 tunes (dir) - alternate titles are listed in transcriptions.

  1. Amelia (D) 4/6/2008
  2. Angeline the Baker 1 (D) 2/25/2007
  3. Billie Wilson (A) 2/25/2007
  4. Cold Frosty Morn (A dor) 2/25/2007
  5. Coleman's March (D) 4/6/2008
  6. Come Dance and Sing (D) 2/25/2007
  7. Coming Through the Canebrake (D) 2/25/2007
  8. Ger the Rigger (A) 4/6/2008
  9. Green Willis (D) 2/25/2007
  10. Hewlett (D) 4/6/2008
  11. Hommage à Edmond Parizeau (A) 2/25/2007
  12. John Stenson's #2 (A) 4/6/2008
  13. Juliann Johnson (D) 2/25/2007
  14. Kitchen Girl (A mix/dor) 2/25/2007
  15. Lady Madonna (D) 2/25/2007
  16. Mackilmoyle's Reel - slow (D) 4/6/2008
  17. Morrison's Jig (E dor) 2/25/2007
  18. Mountain Road (D) 2/25/2007
  19. Off She Goes (D) 2/25/2007
  20. Old French (Dmaj/Amix) 2/25/2007
  21. Over the Waterfall (D) 2/25/2007
  22. Pete's Breakdown (Bmin/D)2/25/2007
  23. Reel de Mattawa (Em) 4/6/2008
  24. Reel du Pere Carignan (D) 4/6/2008
  25. Road to Lisdoonvarna I - jig (Edor) 2/25/2007
  26. Roddy McCorley (D) 4/6/2008
  27. Sally Gardens (G) 2/25/2007
  28. Shuffle About (D) 2/25/2007
  29. Snake River Reel (D) 2/25/2007
  30. Spootiskerry (G) 2/25/2007
  31. Swallow Tail Jig (Edor) 2/25/2007
  32. Tobin's Favorite (D) 4/6/2008
  33. Tripping Up the Stairs (D) 4/6/2008
  34. Utpick Waltz (G) 4/6/2008
  35. Western Country (D) 2/25/2007
  36. Willafjord (D) 2/25/2007

Transcriptions for the Community Band (plus some extras)

Please purchase the source tunebooks!

Contact PeterO with corrections and other feedback.
(For SDFH Community Band questions, contact Karen Croot or Rick Johnson.)

Tunes (pdf dir, abc dir) - pdf:

Note: Date after tune name indicates last update.

Reels, hornpipes, marches, ... (32 bars = 64 beats)

4x4 but not standard contra dance length (standard: 32 bars = 64 beats)

Jigs

Polkas

Waltzes

Naming conventions for files:

Contact PeterO with corrections and other feedback.
(For SDFH Community Band questions, contact Karen Croot or Rick Johnson.)

Other websites with material suggested for the Community Band:

Playlist for "old-time jam" at the Del Mar Fair 6/23/2007

(Email from Les Preston 5/30/2007)

Key of D Key of A Key of G

Other community bands

"Community bands", "open bands" or "pickup bands" for contradancing exist all over. Some of the associated websites have transcriptions, recordings and other resources.

some traditional music info/links/sources

some musicians

some traditional music events

traditional tunes

abc music notation - general info