Learning Resources

Online Resources

The Session is a wonderful resource for anyone learning Irish music.

You can find just about any tune on here. It shows all the tunes in clearly laid out music notation and ABC notation. You can hear what they sound like by downloading the Midi version.
It also has discussion groups and news of local sessions.

The session also gives lots of "settings" or variations of tunes. That can be a bit confusing, but if you scroll down past them you come to the comments which are usually well-mannered and informative.

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Fiddlehed

An American guy who publishes a vast range of tuition videos



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Local Irish Music Tuition

Viv Baker teaches Irish fiddle every Monday from 7 to 8 in El Rincon,  Bedminster.(24 bus towards  Ashton Vale from town). No lessons on Easter Monday or the two May Bank Holidays.
£8 per session.

Jill Elliot teaches Irish fiddle st various venues near to Bristol.

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Morris Dance Tunes and Others. From the Rag Morris Tune book

Rag Morris seem to be a very active group. Part of Bristol University Folk Society.

According to the website, they have a tune session every Monday at The Prince of Wales, Gloucester Road from 9pm  onwards. There is also a link to a Facebook page but you have to be a Facebook member to see it (I'm not). The website seems very well-maintained, so I guess the information is correct. I will try and check it out sometime.

Hibernia - I've described this in the sessions  section (See Above). but there is tuition too.

Irish Tunes          This is a collection of video clips of any Irish tunes that take my fancy.

I intend to do the same for English and Old Time American tunes in the near future.

Here's the Old Time American one