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[celtictiger]

Can anybody recommend some simple jigs and reels for a beginner.

[highplainsman]

celtictiger,

A fun reel with fairly simple A-B parts is Rolling In The Ryegrass. Another simple reel is The Road To Prison. A minor key jig that I like and that isn't too complicated is Swallowtail Jig. These were the first Irish tunes I learned. I have PDFs of the music if you are interested, or you can find them at a number of traditional music websites. Have fun.

Rick

[celtictiger]

celtictiger,

A fun reel with fairly simple A-B parts is Rolling In The Ryegrass. Another simple reel is The Road To Prison. A minor key jig that I like and that isn't too complicated is Swallowtail Jig. These were the first Irish tunes I learned. I have PDFs of the music if you are interested, or you can find them at a number of traditional music websites. Have fun.

Rick

Thanks for the choice,I've found the sheet music for all of them except The Road To Prison,the ITM site http://www.oaim.ie gives this tune as a free lesson so I'd be grateful if you could direct me to the sheet music of this tune.
Cheers.

[Mike Franch]

I've had a lot of fun with Paul Hardy's Basic Tunebook, available in a free download. He has other downloadable tune books as well, at here. I think I first discovered this resource from a fellow C.net member.

[celtictiger]

Thanks for the responses so far.

[cboody]

Check out

http://www.karenashb...en/session.html

For a nice collection of basic tunes put together for kids, but perfectly useful for the rest of us. Good tunes in good basic versions.