Michael Eskin Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 (edited) My latest PDF tunebook flipbook project: "50 Traditional Irish Session Tunes" with slow/medium/full-speed versions for practice. Click on any tune title to play. All tunes are setup to loop if you click the loop icon at the left side of the play bar. You can also download the original full interactive PDF by clicking on the download icon at the bottom of the flipbook window. In the Table of Contents, or Index, click on any tune title to jump to that tune. On the individual tune pages, click the << on the left edge of the page to jump to the Table of Contents, click the >> on the right edge of the page to jump to the sorted Index. If using on tablet or phone, click the book icon at the bottom for the single page view. https://tinyurl.com/2wa4yyaf Edited October 14, 2023 by Michael Eskin 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bagpiperwayne Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 Amazing. Thanks Michael! Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregor Markič Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 Thanks Michael, you're doing a great work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Eskin Posted October 14, 2023 Author Share Posted October 14, 2023 I now have multiple versions of the "50 Traditional Irish Session Tunes" PDF file available for free download: Standard Notation (Accordion sound on play) Tin Whistle Tablature (Tin Whistle + Piano backup on play) B/C Box Tablature (Accordion sound on play) C#/D Box Tablature (Accordion sound on play) Get your free copies here: http://michaeleskin.com/tunebooks.html#50_session_tunes Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcoover Posted October 15, 2023 Share Posted October 15, 2023 (edited) Michael - I've only looked at the concertina version, but it's a massive amount of work and a great resource, especially with the clickable sound files that can be played at various tempos - bravo! But I'd be curious to know the reasoning for introducing yet another Anglo button numbering / tab system - the 36th one since the 1840 Hoselbarth tutor if my counting is correct? This is the first tutor to use little up and down arrows for bellows direction since Marin y Lopez did something slightly similar in 1872. The occasional offset numbers threw me at first, but it looks like they are only due to font spacing considerations. I see it also has different versions based on preferences for certain buttons (left or right side), were these perhaps determined by algorithm? it would be nice to eventually have a "Chris Droney" button or a "Noel Hill" button, etc. to select particular playing styles! Gary Edited October 15, 2023 by gcoover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Eskin Posted October 15, 2023 Author Share Posted October 15, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, gcoover said: Michael - I've only looked at the concertina version, but it's a massive amount of work and a great resource, especially with the clickable sound files that can be played at various tempos - bravo! But I'd be curious to know the reasoning for introducing yet another Anglo button numbering / tab system - the 36th one since the 1840 Hoselbarth tutor if my counting is correct? This is the first tutor to use little up and down arrows for bellows direction since Marin y Lopez did something slightly similar in 1872. The occasional offset numbers threw me at first, but it looks like they are only due to font spacing considerations. I see it also has different versions based on preferences for certain buttons (left or right side), were these perhaps determined by algorithm? it would be nice to eventually have a "Chris Droney" button or a "Noel Hill" button, etc. to select particular playing styles! Gary I'm a bit confused by your comment as I didn't release an Anglo tablature version of this book, just standard notation, tin whistle tab, and B/C and C#/D box tab versions. Are you referring to one of of my other tunebooks with Anglo tab? Gary, you can customize the Anglo tablature in the tool to be pretty much however you want both from a button naming and press/draw indication. You can also set the font size smaller if you are injecting tab into dense notation. Take a look at the tablature settings dialog under the main app settings. If you prefer another system, modify those settings to match your preference. The original version of the code I started with was written by Jim Van Donsel and only provided an on-row fingering solution. Jim Van Donsel's original code also used the button numbering I have as the default, except used a P and D for press and draw. I changed those to arrows by default, but like I said, everything about the tablature is configurable, you can even set it use a bar above the button number to indicate draw instead of a button number postfix character. I added the cross-row option based on my own playing style and button choices, which are close to Noel's since I originally learned from him. However, the cross-row fingering solution, in its own internal weighting where there is some level of ambiguity in some tunes, does deviate from Noel's preference fingerings at times, so I don't represent it as his system. The button weighting and preference system is complex. As far as "why another system", you'll have to ask Jim Van Donsel why he chose to go that route. It made sense to me for traditional Irish music, so I adopted it as well. Edited October 15, 2023 by Michael Eskin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Eskin Posted October 17, 2023 Author Share Posted October 17, 2023 (edited) I've added both Jeffries and Wheatstone style Anglo Concertina tab versions of my free "50 Traditional Irish Session Tunes" with slow/medium/full-speed versions for practice interactive PDF tunebook at: http://michaeleskin.com/tunebooks.html#50_session_tunes Click any title in the Table of Contents or Index to jump to the tune. Click any tune title on the tune page to play the tune. Plays with a concertina sound for melody, piano for bass/chords. On tune pages: << Jumps to the Table of Contents >> Jumps to the Index Please save the PDF file for future use. Edited October 17, 2023 by Michael Eskin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleanore Rea Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 On 10/14/2023 at 1:46 AM, Michael Eskin said: My latest PDF tunebook flipbook project: "50 Traditional Irish Session Tunes" with slow/medium/full-speed versions for practice. Click on any tune title to play. All tunes are setup to loop if you click the loop icon at the left side of the play bar. You can also download the original full interactive PDF by clicking on the download icon at the bottom of the flipbook window. In the Table of Contents, or Index, click on any tune title to jump to that tune. On the individual tune pages, click the << on the left edge of the page to jump to the Table of Contents, click the >> on the right edge of the page to jump to the sorted Index. If using on tablet or phone, click the book icon at the bottom for the single page view. https://tinyurl.com/2wa4yyaf Many thanks Michael. This is an amazing resource that I will find really useful as a new to concertina player. I do appreciate the enormous amount of work this represents. May I ask about the download you mention please? I downloaded it to my iPad files folder but when I selected the first tune Alexander’s and pressed the play icon my device wanted to open an external file. Should this happen? Is the download the pdf with links to online MIDI or should it be interactive offline? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Eskin Posted July 27 Author Share Posted July 27 (edited) Yes, it launches the tune for playback in my ABC Tools website in Safari. That’s how the play links work. Generally, the playback from PDF requires that you be online. Edited July 27 by Michael Eskin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleanore Rea Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 Thank you Michael I wasn’t sure if it was my device compatibility or how the document was intended to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Eskin Posted July 27 Author Share Posted July 27 (edited) Yes, the way the playback from the PDFs work is that when the PDF is created by my tool, it attaches a hyperlink containing an encoded version of the ABC for the tune to each tune title in the PDF. For example, here's the "Kesh" jig as a playable hyperlink: https://michaeleskin.com/abctools/abctools.html?lzw=BoLgBAjAUAKuMAsCmYDSSDOCoGF4CcBDAEwEsAXUgewDtCAbKAJXAClSBzKAWXADYA9AA4oAGXARhUAIrgAzMIC8EAEwAGKKnABxALaEAVlACkhAEYBjAxgD6GKgFcaxAGa1yYF-QeliJk2AAqhgohDRgAIIWjhiUFmDaRM5gAAqkYVRg9k7EnlT4YOTIYLpI9FTEAJ4gJsbcAJIAIvVgAA74VBxEumAaxgHBoeFRMXEJSblpGXkFRSgWCPnEGDXGdU0tC0vtnb3+xkEhYGFgAMqVNEVgAEKEGBhZjslus8Vmdyu1Dc1g7-c7HDAchE-QOpyQHkIWVaSAspBcpHihF0Tw8VBcWQA7qQaBxVhhsbjegA6FQAVn8AB8QAAibR0iLaBIRa6UmmNGksiKRa7ENn0pDEXIcIVsnA0wXXMDsmnEa4RSlQOkMpnaFlsjlcnl85WC4VyjWc7QAMWl9O0chAiupyvlUrlOvFSA4KBlcoVtpZYDl2kNWsZCqV9Lt3t5YolLrNsrDNPFHBcgJlhA4hH5NLM8bAHEtiqAA&format=noten&ssp=10&name=The_Kesh&play=1 If you click that link, which actually contains the notes for the tune compressed and encoded in the rather lengthy URL parameters, it will open in the Player in my tool. Once there, you can just play the tune or click on "Start Tune Trainer" to practice the tune starting slowly and then at increasing speed, all of the settings for that under your control. Here's a webinar I put together for our local Comhaltas branch that goes through how to use the PDF tunebooks: Edited July 28 by Michael Eskin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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