COMING SOON!
The Session Tunebook – Books 1 to 4.
Bluegum Music is proud to present a superb collection of tunes for session musicians everywhere. We have compiled over 300 of the most popular traditional tunes – mostly from Ireland, Scotland, England and America – and presented them in four volumes:
- Book 1: Essential Jigs
- Book 2: Essential Reels
- Book 3: Essential Polkas & Ceilidh Tunes
- Book 4: Essential Hornpipes, Marches, Strathspeys & Airs
☞ See the complete contents of our Session Tunebooks here …
☞ Listen to some audio samples here …
☞ See some sample pages here …
These books come in a convenient A5† size: perfect for your fiddle/guitar case, melodeon box, or backpack.
All tunes in this amazing collection are suitable for fiddle, tin whistle, squeeze box, flute, tenor banjo, mandolin and many other instruments. Every melody has carefully crafted chords for guitar, piano or bass accompaniment.
Each Session Tunebook can be purchased individually, or as part of a boxed collection. The boxed set contains a CD with both MIDI and AAC (advanced MP3‡) samples of each tune with a basic guitar and bass accompaniment. The tin whistle parts have been modified for the standard ‘D’ whistle for melodies that are out of range or in awkward keys.
The MIDI files can be played on your computer or laptop using any MIDI player (most computers come with one installed, but there are good low-cost and free ones available on the Internet). This format allows you to vary the tempo or change the key.
The AAC files can be installed in your iTunes or Windows Media Player centre and downloaded to your iPod or other MP3-style players. We are currently working on a Session Tunebook ‘app’ for the iPod, iPhone or iPad: so you’ll be able to take your tunes with you everywhere you go!
† A5 paper size is 148mm x 210 mm or 6" x 8½".
‡ AAC stands for Advanced Audio Coding, and is the successor to the MP3 format – it comes with a .m4a extension. This audio format is generally of a higher quality than the MP3 standard, and has smaller file sizes. The following are some of the devices that support AAC: All Apple products (iPod, iPad, iPhone, Mac computers), DivX Plus Web Player, Sony PlayStation 3/Portable, Sony Walkman, Sony Ericsson phones, Nokia S40 & S60, Android phones, Nintendo Wii and the MPEG-4 video standard.