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Second Week of June Update

Hello!
I hope you're all having a great week and enjoyed playing along with the slow airs on Sunday! This week I've added the children's course. These were videos that I made during the first lockdown and didn't really do much with them. If you're a complete beginner you could do worse than give these a go! You'll be able to tell straight away they've been aimed at children and played on a mini-harpa - but all playing is good playing!

Tune Friday
Skomakarpolskan

Beginners
Oskars Schottis (totally new)

Focus on Technique
Study in D major (totally new)

Children's Course
Merrily We Roll Along
Hot Cross Buns

Zen Scales Week 6 is now live on the site!

The next session will be on Sunday 20th June at 2pm and as it is so close to Midsommar - it's going to be Swedish tunes fit for Midsommar! To give you a sneaky peek at what is likely to be on the list it's likely to include:
Äppelbo Gånglåt
Näckens Midsommar Polska
Spikens Vals
Gärdsbgubbarnas Polska
Sture's Schottis

I've also spent some time ordering the tunes that we've done in the session, so if you want to jump to a tune, or jump to the session that a tune is in, you can now use the list!

I've been quite inspired to do more flute and double bass - so each Friday there is going to be a new flute tune published. A Folkie Flute Friday! I've filmed and edited 12 so far - so they'll be going up one at a time!
:))
Vicki

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First Week of June Update

Hello!
Such glorious weather! We have another dance this week - it's on Tuesday evening and the tune pad is up and ready! Click Here!
Then on Sunday we have our next session, this week it's going to beautiful slow airs and some we've not done before, so we have a few new tunes to learn this week:
Hector the Hero
Bonnie at Morn
The Ash Grove (new lesson)
O’Hara’s Cup by O’Carolan (new lesson)
Fair Maid of Barra (new lesson)

Other tunes added:
Tune Friday
Näckens Midsommar Polska (in Gm)

Old Style Harpas
Näckens Midsommar Polska (moraharpa)
Polska efter Calle Svankvist (kontrabasharpa)
Kontrabasharpa Polska (kontrabasharpa)

A Focus on Technique
Spiderfingers

This week I've also added a double bass course. There won't be so much added to it - but every so often there'll be new videos for my students! I'll be adding more as the week goes on!
:))
Vicki

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Third Week of May Tune List

Hello!
Another week gone! I have no idea where May is disappearing off to! So here are the tunes as I add them this week! There are now 138 tunes on this site. (That doesn't include tune Friday or the Zen Scales!)

In other news we had a gig! Wednesday 19th May we left the house and performed Smörgåsballad - Songs and Tales from the Land of the Midnight Sun. We're really excited because it's a hybrid event, meaning that we had a live audience and we also had a virtual audience watching a livestream. It's at Benslow Music where I am doing a workshop weekend in January 2022 in Swedish tunes (which was covoided this year). If you missed it and want to catch you can buy a catch up ticket!

Don't forget about the session this Sunday - All the tunes in Session 5 on Sunday are actually from Smörgåsballad! If you'd like to play-along to the livestream you can find the music here!

I've been working hard on adding lost resources to my website that broke. I am putting informative things for the general public on my main site and all the teaching resources on this site. So I added, What is a Nyckelharpa and some history. I've had all my harpas out this week and given them a run - so I'm putting some videos up on a subscriber only page for you all to have a listen to.

Finally we are still playing for Zoom dances and you can come and playalong to those too - I always publish the dots!
:))
Vicki

Tune Friday
Brudmarsch efter Johan Vilhelm Söderkvist
Älgknappen
Schottis från Lima
Svängrumpa

Vicki & Jonny's Dance Tunes
The Piper's Wedding Jig

Miscellaneous Website Things
What is a Nyckelharpa?
'harpa history
Nyckelharpa Sample Page