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Hello!
Christmas is really upon us now! Last year I did an advent calendar and I really wanted to do one this year, but time was against me, but I'm adding a few Christmas items as we go through December. Last years calendar is still there, so if you fancy playing all the tunes, or maybe you didn't get chance last year. So just CLICK HERE to enter the Advent Calendar and start playing! If you want to play along in "real time", this week we have:
Thursday 1st December - The Holly and the Ivy
Friday 2nd December - När Juldagsmorgon Glimmar
Saturday 3rd December - Deck the Halls
Sunday 4th December - Nu Tändas Tusen Juleljus
Monday 5th December - Ding Dong Merrily on High
Tuesday 6th December - Nu Är Det Jul Igen
Wednesday 7th December - Down in Yon Forest
Thursday 8th December - Gläns Över Sjö och Strand

You'll get the new tunes a little later in the month! I think I'll add them to Christmas Day and Boxing Day!

Someone commented on my YouTube channel that I'd got the name wrong on a tune and of course they were totally correct! I was so happy to have this correction done because now I know far more about The Flitter Dance than I did before I love the tune even more! So go and take a look!

What's new this week?

For flute this week we have two videos! We've reached J and Jacob Hall's Jig. Because we're now in December I'm pausing the A-Z of dance tunes and will be doing some Christmas tunes instead. This week we have Holly and the Ivy as a flute duet. You can play along.

I'm currently out on the road doing some fun things, some Christmas some not, but more about those next time!
:))
Vicki

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Hello!
In the middle of learning christmas words for our December tour I've grabbed the camera out this week. It's going to take a little while to do all the editing - but there might be a bit of Christmas in there!

I added a lovely tune to the site this week Mjölnaren från Ulriksberg by Gene Karlsson. Thank you Gene!

I decided to deconstruct Hamburska efter Pehr Ericsson and talk about different ways of writing out the tune. If this is useful I will do exactly the same thing for other tunes with cool and funky rhythms. Just let me know!

I've started working on some new fiddleharpa resources for beginners, so here is Perry the Partridge for fiddleharpa. It's up on the E string. I'm in the middle of editing together a Nyckelharpa-4-a-Day for Fiddleharpa - Day one is done!

For Säckpipa this week I created a simple beginners tune for playing in D on the E/A chanter. It's not something we do much, but it is possible! It's a nice simple tune: Shepherds Hey.
On the Scottish Smallpipes I've done Hie Mee Stiagh, it goes very nicely!
We're on I for the A-Z of flute tunes and a great little tune called Impertinence.

Enjoy
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Vicki

Next Zoom Dance: 7pm UK time: Sunday 27th November
Symmetry Dance: Tuesday 6th and Sunday 11th December
Our Zoom Christmas Concert: Monday 19th December
All Hands In: 1am UK time Wednesday 21st December (it's Tuesday night really!)
http://musicroom.nyckelharpa.me.uk/dance-lists/

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Hello!
It's the final two tunes I taught at Fürsteneck this week on the nyckelharpa.
Carolan's Welcome
Hie Mee Stiagh

We're on H for the A-Z of flute tunes and Hyde Park.

I've also made an updated video for setting up the sound on Zoom for Zoom music lessons. There wasn't much change under the bonnet - but original sound is now called Original Sound for Musicians, so I thought it was worth re-filming to include this!
Enjoy
:))
Vicki

Next Zoom Dance: 7pm UK time: Sunday 27th November
Symmetry Dance: Tuesday 6th and Sunday 11th December
Our Zoom Christmas Concert: Monday 19th December
All Hands In: 1am UK time Wednesday 21st December (it's Tuesday night really!)
http://musicroom.nyckelharpa.me.uk/dance-lists/

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Hello!
We're still up here at Whitby Abbey preforming Dracula. So I'll be adding to this entry as we go on this week.

So what is new this week? I've caught up with adding the lessons from the weekend at Halsway Manor, so we have:
Polka efter Sixten i Verpeshultaberg
Pollonesse ur Anders Magnus Svenssons Notbok

In the säckpipa course I have added an up close lesson on exactly what all the different holes do.
I've also updated the playing in D on the E/A säckpipa lesson.

We're up to E on the A-Z of dance tunes on the flute and it's Easter Thursday.

Enjoy!
:))
Vicki
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Hello!
This week has been mad preparations to get prepared for 10 days up at Whitby working on the Illuminated Abbey. Jonny has been writing a score for a re-imagining of Dracula, it should be fun! Because we don't know how much internet access we'll have for the next ten days I've made sure that everything I have edited has been uploaded and is ready to put on the site!

So what is new this week?
We have Orange and Blue on the nyckelharpa. Make sure you watch the trio video!
We also have Goddesses played on the mini-nyckelharpa.

I added Orange and Blue to the Scottish Smallpipe course too.
In Folkie Flute we have reached D and De'il Tak the Warr.

More from Whitby next week!
:))
Vicki

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Hello!
I'm back from the three different workshop weekends and have had a couple of days to do some filming! So finally I'm catching up with lessons that needed to be caught up with! It's been a wonderful few weeks with all the workshops! All just as amazing as each other!

So what is new on the site this week?

For nyckelharpa we have:
Klas i Kulan Bor i Halvepanan
The Fitter Dance
Olle's Födelsedags Låt has had a new teaching video added to it

For Flute we're onto C and The Chelmsford Assembly
For the Säckpipa we have a little video showing the fingering needed to be able to play in the key of D major on a set of E/A pipes!

Enjoy!
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Vicki

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Hello!
It feels like all the nyckelharpa workshops have been piled into a small period of time, so this week I am in Germany teaching at Burg Fürsteneck. This is going to give me a lot of videos to make over the next few weeks. The image below is from my teaching room in the castle! So what's new this week?

We're on B for the flute A-Z of dances - Bellamira
I decided we should have a mini harpa tune this week, so we have the simple bit from Menuet by Bach.
We also have a new säckpipa tune - Pollonesse efter Andreas Dahlgren (Nummer 87)

Enjoy!
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Vicki