Week 45: Session Week!

Posted on 9 November 2021 by Vicki
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Week 45: Session Week!

Hello!
We've had a busy week on the road, but we had the camera and Studio 2 set up for a Zoom dance, so we kept the camera rolling and completed the Fürsteneck session. It goes out this Sunday at 2pm (14th November). We both hope that you enjoy it!

Goddesses
Row Well Ye Mariners
Juice of the Barley (Stingo)
Millison's Jig
Nonesuch
Tongue in Cheek
Poppy's Present
PDF of the tunes

What else is new?
As it's the 11th November this week I have added When the Battle's O'er. Enjoy!
We also have Polska efter Oppigårds Lars and Lästringre Gånglåt on the Scottish Smallpipes

See you next week - where I will be announcing my Christmas project! (Yes Christmas is that close!!)
:))
Vicki

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Session 12 – The Fürsteneck Session Part 2

Posted on 9 November 2021 by Vicki
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Session 12 - The Fürsteneck Session Part 2

Hello!
It's session time! This week it's the Fürsteneck Session part 2, in other words all the other tunes I taught! There is a lot of Playford in this session because I was teaching dance tunes and I wanted them to be as groovy as possible. The problem is that there are a lot fo groovy dance tunes in Playford 1651! I hope that you enjoy playing along!

Goddesses
Row Well Ye Mariners
Juice of the Barley (Stingo)
Millison's Jig
Nonesuch
Tongue in Cheek
Poppy's Present
PDF of the tunes

As usual the session goes at 2pm on Sunday 14th November and stays up forever. See you then!
:))
Vicki & Jonny

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Week 44: Prepping for a big month…

Posted on 1 November 2021 by Vicki
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Week 44: Prepping for a big month…

Hello!
It's been a really, really busy week with the camera this week. But it's all going to be scheduled into December, which means I don't have much to show the world this week - but December is going to be massive! It's also put a little delay on the next session. So there is a large chance it will go out next week rather than this week as we have 5 gigs over the weekend and I've been called for another session on the thing I'm not allowed to talk about. So for this week I thought I'd complete another of the Halsway sessions from last year. So we have Session 10 and it seems to be a lot of Playford! Anyone would think that we play a lot for dances! (We do!)
Enjoy this session and hopefully next week we'll be putting out the second part to the Fürsteneck session!
😀
Vicki

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Week 43: What’s new this week?

Posted on 25 October 2021 by Vicki
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Week 43: What's new this week?

Hello!
What's new? The camera was busy last week with the session and lots of new lessons on double bass, flute and Scottish smallpipes. Right now my focus is on creating something really special for Christmas. You'll have to wait and find out closer to the time!

Caucasia Contra
Stena's Hornpipe
Presbyterian Hornpipe

Halsway Parade - Flute Duet
The Lights of Yew, Ringdans, Au Claire de la Lune, The Cuckoo are all new in Double Bass.
Polska från Gladhammar has been added to the Scottish Smallpipe course.

Enjoy
:))
Vicki

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Session 11 – The Fürsteneck Session Part 1

Posted on 19 October 2021 by Vicki
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Session 11 - The Fürsteneck Session Part 1

Hello!
It's session time! We've got a little behind on the sessions since the summer with workshops and gigs - but hopefully we're back on track for the rest of the year! I have just come back from teaching at Burg Fürsteneck and I promised everyone in my group that I would do a session with the tunes I taught. I love all the tunes and couldn't choose which to put in the session, so I'm going to do them all over two sessions. This is part 1!

Doodle Oak Cloggers into Childegrove
The Female Sayler into Dr Who Pirate jig
Hornpipe Hollandica
Lightening the Load (32 bar version)
Red House
PDF of the tunes

As usual the session goes at 2pm on Sunday 24th October and stays up forever. See you then!
:))
Vicki & Jonny

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Week 42: Session Filming Week!

Posted on 17 October 2021 by Vicki
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Week 42: Session Filming Week!

Hello!
After an incredibly busy last 6 weeks we plan on filming a few sessions this week. I enjoyed the tunes so much at Fürsteneck that our plan is to make two sessions with these tunes. The next session after that will be the tunes I taught at Halsway and then finally my plan is for a week of jigs! This jig session has been delayed a little as it was planned in for September. Then we're into the Christmas season, so expect Christmas for a few weeks after that! So what is going to be in the session?

Doodle Oak Cloggers into Childegrove
The Female Sayler into Dr Who Pirate jig
Hornpipe Hollandica
Lightening the Load (32 bar version)
Red House
PDF of the tunes

What else is new to the site this week?
Konvulsionslåt (on the moraharpa)
Olle's Födelsedags Låt
Shepherds Hey (a version aimed at Children)
Schottis efter Axel Sjölander (Swedish tune on the SSPs!)

A new subscriber extra video has been put up. To find out anything about this video you need to be a subscriber and go visit the subscriber extra section of the website!

I'm looking forward to the next session coming this Sunday! See you there!
:))
Vicki

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Week 41: Back from Burg Fürsteneck

Posted on 13 October 2021 by Vicki
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Week 41: Back from Burg Fürsteneck

Hello!
I'm back from Germany and teaching at the International Days of Nyckelharpa at Burg Fürsteneck. It was amazing! All the preparation and worry about the travel was very much worth it to see so many nyckelharpa players and be able to teach to a room of real live people again! I can now reveal what it is that I taught. So my complete list is as follows. I've had the camera out this week since I came back and using the magic of green screen have taught these tunes in the actual room I was teaching in at Fürsteneck!

New videos:
Female Sayler
Dr. Who Pirate Jig
Hornpipe Hollandica
Lightening the Load (32 bar version)

Also Taught at Fürsteneck
Goddesses
Row Well Ye Mariners
Stingo
Red House
Doodle Oak Cloggers
Millisons Jig
Nonesuch
Childegrove
Poppy's Present
Tongue in Cheek

In the double bass course I've added Summer by Vivaldi and Marie's Wedding.
Enjoy!
:))
Vicki

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Week 40: Off to Burg Fürsteneck!

Posted on 5 October 2021 by Vicki
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Week 40: Off to Burg Fürsteneck!

Hello!
It's all systems go, I'm off to Germany to teach at the amazing Burg Fürsteneck. I have a bunch of tunes ready and waiting to be taught. My theme is dance and I'm going to work my way from Playford's 1651 Dancing Master, then to ceilidh and ending up with Contra dance. I've tried to focus on groove and quite a lot of the tunes that I've chosen we played at dance this weekend! So I don't give anything away for Fürsteneck the tunes listed below all complete the Halsway Session number 9 - Jonny's Dance tunes, there is only one tune in the list below that I will be teaching at Fürsteneck and that is Doodle Oak Cloggers! I've included the complete list of tunes and a link to the dots too.

Once I get back from Germany I'll be getting the camera out to do some filming of the new tunes I taught and we will get back to the next session from Studio 2!
Enjoy!
:))
Vicki

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Week 39: After Halsway and Before Fürsteneck

Posted on 25 September 2021 by Vicki
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Week 39: After Halsway and Before Fürsteneck

Hello!
So it's been a lot of video editing from Halsway this week. Three videos went out last week and now here are the other three! I taught everyone Christina Nilsson's Vals with an accompaniment. So I have split this lesson into the melody for Tune Friday and then the accompaniment is in the Bowing/String Crossing technique section.

Christina Nilssons Vals - melody on its own in Tune Friday
Christina Nilssons Vals - accompaniment and melody in the Technique section
Polska ur Carl Johan Johanssons Notbok
Polska ur Hugo Hägerströms Notbok

Stingo

I've also added a Swedish Säckpipa course and am moving my content from my old blogger to being over here too. So this week we have The Långdans and Polska efter Anders Lundin.

What else will we get this week? Not sure yet - there's a lot of prep to do for teaching at Fürsteneck. I'm very excited to be going over to Germany and I just hope that my travel tests are C-19 negative! I have 5 days to go and my fingers are tightly crossed that this entry doesn't change to a disappointed stay at home isolation. These next two weeks are very busy - so a positive test will mess with a lot of events. The video below is from one of the projects this week...
:))
Vicki

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Week 38: More Halsway!

Posted on 23 September 2021 by Vicki
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Week 38: More Halsway!

Hello!
Wow what a weekend! It was amazing to be teaching at Halsway Manor again to so many wonderful nyckelharpa players. As you can imagine it's been a busy old time here with a lot of preparations and then after event catching up. I've filmed the tunes that I taught and and in the middle of editing and uploading them to YouTube. These are all completely new tunes to the site. 🙂
This week we have three tunes that I taught. The others will come next week.

Slängpolska ur Hugo Gustaf Svenssons Sammling
Pollonesse ur Andreas Dahlgrens Notbok
Schottis efter Sixten i Verpeshultaberg

These three by next week:
Christina Nilsons Vals
Polska ur Carl Johan Johanssons Notbok
Polska ur Hugo Hägerströms Notbok

No flute or pipe tunes this week - it's been full on with Halsway! For a fuller report on Halsway go and visit the blog entry on the main website -> Click Here!

As soon as I'm done with this blog entry it's straight over to preparing for the nyckelharpa teaching weekend at Burg Fürsteneck in less than two weeks time. Lots to do!!
:))
Vicki

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