GFW Session tunes

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Tutor-led session

A slow session (the "Slow Jam") is run every Tuesday evening 7.30–9.30pm at The Snaffle Bit pub. This is led by the GFW senior tutor Finlay Allison, who also runs a Thursday evening Zoom session and a warm-up session before Wednesday classes. The tunes on this page are used in all three sessions.

For details of other GFW sessions, including Nigel Gatherer's Monday night warm-up, see the GFW sessions page.

This archive of tunes is put together for the use of GFW students or with permission of the writer. If any owner objects please contact us and we will remove it. Recordings are by Finlay Allison, who retains the copyright to these arrangements.

Using these tune pages

The dots and audio for these tunes can be accessed from the menu at the top of this page, either as a set list or as an alphabetical list of tunes. You can do a text search for tunes from either page. A whole set can be viewed on one page, and more details for a particular tune (such as PDF, audio and MIDI) can be seen by clicking on that tune.

The top of each page also has a drop-down menu which allows you to choose in which format to view the music. For example, fiddle players can choose to view fingering diagrams, accordion players may want the score and chord version, and fretted instrument players can view tab or chord shapes. Also available are alto clef versions (for viola, mandola or tenor banjo), and fingering diagrams for the D whistle.

Recent tune updates

Printing/PDFs

Printing these pages from a browser (either as a full set or a single tune) should remove the unecessary webpage clutter (menus, navigation etc). You can also use this to create PDFs for a given combination of music format and tune/set, by using the "Print to PDF" option in your browser. This should allow you control over the aspect ratio and landscape/portrait setting that you want in your PDFs.

There is an issue when printing/PDFing tunes using the Firefox browser. If you find that the tunes are showing in inconsistent sizes, try using another browser (Chrome, Edge, Safari etc).

Credits

These session tune pages were put together by Paul Edwards using LilyPond, from dots provided by Finlay Allison.

Where to find the session

Google map showing The Snaffle Bit location