2010 Augusta Mini-Course Description


Week 3
Irish Week

Eurotunes by Ear mini-course
Paul Oorts


This mini-course is for people who:

1. want to learn some Western and Southern European folk tunes (other than Celtic ones) such as bourrées, an dros, schottisches, mazurkas, muneiras, tarantellas…

2. want to improve their beginning to intermediate learning-by-ear skills (most of the tunes are easier than the standard Irish jigs and reels)

3. enjoy learning with the old “listen-to-a-phrase-and-repeat-it-on-your-own-instrument” technique

4. play an instrument that can comfortably play in the keys of C, G, and D

5. are interested in finding out a little background about the music