Tune Resources
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Malin Makes Music
Original Tunes
Written and compiled by Malin, a piper, fiddler, & small pipes maker from the
Isle of Skye
A massive list of
tune books
Compiled by Charlie Seelig
Get ready to fill up your
tune book library reeeal fast :)
The Waltz
Books
Bill Matthiesen is up to 4 at this point. This is a pretty standard collection to have
Tune Book
This Part of the World
by Rachel Bell
As of April 2nd, 2021, you can pre-order this new tune book by the brilliant multi-instrumentalist, Rachel Bell! Within it's pages, you'll find 80 original tunes (reels, jigs, mazurkas, bourées, and more!)
Orders will ship around June 1st, 2021.
Pre-Order Now!
Trad Practice Book
Best Practice:
Inspiration and Ideas for Trad Musicians
Written and created by Judy Minot, this book is full of practical and useful advice for adult, self-taught trad musicians. Learn how to make practicing a joy & how to work more efficiently and progress faster.
Click below to get your copy today!
Available Now!
New Tune Book
Tunes Collected II
by Liz Carroll
Presenting Liz Carroll's most recent collection of original tunes - you'll find sixty jigs, reels, marches, hornpipes and strathspeys (some unrecorded), photos, manuscripts, tune tales, and more within these pages
Available Now!
Tune Book
Last Leaf
by Danish String Quartet
Maybe you're looking for a tunebook of trad/original tune arrangements for a few instruments -- look no further than "Last Leaf." You'll find an assortment of brilliant Nordic trad/O.G. tunes for 4 parts
Available Now!
tunebook
Orginal Tunes
by Rodney Miller
Rodney Miller, the esteemed fiddler and tune writer, has created a new tune book full of original tunes + accompanying recordings.
After completing a gofundme fundraiser, the book is finally ready for purchase. Woohoo!
Available Now!
The
Session
Find tunes, find sessions, join discussions, discover tune history, find track listings for recordings, & more!
A list compiled by
Charlie Seelig
Not to be redundant, but just to cover even more bases, this magnificent compilation of tune resources is excellent
Irish Traditional
Music Archive
A digital archive FULL of recordings, books, manuscripts, and images. It's packed with information and I imagine it's taken a LOT of work to compile!
Espace
Parallèle
Discover all sorts of French Canadian tune and song books!
Such a cool resource :)
CDSS
store
You'll find a very wide selection of tune books on their site for purchase. During your search, you can also narrow it down to preferred folk genre!
Identitairs
Quebecois
A boatload of popular Quebecois tunes can be found on this site - including midi files if you prefer to learn by ear!
MFC Tune
Resources
Peruse each year's tunes from the last 10+ years - you'll find sheet music and recordings from lots of traditions!
Music
Hub
A website for those who write tunes in the Scottish trad style to publish their music! So cool!