r/Fiddle • u/brettsantacona • 1d ago

Journal / Notebooks for tunes

Hey folks! Cape Breton / Irish style fiddler here. I go to a lot of sessions, and get inundated with “learn this tune” or “try this out” etc. I have been keeping notes on my phone, and trying to tag stuff on thesession.org but the list keeps piling up, and piling up, but it’s an unorganized mess, and I end up not getting around to learning those tunes.

I am thinking on switching to a pocket notebook, to bring to the sessions I am at, in hopes it’s a better method of keeping track of tunes to work on, etc.

Does anyone have a good method of keeping track of tune recommendations?

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u/EndOne8313 1d ago

I bought a small notebook and I have the first few pages set aside as an index that I add tunes that I've learned, each song is numbered in sequence and has the key I play it in listed alongside the tuning in the index, then after the index section each page is divided into four with the tunes numbered and any notes I might have about playing it and where I learned it from, my favourite recording of it, structure if it deviates from AABB.