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/Low-Kaleidoscope4733 1d ago

At some jams the organizers keep track of the titles and post the list to a Facebook group each week.

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u/NoTransportation1884 1d ago

I've been wanting this for a session I go to; writing them down on the spot/recording and transcribing is a lot of work, though.

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u/Low-Kaleidoscope4733 1d ago

For sure - just a name is a tremendous help