bravesentry’s eighty-two comments

Just a quick warning: The pub is very crowded with tourists who don´t seem to care about the music at all and keep the noise level very high. Drinks are rather expensive. Apart from that, its a nice session, though some tunes are played needlessly fast -... more…

If you´re going to santiago, be sure to check both A Gramola and Casa das Crechas. more…

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tl;dr: notes with # should be intonated sharper than ther equivalents with b. So the A# in an F# major triad should sound flatter than the Bb in an Ab7. The reason for this lies in the Harmonic series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_%28musi... more…

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We´ve moved again. Here this time: https://thesession.org/sessions/6672 more…

We´ll be giving this venue a try on the 16th of December but hopefully we´ll move our regular session there, which would be a monthly session, taking place on the 3rd Sunday each month. Starting around 7pm. Mostly a tune session with the occasional song... more…

"So a tune loses its composed status when it becomes a trad tune?" more…

You can´t compose trad tunes. You can compose tunes that fit the idioms. They may become trad tunes if they get picked up by players and spread to different sessions. more…

I once heard of a session where they play Boys of Blue Hill as a reel, which sounds really disgusting. more…