Tunes


Session Tune Books

These books have been assembled from the tunes and sets played in the Bear Inn in Faversham, Kent on Thursday nights over the past 20 years and have helped many a beginner to the traditional session scene as well as seasoned sessioneers who have added them to their collections. Payment is secure through PayPal.

Bear-bones

The original Andy Perkins classic is still available!

Packed with 30 sets of traditional tunes from England, Ireland, Scotland and America and introducing the 'bear-bones' style of plain and unornamented scores.

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Bear Bones 2

Very much a second volume of Bear-bones by Paul Slater, adding another 93 tunes to the repertoire and reflecting the tunes commonly played now at The Bear

Tunes are from England, Ireland, Scotland, America as before and adding a few popular tunes from Sweden, France (and French Canada) and Belgium.

It continues the 'bear-bones' style of plain and unornamented scores.

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Bear Bones 3

By popular demand, a third volume of Bear-bones tunes by Paul Slater, adding another 89 tunes commonly played now at The Bear

Tunes again are from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, America, Sweden, France, Spain, Finland and Shetland.

It continues the 'bear-bones' style of plain and unornamented scores.

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