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Now that you wrote them down you can add to that list. LOL
Great list Ken. Congratulations. It would be nice to know for real how many pieces we know without even realizing it. The brain is amazing isn't it?
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LOL, I've had that list for several month's, when I played other song's (not on the list), I would jot them down on a scrap piece of paper and then lose the paper they were on. After I posted that list, I sat here and thought of another dozen or so song's not on that list.
Some song's I play, like I said, I don't know their name's, I suppose I could post them under a heading, "Does Anyone Know The Name of This Tune, because I don't, I can just play what I remember. There is one song that I played in a recital when I was about 9 year's old, that's been 61 years ago, I can still play some of it and don't remember what it is. I think maybe someone may know it, because I think it was in the classical genre, not sure.
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@KindaScratchy Thanks! That's a good list for me to work on. I need to get down my Irish rolls on my 3rd and 4th fingers so I can play The Gael. It's so hard for me though.
@fiddlestix That's so many songs. I don't think I could memorize that list of songs, let alone play them. 
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My all time favorite answer to this question came from back when we were auditioning some bass players for a band I was in. I asked one of the guys who was there to audition what kind of music he usually played.. He just looked at me like it was a pretty dumb question and said:
"I play good music, man. Real good music."
He didn't end up getting the gig, but I really liked that answer.
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My all time favorite answer to this question came from back when we were auditioning some bass players for a band I was in. I asked one of the guys who was there to audition what kind of music he usually played.. He just looked at me like it was a pretty dumb question and said:
"I play good music, man. Real good music."
He didn't end up getting the gig, but I really liked that answer.
"I play good music, man. Real good music."
Remind's me of a friend from year's back who used the word, "man", almost every other word from his mouth. I asked him one day why he said, "man" in every sentence. His answer to me was that he played trumpet in a jazz band back in the '50's' and that word was standard vocabulary in them day's and that it stuck with him throughout the year's. His first name was Ed / Eddie so we just called him "hey man Eddie".
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When it come's down to music genre, I like playing song's that people can sing along with. I like all type's of music, even classical, but if I were to go to a party and play for people there, they don't want to hear, Beethovin and Mozart, they want something they perhap's know the word's to and can sing along. Here is a partial list of song's I play. While i'm playing one song I may hit a couple note's that remind me of another song, so I start on the new one. My only problem is that I never write the name's down and some song's I play I don't remember the name, I just play from what I remember how the song goes, so I can't write it down.
Christmas Song's
White Christmas
Frosty The Snowman
Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas
Jingle Bell Rock
The Christmas Song (Chestnut's Roasting on An Open Fire)
Pop, Old Favorite's
Three O'Clock in The Morning
Beyond The Blue Horizon
Sidewalks of New York
Cruising Down the River (on a Sunday afternoon)
Maria Elena
China Town
Slow Boat to China
The Band Played On
Don't you know (Della Reese)
Take Me Out to The Ball Game
Swanee River
Deep Purple
Baby Face
I'll Be Seeing You (in all the old familiar places)
Mona Lisa
Ashokan Farewell
Brazil
Red River Valley
The High and The Mighty
Tie a Yellow Ribbon round the Old Oak Tree
Mr. Lucky
Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy
Stormy Weather
The Alphabet Song (a you're adorable)
The Old Lamplighter
Don't Fence Me In
Button's N Bow's
Charmaine
In The Still of The Night
It's a Long Way to Tiperary
Irish Washer Woman
Swallowtail Jig
Danny Boy
And there's more, like I said, I just can't remember what they are because I don't write em down. 
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I do agree. Audiences get a great deal of satisfaction when they can participate in a performance.
Believe it or not even playing in a classical orchestra there are pieces we play where our audiences sing along. One of our most popular is "Handel's Messiah". Whenever we play it many of our audiences stand and sing along. In fact it is so popular as a sing-a-long that around the holiday season we play it as a sing-along joined by a choral group and audience participants. There are also a few other classical pieces were the audience loves to join in and sing or clap along as we play. And of course the patriotic songs we throw in when we play public venues. A lot of audience members stand and join in. Of course a many classical pieces were meant just to be listened to. But some do indeed encourage audience participation. It is also a great feeling for us as musicians when the audience participates.
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Fiddlestix said DanielB said My all time favorite answer to this question came from back when we were auditioning some bass players for a band I was in. I asked one of the guys who was there to audition what kind of music he usually played.. He just looked at me like it was a pretty dumb question and said: "I play good music, man. Real good music."
Man, I catch your drift man. Hey man, man I'll bet he could play some groovy licks when he was groovin on that horn man..:)
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Fiddlestix said
When it come's down to music genre, I like playing song's that people can sing along with. I like all type's of music, even classical, but if I were to go to a party and play for people there, they don't want to hear, Beethovin and Mozart, they want something they perhap's know the word's to and can sing along.Here is a partial list of song's I play. While i'm playing one song I may hit a couple note's that remind me of another song, so I start on the new one. My only problem is that I never write the name's down and some song's I play I don't remember the name, I just play from what I remember how the song goes, so I can't write it down.
Christmas Song's
White Christmas
Frosty The Snowman
Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas
Jingle Bell Rock
The Christmas Song (Chestnut's Roasting on An Open Fire)
Pop, Old Favorite's
Three O'Clock in The Morning
Beyond The Blue Horizon
Sidewalks of New York
Cruising Down the River (on a Sunday afternoon)
Maria Elena
China Town
Slow Boat to China
The Band Played On
Don't you know (Della Reese)
Take Me Out to The Ball Game
Swanee River
Deep Purple
Baby Face
I'll Be Seeing You (in all the old familiar places)
Mona Lisa
Ashokan Farewell
Brazil
Red River Valley
The High and The Mighty
Tie a Yellow Ribbon round the Old Oak Tree
Mr. Lucky
Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy
Stormy Weather
The Alphabet Song (a you're adorable)
The Old Lamplighter
Don't Fence Me In
Button's N Bow's
Charmaine
In The Still of The Night
It's a Long Way to Tiperary
Irish Washer Woman
Swallowtail Jig
Danny Boy
And there's more, like I said, I just can't remember what they are because I don't write em down.
Ken.
When it come's down to music genre, I like playing song's that people can sing along with. I like all type's of music, even classical, but if I were to go to a party and play for people there, they don't want to hear, Beethovin and Mozart, they want something they perhap's know the word's to and can sing along. Here is a partial list of song's I play. While i'm playing one song I may hit a couple note's that remind me of another song, so I start on the new one. My only problem is that I never write the name's down and some song's I play I don't remember the name, I just play from what I remember how the song goes, so I can't write it down.
Christmas Song's
White Christmas
Frosty The Snowman
Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas
Jingle Bell Rock
The Christmas Song (Chestnut's Roasting on An Open Fire)
Pop, Old Favorite's
Three O'Clock in The Morning
Beyond The Blue Horizon
Sidewalks of New York
Cruising Down the River (on a Sunday afternoon)
Maria Elena
China Town
Slow Boat to China
The Band Played On
Don't you know (Della Reese)
Take Me Out to The Ball Game
Swanee River
Deep Purple
Baby Face
I'll Be Seeing You (in all the old familiar places)
Mona Lisa
Ashokan Farewell
Brazil
Red River Valley
The High and The Mighty
Tie a Yellow Ribbon round the Old Oak Tree
Mr. Lucky
Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy
Stormy Weather
The Alphabet Song (a you're adorable)
The Old Lamplighter
Don't Fence Me In
Button's N Bow's
Charmaine
In The Still of The Night
It's a Long Way to Tiperary
Irish Washer Woman
Swallowtail Jig
Danny Boy
And there's more, like I said, I just can't remember what they are because I don't write em down.
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for me, I've only been playing since dec 2012 so currently i'm just playing songs from my instructor led books "suzuki vol 1 (almost done with it), Introducing the positions, and Franz Wohlfart foundation studies book 1. I have been practicing Greensleeves on my own on the side. The type of music I have planned and goal set for myself is to reach the level of Lindsey Sterling, Josh Vietti, and Taylor Davis as their music was what got me interested in the violin and its the style I prefer most.
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Although I've been learning for over a year and a half now, my memorized repertoire remains very limited. I've been focusing maybe too much on the rather raw exercise books.
That being said, my preferred style is, as many others have said, basically whatever catches my fancy. My average practice starts with about 30 minutes of scales and arpeggios, followed by something to the effect of, in no particular order:
-15 min. of medieval music ("Estampie royale", "L'homme armé", and not yet memorized "Par le regard de vos beaux yeux")
-15 min. of modern French, mostly covering Debout sur le Zinc melodies ("2 x oui", "Anita", "Scylla", "Les tontons", plus random excerpts to practice shifting and intonation)
-Some minutes of random other stuff, including lesson books (Dummies and Essential Elements 2000 vol. 1, 2, 3), though I've just finished all those; etc. melodies ("Super Mario Bros.", "La Marseillaise", just started on Gabriel Fauré's "Pavane in F-sharp minor, Op. 50"...)
-A long time on original compositions. Helps with reading/writing music, rhythm; perfecting writing and playback to a metronome takes forever. Also allows me to experiment with more complicated bowing techniques not used in the above. This is probably where I enjoy myself most (3 of these, plus a handful of incomplete excerpts).
Wow, I'm impressed with you all and your lists of songs! I promised my parents I'd play some Christmas songs for them at our Christmas party this year, so I'll need to start adding those.
Since I've only been playing 2 months my list is not too impressive.
Last night I sat down and played every song I have memorized... all four of them.
Two Beatles songs (Yesterday, and Imagine)
one Elvis song (name??? uh...."Wise men say only fools rush in..." )
and the Tennessee Waltz.
I have a few I want to work on but I'm trying to keep my fun song time balanced with my book learnin' !
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I started off wanting to learn Celtic music and I did that for about the first year. Then I really started to enjoy folk music and all those old timey tunes I remember from when I was a child. At about 3 months into my lessons I was looking around YouTube and found Jay Ungar's Lover's Waltz and totally fell head over heals in love with it. I ordered a copy from him and Molly's webpage and even had them sign it. I knew I couldn't play it then, heck, didn't even know some of those notes yet but it has been my focal point and on display near my music stand ever since. Even after I knew all the notes, my teacher kept telling me that it was still beyond my abilities. So I taught it to myself. I have a friend who plays guitar and he kept telling me to learn Ashokan Farewell but it just didn't do anything for me for some reason. Then about 3 weeks ago, I looked it up on YouTube again and dang it if I didn't fall in love with it too! I learned that piece in two days as yes, it is much easier then Lover's Waltz.
Anyways, very interesting thread and it is giving me great ideas about different music to learn. I'll put up my list in a day or so. FINALLY my music binder got enough songs in it that I had to alphabetize them to find which song I wanted. Yay.
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