Learning (basic) programme
After reviewing the spiral training, understand that you can easily put together your work programme based on this, taking into account a few aspects. On the horizontal plane, place the tunes to be learned. Strip them down to their simplest form and then start learning. In instructional videos where I have played the melody several times, I always start with the simple one.
Important: the point of the method is to always learn these simple ones played first, and then move on to the next.
You can also choose material from video sharing sites, but you have to strip those down yourself. The aspects I recommend are as follows:
Songs that can be sung are easy to clean up.
It is possible, and I recommend, to learn several landscapes at the same time, so that later stylistics can be developed simultaneously. I wrote more about this in the previous article. Have several tune types so that you can develop in all scales, at all pitches, at the same time later on. The main melody types I recommend to put in order: the pentachords in D minor (Little daughter of my daughter – Kis kece lányom) and C major (Banumărăcinii, When I had my brother Laci – Mikor nékem Laci bátyám); later on, the larger ranges in F major (It is notgood to live near a forest – Erdő mellett nem jó lakni), D minor across the octave (Floricica, Sleeping sheep – Aluszol-e te juhász) and, at the end, don’t forget the Gypsy pentatonic (I brought wheat to the mill – Búzát vittem a malomba).
Here are some of my own instructional videos:
Low ambitus tunes, without octave change
A barátok. a barátok…
The preachers, the preachers (A barátok, a barátok)… this one moves within the octave, pentachord melody, with a minor key, suitable for a start
Banumaracinii
Drumul Dracului, Ördög utja, (Devil’s Road)
Moldova area, (Cleja)
part A
part B
all
and some vbariations
Two singable Csango songs for children, from this category:
Mikor nékem Laci Bátyám szépen hegedülne
When my brother Laci would play the violin for me
Hová mész te szürke cáp?
Where are you going, grey goat?
Jocul Căpriței Sau Este jő, szürkül bé
Goatly (Kecskés) or the evening is coming, and it’s getting grey (Este jő, szürkül bé)
2 High ambitus melodies, F major melodies, D minor octave changes:
Erdő melett nem jó lakni
It is not good to live near a forest – Erdő mellett nem jó lakni
Jocul căpriței (în fa)
Goatly (Kecskés) in F
Here it is very important to practise the octave changes well. The melody above is for below, the next one is for both above and below:
Floricica
I recommend a Csángó dance tune for D minor:
more variations
Brau, Öves from Klézse, Cleja
Now is the time to learn a hard tune, and to learn the language technique through it , I have discussed this in the “stylistic elements” section. It’s important to listen to what Mr. Andras has to say about how he taught his son.
Let’s change the landscape, as I promised, let’s go to the Middle Transilvanian area.
One more csárdás in C, that is, ending on the root note of the flute.
3 Melodii pentatonice
Playing the Gyimes pentatonic
Learn a new system:
This is a G-based pentatonic scale, with the low and second winds used. Later it can be decorated indefinitely:
Búzát vittem a malomba
I brought wheat to the mill – Búzát vittem a malomba
A Gyimesi hegyek
The mountains of Gyimes – A gyimesi hegyek
Oroszorsazág nem jó helyt van
Russia is not in the right place – Oroszország nem jó helyt van