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Session Tunes

Session Tunes

Each session has a Tunes tab showing every tune that's part of that session's repertoire — everything that's been logged there, plus tunes added directly. This is the session's collective tunebook, and a great answer to "what should I learn to play here?"

Browsing

Each tune shows its name, its type (reel, jig, …), and a count. What the count means follows the sort you've picked:

  • session - How many times the tune has been logged at this session
  • everywhere - How many TheSession.org tunebooks it appears in
  • a-z - Alphabetical

The filter panel also lets you narrow by tune type, or (when logged in):

  • Nights I attended - Only tunes played on nights you checked in to
  • My Tunebook - Show your own learning status next to each tune, or filter to just the ones you've learned, are learning, want to learn, or don't have yet — optionally scoped to one of your instruments

Tune Details

Tap any tune to open its detail drawer:

  • Sheet music notation, with links to the tune on TheSession.org and in ABC Tools (where you can hear it played back)
  • Change Setting - Page through every setting of the tune, each with its full notation, and pick the one the session plays (session admins), or the one that was played on a particular night (members)
  • Your own list status, with an Add button if it's not on your list yet
  • History - Every time it's been played here, with links straight into those nights' logs; session members can set the name, setting, or key the session uses for it
  • Details - Play counts and tunebook counts
  • Played With - The tunes it's most often set with

Adding Tunes

The search box above the tune list finds tunes by name — or by their notes: type a few bars in ABC (e.g. "GED BED") and it narrows the list to tunes whose notation contains them, marked with a ♪.

The + button opens the add-tune search — the same search-and-preview flow used everywhere in the app, including TheSession.org search and paste-a-URL import. When you add a tune you can optionally record what the session calls it ("We call this"), and a specific setting or key the session plays it in. The session's name is the one its members see the tune under in searches and in the logger, with TheSession.org's name beneath it — unless they have given the tune a name of their own in their tunebook, which comes first.

Copying Tunes

Use Select Tunes... to pick several tunes and copy them in one go — to your own list (at a chosen learning status), or to another session you help run.