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Easily_Deluded_Fool · Post by **Easily_Deluded_Fool** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:54 am

Easily_Deluded_Fool wrote:
Leel wrote:Is there anywhere to get dots or abc's for this one?
No dots but tab', presumably for guitar.
http://music.kulichki.net/txt/c/clannad ... mair.shtml

Don't s'pose anyone could translate to abc ?

Replying to m'self!

Play at 80 bpm.
http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/nobody ... omhair.doc
Ignore the rest thingies in the first bar. I sorta forgot to remove them

Sorry it's a word doc thing. It's a screenshot from Finale.
Download. Check fer virii! None there when I left it, but yer never know!

HTH

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:15 am

Darwin wrote:Others that I have marked in the "Best Slow Airs" book are:

*snippage*

"Carrickfergus"
"Port na bPucai"

These two appear on the Na Connerys CD "Part 2: Fire in our Hearts". A marvellous CD imho... Carrickfergus is played on the whistle, and Port na bPucai on the UPs... and both of them played wonderfully.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 7:13 am

So far, in the slow air category, I've learned:

She Moved Through the Fair
A Stor Mo Chroi
By the Side of the Rock (can't spell the gaelic, but it's the last tune in
Dossan of Heather)
Eleanor Plunkett
Inisheer
Amhran na Leabhair
Anach Chuin
Crested Hens
South Wind
Dawning of the Day
Derry Air (derriere?)

Leel · Post by **Leel** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 2:29 pm

Replying to m'self!

Play at 80 bpm.
http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/nobody ... omhair.doc
Ignore the rest thingies in the first bar. I sorta forgot to remove them
Sorry it's a word doc thing. It's a screenshot from Finale.
Download. Check fer virii! None there when I left it, but yer never know!

HTH

Thanks "fool". That's perfect!

LEE

elendil · Post by **elendil** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:22 pm

A couple of nice tunes I don't think were mentioned:

Geatai Bhaile Bui = gates of the yellow town (BOTL)
Tip of the Whistle (Chieftans)
Dochas? = Hope (Chieftans 7 or 8; maybe I got the title a little wrong)
Limerick's Lamentation (can't remember the Irish, Chieftan's do it nice.)

Oh, and a real nice haunting one that Sean Potts did for his dad on a Chieftan's album, The Piper Remembered, An Phiobaire ****?

And, Mra na hEireann = women of ireland, more chieftans stuff.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:52 pm

elendil wrote:A couple of nice tunes I don't think were mentioned:

Geatai Bhaile Bui = gates of the yellow town (BOTL)

OK, I know I should know this, but I just can't place BOTL. Who's BOTL? And thanks for the recommendations.

I'll check them out.

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 4:01 pm

blackhawk wrote:
elendil wrote:A couple of nice tunes I don't think were mentioned:

Geatai Bhaile Bui = gates of the yellow town (BOTL)
OK, I know I should know this, but I just can't place BOTL. Who's BOTL? And thanks for the recommendations. I'll check them out.

Boys of the Lough? Or do they spell it Loch? I can't remember.

Redwolf

elendil · Post by **elendil** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:33 pm

Lough, but pronounced "Luff."

It's a shame that's it's so hard to get their stuff in this country now. I've learned a huge number of great tunes from their albums, also of course from the Chieftans, including quite a number of airs, some already mentioned, others not. Although I learned many of them or even most for my fiddle, I usually learned them on whistle first. I have two notebooks pretty much full of tunes, including many beautiful airs, learned from their albums and others. (Incidentally, one of my shoulders is feeling so much better lately that I may have a go at playing the fiddle again.)

Another good place or two for some great airs are albums by Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain. The Pearl and The Ruby, for example. The title song, The Ruby, starts out exquisitely on whistle. Sounds to me like a Gen, enhanced a bit in the studio.

The first two Capercaille CD's also have some beautiful songs. They're all easy enough to learn by ear, but so satisfying to play.

(edited to add two more easy to learn airs)

Colsfield House -- I think that's on a Kevin Crawford album. Sounds really good on a Bb whistle. He plays it on flute, of course.

Caitlin Triall (Chieftan's Live). One of the first tunes I learned for fiddle, but it's nice on whistle, too.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 7:33 pm

elendil wrote:Lough, but pronounced "Luff."

Very informative post, Elendil, and thank you, but actually the Irish pronounce this word "lock."

elendil · Post by **elendil** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 7:37 pm

Well, I can see you've never heard Garrison Keilor's (sp?) inane introduction to the BOTL concert at Carnegie Hall.

But I couldn't remember the other half of his joke.

elendil · Post by **elendil** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:05 pm

Well, I can see you've never heard Garrison Keilor's (sp?) inane introduction to the BOTL concert at Carnegie Hall. But I couldn't remember the other half of his joke.

Ha! I just remembered the other half of his gag. After going on and on and on about how he thought the word was pronounced "Luff" he then pronounced the word "muffler" as if it were "mockler." One of those things where ya'd hafta be there.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:14 pm

elendil wrote:
Well, I can see you've never heard Garrison Keilor's (sp?) inane introduction to the BOTL concert at Carnegie Hall. But I couldn't remember the other half of his joke.
Ha! I just remembered the other half of his gag. After going on and on and on about how he thought the word was pronounced "Luff" he then pronounced the word "muffler" as if it were "mockler." One of those things where ya'd hafta be there.

Ah, I get it now! Thanks, El!

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:14 pm

Leel wrote:Is there anywhere to get dots or abc's for this one?

Leel, sorry to be so long getting back to you on this. It's in Geraldine Cotter's Irish Tin Whistle Tutor, page 97.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 2:38 am

It's also in Walton's 110 "Ireland's Best Slow Airs" book w/CD.

It's turned out to be much easier than I'd expected. I played through it a couple of times last night just before bed, and I could pretty much play it right through this morning. How cool! That's the fastest any of the new tunes has sunk into my thick skull. And it came along just as I was getting a bit burned out on a few hundred daily repetitions of Eanach Dhuin.

Thanks for bringing it up, blackhawk.

My Whitecap-Feadog is really coming in handy for learning all these new tunes. It doesn't distract me with control problems, it's quiet enough to play in my office, and it has a nice sound, too. On the other hand, the Burke is great for getting even more intensity into known tunes out in more open areas of the house.

I'm having so much fun! Can't wait for my Whitecap A to arrive. Turns out I'll need it to play along with the recording I have of "The Dear Irish Boy".

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 6:02 am

Darwin wrote:It's also in Walton's 110 "Ireland's Best Slow Airs" book w/CD.

It's turned out to be much easier than I'd expected. I played through it a couple of times last night just before bed, and I could pretty much play it right through this morning. How cool! That's the fastest any of the new tunes has sunk into my thick skull. And it came along just as I was getting a bit burned out on a few hundred daily repetitions of Eanach Dhuin.

Thanks for bringing it up, blackhawk.

My pleasure, Darwin.

My Whitecap-Feadog is really coming in handy for learning all these new tunes. It doesn't distract me with control problems, it's quiet enough to play in my office, and it has a nice sound, too. On the other hand, the Burke is great for getting even more intensity into known tunes out in more open areas of the house.

I'm having so much fun! Can't wait for my Whitecap A to arrive. Turns out I'll need it to play along with the recording I have of "The Dear Irish Boy".

This music is so addictive, isn't it? It just gets better and better.