What tune are you working on now?

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 4:13 pm

ausdag wrote:
brianc wrote:a jig whose name escapes me at the moment.
Hey I'm doing that one at the moment too. What a cracker! The B and C parts are great, it's the F part which really gets me

DavidG

I know a bunch of tunes named that... odd, but they are all different from each other

ausdag · Post by **ausdag** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 4:57 pm

Joseph E. Smith wrote:
ausdag wrote:
brianc wrote:a jig whose name escapes me at the moment.
Hey I'm doing that one at the moment too. What a cracker! The B and C parts are great, it's the F part which really gets me

DavidG

I know a bunch of tunes named that... odd, but they are all different from each other

Yeah, whenever I find the dots to my favourite tune in various books, I think it's called 'Gan Ainm', it always seems to come out different

morten · Post by **morten** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:44 pm

Humours of Ballyloughlin, Bucks of Oranmore and Woman of the House.

Done that for ages......

/Morten

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:08 pm

Nano, I hate ABC. It really stretches my little brain. The Virginia starts something like:

DBBA B2DB |BAdB AF#EF# | DF#F#F# A3 B | AF#BF# AF#EF# etc.

O'Flynn was pretty condemning about calling it the Virginian (an old American tv western) in the Planxty video.

djm

Gio · Post by **Gio** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 8:33 pm

Splendid Isolation (wonderful!

)
but the sean potts setting in Gm, on my D chanter.
it's a little bit hard but I'm starting to sort something out...

Beare haven lasses (deadly!!

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the Hannan version in Dmin (Bmin transposed).
and a few of mine compositions. the sound great as well.

I really love tunes in that keys. especially with drones turned on!

glands · Post by **glands** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:16 pm

Thanks Peter. I'm sure I had it wrong and that my source was correct.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:43 am

djm wrote:Nano, I hate ABC. It really stretches my little brain. The Virginia starts something like:

DBBA B2DB |BAdB AF#EF# | DF#F#F# A3 B | AF#BF# AF#EF# etc.

O'Flynn was pretty condemning about calling it the Virginian (an old American tv western) in the Planxty video.

djm

Thanks, djm. I'll pass on the info. Funny how I got the name from a fellow who grew up in deepest Irish Boston!

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:47 am

Nanohedron wrote:
djm wrote:Nano, I hate ABC. It really stretches my little brain. The Virginia starts something like:

DBBA B2DB |BAdB AF#EF# | DF#F#F# A3 B | AF#BF# AF#EF# etc.

O'Flynn was pretty condemning about calling it the Virginian (an old American tv western) in the Planxty video.

djm
Thanks, djm. I'll pass on the info. Funny how I got the name from a fellow who grew up in deepest Irish Boston!

I absolutely love this reel, The Virginia. Though it has been a part of my repetoire for only a little while, I find it straining to sneak into almost any set of reels I try to play.....especially after 'The Old Torn Petticoat'.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 12:03 pm

It fits in very well after The Connaught Heifers, I find.

Dang. Now I've betrayed one of my personal sets.

feadogin · Post by **feadogin** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 12:44 pm

Peter Laban wrote:
glands wrote:
Is it the same?
Ormond Sound it is.

That's my favorite tune right now! Maybe I should try and learn that one on the pipes.

Right now I am working on Palm Sunday and trying to decide what tune I want to learn next. Might be Sport....BTW, can anyone recommend a good recording of Colonel Fraser's? I'd like to learn that one, too.

Justine

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 12:55 pm

Depends on how you like your pipe tunes. I'm trying to learn the Paddy Keenan version from his first CD, as it also appears at the end of the Armagh piping tutor, but if you want something a bit calmer check out Brian McNamara's version.

djm

feadogin · Post by **feadogin** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 12:58 pm

djm wrote:Depends on how you like your pipe tunes. I'm trying to learn the Paddy Keenan version from his first CD, as it also appears at the end of the Armagh piping tutor, but if you want something a bit calmer check out Brian McNamara's version.

djm

I have the Paddy Keenan, so I guess I'll try and work it out from that. I just need something to get the tune from, and then I'll try and throw in some ornaments if I can handle it!

Thanks!

J.

David Lim · Post by **David Lim** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:07 pm

feadogin wrote:I have the Paddy Keenan, so I guess I'll try and work it out from that. I just need something to get the tune from, and then I'll try and throw in some ornaments if I can handle it!

Thanks!

J.

I tend to see Colonel Fraser as one of those piping tune where some parts have evolved to be more ornament than melody.

Good practice for rolls and tight triplets though

Good luck

David

benwalker · Post by **benwalker** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:39 pm

Since hearing "Scully Casey's jig (Brian O'Lynn) courtesy of David Lim. I have had it stuck in my head for days!

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:59 pm

feadogin wrote:
djm wrote:Depends on how you like your pipe tunes. I'm trying to learn the Paddy Keenan version from his first CD, as it also appears at the end of the Armagh piping tutor, but if you want something a bit calmer check out Brian McNamara's version.

djm
I have the Paddy Keenan, so I guess I'll try and work it out from that. I just need something to get the tune from, and then I'll try and throw in some ornaments if I can handle it!

Thanks!

J.

Two versions I really like of Col. Fraser's, is John McSherry's version on the first Lunasa CD (live), and the second being Jerry O'Sullivan's version on his 'Invasion' CD. Jerry does some nice reg work on it.