Folks in these discussions often refer to "a standard session tune list." Has anyone posted such a list, and if so, where can I find it?
I recognize that such a list is quite flexible, and that most people would likely dispute the contents of such a list, to favor their own favorites, but there is obviously quite a number of tunes that most folks consider "standard" for any given session.
(I'm fairly new to The Session, so I may be guilty of submitting an FAQ.)
I have the alphabetical listing of "121 Favorite Irish Session Tunes" by L.E. McCullough on my web site. For N. America it seems to be a good representation of the tunes that I have heard played at sessions.
I just had a look at Will's list of 160 top reels. My weekly session plays only about 30 of them (some only rarely - with only a couple of players knowing them)! I'd have to think about it more than I have time for now, but I suspect we have another 20-30 reels that we play regularly that aren't on Will's list.
We do a bit better at agreeing on jigs. We play about half of the 76 on Will's list, and not a whole lot that aren't.
I've been thinking of doing some kind of pseudo-scientific survey of actual sessions to measure relative popularity of the tunes. I'm teaching a course on music and math in the autumn, so maybe I'll get my students to gather and analyze some data.
I'd like to see what those other 20-30 reels are, Gary, just to know what gets played. My local session also plays a lot of reels that aren't on that list, but I suspect they aren't played at many other sessions.
I just had a look and realised how few of these I know, or at least how few I would be confident I could play from memory without prompting, meaning I'm pretty much a waste of space at all-Irish sessions, since the only ones I'm really confident of are probably the ones that everyone else is sick of. How depressing.
Will's list is interesting, and certainly includes most of the common reels as played in 2001. But don't be disheartened by it. These things constantly evolve (and sometimes revolve). There are quite a few tunes there I've never heard the names of (which isn't to say I haven't heard them, or maybe been involved in playing them), and, particularly as the list goes on to other forms than reels, there are what may now in 2004 seem to be many curious omissions.
Reels: The Silver Spire, Flagstone Of Memories, London Lasses, Wedding reel
Jigs: Wot about...
Sliabh Russell, The roaring barmaid, Condon's Frolics, Cordal jig, The other munster Buttermilk (not Behind theHaystack), Rollicking Boys of Tandernagee, Palm Sunday
Hornpipes:
Fisher's, Boys Of Bluehill, Kitty's Wedding, Home Ruler, Peacock's Feather
These are off the top of my head, and aren't meant to be a dig at Will, who put up his list with the aim of people adding to it - but I think they start to show how fashions changed. some of the above have been popularised by bands like lunasa, and have spread like wildfire. Others on Will's list, I heard a lot a few years back, but don't ever hear these days (Maudabaun Chapel springs to mind - once upon a time everyone played what Kevin Burke recorded, at leat I think that was where everyone got that one)
I think the point I'm trying to make is that you should learn what you like. Eventually it will come into fashion. And my tip for the top is that you MUST learn 'And The Colour Of Her Golden Hair Was Black' (Junior Crehan's). Armed with just that one tune, you can take the session world by storm(!)
Can't hurt to learn as many tunes as you can, but neither is it a problem to not know any particular tune, so don't go getting depressed -- you'll learn it eventually anyway.
I know of not one single player that I respect and admire who would look down their nose at someone for not knowing a tune, no matter how common it was. I've still not learned many of the tunes on many "common session tunes" lists -- for instance, I know only three of the tunes on ottery's addition to the list -- so that's when I drink, while I enjoy the music.
One thing I've found is that when you learn those great 'older' tunes that have fallen out of fashion that no one is playing anymore and then play it out at a session, all the good players leap on it with joy and then afterward thank you for bringing the tune back to mind.
So don't worry about it. Learn the tunes that want you to play them, and if you can, find those among the "common" ones for your area, so that you can spend most of your time playing, but there's just too many tunes to give yourself heartburn trying to learn them all at once.
I know five of them , Zina. I'm better than you-hoo. :-0 )
Seriously, that *is* is the best advice yet. "Learn the tunes that want you to play them" They'll reveal themselves soon enough and you shouldn't need to be looking too hard.
Let's see, what is one if one is wishing for the ability, time, and energy to play music, but in real life hasn't the ability, the time, nor the energy to do so? Heh.
Yes - it's important to get away from the idea that there is some sort of "list" lurking somewhere, like some sort of "wise mens secret", or masonic handshake. When people refer to a "list" - perhaps "canon" would be a better word (perhaps not). It's not "what-you've-got-to-be-able-to-play-if-you-want-to-join-in", but its "these-are-what-gets-played-most,-so-starting-with-SOME-of-these-would-be-a-good-idea"
Wait a minute! Dave, are you doubting my 'wise man' status? Umbrage! Outrage!
"starting-with-some-of-these..." is exactly it. Most experienced session players probably have a good sense of which tunes are common enough that other people will likely to join in on, and which tunes aren't so widely known. We I keep track of that sort of thing for sessions because one of the main points of a session is to invite participation from your mates. So it helps to have some idea of which tunes are common currency, and which tunes aren't. And it's always fun to launch an 'obscure' tune and have someone else join in.
Hey, Will. I got obsessed and spent far too much time making a list of reels, jigs and hornpipes that we play (at least occasionally) at our session that I couldn't spot on your list. Probably not complete. A few non-Irish tunes included. No time to alphabetize! No time to do slides, polkas, slip jigs...
Reels
The Merry Blacksmith
Sligo Maid
Christmas Eve
Far From Home
Castle Kelly
The Humours of Tulla
Lady Anne Montgomery
The Devil's Dream
Craig's Pipes
The Mountain Road
Hunter's House
Paddy Ryan's Dream
London Lasses
Colonel Fraser
Over the Waterfall
The Barrowburn
The Humours of Westport
In The Tap Room
Jenny's Chickens
Jigs
Donnybrook Fair
Gillian's Apples
Mug of Brown Ale
Pipe on the Hob
Tatter Jack Walsh
Garrett Barry's
Lark on the Strand
St. Patrick's Knights
Irish Washerwoman
The Battering Ram
Blooming Meadows
Paddy's Resource (New York Jig)
Contentment is Wealth
Kitty's Rambles
When Sick, Is It Tea You Want?
Garryowen
Humours of Ennistymon
Andy DeJarlis
The Kerfunten
Christy Barry's
Butlers of Glen Avenue
Carraroe
Fisherman's Lilt
Hornpipes
Galway Hornpipe
Humours of Tullycrine
Mickey Callaghan's
The Tailor's Twist
Home Ruler
The Hawk
Belfast (Sweeps)
Sailor's Hornpipe
Fisher's
Kitty's Wedding
Boys of Bluehill
Stack of Wheat
Fort of Kincora
Thanks, Gary. Most of those also get played at our Helena session, and I agree--they're common session tunes (with a few exceptions: I've never heard Irish Washerwoman, Sailor's Hornpipe, or Devil's Dream actually played at a session, and Over the Waterfall is a good tune, but I learned it from the old timey crowd on the US East Coast and haven't heard it in an Irish trad session either).
There are also some overlaps due to more than one name for a tune. Humours of Ennistymon aka Coppers and Brass, Donnybrook Fair aka Joy of My Life, Humours of Tullycrine aka Bobby Casey's, etc.
My original list also had some glaring omissions - Sligo Maid, Mountain Road sorts of tunes. I was guessing other people would add to it, getting us up around 400-500 tunes, the real core body of common session tunes out of the thousands of tunes out there.
I've heard Irish Washerwoman, but generally only when a newcomer or beginner starts it up and everyone plays it to be nice. (Once I saw someone grouse about it when a beginner started it up, and then somebody else threw them a look and joined in -- which meant then everyone else did too -- just to get up the nose of the first one. *grin*)
Okay, so what tunes does everyone "default" to -- you know, when you need a tune that you know everyone knows, especially when you're visiting a strange session, they invite you to start up a set, and you start in a set of tunes that you think that everyone will surely know, only to find yourself playing alone for two tunes while everyone else shakes their head and looks politely fascinated, and you're desperately wanting to find a tune that everyone will be able to play on, but not so common that people won't want to play it from sheer overuse?
(These days, I tend to check to see if they know the tunes I intend to start up first. *smirk*)
Reel-wise, mine are The Congress, Silver Spear, and The Scholar.
It helps to consider the instruments present--lots of whistles and flutes, or a set of pipes, and that would steer me to different tunes than if it was all fiddles.
Other likely reels: The Banshee, Maid Behind the Bar, Cooley's, Sally Gardens, the Wise Maid. Drowsy Maggie is failsafe, unless you're in with a bunch of hotshots and they all groan, but then it's their fault for not knowing the first two tunes you played.
Whatever the common tune list is in your city is the standard tune list you should learn. The only way to know that is to go to the session and start recording tunes you recognize (i.e. have been played many times).
I'd normally play whichever two I've got the hots for at the moment (usually but not always something I've just learned) and stick on a third that I know everyone will know(!) The Banshee or Cooleys or Morrison's or The Mug Of Brown Ale or Star Of Munster, Miss Monaghan's, The Glass Of Beer, The Eavesdropper, or Collins' Jig are good safe finishers which don't usually elicit too many groans from the Congnoscente....
Tep, Banshee gets groans and rolled eyeballs, but if no one knew the first two tunes I played, they've got no right to groan when I give them something they all know.
Besides, it's not a bad tune, just a tad repetitive. At my local sesh, if I'm looking for a common G tune, I usually go into Woman of the House or Brenda McMahon's (aka Tommy Peoples').
Nothing gets groans or eyeballs around here, which is kind of nice.
Re Cooleys: - if you mean you forget how to start it, think of first couple of bars of the "Odd Couple" theme. They either stole it from Cooley's, or from The Cat Rambles to the Child's saucepan.
What's 'The Odd Couple'? Is that something on the television? The Banshee isn't overplayed around here. There was a time when it was, but now it's greeted like a long lost friend whenever it puts in an appearance...
There are lots of other well-known G-ish tunes
Peeler's Jacket,
Lad O'Beirne's,
Shaskeen
Christmas Eve
Kiss Me Kate
etc etc
But the one you absolutely know people will know is the Banshee
Right, Peeler's Jacket always gets played at whistle speed here and ties my fingers in knots, so I stick with Banshee when G is called for.
The Odd Couple was a Neil Simon play/movie/tv show about two men sharing an apartment, one a neat freak (Felix), the other a slob (Oscar). The theme song is indeed Cooley's, for the first bar at least.
Standard Session Tune List
Standard Session Tune List
Folks in these discussions often refer to "a standard session tune list." Has anyone posted such a list, and if so, where can I find it?
I recognize that such a list is quite flexible, and that most people would likely dispute the contents of such a list, to favor their own favorites, but there is obviously quite a number of tunes that most folks consider "standard" for any given session.
(I'm fairly new to The Session, so I may be guilty of submitting an FAQ.)
# Posted on August 10th 2004 by Dwatted Wabbit
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Not quite a frequently asked question, but here's a list of the most tunes that have been added to tunebooks here at The Session:
http://www.thesession.org/members/index.php/tunebook
That's a fairly democratic representation of common session tunes... at least on this site.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Jeremy
Re: Standard Session Tune List
I tried to generate such a list once, hoping others would add to it. See: http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/110/
And welcome to the sesh!
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Will Harmon
Re: Standard Session Tune List
You can also try looking at www.slowplayers.org/BOSS/BOSS_Playlist.html for the Boston's Slow session tune list.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by John Conoboy
Re: Standard Session Tune List
I have the alphabetical listing of "121 Favorite Irish Session Tunes" by L.E. McCullough on my web site. For N. America it seems to be a good representation of the tunes that I have heard played at sessions.
Here's the link:
http://www.mconners.com/sesstunes.htm
Yes, I know the link to the actual book is broken right now. I'll fix it.
All the best.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by mconners
Re: Standard Session Tune List
I just had a look at Will's list of 160 top reels. My weekly session plays only about 30 of them (some only rarely - with only a couple of players knowing them)! I'd have to think about it more than I have time for now, but I suspect we have another 20-30 reels that we play regularly that aren't on Will's list.
We do a bit better at agreeing on jigs. We play about half of the 76 on Will's list, and not a whole lot that aren't.
I've been thinking of doing some kind of pseudo-scientific survey of actual sessions to measure relative popularity of the tunes. I'm teaching a course on music and math in the autumn, so maybe I'll get my students to gather and analyze some data.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by GaryAMartin
Re: Standard Session Tune List
I'd like to see what those other 20-30 reels are, Gary, just to know what gets played. My local session also plays a lot of reels that aren't on that list, but I suspect they aren't played at many other sessions.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Will Harmon
Re: Standard Session Tune List
I just had a look and realised how few of these I know, or at least how few I would be confident I could play from memory without prompting, meaning I'm pretty much a waste of space at all-Irish sessions, since the only ones I'm really confident of are probably the ones that everyone else is sick of. How depressing.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Bren
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Will's list is interesting, and certainly includes most of the common reels as played in 2001. But don't be disheartened by it. These things constantly evolve (and sometimes revolve). There are quite a few tunes there I've never heard the names of (which isn't to say I haven't heard them, or maybe been involved in playing them), and, particularly as the list goes on to other forms than reels, there are what may now in 2004 seem to be many curious omissions.
Reels: The Silver Spire, Flagstone Of Memories, London Lasses, Wedding reel
Jigs: Wot about...
Sliabh Russell, The roaring barmaid, Condon's Frolics, Cordal jig, The other munster Buttermilk (not Behind theHaystack), Rollicking Boys of Tandernagee, Palm Sunday
Hornpipes:
Fisher's, Boys Of Bluehill, Kitty's Wedding, Home Ruler, Peacock's Feather
These are off the top of my head, and aren't meant to be a dig at Will, who put up his list with the aim of people adding to it - but I think they start to show how fashions changed. some of the above have been popularised by bands like lunasa, and have spread like wildfire. Others on Will's list, I heard a lot a few years back, but don't ever hear these days (Maudabaun Chapel springs to mind - once upon a time everyone played what Kevin Burke recorded, at leat I think that was where everyone got that one)
I think the point I'm trying to make is that you should learn what you like. Eventually it will come into fashion. And my tip for the top is that you MUST learn 'And The Colour Of Her Golden Hair Was Black' (Junior Crehan's). Armed with just that one tune, you can take the session world by storm(!)
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Ottery
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Can't hurt to learn as many tunes as you can, but neither is it a problem to not know any particular tune, so don't go getting depressed -- you'll learn it eventually anyway.
I know of not one single player that I respect and admire who would look down their nose at someone for not knowing a tune, no matter how common it was. I've still not learned many of the tunes on many "common session tunes" lists -- for instance, I know only three of the tunes on ottery's addition to the list -- so that's when I drink, while I enjoy the music.
One thing I've found is that when you learn those great 'older' tunes that have fallen out of fashion that no one is playing anymore and then play it out at a session, all the good players leap on it with joy and then afterward thank you for bringing the tune back to mind.
So don't worry about it. Learn the tunes that want you to play them, and if you can, find those among the "common" ones for your area, so that you can spend most of your time playing, but there's just too many tunes to give yourself heartburn trying to learn them all at once.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Zina Lee
Re: Standard Session Tune List
I know five of them , Zina. I'm better than you-hoo. :-0 )
Seriously, that *is* is the best advice yet. "Learn the tunes that want you to play them" They'll reveal themselves soon enough and you shouldn't need to be looking too hard.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Johnny Jay
Re: Standard Session Tune List
*smirk* Johnny J, it's a given you're better than me, isn't it?
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Zina Lee
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Not at all. And I'm probably neither a musician or a player(other thread)but more of an enthusiast.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Johnny Jay
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Let's see, what is one if one is wishing for the ability, time, and energy to play music, but in real life hasn't the ability, the time, nor the energy to do so? Heh.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Zina Lee
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Luckily, I have the time these days at least.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Johnny Jay
Re: Standard Session Tune List
I gotta get me some of that.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Zina Lee
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Yes - it's important to get away from the idea that there is some sort of "list" lurking somewhere, like some sort of "wise mens secret", or masonic handshake. When people refer to a "list" - perhaps "canon" would be a better word (perhaps not). It's not "what-you've-got-to-be-able-to-play-if-you-want-to-join-in", but its "these-are-what-gets-played-most,-so-starting-with-SOME-of-these-would-be-a-good-idea"
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by showaddydadito
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Wait a minute! Dave, are you doubting my 'wise man' status? Umbrage! Outrage!
"starting-with-some-of-these..." is exactly it. Most experienced session players probably have a good sense of which tunes are common enough that other people will likely to join in on, and which tunes aren't so widely known. We I keep track of that sort of thing for sessions because one of the main points of a session is to invite participation from your mates. So it helps to have some idea of which tunes are common currency, and which tunes aren't. And it's always fun to launch an 'obscure' tune and have someone else join in.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Will Harmon
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Hey, Will. I got obsessed and spent far too much time making a list of reels, jigs and hornpipes that we play (at least occasionally) at our session that I couldn't spot on your list. Probably not complete. A few non-Irish tunes included. No time to alphabetize! No time to do slides, polkas, slip jigs...
Reels
The Merry Blacksmith
Sligo Maid
Christmas Eve
Far From Home
Castle Kelly
The Humours of Tulla
Lady Anne Montgomery
The Devil's Dream
Craig's Pipes
The Mountain Road
Hunter's House
Paddy Ryan's Dream
London Lasses
Colonel Fraser
Over the Waterfall
The Barrowburn
The Humours of Westport
In The Tap Room
Jenny's Chickens
Jigs
Donnybrook Fair
Gillian's Apples
Mug of Brown Ale
Pipe on the Hob
Tatter Jack Walsh
Garrett Barry's
Lark on the Strand
St. Patrick's Knights
Irish Washerwoman
The Battering Ram
Blooming Meadows
Paddy's Resource (New York Jig)
Contentment is Wealth
Kitty's Rambles
When Sick, Is It Tea You Want?
Garryowen
Humours of Ennistymon
Andy DeJarlis
The Kerfunten
Christy Barry's
Butlers of Glen Avenue
Carraroe
Fisherman's Lilt
Hornpipes
Galway Hornpipe
Humours of Tullycrine
Mickey Callaghan's
The Tailor's Twist
Home Ruler
The Hawk
Belfast (Sweeps)
Sailor's Hornpipe
Fisher's
Kitty's Wedding
Boys of Bluehill
Stack of Wheat
Fort of Kincora
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by GaryAMartin
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Thanks, Gary. Most of those also get played at our Helena session, and I agree--they're common session tunes (with a few exceptions: I've never heard Irish Washerwoman, Sailor's Hornpipe, or Devil's Dream actually played at a session, and Over the Waterfall is a good tune, but I learned it from the old timey crowd on the US East Coast and haven't heard it in an Irish trad session either).
There are also some overlaps due to more than one name for a tune. Humours of Ennistymon aka Coppers and Brass, Donnybrook Fair aka Joy of My Life, Humours of Tullycrine aka Bobby Casey's, etc.
My original list also had some glaring omissions - Sligo Maid, Mountain Road sorts of tunes. I was guessing other people would add to it, getting us up around 400-500 tunes, the real core body of common session tunes out of the thousands of tunes out there.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Will Harmon
Re: Standard Session Tune List
I've heard Irish Washerwoman, but generally only when a newcomer or beginner starts it up and everyone plays it to be nice. (Once I saw someone grouse about it when a beginner started it up, and then somebody else threw them a look and joined in -- which meant then everyone else did too -- just to get up the nose of the first one. *grin*)
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Zina Lee
Should be working, but...
Okay, so what tunes does everyone "default" to -- you know, when you need a tune that you know everyone knows, especially when you're visiting a strange session, they invite you to start up a set, and you start in a set of tunes that you think that everyone will surely know, only to find yourself playing alone for two tunes while everyone else shakes their head and looks politely fascinated, and you're desperately wanting to find a tune that everyone will be able to play on, but not so common that people won't want to play it from sheer overuse?
(These days, I tend to check to see if they know the tunes I intend to start up first. *smirk*)
Reel-wise, mine are The Congress, Silver Spear, and The Scholar.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Zina Lee
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Silver Spear is a sure bet, it seems.
It helps to consider the instruments present--lots of whistles and flutes, or a set of pipes, and that would steer me to different tunes than if it was all fiddles.
Other likely reels: The Banshee, Maid Behind the Bar, Cooley's, Sally Gardens, the Wise Maid. Drowsy Maggie is failsafe, unless you're in with a bunch of hotshots and they all groan, but then it's their fault for not knowing the first two tunes you played.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Will Harmon
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Whatever the common tune list is in your city is the standard tune list you should learn. The only way to know that is to go to the session and start recording tunes you recognize (i.e. have been played many times).
It takes a long time...
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Eliot
Re: Standard Session Tune List
I'd normally play whichever two I've got the hots for at the moment (usually but not always something I've just learned) and stick on a third that I know everyone will know(!) The Banshee or Cooleys or Morrison's or The Mug Of Brown Ale or Star Of Munster, Miss Monaghan's, The Glass Of Beer, The Eavesdropper, or Collins' Jig are good safe finishers which don't usually elicit too many groans from the Congnoscente....
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Ottery
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Or even the Cognoscente..!
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Ottery
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Hmmm -- so the Banshee doesn't get too many groans roundabout your ways? Cooley's is good, too, but I always forget about it when I need it. ;)
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Zina Lee
P.s. Mark
Isn't "Cognoscenti" the plural? Can't remember, and don't have time to look it up!
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Zina Lee
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Tep, Banshee gets groans and rolled eyeballs, but if no one knew the first two tunes I played, they've got no right to groan when I give them something they all know.
Besides, it's not a bad tune, just a tad repetitive. At my local sesh, if I'm looking for a common G tune, I usually go into Woman of the House or Brenda McMahon's (aka Tommy Peoples').
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Will Harmon
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Nothing gets groans or eyeballs around here, which is kind of nice.
Re Cooleys: - if you mean you forget how to start it, think of first couple of bars of the "Odd Couple" theme. They either stole it from Cooley's, or from The Cat Rambles to the Child's saucepan.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by grego
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Aaarrrggghhhh---now I'll never be able to start Cooley's without derailing into the Odd Couple's theme song, thank you very much. :-|
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by Will Harmon
Re: Standard Session Tune List
ROFL! Greg, that's hilarious...!
# Posted on August 12th 2004 by Zina Lee
Re: Standard Session Tune List
What's 'The Odd Couple'? Is that something on the television? The Banshee isn't overplayed around here. There was a time when it was, but now it's greeted like a long lost friend whenever it puts in an appearance...
There are lots of other well-known G-ish tunes
Peeler's Jacket,
Lad O'Beirne's,
Shaskeen
Christmas Eve
Kiss Me Kate
etc etc
But the one you absolutely know people will know is the Banshee
# Posted on August 12th 2004 by Ottery
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Right, Peeler's Jacket always gets played at whistle speed here and ties my fingers in knots, so I stick with Banshee when G is called for.
The Odd Couple was a Neil Simon play/movie/tv show about two men sharing an apartment, one a neat freak (Felix), the other a slob (Oscar). The theme song is indeed Cooley's, for the first bar at least.
# Posted on August 12th 2004 by Will Harmon
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Aaaah! The old film with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau! Thanks!
# Posted on August 12th 2004 by Ottery
Re: Standard Session Tune List
Thanks, folks, for all the lists and ideas. That was what I wanted to know, and the lists are great.
# Posted on August 12th 2004 by Dwatted Wabbit