The Rolling Waves

jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on January 23rd 2002 by Will Harmon.

This tune has been added to 240 tunebooks.

Also known as The Lonesome , The Lonesome, Maguire's, Maguire's Clan March, Maguire's Kick, Maguire's March, McGuire's Kick, McGuire's March, The Sprig Of Stradone, The Spring Of Stradone.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

A Tribute To John McKenna by Mick Woods
All Ireland Champions by The Leitrim Ceili Band
An Calmfhear: The Trooper by Johnny O'Leary
As Long As You're Enjoying Yourself by John Brennan And John McGillian
At First Light by Michael McGoldrick And John McSherry
Barking Mad by Four Men And A Dog
Beyond The Shore by Deby Benton Grosjean
Celanova Square by Calico
Champions Twice by The Liverpool Ceili Band
Chasing Sparks by Jeremy Kittel
Do You Know Eddy Kelly? by Elandir
Draiocht by Michael Rooney And June McCormack
Far From Home by Liam Hart
Feel The Bow by Aidan Burke
Handprints by Donna Long
Honk Toot Suite by Éamonn Coyne And Kris Drever
Hubcaps And Potholes by Rachel Hair
If Ida Been Here, Ida Been There by Craobh Rua
In Good Company by Kevin Crawford
Irish Fiddle Solos by Pete Cooper
John Williams by John Williams
Learning Irish Fiddle by Paul McNevin
Live At Trinity Hall by Trinity Hall Session Players
Maiden Voyage by Various Artists
Millhouse Measures by The Raw Bar Collective
Music For The Sets - Volume 6: Face The Hob by Various Artists
Notes From The Heart by Mick, Louise And Michelle Mulcahy
Oíche Go Maidean by Brendan Begley
On TSean - Am Anall by Danny O'Donnell
Playing With Fire: The Celtic Fiddle Collection by Various Artists
Portland by Kevin Burke And Mícheál O'Domhnaill
Portraid by Sean Maguire
Rolling Harbour by Elandir
Strange But True... by Takuji Tamura And Yukio Kashiwagi
The Dangerous Reel by Mike And Mary Rafferty
The Friday Night Sessions: Traditional Music From Glasgow by Various Artists
The Green House by Grey Larsen And Paddy League
The Limerick Lassies by Mickey Dunne
The Natural Bridge by Ben Lennon And Friends
The Nettles by The Nettles
The Pipering Of Willie Clancy. Vol 1 by Willie Clancy
The Rolling Waves by Shindig
The Twentieth Anniversary Collection by Various Artists
Triple Harp Bypass by Iron Lung (Brendan Power, Rick Epping, Mick Kinsella)
Tunes For Practice by Seamus Creagh
Up At The Crack Of Noon by Ciúnas
Virginia by Birkin Tree
Within A Mile Of Kilty by Various Artists
Wooden Flute Obsession Disk 2 by Various Artists

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

The Rolling Waves

I learned this from the playing of Kevin Burke (is it on the "Portland" album?), smooth and swingy, not too fast. You want to get the feeling of being gently rocked in your dinghy on a light swell. It makes a nice companion to the Humours of Trim (also listed as the Rolling Waves in the archives here), with Willie Coleman's in between.

On fiddle, Burke likes to slide the F2 in measure 1 down just a little and the F2 in measure 2 up a smidge to add sway to the already rolling feel. And you can roll any of the B3's and d3's as you see fit.

The tunes makes an easy whistle or flute piece as well, ready made for beginner's fingers (like mine) to find on the low D whistle, for instance. You can cut to separate the doubled-up E's D's wherever they occur and the side-by-side A's from measure 2 to measure 3 in Part B, and the two B's in measure 6 of Part B.

# Posted on January 23rd 2002 by Will Harmon

James Kelly also plays this

...on his Caple Street recording. Very nice--don't know if this recording is still available.

# Posted on April 29th 2003 by pchaffee

"Martin O'Connor's Polka" ~ making life tough for poor ol' Al Brown

Submitted on July 10th 2006 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5952

Now Martin O'Connor knows both these tunes but gave this polka as a nameless or 'gan ainm'. Check out the lovely shared bit between the two, the A-parts. Here's the first four bars from this polka:

|: D/E/ |
FE ED/E/ | FD D>E | FE DA | dB BA | ~

There's also a slide in the family...