Paddy Fahey's

reel

Key signature: Gmixolydian

Submitted on January 8th 2007 by errik.

This tune has been added to 18 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

A Clare Conscience by Aidan McMahon And Anthony Quigney
A Letter Home by Athena Tergis
Absolutely Irish by Various Artists
An Tris Is A Rian by Claire Keville, John Weir And Eithne Ni Dhonaile
Angelina Carberry And Martin Quinn by Angelina Carberry And Martin Quinn
Around The World For Sport by The Doon Céilí Band
Autumn Apples by Pat McNulty
Basil And Thyme by Breda Smyth
Battlefield Band by Battlefield Band
Beeswax Sheepskin by Beeswax Sheepskin
Cairde by Various Artists
Celtic Fire by John Whelan
Champions Of Ireland Concertina by Denise Shiel
Chasing The Dawn by Jenny Crook And Henry Sears
Coleman's Cross: Tradtional Irish Music From County Sligo by Philip Duffy
Drive The Cold Winter Away by Horslips
Faoi Bhlath by Dave Sheridan, Ciaran Somers, Nicolas Quemener
Far From The Hills Of Donegal by Oisin McAuley
Fire In The Air by Bobbi Nikles With Kyle Alden, Paul Kotapish, Maureen Brennan, Julian Smedley, Cindy Browne, Shira Kammen And David Morris
Fort Of The Jewels by Brian McNamara
Gavin Whelan by Gavin Whelan
Geantrai - Live Session Recordings From The TV Series by Various Artists
Green Energy by The Irish Experience
House To House by Randal Bays And Roger Landes
In Stitches by The Flying Toads
Katy Bar The Door by Randal Bays
Links by Silver Arm
Live From The Katharine Cornell Theater Traditional Irish Music by Various Artists
Lord Mayo by Le Cheile
Making Time by Liz Knowles
Masters Of Irish Music by Martin Byrnes
Memories From The Holla by Peter Carberry, Angelina Carberry And John Blake
My Book Of Songs by Kathleen Collins
Northern Lights by Kevin And Seamus Glackin
Overland by Randal Bays And Daithi Sproule
Paddy In The Smoke by Various Artists
Potsticks by Sean Moloney
Seamus Tansey With Eddie Corcoran by Seamus Tansey
Selection Box by Conor McCarthy And Alph Duggan
Side By Side by Liz And Yvonne Kane
Soh It Is by Craobh Rua
Song Of The Chanter by Various Artists
Stepping Stones by Juniper
Strange But True... by Takuji Tamura And Yukio Kashiwagi
The Daisy Field by Claire Keville
The Friendly Visit by Frank Brunel And Vincent Rosinach
The Hop Down by Breda Keville
The Irwin Lake Sessions by Shannon Quinn
The Mad Skeleton by Fianna
The Mighty Box by Luke Daniels
The Next Turn by Trouble In The Kitchen
The Pipes Are Calling by Peter And Noel Carberry
The Tocane Concerts by Various Artists
The Well Tempered Bow by Liz And Yvonne Kane
The Wind Among The Reeds by Tommy Keane And Jaqueline McCarthy
Tone Roads by Wild Asparagus
Torch And Fire by Dan Beimborn
Traditional Fiddle Music From County Clare by Vincent Griffin
Traditional Irish Music by Setanta
Traditional Irish Music From County Clare by Martin Vaughan
Two Miles To Tulla by Larry Gavin, Micheál O'Rourke And Charlie Lennon
Weeds In The Garden by Muintir Lewis
Wintering Out by Simon Bradley And Luke Plumb
With Complements by Patsy Reid

One of my fave Fahey tunes... fookin' dead-leh, as my friend from Bray would put it. ;o)

Liz and Yvonne Kane play this as Paddy Fahey's/Man of the House (in D Min)/Paddy Fahey's. Track #4 on their first CD, "The Well Tempered Bow". Great tunes, great set, great fiddlers.

# Posted on January 8th 2007 by errik

Hate to say it, but it's already somewhere on the session.... BUT I LOOOOVE this freakin' setting.

I love the Kane Sisters.

I love Paddy Fahey.

I love insane fiddle keys that no else can play but us fiddlers!! XD

Well.. concertina.. Accordion.. OH WELL.

Cheers,
Armand

# Posted on January 9th 2007 by armandale

I had no idea it was on here. I really didn't feel like searching through all the Fahey tunes. hehe...do ya blame me?

This seemed "obscure" enough to submit.

# Posted on January 9th 2007 by errik

The great thing about this tune, though, is how it moves between G Mixolydian, G Dorian, G Major, and B-flat Major. The set that the Kane sisters play it with is great... the tunes are in C Mixolydian/D Dorian/and finally this tune.

# Posted on January 9th 2007 by errik

I dunno, Armand. I searched for it here a year or so ago and came up blank.

This is my fave Fahey tune, but I was startled by the B nats in measure 5 of the A part. Is it normally played that way? The only recording I have is the Kane Sisters' and they don't go to major there. And I think maybe they play the F sharp in measure 5 of the B part.

Can't say I like it with the shift to major. That hardly ever works for me. There's another Fahey tune here and on the same Kane Sis CD that does that and it just annoys me.

# Posted on January 10th 2007 by Bob himself

Bob,

Those B's in measure 5-A are flat, if I'm not mistaken. I thought that the flat sign on the B in measure 4-A established that. And the F in measure 5-B is definetely sharp, as established in the third measure of the B-part. It doesn't go back to natural until the 6th measure.

# Posted on January 10th 2007 by errik

Posted here in 2004:

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2940

I found it using the advanced search option and an abc fragment of the tune: "bdga bdgb".

# Posted on January 10th 2007 by Bleedin' Heart

Notation problems?

Re accidentals!!!! I am not Classsically trained, but I do read dots tolerably well. The standard convention with "accidentals" is that they apply at the pitch shown only (i.e. not in other octaves) for the whole of the bar they are in AFTER being stated and unless cancelled, but ONLY as far as the bar-line, which automatically cancels them! The key signature given at the beginning of each stave otherwise applies throughout, regardless of octave - and in ABC the stated key signature of course has the same effect , but any accidentals have to be specified EVERY time they occur. I don't want to seem stuffy, but conventions like these (e.g. standardised spelling) developed for very obvious, practical reasons. If you don't come to terms with them, you just misrepresent your own intentions and confuse or mislead others. I'm lookng forward to trying the tune when I get it home form the Library. Cheers!

# Posted on January 12th 2007 by Jemtheflute

Well, I guess the classical theory that I was taught in school is somewhat off, then... either way, this music is best learnt by ear, to get all those quirks and accidentals in the natural way.

# Posted on January 14th 2007 by errik

Accidentals

I am good at playing accidentals, expecially in a Fahey tune, but this is confusing as hell, what is the real key signature anyway?
I don't feel like I can trust this transcription, it makes me feel like throwing all my abc's in the trash