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The Miller Of Droghan

reel

Key signature: Amajor

Submitted on June 8th 2002 by donnchad.

This tune has been added to 161 tunebooks.

Also known as Miller Of Drangan, The Miller Of Draughin, The Miller Of Drawen, The Miller Of Drohan.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Ballroom by De Danann
I Will If I Can by John Carty
Learn To Play Irish Fiddle: Reels, Jigs And Breton Gavottes ~ DVD 2 by Kevin Burke
Otherworld by Lunasa
Second Story by Open House
Stranger At The Gate by Paddy O'Brien
The Story So Far... by Lunasa

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Lunasa's Version in G

# Posted on January 15th 2003 by slainte

Thanks

Good tune Thanks donchad and slainte

# Posted on January 15th 2003 by Mark Cordova

Don't want to seem picky but there are one or two inaccuracies in Slainte's Lunasa transcription. Here's what I hear them playing, again transposed into G:

X: 1
T: Miller Of Droghan, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|:G2BG DGBG|EBef gedB|G2BG DGBA|GEGA BdBA|
G2BG DGBG|EBef gfed|faef deBA|1 GEGA ~B3A:|2 GEGA BA (3B^cd||
eE~E2 DEBE|DEGA ~B3A|GE~E2 DEBE|DEGA BA (3B^cd|
eE~E2 DEBE|DEGA BdBA|GE~E2 DEBE|DEGA ~B3A||

# Posted on March 6th 2006 by Dr. Dow

That's one of my earliest posts here. And I admit it's a horribly inaccurate transcription. I haven't heard this tune for long.

# Posted on March 6th 2006 by slainte

Miller of Droghan

I learned this ages ago off the De Danann recording. So my fiddle and flute versions are based on Frankie Gavin's fiddle setting, which I like better than Lunasa's version. As follows:

X: 1
T: Miller Of Droghan, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: G
G2 BG DGBG|Eeef gedB|G2 BG dGBA|GEGA BcBA|
G2 BG DGBG|Eeef gfeg|fdef dBBA|1 GEGA BcBA:|2 GEGA BA (3Bcd||
e~E3 DEB,E|DEGA BcBA|G~E3 DEB,E|DEGA BA (3B^cd|
e~E3 DEB,E|DEGA BcBA|G~E3 DEB,E|DEGA BcBA||

On flute, the only change is playing those low B,s an octave higher.

# Posted on May 13th 2006 by Will Harmon

I was recently driving back to Massachusetts from Cape Cod and visiting JasonG, and had John Carty's "I Will If I Can" on the cd player in the rental car. His tenor guitar version of this got put on repeat for no little time -- it's lovely (he plays it with Eleanor Neary's), and it was perfect for driving through the lovely green trees and blue skies and waters of a Cape Cod summer...

# Posted on July 2nd 2007 by Zina Lee

Guitar chords for The Miller of Droghan

I've been using G, C D, Em and the occasional Bm but there's still something missing. Any suggestions? Thanks

# Posted on October 6th 2008 by molaoch

Re: Guitar chords for The Miller of Droghan

F sharp diminished, B flat major seventh, C sharp suspended fourth, E seventh flattened tenth, F minor sixth, D thirteenth, C minor seventh flattened fifth?

# Posted on October 6th 2008 by Krick Stahlschwanz

Re: Guitar chords for The Miller of Droghan

Hilarious.....

# Posted on October 6th 2008 by molaoch

Lunasa

The slowed down version of this by Lunasa on Otherworld is in Bb - the G transcription above will work if you have an F whistle to play it on (and two colleagues also on F whistles )

Having heard the Lunasa version first it took me a while to realise that the Miller of Drangen (as played by Kevin Burke) was actually the same tune - although the two versions are about as far apart as it is possibe to imagine

I like both versions

# Posted on April 17th 2011 by Eachann mac Bodach

Guitar chords

Lunasa tunebook has the following
X:1
T:The Miller Of Drohan
N:Lunasa play it in Bb by using the G fingering on F whistles
N:Chords as per Lunasa tunebook transcribed to G
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:reel
K:G
|:"G" G2BG DGBG| "Em" EBef gedB | "G"G2BG DGBA | "C"GEGA "D"BdBA |
"G"G2BG DGBG | "Em" EBef gfed|"Bm" faef deBA |1 "C"GEGA "D"~B3A:|2 "C" GEGA "D" BA (3B^cd||
"Em" eE~E2 DEBE | "D" DEGA "Bm" ~B3A | "C" GE~E2 DEBE|"Bm"DEGA "G"BA (3B^cd|
"Em" eE~E2 DEBE|"Bm" DEGA BdBA|"C"GE~E2 "D" DEBE|"Em" DEGA "F#m" ~B3A||

# Posted on April 17th 2011 by Eachann mac Bodach