Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on December 27th 2007 by LoL83.
This tune has been added to 162 tunebooks.
Also known as Leaving Uist.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Farewell To Uist
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Emin
ed|B3A AG|AGE3G|A3BB2|e3e de|g3a ag|edB3A|G3B AG|E4ed|
B3A AG|AGE3G|A3BB2|e3e de|g3a ag|edB3A|G3B de|A4a2|
a4b2|age2eB|d3eg2|g4ag|de ga ed|AB de AG|EG2B AG|E4ed|
B3A AG|AGE3G|A3BB2|e3e de|g3a ag|edB3A|G3B de|A4ed|
My first submission
A tune that i love... McGoldrick often plays this tune before Lochaber Badger... You can hear and see it in the last transatlantic sessions here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVztCC37wlc
My transcription is probably not perfect... I play low D since less than 3 month and whistle since 6 month, and it's the first time I write music
Enjoy !
# Posted on December 27th 2007 by LoL83
I play both tunes on Irish flute with a guitar and piano backing and it sounds quite good ( but rubbish compared to Fred Morrison or Mike Mcgoldrick )
# Posted on January 1st 2008 by Samuel Partridge
fantastic tune
# Posted on February 23rd 2008 by taity
Inion Ni Scanlon
To my mind these two tunes although quite different are so related. There is something very similar in the structure of the two, the climbs and the falls of the melody.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/540
# Posted on March 4th 2008 by hetty
Guitar Chords
Hi, folks!
Indeed, a truly magnificent piece of art. If somebody posted guitar chords for this tune, that would be great! ;)
Thanks in advance!
# Posted on August 7th 2008 by Feaorn
General admiration
first heard this tune on transatlantic sessions 3, missed the name and must of spent the next three weeks looking for the name of it. Thank God RTE has an archive.
# Posted on May 6th 2009 by jb14
Composer
is this a trad tune or was it written by Fred?
# Posted on July 30th 2009 by kings taxes
A couple of things i found out today....
i was looking at a fred morrison cd today and he calls 'farewell to uist' ~ 'leaving uist'...and i was told that he wrote both tunes: leaving uist and lochaber badger
top tunes
# Posted on January 29th 2010 by tiggyskye
Farewel to Uist
Such a stunning tune!!! I do it as a solo fingerstyle guitar piece and use DADGAD tuning - capo'd at c5 so that puts it in Gmin and play it as a set - Farewell to Uist / Rowing from Islay to Uist/ A Journey On The Lochmor (Turas San Lochmar) (learned from Julie Fowlis).
Guitar chords for Farewell might be
Em | Em | Dadd9 | A/C# | G/D | A/C# | Em/B | Aadd9 |
Dadd9 | Em | D/F# | G | G | Dadd9 | Em | Aadd9
Em | Em | Dadd9 | A/C# | G/D | A/C# | Em/B | Aadd9 |
Dadd 9 = xx0230 A/C# = x42200 G/D = xx0433
Em/B = x22000 Aadd9= x02200 D/F# =2x023x
Play Em as power chord - 022400. Do the same for G=3x0033
Bob
# Posted on September 1st 2010 by Bob MacLean
Chord shapes given by Bob...
are in standard tuning, not DADGAD, in case anyone is at all confused!
# Posted on September 1st 2010 by muspc
Haha - it is only on a folk music website that anyone would even think of clarifying that!
# Posted on September 1st 2010 by No Cause For Alarm
Yes, you're right about that, No Cause! Actually, I only did it because Bob mentioned playing it in DADGAD and someone might be confused--especially beginners who would produce some "interesting" harmonies using those chord shapes with DADGAD tuning!
# Posted on September 2nd 2010 by muspc
Good point there that man. I hadn't even considered that.
# Posted on September 2nd 2010 by No Cause For Alarm
Yes, while I play it in DADGAD, I knew the DADGAD chords would confuse so I used standard tuning shapes for the chords. Thanks for pointing it out! BTW - such a stunning tune when played slowly and with some nice ornaments.
# Posted on October 22nd 2010 by Bob MacLean
Tuning
what key of whistle does fred use when playing this
# Posted on April 13th 2011 by scott garden
Tuning again
how would you put this into the key of A
# Posted on April 14th 2011 by scott garden
"how would you put this into the key of A"
Get yourself a whistle in E is the easiest way.
# Posted on April 14th 2011 by Weejie