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The Rolling Waves

jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy.

This tune has been added to 580 tunebooks.

Also known as Humors Of Trim, The Humors Of Trim, The Humours Of Trim, The Lonesome , The Rolling Wave, Sea Image.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

As Long As You're Enjoying Yourself by John Brennan And John McGillian
At First Light by Michael McGoldrick And John McSherry
Beeswax Sheepskin by Beeswax Sheepskin
Beyond The Shore by Deby Benton Grosjean
Celanova Square by Calico
Close To Home by Dónal Clancy
Cruinn by Academy Of Irish Music Chicago
Film Cuts by The Chieftains
Flowers Of The Burren by Barefield Ceili Band
For The Sake Of Old Decency by Various Artists
Greenfire by Greenfire
Halcyon Days by Sean McCarthy
Honk Toot Suite by Éamonn Coyne And Kris Drever
Hubcaps And Potholes by Rachel Hair
In Good Company by Kevin Crawford
Looking For The Early Opener by Dana Lyn
MacMahon From Clare by Tony MacMahon
Maiden Voyage by Various Artists
Miles From Dublin by Dan Carollo
Millvalley by DeReelium
Pigtown Fling by Randal Bays And Joel Bernstein
Playing With Fire: The Celtic Fiddle Collection by Various Artists
Pleasures Of Home by Winifred Horan
Portland by Kevin Burke And Mícheál O'Domhnaill
Rogha Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy 2007 by Various Artists
Rolling Harbour by Elandir
Sea Changes Of The Toucan Pirates by Toucan Pirates
Strange But True... by Takuji Tamura And Yukio Kashiwagi
The Best Of The Chieftains by The Chieftains
The Chieftains 8 by The Chieftains
The Family Album by The McCarthys
The Mulcahy Family by The Mulcahy Family
The Nettles by The Nettles
The Pipering Of Willie Clancy. Vol 1 by Willie Clancy
The Poet And The Piper by Seamus Heaney And Liam O'Flynn
The Rolling Wave by Cian
The Rolling Wave by Patricia Daly
The Rolling Waves by Shindig
Traditional Music On Fiddle, Banjo, And Harp by Oisin MacDiarmada, Brian Fitzgerald, And Michael O Ruanaigh
Triple Harp Bypass by Iron Lung (Brendan Power, Rick Epping, Mick Kinsella)
Virginia by Birkin Tree
Willie Clancy: The Gold Ring - CD 1 Of 2 by Willie Clancy

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Usually the titles of Irish tunes don't have any connection to the actual content, but this one really does have the feel of rolling waves.

# Posted on June 2nd 2001 by Jeremy

beautiful tune. I just learned it last night from a mandolin player - sounds just perfect at an easy-going pace.

# Posted on January 23rd 2002 by Kerri Brown

I learned this one off a Chieftain's album, or possibly it was a soundtrack for the documentary they scored for the Irish Horse. It didn't come with a name attached to it then, but this tune is listed as the Humours of Trim in O'Neill's.

The Rolling Waves, on the other hand, at least the jig as popularlized by Kevin Burke and others, goes as follies (in D maj) : |F2 E EDE|F2 D DED|F2 E EFA|d2 e fdA| etc., which also does a fair job of conveying the feel of waves.

# Posted on January 23rd 2002 by Will Harmon

duh...someday I'll learn to read the details first....

# Posted on January 23rd 2002 by Will Harmon

Rolling Waves - additional discography

With reference to the Chieftains playing this tune, I have it listed as 'The Grey Fox'.

The group Tarras have teamed the Rolling Waves with The Leitrim Fancy on their album "Walking Down Mainstreet". They called the track 'Calico'.

# Posted on May 3rd 2003 by sjt

C natural

On Kevin Crawford's "In Good Company", I think he plays this tune in D mixolydian i.e. with natural Cs.

Sounds pretty good.

# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Jeremy

Mícheál O'Suilleabhainn

has it on piano/harpsicchord on an album he recorded with string quatuor etc...
(sprightly version that too)

# Posted on October 4th 2006 by birlibirdie

At first light - Michael McGoldrick and John McSherry

# Posted on October 16th 2006 by thesheep

Re: Rolling Waves - additional discography

I found this tune squished in between a few other things on a Chieftains track titled 'Sea Image'.

# Posted on February 5th 2007 by nic's collection

It helped me a lot on practicing my first ornamentations for UP. crans on D, cuts at high D...

# Posted on March 5th 2007 by Llibert

The Rolling Waves

# Posted on April 3rd 2007 by nigelg

# Posted on July 2nd 2008 by mutatis mutandis

Request: Crawford's version ABC score

Hello. Can anybody please post the full ABC version of the jig as recorded in the "in good company" CD?

I tried with the line posted by will CPT but I feel it's not right. Am I wrong? :-)

Thank you all so much

# Posted on July 24th 2008 by Anal

Anal, I posted a line from a different tune that's known as the Rolling Waves. The jig from In Good Company is sometimes called the Rolling Waves, but it's older name is Humours of Trim. And Crawford plays it in Dmix (with c naturals), rather than the D major of Jeremy's transcription. But the D maj version is the one I hear most widely played at sessions.

Kevin's version is more like:

X: 1
T: Humours of Trim
T: Rolling Waves
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: D
~F3 DED|D2 d cAG|~F3 DED|A2 F GFE|
~F3 DED|D2 d cAG|F/G/AF GBG|A2 F GFE:||
D2 d cAd|cAd cAG|F2 d cAd|A2 F GFE|
D2 d cAd|fed cAG|F/G/AF GBG|A2 F GFE||

# Posted on July 25th 2008 by Will Harmon

Now how did that happen? I put the key as Dmix (as I mentioned in my comments before the abcs. Sigh.

The point is, Crawford plays this with all c naturals. Meh.

# Posted on July 26th 2008 by Will Harmon

thank you so much for posting that!

# Posted on August 12th 2008 by Anal

More about crawford's

hello,
I listened carefully and I don't feel like it begins with a roll on F#. It seems FEF to me. Any opinions?

Thanks so much for sharing!

# Posted on August 15th 2008 by Anal

| F^EF ~D3 | ~ A-part, bars 1, 3 or 5

Where I like to someties take it, not necessarily ~F... The ~D3 option is given as an opportunity for various posibilities, including a cran...

# Posted on February 8th 2009 by ceolachan

Transcription Doesn't Look Quite Right

# Posted on February 20th 2010 by The Session

The other Rolling Waves

I love this tune the Rolling Waves. If anyone seen "The Boys Of The County Clare". the openning scene is a father playing alongside his three barefoot boys. It's beautiful. Now, I've been made aware of another tune by the same name that sounds similar as well. Sometimes their played together. Anyone suggest an artist who recorded it?

# Posted on March 4th 2010 by jim07704

~

"Rolls" are an option and not every musician plays them, or style requires them. there are always other options as, including not playing them at all...

# Posted on March 4th 2010 by ceolachan

"The Father"

Jim - the "father" in the opening scenes of "TB&GFTCC" is none other than our own contributer here - "Ptarmigan". I'll have a think about recordings of the 2 jigs and get back to you.

# Posted on March 4th 2010 by Kenny

Ptarmigan started a thread on site here where he had YouTube links to this... I'll see if I can find them again...

# Posted on March 4th 2010 by ceolachan

Ptarmigan = Dick Glasgow

http://www.thesession.org/members/display/3668

# Posted on March 4th 2010 by ceolachan

Fortunate Accident...

I like the accidentally D Major version of Crawford's take as posted back in '08 by Miss Lonelyhearts. The intended D Mix is nice, too, of course!

# Posted on March 4th 2010 by muspc

I happened to find this gan ainm in Petrie's manuscripts, tune #155, before I heard a version of it (John & Julia Clifford's).
Petrie transcribes it in 12/8, without any repeats notated. Looks like it'd probably be a three-part version:

X: 1
T: Petrie's #155 (Rolling Waves/Humours of Trim)
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
A|(FE).F (DE).D D2d (cA)G|(FE).F (FE).D A2F (GF).E|
(FE).F (DE).D D2d (cA).G|(FA).F (GB).G A2.F (GF).E |
D2d (cA).d (cA).d (cA).G|F2d (cA).d A2F (GF).E|
D2d (cA).c (de).d (cA).G|(FA).F (GB).G A2F (GF).E|
D2d cAd (cA)d (cA).G|F2d (cA).d A2F (GF).E|
D2d cAd (fe).d (cA).G|FAF GBG A2F GFE|

More playably, it could look like this:

X: 1
T: Petrie's #155
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
X: 1
T: Petrie's #155 (Rolling Waves/Humours of Trim)
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
A|:FEF DED D2d cAG|FEF FED A2F GFE|
FEF DED D2d cAG|FAF GBG A2F GFE :|:
D2d cAd cAd cAG|F2d cAd A2F GFE|[1
D2d cAc ded cAG|FAF GBG A2F GFE:|[2
D2d cAd fed cAG|FAF GBG A2F GFE||

# Posted on August 4th 2010 by Resodan

NOTE: Sorry about the doubled up headers on my post above,

# Posted on August 4th 2010 by Resodan

Rolling Waves in a Set

Trying to put a few tunes together in a set with The Rolling Waves. All suggestions appreciated.

# Posted on July 16th 2011 by totherleslie

Strange, I was also wondering what tune goes well with this tune this morning. The best tune I thought of was Contentment is Wealth: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6842 Try playing Rolling Waves after that.

# Posted on July 17th 2011 by slainte

Thanks for that suggestion Slainte. I tried out Contentment is Wealth and it works, but right now I'm leaning heavily towards following Rolling Waves with Out On the Ocean. There's a posting on Youtube with these two tunes together and it has had me humming all afternoon.

# Posted on July 18th 2011 by totherleslie

Does anyone know the version that Jeremy Kittel does on this youtube video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAcmg4bfRKw&feature=autoplay&list=PLBADF6D0B8B9F5DCC&index=4&playnext=3
I love it and its totally different. Love the one posted here too.,

# Posted on August 9th 2011 by fiddlerpaul

Kevin Burke and Michael Domhnail

I also found the same version as Jeremy Kittel's on a Kevin Burke album Portland called The Rolling Waves....totally different tune.

# Posted on August 9th 2011 by fiddlerpaul

Whoops found it

found my way to the other version....
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/88/comments

# Posted on August 9th 2011 by fiddlerpaul

Slip jig setting of this tune

The Chieftains do a set that they call Sea Image. It includes the standard jig setting of this tune and also a slip jig setting, like so:

X:1
T: Rolling Waves [Slip Jig], The
T: Sea Image [Slip Jig]
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: Slip jig
K: D
FEF D2d cAG | F2D AGF GFE | FEF D2d cAG | ~F2A ~G2B AFE |
FEF D2d cAG | F2D AGF GFE | FEF D2d cAG | ~F2A ~G2B AFE ||
D2d cAd cAG | F2d A2F GFE | D2d cAc ded | ~F2A ~G2B AFE |
D2d cAd cAG | F2d A2F GFE | D2d cAd fed | ~F2A ~G2B AFE ||

Also, if anyone knows the name of the air they play in between, please let me know.

# Posted on May 26th 2012 by stanton135