The Sally Gardens

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy.

This tune has been added to 1189 tunebooks.

Also known as Down By The Sally Garden, Down By The Sally Gardens, Na Gairdíní Saileacha, Salley Gardens, The Salley Gardens, Sally Garden, The Sally Garden, Sally Gardens.

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Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

No relation to the William Butler Yeats poem and song "Down by the Sally Gardens", this is a lively reel just made for playing at sessions.

The second part has a great "ascending" feel to it which can be emphasised with the right accompaniment. A chord sequence rising in whole tones works well: G Am Bm finishing with a C, a D and back to G.

# Posted on June 2nd 2001 by Jeremy

The Salley Garden's

Here is a slightly different setting I learned in a workshop in Sligo last summer and have been playing since:

BA|G2DG BAGB|dBeB dBAB|d2Bd efge|dBAB GEDE|
G2DG BAGB|dBeB dBAB|d2Bd efge|1 dBAB G2:|2 dBAB G4||
dggf g2dg|gabg agfg|eaag a2ea|agbg ageg|
dggf g2dg|gabg ageg|d2Bd efge|1 dBAB G4:|2 dBAB G2||

# Posted on June 8th 2003 by slainte

Sally Gardens: a setting with the downbeat shifted along one beat

I've made an arrangement where I shifted the downbeat and played around a little with the melody until it fitted. Any comments are welcome!

http://malcolm.schonfield.free.fr/zik.php?lang=en&tune=shifted_sally_gardens

# Posted on January 14th 2010 by GoPlayer

My dad likes this tune.

Is it just me, or is the end of the third bar in the B part dying to be made into a triplet?

# Posted on December 1st 2010 by Red Menace

No, it's definitely gagging to be a triplet. I've just played the last two notes in the 1st, 3rd and 5th bars as triplets and it makes them into a cute fluid "chirrup" that playing the notes cleanly just doesn't.

# Posted on December 1st 2010 by Red Menace

Variations

Can someone post EVERY bit of ornamentation that comes to their head with this tune. When ever I play it at sessions, the way I play it never sounds right. It varies from county to county I think!!!

Thanks

# Posted on January 21st 2011 by Conor the fiddler

VARIATION

# Posted on January 21st 2011 by Conor the fiddler