Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy.
This tune has been added to 380 tunebooks.
Also known as Snowy Path.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Snowy Path, The
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Dmaj
|"D"F2A B2F A2F|"G"G2B d2e dBA|"D"F2A B2F A2F|"Em"E2D E2F GFE|
"D"F2A B2F A2F|"G"G2B d2e dBA|"D"F2A B2F A2F|"Em"E2D E2F GAB||
|"A"c3 c2e d2c|"G"B2G B2c d2e|"Bm"f3 f2e d2B|"D"A2G F2G A2B|
"A"c3 c2e d2c|"G"B2G B2c d2e|"D"d2A B2F A2F|"Em"E2D E2F GFE||
This lovely slip jig was composed by Mark Kelly of Altan and appears on their classic "Harvest Storm" album.
I've included some very basic guiter chords here which can be used as a starting point for coming up with a nice accompaniment.
When I play this tune, I add hardly any ornamentation. I simply play it nice and clear and not too fast.
# Posted on June 2nd 2001 by Jeremy
Great tune
Glad to see someone else likes this tune as much as I do!
Incidentally it goes well with another tune which Altan play - The Road To Durham - which is played on its own (i.e. not as part of a set). I like to play "Durham", slow and steady, and then lock into The Snowy Path.
# Posted on July 2nd 2003 by Aidan Crossey
Minor key
These chords are exact or close to exact as to how Altan plays this lovely piece. It takes on a haunting sound to substitute Bmin for the Dmaj at the beginning (and related changes thereafter).
# Posted on February 23rd 2004 by markwilson
Great Tune
My dance teacher first introduced me to this tune when she choreographed a lovely dance to it, and have been playing it ever since.
# Posted on November 11th 2004 by compass@alcce.org
Snowy Path
I learned this tune at Maine Fiddle camp. When I tried to play along with Atlan's recording on Harvest Storm, it sounded awful! Turns out they play it flat: A is about 427 hz.
# Posted on June 28th 2006 by Erik
The Snowy Path (slip jig)
Here´s another one who loves this tune a lot, especially it´s smooth groove. I enjoy using F#minor instead of Amajor in bar 9.
# Posted on December 15th 2006 by Reelin´ man
I just got Altan's Harvest Storm cd, and I just fell in love in love with this tune. Thanks for submitting it!
Sara
# Posted on February 18th 2007 by Celtic Lass
Ha!
they do play it flat! for once it's not me!
*grin*
# Posted on August 23rd 2007 by Kriana
I believe the last quaver in bar 2 is erroneously shown in the sheet music as an A when it should be a G. The error is repeated in bar 6.
# Posted on September 9th 2007 by Steve Shaw
Chord sub
It really does change the feel of the song with the D-Bm sub. It's quite nice.
# Posted on January 6th 2008 by samiam590
Lovely tune and goes quite nicely into that old standard, The Butterfly I think.
BTW is this tune D major? That opening C# in the second part always sounds flat in the context of this tune - why is that? What note does it resolve to - a B?
# Posted on September 14th 2008 by the wounded hussar
Sounds like a Hop Jig to me (like The Butterfly, BTW)
# Posted on February 14th 2009 by Emmanuel Delahaye
The Snowy Path-music help!
In Altan's "Harvest Storm" they play a beautiful rendition of The Snowy Path. I was wondering if anyone has or could write out for me the fiddle part at the beginning, before the tune actually starts. I think it is mostly on the D and maybe some on the G string, but I would greatly appreciate the help! Oh, and if not sheet music, can you tell me the length of each note (quarter note, eighth note, etc.)
Thanks!
# Posted on December 13th 2009 by husicc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_NshEl3wjE
# Posted on August 21st 2011 by domhnall.
Dead s l o w . . . .
this is a magic tune. i play it on the fiddle at around 35 BPM and i swear i can hear the faerie orchestra joining in on that approach to the C# halfway through.
Aaargh i think i'll have another guiness and play it again....
# Posted on October 17th 2011 by sg2001