Mairtin O'Connor's Flying Clog

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on July 27th 2001 by Miss Lonelyhearts.

This tune has been added to 29 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Summer At My Feet by North Cregg

X: 1
T: Mairtin O'Connor's Flying Clog
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|:G2 (3GGG dGBd|eGce dBAB|G2 (3GGG BGAB|cE (3EEE GEDE|
|G2 (3GGG dBGd|eGce dBAB|cE (3EEE GECE|1 DFAc BcAB:|2 DFAc BGGA||
|:Bd (3ddd edgd|edgd egdc|Bd (3ddd edgd|eaag fedc|
|BcdB ~c3 E|(3EEE cE DGBG|cE (3EEE GECE|1 DFAc BGGA:|2 DFAc BcAB||

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Mairtin O'Connor's Flying Clog

Written by box player Phil Cunningham to commemorate a shoe kicked into the audience during concert, this quirky tune gives me fits on fiddle. The first four notes of the 2nd measure in Part A I play with fourth finger on second string, ring finger on third string, then 2nd finger on 2nd string, and back to the 4th finger. At speed, it's challenging at best. Then Part B goes smoothly until measures 5 and 6. Phil plays back-to-back triplets: |BcdB cE (3EEE|(3EEE cE DGBG| and I'd love to follow, but for now have replaced it with a turn and then the triplet, which is how the fiddle does it on the cd.
A terrific tune for all you plectrum players out there, and the rest of us will try to hang on....
Will

# Posted on July 27th 2001 by Miss Lonelyhearts

Key of tune

just wondered have you adapted this tune to suit an instument, because in phil cunninghams book 'house in rose valley' the tune is written in f . admittedly, a hard key to tackle for fiddle on this tune! maybe its best stuck in this key!!

# Posted on July 28th 2001 by laura nesbit

Keys

I pulled this off a tape given to me by a friend, apparently recorded straight from some cd. I transcribed it in the key played on the tape (and cd). It's played by banjo, box (clearly Phil's playing), and fiddle on the tape I'll transpose it when I get the time, and see if I can't find a more fiddle friendly key (although, surprisingly, F works okay for some tunes). Thanks for the suggestion.
Will

# Posted on July 28th 2001 by Miss Lonelyhearts

Keys

F it is! I just transposed it, and it's much easier on fiddle. I don't know how to explain the G major version on the tape I was given...could be they guy who dubbed it inadvertently sped it up (some tape machines do that), or possibly they played it in G on the cd. So I'll post it again transposed down to F for all you fiddlers out there.
Thanks again to Lrn_fiddle for the heads up on the key.
Will

# Posted on July 29th 2001 by Miss Lonelyhearts

"Mairtin O'Connor's Flying Clog" ~ F Major

Key signature: F Major
Submitted on July 29th 2001 by cheshire puddy tat.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/218

# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan

"Mairtin O'Connor's Flying Clog" ~ Duplication ~ tunes/display/7001

Submitted on March 25th 2007 by risto.
Key signature: G Major

"Mary Shannon plays this tune with the banjo in a set on one of Sharon's CD's."

R: reel
K: G Major
|: G,2 G,/G,/G, DG,B,D | EG,CE DB,A,B, | G,2 G,/G,/G, B,G,A,B, | "D" C "U" E, "D" E,/E,/E, G,E,D,E, |
G,2 G,/G,/G, DG,B,D | EG,CE DB,A,B, | "U" C "D" E, "D" E,/E,/E, G,E,D,E, |1 D,F,A,D B,DA,B, :|
2 D,F,A,D B,G,G,A, ||
|: B,D D/D/D EDGD | ED GD EG DC | B,D D/D/D EDGD | EAAG FEDC |
B,CDB, B,CCE, | E,/E,/E, CE, D,D,B,D, | CE, E,/E,/E, G,E,D,E, |1 D,F,A,D B,G,G,A, :|
2 D,F,A,D B,DA,B, ||

K: G Major
|: G2 G/G/G dGBd | eGce dBAB | G2 G/G/G BGAB | cE E/E/E GEDE |
G2 G/G/G dGBd | eGce dBAB | cE E/E/E GEDE |1 DFAd BdAB :|
2 DFAd BGGA ||
|: Bd d/d/d edgd | edgd egdc | Bd d/d/d edgd | eaag fedc |
BcdB BccE | E/E/E cE DDBD | cE E/E/E GEDE |1 DFAd BGGA :|
2 DFAd BdAB ||

W: Created with TablEdit ~ http://www.tabledit.com/

# Posted on March 25th 2007 by risto

# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan

# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceili ~ in answer to the previous

"Mairtin O'Connor's Flying Clog"
R: reel
K: D Major
|: D2 D/D/D ADFA | BDGB AFEF | D2 D/D/D FDEF | "A"G"U"B, "A"B,/B,/B, DB,A,B, |
D2 D/D/D ADFA | BDGB AFEF | "U"G"A"B, "A"B,/B,/B, DB,A,B, |1 A,CEA FAEF :|
2 A,CEA FDDE ||
|: FA A/A/A BAdA | BAdA BdAG | FA A/A/A BAdA | Beed cBAG |
FGAF FGGB, | B,/B,/B, GB, A,A,FA, | GB, B,/B,/B, DB,A,B, |1 A,CEA FDDE :|
2 A,C EA FA EF ||

# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceili

My understanding is that the above transcription came as 'ceili' was trying to make sense of 'risto's' previous low octave transcription which drags down to an incredible D, ~ but I wasn't quick enough to catch 'ceili's' comments to add here. Apologies to 'ceili'. Maybe they will restate them here later?

# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan

"The Hounds of Letterfrack" ~ the case of the mis-named ~ MTGuru

This tune is *not* The Hounds of Letterfrack. This is the Phil Cunningham tune "Martin O'Connor's Flying Clog". It was recorded by Sharon Shannon in a *set* called "The Hounds of Letterfrack", consisting of the following tunes:

1) "Martin O'Connor's Flying Clog"
2) "The Slopes of Benbulben" - http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6511
3) "Tae in the Bog" - http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6489
4) "The Hounds of Letterfrack" - not yet in the database here

The banjo part in G transcribed above is one octave too low, and unplayable as is on a GDAE banjo. The correct setting one octave higher would work nicely capoed at the 5th fret.

# Posted on March 26th 2007 by MTGuru

"Thanks. Mary plays it in G, as it was, but the ABC is one octave too low. The ABC conversion is by Tabledit to which I notated the transcription. The program has odd capo settings to chance the pitch of the midi instrument and I just trusted it without checking the outcome."

# Posted on March 25th 2007 by risto

So, why did I post it ~ well, I have a couple of instruments that can play it that low, and it is a blast growling away way down there s-l-o-w-l-y, swinging it as a hornpipe, with some few differences.... ;-)

# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan

That can be played as is or an octave down to a low rumble if you've an instrument that can do it...

As I'd promised someone, here it is without the '>' ~

# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan

The fiddle version of this on the Woodchoppers Live CD plays a turn on C in that difficult second bar avoiding the jump over the A string. This makes the A part much easier to play IMO. ABC below:

X: 1
T: Mairtin O'Connor's Flying Clog
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
T: Mairtin O'Connor's Flying Clog (Woodchoppers version)
|:G2 (3GGG dGBd|(cBc)e dBAB|G2 (3GGG BGAB|(cE) (3EEE GEDE|
|G2 (3GGG dGBd|(cBc)e dBAB|(cE) (3EEE GECE|1 DFAc BcAB:|2 DFAc BGGA||
|:(Bd) (3ddd edgd|edgd egdc|(Bd) (3ddd edgd|eaag fedc|
|BcdB ~c3 E|(3EEE (cE) DGBG|(cE) (3EEE GECE|1 DFAc BGGA:|2 DFAc BcAB||

# Posted on June 30th 2008 by streb