Sean Ryan's

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on September 6th 2001 by Will CPT.

This tune has been added to 37 tunebooks.

Also known as Blockers, The Blockers.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• ...And They Danced All Night by North Cregg
• A Whistle On The Wind by Joanie Madden
• An Historic Recording Of Irish Traditional Music by Paddy Canny, P.J. Hayes, Peader O'Loughlin, Bridie Lafferty
• Boxed by Anders Trabjerg
• Bridging The Gap by Kevin And Sean Moloney
• Call Of The Wild by Wild Asparagus
• Cathal Hayden by Cathal Hayden
• Clare Concertinas by Bernard O'Sullivan And Tommy McMahon
• Clear The Dresser And Take The Floor by Emerald Ceili Band
• D Is For Dulcimer by Glenn Morgan
• Dance Music Of Ireland: Jigs And Reels by Various Artists
• Dancing To Jigs And Reels by Various Artists
• Echoes Of Erin by The Tulla Ceili Band
• Fiddle Tunes by Dougie MacDonald
• Grapevine by Elvie Miller And Naomi Morse
• Greenfire by Greenfire
• In The Footsteps Of Coleman by Various Artists
• John Bowe And Mary Conroy by John Bowe
• Kiss Me Kate by Liz Carroll And Tommy Maguire
• Maeve Donnelly by Maeve Donnelly
• Maiden Voyage by Various Artists
• Marie And Martin Reilly by Marie And Martin Reilly
• Martin Hayes by Martin Hayes
• Maybe Tonight by Four Men And A Dog
• McGreevy And Cooley by John McGreevy And Seamus Cooley
• Memories Of Galway by Seamus Walshe
• Memories Of Sligo by Roger Sherlock
• Mick Mulcahy And Friends by Mick Mulcahy
• Noonday Feast by Joe Shannon And Johnny McGreevy
• Open The Door For 3 by Nuada
• Promenade by Kevin Burke And Mícheál O'Domhnaill
• Selection Box by Conor McCarthy And Alph Duggan
• Sessions From..... by An Teach Beag
• The Back Door by Cherish The Ladies
• The Fire Aflame by Keane, Molloy, O'Flynn
• The Heart Of Cape Breton by Various Artists
• The Irish Girl by Robin Bullock And Michel Sikiotakis
• The Jolly Tinker by Kane O'Rourke
• The Killaville Sessions by Ceoltoiri Coleman
• The Merry Love To Play by Peter Horan And Gerry Harrington
• The Mist Covered Mountain by De Danann
• The Steeplechase by Brendan Mulvihill And Donna Long
• The Tap Room Trio by Tap Room Trio
• The Three Sisters by Barry Kerr
• The Windy Gap by Laurence Nugent
• They Sailed Away From Dublin Bay by Liam Farrell And Joe Whelan
• Traditional Music Of Ireland by Kathleen Collins
• Traditional Music Of Ireland On Button Accordion by Seamus Walshe
• Traditional Music Of Ireland, Vol. 1 by Sean Ryan
• Traditional Music Of Ireland, Vol. 2 by Sean Ryan And Peter Carberry
• Tunes On Mandolin by Denis McAuliffe
• Unearthed by Paul McGlinchey
• When All Is Said And Done by Danu
• When Here Meets There by Troy MacGillivray And Shane Cook
• Wooden Flute Obsession: Volume 2, Disc 2 by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Sean Ryan's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|FGAG FD (3DDD|=CA,G,A, =CDEG|Ad (3ddd cded|
|cAG=F E=C (3=CCC|FGAG FD (3DDD|=CA,G,A, =CDEG|
Ad (3ddd cded|1 cAGE D2 DE:|2 cAGE DEFA|
|:d2 Ad FdAF|~G3 A GECE|A,D (3DDD CDEG|
|FGAB cABc|d2 dc dAFA|~G3 A GECE|
A,D (3DDD CDEG||1 FDEC DEFA:|2 FDEC D2 DE|

Sean Ryan's

Ohhh, I love this tune. It's not the easiest thing to pull off on a fiddle, but Frankie Gavin makes it sing and swing on DeDannan's "Mist Covered Mountain cd. The A Part is pretty straightforward once your ear learns to like those c and f naturals. The B Part, however, throws that jumpy string crossing at us in the first measure (you can play the notes as in measure 5 if measure 1 is just too tricky). And then the fingering gets a little tight going from measure 3 to 4 (and again from measure 6 to 7). I've tried jumping from the E to A, with my index finger, or holding the E and A, at the same time, and the latter seems to work a little better for me.

So, this Sean Ryan fellow was quite a fiddler from County Tipperary, a key figure of the IRTRAD revival during the 1950s and 1960s. The Companion to Irish Traditional Music says he wrote more than 250 tunes, including Glen of Aherlow, now a popular session tune. Maybe we could just submit Sean Ryan tunes for a week....

Will

# Posted on September 6th 2001 by Will CPT

Sean Ryan plays this tune in G mix

Hey Will, I love this tune, I don't know why Frankie put it in D, but it's great in the original key.

# Posted on July 5th 2004 by Phantom Button

"Ther Blockers"

Sean Ryan named it "The Blockers".

# Posted on October 25th 2005 by *Davy Rogers

Sean Ryan's "The Blockers"

and here it is:-

X:1
T:"The Blockers"
C:
L:1/8
Q:380
K:Gmix
M:4/4
z6 A2 |: Bc dc BG (3GAG | =FD CD FG Ac | dg (3gfg fg ag | fd c^A =A=F (3FEF | Bc dc BG (3GAG | \
=FD CD FG Ac | dg (3gfg fg ag |1 fd cA G2 A2 :|2 fd cA GA Bd |: g2 dg Bg dB | cB cd cA FA | \
DG (3GFG FG Ac | Bc de fd ef | g2 dg Bg dB | cB cd cA F2 | DG (3GFG FG Ac |1 BG AF GA Bd :|2 BG AF G2 A2 | \
BG AF G4 | \

# Posted on October 25th 2005 by *Davy Rogers