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Ryan's Rant

reel

Key signature: Adorian

Submitted on April 22nd 2004 by Phantom Button.

This tune has been added to 33 tunebooks.

Also known as Ryans Rant.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

For The Same Reason by Anders Trabjerg And Tak Tamura
Inside Out by Mícheál O' Raghallaigh
John Bowe And Mary Conroy by John Bowe
Kelly/O'Brien/Sproule by Kelly, O'Brien and Sproule
Maeve Donnelly by Maeve Donnelly
Strayaway by Caoimhin Vallely
The Liffey Banks by Tommy Potts
The Natural Bridge by Ben Lennon And Friends
The Salmon's Leap by Randal Bays
The Ships Are Sailing by Comhaltas Concert Tour Group 1978
The Thing Itself by Maeve Donnelly And Peadar O'Loughlin
Trad by Colcannon
Traditional Music Of Ireland by Paddy Carty And Conor Tully
Traditional Music Of Ireland by Paddy O'Brien
Under The Diamond by Liz And Yvonne Kane

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X: 1
T: Ryan's Rant
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
cAAB cAed | ceAc BGGB | cAAB cdef |1 gedc BGGB :|2 gedc BGGE ||!
A3 B cAed | ceAc dBGB | cAEA cdef | gedc BGGB |!
cAAB cAed | ceAc dBGB | cAEA cdef | gedc BGGB ||!
c2 gc acgc | Gc gc dBGB | c2 gc acgc | d=fed cAAB |!
c2 gc acgc | GABG DGBG | Acea bc'ba | gedc BGGB :|!
"Variation: B part"
A3 B cAed | ceAc dBGB | cAEA cdef | gedc BGGB |!
cAAB cAdA | eAdA BGGB | cAEA cdef | gedc BGGB ||!
"Variation: C part"
c2 bc acgc | Gc ba geAB | c2 bc acgc | d=fed cAAB |!
c2 bc acgc | GABG DGBG | Acea bc'ba | gedc BGGB :|!
"Final variation on C part"
c2 gc acgc | Gc gc dBGB | c2 gc acgc | d=fed cAAB :|!
c3 B cdef | gece dBGB | c3 B cdeg | fdcB cAAB |!
c3 B cdef | gece dBGB | Acea bc'ba | gedc BDGB || A8 |]**

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Paddy O'Brien's setting of "Ryan's Rant"

I've always loved this version of "Ryan's Rant". Before I posted the ABCs here I wanted to find out what the common key might be, (I think it's Gdor on the recording,) so I put it out to IRTRAD, and Jerome Colburn responded with the answer, (Ador,) and included a good head start on the ABCs. I went through them carefully comparing them to the recording, and here are the results. Hope you enjoy it.

# Posted on April 22nd 2004 by Phantom Button

Gravel Walks

It sounds like the Gravel Walks *smirk*

# Posted on April 22nd 2004 by Dow

No... it sounds like 'Out on the Ocean'

double *smirk*

# Posted on April 22nd 2004 by Phantom Button

Or "The Cup Of Tea"

The last bar of each part reminds me of "The Cup Of Tea", but in a different key.

# Posted on April 22nd 2004 by Dow

You really need to learn some new tunes Dow, all yours are starting to sound alike. :-P

# Posted on April 22nd 2004 by Phantom Button

LOL -- bad boys! NO biscuits!

# Posted on April 22nd 2004 by Zina Lee

Let's face it Jack, they all sound the same anyway. Basically they're all just different settings of "Out On The Ocean". And Zina it's okay I didn't want a biscuit anyway.

# Posted on April 22nd 2004 by Dow

Fine, then a thwack on the noses with the Newspaper of Justice for you...! ;)

# Posted on April 22nd 2004 by Zina Lee

Can we have you on the floor again Zina? All this thwacking isn't enough to satisfy me!

# Posted on April 22nd 2004 by Dow

Zina always goes quiet when we bring up the "have her on the floor" thing Dow... shhhhh

# Posted on April 23rd 2004 by Phantom Button

LOL -- oh, if only you knew. I've still got those handcuffs and dog collars around here someplace...

# Posted on April 23rd 2004 by Zina Lee

See what you missed by not being in Cody?

# Posted on April 23rd 2004 by Miss Lonelyhearts

Out on the Ocean

I noticed that only one of you added this tune to your tunebook. Just because it sounds like Out on the Ocean doesn't mean it's not worth learning you know.

# Posted on April 23rd 2004 by Phantom Button

Hey, I'm full up on tunes to learn right now. I've got two cassettes full of stuff to learn (and since one is full of Tommy Peoples, that's going to take me another year or two), you want me to add another one? Jaysus, Jack, yer a heartless wan...

# Posted on April 23rd 2004 by Zina Lee

Heartless eh? like the Tin Man in The Wizard of Org?

# Posted on April 23rd 2004 by Phantom Button

If I shake you, will your heart rattle around in there? ;)

# Posted on April 23rd 2004 by Zina Lee

How could it rattle around... you said I was "heartless." *smirk*

# Posted on April 23rd 2004 by Phantom Button

Jack, this one's not going in *my* tunebook. I know far too many tunes already that sound like "Out On The Ocean".

# Posted on April 23rd 2004 by Dow

Not on Ben Lennon's "Natural Bridge" album

After all these comments about "Ryan's Rant" (NOT!) -- just thought I'd add my own, FWIW -- valued at exactly (well, at least!) .002 yen...

I was looking for Ryan's Rant as listed on Ben Lennon's "Natural Bridge" album, and found one here on thesession.org--but it's not the same tune as on Ben Lennon (& co.)'s record, track 10.
..Same name, yes -- but different tune.

Lennon's tune is a very modal/piping-sounding Em first part, with D second part which swoops down from the top.. so to speak.

Anybody got another name for that Em/D "Ryan's Rant"? Transcription?

Cheers,

# Posted on September 19th 2005 by jimmydearing

Sorry, Jediger... this thread must seem like you showed up after the party ended and there were only dirty plates and empty beer bottles all over the tables and chairs.

I don't know the version you're referring to and I don't have a name... sorry. The version posted here is from Paddy O'Brien.

# Posted on January 26th 2006 by Phantom Button

This tune is in the Gunn Book (Fermanagh 1865) in the key of Am, 2 parts. I've also heard Paddy Carty play in Gm I think, again 2 parts, and also Jean Carignan.
Its also in Gm with nice variations on one of the Paddy O'Brien/James Kelly recordings

# Posted on November 12th 2009 by Sharon the Flute