Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on April 25th 2004 by lazyhound.
This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.
Also known as Great North Run '86.
X: 1
T: Great North Run, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
D2|G2G2 FGAF|GABc d2B2|e2ce d2G2|ABAG E2D2|
G2G2 FGAF|GABc d2B2|e2ce dBGB|A2F2 G2:|
f2|g2eg f2d2|e2ce d2B2|e2ce d2G2|ABAG E2D2|
G2G2 FGAF|GABc d2B2|e2ce dBGB|A2F2 G2:|
Great North Run
A lively reel regularly played at my "Plume of Feathers" session, and led by a box player. Usually followed by "South Wind"
Trevor
# Posted on April 25th 2004 by lazyhound
Great North Run '86
Its full title is "Great North Run '86" and it's by Northumbrian accordionist Robert Whitehead.
# Posted on April 25th 2004 by Dow
Nice one
I came across this tune some years ago and quite liked it. Nice to hear that it is played at a session and I will certainly try it out myself
# Posted on April 26th 2004 by Llanman
This works nicely in an Irish style as well if you fill it out a bit:
K: Gmaj
G2~G2 FGAF|GABc dGBd|e2ce dBAG|ABAG EGDE|
G2~G2 FGAF|GABc dGBd|e2ce dBGB|1 AGFA G3D:|2 AGFA G2ef||
|:g2eg fdBd|edce dGBd|e2ce dBAG|ABAG EGDE|
G2~G2 FGAF|GABc dGBd|e2ce dBGB|1 AGFA G2ef:|2 AGFA G3D||
# Posted on April 26th 2004 by Dow
Great North Run '86
A variation I like to do now in the 3rd bar of the 2nd part is |c2Ac B2G2|. This nicely continues the downward sequence of the previous two bars, and fits in harmonically with the version as first posted.
Trevor
# Posted on April 29th 2004 by lazyhound
Reel Set
I learned this reel as part of a set of three: The Great North Run, The Dinnington Rant and The Durham Rangers - these other two I've just uploaded here. Have fun
# Posted on August 10th 2004 by lildogturpy
"Willy Taylor's High Tea" ~ another pairing and other ways
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on August 4th 2007 by spindizzy.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7577
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7577/comments
"I got this one from a workshop and we play it with the "Great North Run" in our very mixed session."
# Posted on August 4th 2007 by spindizzy
# Posted on August 5th 2007 by ceolachan
"The Great North Run '86" ~ has swing and schottische written all over it
Check out the notes linked to above. This tune, the melody, if I'd seen it on it's own without a category like 'reel', I would have immediately assumed it was a swung tune and a member of the barndance / schottische family, to be swung. The crotchets / quarter notes ( N2 ) spell out a schottische way with them, the placement of pairs ~ N2 N2 ~ for example ~
| G2 G2 FGAF | ~ and all those bars concluding the same ~ for example ~
| GABc d2 B2 |
That clearly calls out 'schottische' to me...
& having some fun with it that way ~
X: 2
T: The Great North Run '86
C: Robert Whitehead
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance / schottische
K: G Major
|: (3DEF |
G2 G2 F>GA>F | G>AB>c d2 G2 | e2 e2 d>B (3GAB | ABAG (3EFE D2 |
G2 G2 F>G (3AGF | G>AB>c d2 G2 | e2 ce dGDG | A2 D2 G2 :|
|: (3def |
g2 g2 f>d (3Bcd | e>d^c>e d2 G2 | e2 c>e d2 G>B | A2 (3BAG E2 D2 |
G2 G2 F2 (3FGA | G2 (3ABc d2 G2 | e>d (3cde d>GB>G | A>F (3DEF G2 :|
Yes, I know, it has an 'author', apologies Robert if this is taking it beyond your intention. Our creations do not always do as we will, or ~ maybe they do, all that subconscious stuff, your inner voice may have been screaming out "SCHOTTISCHE!"
# Posted on August 5th 2007 by ceolachan
Heard it played a lot at Whitby Folk Week 2008. Nice tune,goes with Hornpipes and Scottisches
# Posted on August 26th 2008 by mike Wild