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Tanteeka

reel

Key signature: Amajor

Submitted on April 27th 2004 by mikk.

This tune has been added to 36 tunebooks.

Also known as Tan Theta.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Infinite Blue by The Poozies
New Numbers by 422

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Tanteeka - Jo Freya

A part in the key of A, Bpart in the key of F
Here are the guitar chords:-

"D "F#m "G "A"
"D "F#m "G "A "D"
"Dm "Am "A "Dm"
"Bb "Dm7 "A "Dm"

I usually only play the top 4 strings when accompanying this tune.
I will post a good way of accompanying the A part at a later date.

# Posted on April 27th 2004 by mikk

Thankyou!

Cheers - love this tune loads. It's got a real lilt to it, and I'll finally be able to play it in the session with the only other person I know who knows it!

HB

# Posted on April 27th 2004 by HB_in_Otley

Tanteeka

Mikk, does your first comment mean composed by Jo Freya?

# Posted on April 28th 2004 by radriano

I live this tune loads as well. I heard it on a 422 CD and was planning to transcribe it when I had time!

# Posted on April 30th 2004 by Tarrantella

Composer?

I love this tune as well, but I've never been able to find out whose it is to give proper credit. Thanks!

# Posted on May 2nd 2004 by MHCrawf

I LOVE THIS TUNE

this tune is great i heard it at the durham folkworks summer school and i am so glad that i now have the music thankyou so much for putting it up here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# Posted on August 26th 2006 by frafyduck

Composer answer

jo freya wrote this tune i think xxxxxxxx

# Posted on August 26th 2006 by frafyduck

I'm sure there's a nice version of this on Karen tweed/Poozies album Infinite Blue

# Posted on September 21st 2006 by domnull

I have never EVER heard this tune played anywhere except the Folkworks Summer School sessions, and the only people I know who know this tune are other Folkworks-ites.
Same thing with the Wizard's Walk... what's going on?!
Great tune though...

# Posted on February 18th 2007 by Joe CSS

Maybe it's because everyone else realises they're crap tunes.

# Posted on February 18th 2007 by Dow

8-) He's almost 30 you know...

Just put on your sunglasses Dow and take your medication. It's all part of middle age. Give me your hand and I'll walk you around this noxious quagmire. There are too many to stop and curse everytime one bubbles up... (No, I'm not being 'patronizing'. I've taken my medication and have my darkest sun glasses on, my glacier goggles, or you know I'd risk potentially being even nastier than you...)

# Posted on February 18th 2007 by ceolachan

Dow! For heaven's sake stop bashing that poor Wizard!
You have a very boring taste in tunes. It's gotta be said...

# Posted on February 18th 2007 by Joe CSS

Whoa! ~ A TASTE JUDGEMENT!!! ~ each to their own?!

Now we're treading toward dangerous shoals and my medication is starting to wear off, or kick in? Dow hardly needs my support, not in the slightest, but here it is anyway ~ I think that Dow is saying basically something similar ~ that by his judgement 'this' tune is 'boring'!!! ("crap") This is definitely a difference of preference and inclination... What you find 'boring' Joe Cascading Style Sheet', is one thing, and what Dow finds boring ("crap") tis another... :-/

# Posted on February 18th 2007 by ceolachan

No, 'c', this time it's not a taste judgement, it's a simple case of "good" versus "evil". The Wizard's Walk is a bad, evil, horrible tune. In fact it hardly even counts as a tune. The reason some people like it is not because their tastes are different to mine, it is because they simply don't recognise an evil, crap tune when they hear one. :-)

# Posted on February 19th 2007 by Dow

Come on Dow, you know I carry a crucifix, holy water and have a slew of memorized verse from the Bible, the Koran, the Bhagavadgita and Buddha, aside from wearing garlic around my neck ~ so there's no worry that tunes like that are about to take me over and suck the life out of me. What are you afraid of? Is it that you're a non-believer? I've got extra holy water if that'll settle your ire and bile... 8-)

# Posted on February 19th 2007 by ceolachan

It's not me or you I'm worried about. It's the people who turn to evil and find comfort in it. They turn to the dark side and they unleash it upon us at sessions. I don't want to have to spend my time at sessions fending off the darkness. Help me, 'c', please. Save me. C'mere and give uz some of that holy water. Mmm that's nice. Why is it a funny pink colour?

# Posted on February 19th 2007 by Dow

Dow... if this tune shows up at your session it'll be a good cue for you to go and buy the next round, specially since you seem to miss your turn so often.

# Posted on February 19th 2007 by Phantom Button

Holy Water = Hendrick's Gin

This is our salvation, yours and mine and Will Harmon's...

"Loved by a tiny handful of people all over the world. It is not for everyone."

"Preferred by 1 out of 1000."

"Despite the possibilities of surprise, most people shy away from what is odd."

"You must encounter Hendrick's at a time in your life when you are fully open to the deliciousness of new possibilities, no matter how unusual they may be."

Damn, that's scary. I wonder if it was the write-up that first attracted ol' Will to this gin, or was it the rose petals they use in the brewing? ~ or the cucumber? Anyway, enough of this lovely potion and we won't care what's played, or will be uninhibited enough to make a scene and exocise these demons with obscenities... ;-)

# Posted on February 19th 2007 by ceolachan

"exorcise", gotta have the "rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" to do it properly... 8-)

# Posted on February 19th 2007 by ceolachan

"Cascading Style Sheet"?

How on Earth did you find out my last names?!

# Posted on February 20th 2007 by Joe CSS

Yes I did write it

Hi All,
just happened to be surfing and noticed this. Although these queries are old thought I'd clarify.
I wrote it originally for the Poozies. So yes- a nice version does appear on one of their CDs.
The melody was writen in D originally. You can find a transcription in the Blowzabella book 'New Tunes for Dancing'. It will be on the new Blowzabella Cd due for release this Autumn. I shall try and post some of my other tunes here.
Have fun - Jo

# Posted on April 20th 2007 by Jo Freya

I told you guys to leave the Quiji Board alone...

# Posted on April 20th 2007 by ceolachan

Tanteeka - come on, own up !

OK, what wag put "Tan theta" as an alternative name for this tune?? Brilliant ! :-)

# Posted on November 1st 2007 by domnull

While idly leafing through "New Tunes for Dancing" I discovered that this was originally written in 2/2 and it's a scottische! i am ashamed that I didn't notice before!

# Posted on January 12th 2008 by mehitabel23

Ashamed?! ~ > ~ with swing!

Ashamed? ~ hardly, 4/4 is classic for transcribing a schottische, but, I would file it more appropriately under 'barndance', correcting the key signature, and would play it with swing ~ > ~ and here that is with a few other options thrown in for good measure ~

It also goes nicely rumbling along an octave lower ~
dropping the A-part down a spell ;-) ~

# Posted on January 12th 2008 by ceolachan