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Skidoo

reel

Key signature: Eminor

Submitted on November 5th 2001 by Will Harmon.

This tune has been added to 74 tunebooks.

Also known as Ski Doo.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Skidoo
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Emin
|EB, (3B,B,B, G2 AB|G~E3 BEAG|FdAF D2 B,A,|B,FED EB,FB,|
|G~E3 BEAB|GBef gfed|dAde f2 fa|fedB AdBA|
|G~E3 BEAB|GBAB GBAG|FdAF D2 B,A,|B,FED EB,FB,|
|G~E3 BEAB|GBef gfed|dAde ~f3a|fedB Adef|
|:ge (3eee geBe|geBe cedc|BEGA BEGA|BEGA (3B^cd ef|
|e2 ed ebba|gefe eAAB|cAEA BGEG|1 ADFD B,Eef:|2 ADFD B,EGF|

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Skidoo sheetmusic
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Skidoo

Stephen Cooney wrote this tune, played by Sharon Shannon on her self-titled cd. They do it in F#minor, but Em is a more fiddle friendly key.

# Posted on November 5th 2001 by Will Harmon

Barra MacNeils

The Barra MacNeils also play it in F#minor as part of a set...A great piece.

# Posted on November 28th 2003 by Winnowill

i like the version done by seamus o'sullivan and gerry conlon, great to dance to.

# Posted on September 3rd 2006 by Champ_irish_dancer

This reel is very aptly named: It's full of adrenaline and attitude, sudden changes of direction...
It is one of the first 'modern' Irish tunes I've heard. As such it stood out for quite some time before the flood of 'new generation' tunes broke the lilting gait...
Do yo know when it was written?

# Posted on November 22nd 2010 by birlibirdie

Datation

Probably written around the eighties.

# Posted on May 21st 2011 by Emmanuel Delahaye

1983 ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOHmP0rXsPo

We can be more precise than that - if the above link works, that's to a "Youtube" live recording from 1983. I'm pretty sure I heard them playing it in Edinburgh in 1982.

# Posted on May 21st 2011 by Kenny

Link seems to work OK.

# Posted on May 21st 2011 by Kenny

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