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The Irish Tradition

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on February 19th 2005 by patrick cavanagh.

This tune has been added to 15 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Irish Tradition, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
Bd(3ddd edBe|dBAB AGED|B,EDB, ~B,2~B,2|GBAG EFGA
Bd(3ddd edBe|dBAB AGED|B,EDB, ~B,2~B,2|GBAF GAcA:|
Bd(3ddd edBd|gb(3bbb agef|~g3e dBGB|cABG AE(3EEE
GEDB, ~B,2A,B,|G,B,DG cABG|cA(3Bcd gedc|(3BcdAc BGG2:|

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The Irish Tradition sheetmusic
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Like the Commodore, this is another tune written by Billy McComiskey and Brendan Mulvihill (the Lennon and McCartney of the 70's Washington DC trad scene.) I tried to get this down as accurately as I could to they way they play it on Catchin' the Tune, but they really were zipping through it so I probably missed some details. By banjo player brain is no doubt responsible for the number of trebles (i.e. (3ddd ) in there - more likely it's some other type of ornament. The double roll on the low B in the first part may actually be that stutter roll that Brendan came up with, but I'm not sure and wouldn't know how to notate it if it were.
Anyhoo, it's a great tune!

# Posted on February 19th 2005 by patrick cavanagh

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