Key signature: Bminor
Submitted on March 29th 2005 by daithic.
This tune has been added to 38 tunebooks.
Also known as Tico, Tico, Tico,Tico.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Tico Tico
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Bmin
F=F^F|"Bm"G2FB2 F=F^F|"F#7"G2Fc2 F=F^F|GFec ^AFE^D|"Bm"D3^A B^A=A^G|
"Em"G2Be2 GBe|"Bm"F2Bd2 FB^B|"C#7"~c3d cB^AB|"F#"c3c2 F=F^F|
"Bm"G2FB2 F=F^F|"F#7"G2Fc2 F=F^F|GFec ^AFE^D|"Bm"D3^A B^A=A^G|
"Em"GBeG BeGB|"Bm"FBdF Bd(3F^Ac|"F#"fFfg fedc|"Bm"B3 B2:|
K:D
FG^G|"D"A2^GA2 ^GA^A|"Em"B2G3 FG^G|"A7"ACEA CEc=c|"D"B2F3 ddF|
dFdF cFcF|"Em"B2G3 =C^CE|"A7"c2GB2 FG^G|"D"A2F3 =F^FG|
ADFA DFA^A|"Em"BEGB Edc/=c/B|"A7"ACEA CEA^A|"D"BF~F2 FAdc|
"G"B^ABc "G#dim"edcd|"D/A"fg^ga "B"ba=gf|"Em"edcB "A"AGFE|"D"D3 D2:|
K:B
Bdf|"B"bBdf aBdf|gBdf gfdB|bBdf aBdf|"C#m7"gGce gecG|
bGce aGce|"F#9"gGce gecG|bGce aGce|"B"gBdf gfdB|
bBdf aBdf|gBdf gfdB|"G#"~g3=a gfed|"C#m"gfed "B/D"cBA=A|
"E"G=A^AB "Fdim"cBAB|"B/F#"de=f^f "G#"gfed|"C#m"cBAG "F#"FEDC|"B"B,3 B,2:|
Tico Tico
Theme from one of Radio na Gaeltachta's programs, I think played on the accordion by Dermot Byrne.
More of a South American type Tango than a reel.
Pretty cool tune!
# Posted on March 29th 2005 by daithic
Very nice tune! Quite impossible on most instruments, I'm afraid (I play a keyless flute!), but I'd love to hear a "real" instrument playing it (rather than the cheezy MIDI piano).
Impressive and industrious transcribing, there, daithic!
# Posted on March 29th 2005 by FyfferGuy
If you can find a copy of Peter Ostroushko's "Buddies of Swing", Red House Records RHR17, there is a version of him and Jethro Burns doing it as a mandolin duet with general accompanyment of guitar , bass, violin etc., that really cooks. Granted, not traditional Irish but very good pickin' none the less.
# Posted on March 30th 2005 by ed veras
We've been playing this in our session for a quite while now. Our banjo player, Paul, brought it back with him from one of his trips, to Brazil I think. He's the only one who can really play the melody line properly. We play it in probably an easier key, starting in Am then A then C, for each part.
# Posted on March 31st 2005 by Daver
An oldie.
Its Brazilian composer, Zequinha Abreu, died in 1935. "Tico tico no fubá" translates, according to one source, as "Tico Tico bird in the cornmeal,"
# Posted on March 31st 2005 by joesmith
Dermot Byrne learned it from Fintan Stanley and recorded it on his solo CD, issued in the US on Green Linnet.
# Posted on June 4th 2005 by blarneystar