Key signature: Emajor
Submitted on September 16th 2005 by lowoanne.
This tune has been added to 21 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Grant's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Emaj
|:e2 BA GBEB|GBEB GBEB|B,EGF EGB,E|DFB,D FDB,D|
e2 BA GBEB|GBEB GBEB|a2 ga gfed|f2 e2 e2 (3Bcd:|
|:efga bgeg|gffe dfBd|efga bgeg|gedc Bc =d2|
cAce BGB=d|AFA=d F=DFA|EGBa gbfd|1e2 g2 e2 (3Bcd:|2e4 E4||
Grant's Reel
Found this one on Natalie MacMaster's CD. I was able to transcribe it, but I think it will be a while before I actually learn how to play it!
# Posted on September 16th 2005 by lowoanne
It's also on Sharon Shannon's "The Diamond Mountain Sessions." On the last track Kane Sisters, Mary & Sharon Shannon, Jesse Smith, and Sean Smyth all play this tune together on the fiddle, backed by Donogh Hennessy.
# Posted on September 17th 2005 by slainte
Widely played in D.
Jim
# Posted on September 17th 2005 by skerries
Sandy Macintyre the geat compiler of Cape Breton tunes calls The Grants' a hornpipe.
# Posted on September 18th 2005 by McMandolin
I suppose there could be different songs all called "Grant's," but I just checked Natalie's website, and it definitely lists it as a reel. I don't know if this is the same tune for the other recordings, but this is how it sounds on Natalie's CD, and it does sound like a reel. But that's the beauty of these tunes--they allow for a lot of flexibility.
# Posted on September 18th 2005 by lowoanne
Use *tune*, not song! I used to play it years back as a reel myself. An awful lot of these tunes are flexible.
# Posted on September 19th 2005 by continuo
Grant's in D
X: 1
T: Grant's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K:Dmaj
|:d2 AG FADA|FADA FADA|A,DFE DFA,D|CEA,C ECA,C|
d2 AG FADA|FADA FADA|g2 fg fedc|e2 d2 d2 (3ABc:|
|:defg afdf|feed ceAc|defg afdf|fdcB AB =c2|
BGBd AFA=c|GEG=c E=CEG|DFAg faec|1d2 f2 d2 (3ABc:|2d4 D4||
# Posted on September 19th 2005 by swisspiper
Siobhan Peoples taught me a nice version of this tune a few months ago:
T:Grant's
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:E
(3Bcd|:e2 BA GBEB|GBEB G~E3|B,EGE B,EGB|AGFG ABcd|
e2 BA G~E3|B~E3 GAB=d|ceag fe^df|e2 df eBcd:|
|:efga bgeg|~f3 e d~B3|eBeg b~g3|fe=dc ~B3 d|
cAce BG (3GGG|A2 F=D A,DFD|E2 ag fe^df|(3efe df eBcd:|
# Posted on September 25th 2006 by errik
Tommy Doucet plays this on both of his LPs (which have a lot of duplication), on I Used To Play Some Pretty Tough Tunes it's Joanne's Reel, on Down East Star it's Irish Reel. Good to find the score.
I first heard this on a pub recording of Sean McGuire, he does a crazy slide up to the third octave E at the end of the first part.
# Posted on September 29th 2007 by Kevin Rietmann
There's a President Grant's Hornpipe in Ryan's but it isn't this tune.
# Posted on September 29th 2007 by Kevin Rietmann