The Rolling Waves

jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on January 23rd 2002 by Will CPT.

This tune has been added to 140 tunebooks.

Also known as The Lonesome , The Lonesome, Maguire's, Maguire's Clan March, Maguire's Kick, Maguire's March, McGuire's Kick.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Tribute To John McKenna by Mick Woods
• An Calmfhear: The Trooper by Johnny O'Leary
• As Long As You're Enjoying Yourself by John Brennan And John McGillian
• At First Light by Michael McGoldrick And John McSherry
• Barking Mad by Four Men And A Dog
• Beyond The Shore by Deby Benton Grosjean
• Celanova Square by Calico
• Do You Know Eddy Kelly? by Elandir
• Draiocht by Michael Rooney And June McCormack
• Feel The Bow by Aidan Burke
• Handprints by Donna Long
• Honk Toot Suite by Éamonn Coyne And Kris Drever
• Hubcaps And Potholes by Rachel Hair
• If Ida Been Here, Ida Been There by Craobh Rua
• In Good Company by Kevin Crawford
• Irish Fiddle Solos by Pete Cooper
• John Williams by John Williams
• Learning Irish Fiddle by Paul McNevin
• Live At Trinity Hall by Trinity Hall Session Players
• Maiden Voyage by Various Artists
• Notes From The Heart by Mick, Louise And Michelle Mulcahy
• Oi�che Go Maidean by Brendan Begley
• On TSean - Am Anall by Danny O'Donnell
• Playing With Fire: The Celtic Fiddle Collection by Various Artists
• Portland by Kevin Burke And Mícheál O'Domhnaill
• Portraid by Sean Maguire
• Rolling Harbour by Elandir
• Strange But True... by Takuji Tamura And Yukio Kashiwagi
• The Dangerous Reel by Mike And Mary Rafferty
• The Green House by Grey Larsen And Paddy League
• The Natural Bridge by Ben Lennon And Friends
• The Nettles by The Nettles
• The Pipering Of Willie Clancy. Vol 1 by Willie Clancy
• The Twentieth Anniversary Collection by Various Artists
• Up At The Crack Of Noon by Ciúnas
• Within A Mile Of Kilty by Various Artists
• Wooden Flute Obsession Disk 2 by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Rolling Waves, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|:F2 E EDE|F2 D DED|F2 E EFA|d2 e fdA|
|F2 E EDE|F2 D DED|AFE EFA|B3 d3:|
|:ABd e2 f|d2 cB2 A|ABd e2 f|d2 A B3|
|ABd ede|fdB BAF|AFE EFA|B3 d3:|

The Rolling Waves

I learned this from the playing of Kevin Burke (is it on the "Portland" album?), smooth and swingy, not too fast. You want to get the feeling of being gently rocked in your dinghy on a light swell. It makes a nice companion to the Humours of Trim (also listed as the Rolling Waves in the archives here), with Willie Coleman's in between.

On fiddle, Burke likes to slide the F2 in measure 1 down just a little and the F2 in measure 2 up a smidge to add sway to the already rolling feel. And you can roll any of the B3's and d3's as you see fit.

The tunes makes an easy whistle or flute piece as well, ready made for beginner's fingers (like mine) to find on the low D whistle, for instance. You can cut to separate the doubled-up E's D's wherever they occur and the side-by-side A's from measure 2 to measure 3 in Part B, and the two B's in measure 6 of Part B.

# Posted on January 23rd 2002 by Will CPT

James Kelly also plays this

...on his Caple Street recording. Very nice--don't know if this recording is still available.

# Posted on April 29th 2003 by pchaffee

"Martin O'Connor's Polka" ~ making life tough for poor ol' Al Brown

Submitted on July 10th 2006 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5952

Now Martin O'Connor knows both these tunes but gave this polka as a nameless or 'gan ainm'. Check out the lovely shared bit between the two, the A-parts. Here's the first four bars from this polka:

|: D/E/ |
FE ED/E/ | FD D>E | FE DA | dB BA | ~

There's also a slide in the family...

# Posted on July 11th 2006 by ceolachan

POLKAS

~ a few basic rhythmic possibilities, bar and beat, minus the possibilities of z... 'N' = generic note...

Within the measure:
| N4 | = | N2- N2 | ~
| N2- N>N | ~ | N2- NN | ~ | NN- N2 | ~ | NN- N>N | ~ | NN- NN |

Within the beat:
N2 ~ NN ~ N>N ~ NN/N/ ~ N/N/N ~ N/N/N/N/

# Posted on July 11th 2006 by ceolachan

Oops! ~ There's a screw up if ever I saw one. I thought I was in the comments for the polka. That'll surprise some folks, not my screwing up, but finding the above here...

# Posted on July 11th 2006 by ceolachan

"Gan Ainm" ~ a blood relative, on one side only...

Submitted on July 11th 2006 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5954

# Posted on July 11th 2006 by ceolachan

SLIDES / JIGS ~ in order to make partial restitution for the srew-up above...

~ a few basic rhythmic possibilities, not all necessarily 'common' ~ minus the possibilities of z... 'N' = generic note...

Across two beats:
| N6 | = | N3- N3 | ~
N3- N2 N ~ N2 N- N3 ~ N2 N- N2 N ~

On one beat:
N3 ~ N2 N ~ N N2 ~ NNN ~ N>NN ~ N<NN ~
N/N/NN ~ NN/N/N ~ NNN/N/

# Posted on July 11th 2006 by ceolachan

I can just imagine folks going around going "Nuh-Nuh-Nuuuuh"... Dow, holding his head and looking for aspirin...

# Posted on July 11th 2006 by ceolachan