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The Bass Rock

reel

Key signature: Amajor

Submitted on November 18th 2005 by Tize.

This tune has been added to 39 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Bass Rock, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amaj
A (3AAA e fAec | Ba (3aaa fbaf | e2 af ecAB | cABc AF (3FFF |
A3 e fAec | Ba (3aaa fbaf | eafe c3 e | [1 fecB AEFG :| [2 fecB ABce ||
a3 e fa (3aaa | b3 c' bafe | a3 e fgaf | ecBc A2 (3FFF |
[1 a3 e fa (3aaa | b3 c' bafe | a2 (3eee fgaf | ecBc ABce :|
[2 ABce fa (3aaa | b3 c' bafe | c'bac' bafc | e2 fc ecBc ||

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The Bass Rock sheetmusic
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I saw this in requests. I learnt this tune from a Capercaillie recording, Nadurra, a couple of years ago. It's a fantastic tune, and it caused me to learn to play in third position on the fiddle properly! (None of this stretching the little finger business for me, it doesn't even work properly for notes in first position!)

I think it's a McGoldrick composition but I could be wrong!

# Posted on November 18th 2005 by Tize

You´re absolutely right...

... according to the liner notes in Tim Edey "Daybreak" CD

# Posted on November 18th 2005 by DADdyGADdy

Bass Rock

This tune is definitely written by Michael McGoldrick. In G-Mayer it's suitable for every instrument and much easier to play. Brillant stuff, regarding the amount of variations played by McGoldrick, it sounds simple and has a great effect.

# Posted on November 21st 2005 by craics90

A major sounds so much nicer though, none of this cop-out business! I know it's perfectly possible on even a keyless flute too.

# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by Tize

I play a little bit different

I'll love this tune but I played the B in a different way.I changed the last triplete on the first bar of the B in af#, and so everytime the same phrase is played in the following bar.So the abc file would be this:
X:1
T:Bass Rock, The
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:reel
K:Amaj
A3 e fAec | Ba (3aaa fbaf | e2 af ecAB | cABc AF (3FFF |
A3 e fAec | Ba (3aaa fbaf | eafe c3 e | [1 fecB AEFG :| [2 fecB ABce ||
a3 e fa af | b3 c' bafe | a3 e fgaf | ecBc A2 (3FFF |
[1 a3 e fa af | b3 c' bafe | a2 (3eee fgaf | ecBc ABce :|
[2 ABce fa af | b3 c' bafe | c'bac' bafc | e2 fc ecBc ||

# Posted on June 8th 2007 by daddeddad

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