Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 3rd 2005 by bonnanza.
This tune has been added to 159 tunebooks.
Also known as Road To Errogie.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Road To Errogie, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
DGG2 AGAB|dGG2 ABdB|e3g dBG2|A3B AGEG|
DGG2 AGAB|dGG2 ABdB|e3g dBG2|AG F/E/D G2 BG:|
dgg2 g2ag|ab2a g3d|e2dg2de2-|edgd edBc|
dgg2 g2ag|ab2a g3d|e3g dBGE|AG F/E/D G4|
dgg2 g2ag|ab2a g3d|e2dg2de2-|edgd edBG|
DGG2 AGAB|dGG2 ABdB|e3g dBG2|AG F/E/D G2 BG||
This is a great tune. Simple and powerfull. It's on Flooks "haven" and Shannons an McGoldricks "tunes". Sounds to be a new one, but I have no infos about the composer. The "tunes" version is slightly different:
X: 1
T: The Road to Errogie
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
DGG2 AGAB|dGG2 ABdB|e3d BAGB|A3B AGEG|
DGG2 AGAB|dGG2 ABdB|e3d BAGB|AGAB G3E:|
g2g2 g2ag|ab2a g3d|e2dg2de2-|edgd edBc|
g2g2 g2ag|ab2a g3d|e3d BAGB|AGBA G4|
g2g2 g2ag|ab2a g3d|e2dg2de2-|edgd edBG|
DGG2 AGAB|dGG2 ABdB|e3d BAGB|AGBA G3E||
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by bonnanza
The Road to Errogie B major
The Road to Errogie was composed by Scottish Fiddler Adam Sutherland. It was actually written in the the key of B major...yes...B major.
Some other recordings this tune appears on is the "Scottish Stepdance Company - Sole Music" and Adam's own band "Croft No. 5 - Attention All Personnel"
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by dAle
B major shmee major
Aye it was written in 'B' first but each to their own like.
# Posted on December 17th 2005 by Ad
I was just learning this tune tonight, I got annoed because Tunes has it in Ab and Haven's got it in Bb. The Flook version is most like the one on Tunes.
# Posted on March 9th 2006 by Unseen122
Hi my name is Adam and I wrote this tune in 1999 in the key of 'B', just because I couldn't think of any other tunes that I had ever heard in that key and also because 'B' is unbelievably happy! It came after about 20 minutes of free jamming with my guitar playing mate Dave Sutherland of Lochaber (no relation) and took as long to write as it does to play. Essentially it is an improvisation. Look out for it on an up-coming album by 'Session A9' and also another up-coming album by 'The Peatbog Faeries'. cheeeeers
# Posted on April 13th 2006 by Ad
It's quite an easy tune to pick up but a bugger to play in Bmajor!! One of my friends from Shetland plays it in B and then the last time through the last part she modulates into C#major... a bugger to get in tune on the fiddle!!! Typical Shetlanders for you! hehe!!:P
# Posted on April 24th 2006 by Shoz
I learnt it in A, is that ok Ad?
# Posted on June 3rd 2006 by nicstar
Shoz said; 'I learnt it in A, is that ok?'
Shoz, I'm just delighted that ye like playing it in the first place. Anyway, different is good. Cheers
# Posted on June 15th 2006 by Ad
Bat?
Brian Finnegan said you composed it after a bat flew into your head while you were cycling back from the pub along the road to Errogie - myth?
# Posted on February 26th 2007 by Swift
Road to Errogie - what key do you play it in?
I about to learn Road to Errogie by Adam Sutherland - I love the tune. Now I know its written in B but that may be an effort for me to play on the fiddle. So a quick question to find out what is the most popular session key for it - G or A? Or do people just go for it and learn it in B ;)
thanks
Toby
# Posted on January 9th 2008 by tobes
Re: Road to Errogie - what key do you play it in?
Adam plays it in A himself. In Scotland that's the key it's normally played in sessions.
# Posted on January 10th 2008 by bogman
Re: Road to Errogie - what key do you play it in?
I have heard two versions one is Flook they do it in Bb which is G on the F whistle they play it on and there is also the version on "Tunes" where they play it in Ab which is really G on Eb instruments. I think if you played it in a session no one would even know the tune so it really doesn't matter what key you play it in. I play it in G myself.
# Posted on January 10th 2008 by Unseen122
I know several people that play it in E, just because it's a happy key, but one night there were just a few of us at a session, and we played it in nearly every key we could think of. its a great tune! way to go adam for writing it!!
# Posted on May 28th 2008 by the half-texan
So Ad do you get payed royalties now it's on Comhaltas's website?
# Posted on August 30th 2008 by upmine3
Glad to hear that it's played more in A in Scotland, it's a great flute key.. I should come over there for a session
I find that although people know it here (Limerick, Eire), a lot of them seem to like to play it in G... it's just not as uplifting, somehow.
# Posted on October 19th 2008 by ingridrt