Key signature: Dmixolydian
Submitted on March 21st 2007 by Robert Ryan.
This tune has been added to 40 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Brosna, The
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: slide
K: Dmix
B |: A2 D FED A2 F G2 B | A2 D FED E2 F G2 B |
A2 D FED A2 F G2 B | A2 F GFE D3 D3 :|
d2 ^c A2 B =cBA G3 | d2 ^c ABc d2 e f2 e |
d2 ^c A2 B =cBA G2 B | A2 F GFE D3 D3 :|
Another Brosna Slide...
Sorry for posting this as the Brosna, but I haven't got another name for it. It's from Gerry Harrington and Eoghan O'Sullivan, on 'Ten Years of Ceili House' with Kieran Hanrahan. They play this after I'd rather be Married than Left, and another slide they call, surprise, surprise, Padraig O'Keefe's. I reckon they made the names up on the spot.
# Posted on March 21st 2007 by Robert Ryan
For all the Gan Ainms of the world ~
Are you out to get me Robert?
I've been kicking myself, but I like a surprise and I was surprised this wasn't here already. But the kicking is my memory as an old leather weather beaten football, trying to remember where this particular one comes from? I've learned a slew of slides from different folks. I did a quick sweep through the net and a number of collections without any results. I haven't my recordings all here and the field ones are not re-digitized (a hard drive meltdown did in my first extensive effort) ~ but I haven't gone through my own notes yet.
About naming, don't worry, or blame the lads, there are at least half a dozen different melodies I've known that were tagged merely by geographic association ~ "Brosna"... Three of the first slides I ever learned were ~ The Brosna / The Brosna / The Brosna... A number of well known musicians I've had the pleasure of learning from hadn't names for most of what they played, but if pressed, as they sometimes were for recording purposes, they'd no problem inventing names. The problem was later when someone requested something they'd recorded by name ~ "Could you hum a few bars of it?" I suspect that sometimes it goes ~ "Well, seeing as we're here, let's call it ~ "...
This is a great tune that comes in a few flavours...
# Posted on March 21st 2007 by ceolachan
"The Brosna Slide" ~ G Mixolydian
K: G Mixolydian
|: e |
d2 G BAG d2 G c2 e | d2 G BAG ABA c2 e |
d2 G BAG d2 G cde | ded cBA G3 G2 :|
|: a |
g2 ^f d2 e =fed c2 ^f | g2 ^f d2 e =f3 g2 a |
g2 f d2 e =fed cde | ded cBA G3 G2 :|
# Posted on March 21st 2007 by ceolachan
Yes, of course, that f is sharp, but as I'm repeating it I might as well give some other options in the process ~
~ | g2 ^f d2 e =f2 d c2 e | d2 B cBA G3 G2 :|
# Posted on March 21st 2007 by ceolachan
"The Brosna Slide" ~ other possibilities
K: D Mixolydian
|: B |
A2 D FED A2 F G2 B | A2 D FED EFE GAB |
A2 D FED A2 F GAB | ABA G2 E D3 D2 :|
|: c |
d2 ^c A2 B =c2 A G2 c | d2 ^c A2 B c2 d e2 c |
d^cd A2 B =cBA G2 B | A2 F GFE D3 D2 :|
All c's can also be played natural...and the lead c's can be sharped, for example ~
|: ^c |
d2 ^c A2 B =c2 A G2 ^c | d2 ^c A2 B c2 d e2 ^c |
d^cd A2 B =cBA G2 B | AGF GFE D3 D2 :|
# Posted on March 21st 2007 by ceolachan
Clarification: All ~ natural... ~ or ~ the lead c's ~ sharped...
# Posted on March 21st 2007 by ceolachan
You know, I'm starting not to know my dots and ABC's from my XYZ's, so I just learned this one from ear via these lads:
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/1247
However, I can see it coming soon where Denis Murphy's, Barrack Hill and The Brosna all end up in a giant Slide goulash-train-wreck in my near future at a session when I try to straighten them all out on the fly. Ah well, nothing practice won't sort.
# Posted on May 11th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler