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Paddy Fahy's

reel

Key signature: Dmixolydian

Submitted on July 25th 2002 by Zina Lee.

This tune has been added to 58 tunebooks.

Also known as Paddy Fahey's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Paddy Fahy's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmix
GA|:~B3d c2 dc|BG G^E D=E=FD|GABd c2 dc|
BG AF DG GA|(3Bcd Bd c2 dc|BG G^E D=E=FD|
GABd c2 dc|1 BG AF G2 GA:|2 BG AF G ABc||
|:dg ~g2 dgBg|dgag fdcA|c~=f3 cfAf|
c=fag ^fdcA|d~g3 dgBg|dgag fdef|
g2 agfd (3efg|1 fdcA GABc:|2 fdcA G2 GA||

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Paddy Fahy's sheetmusic
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Another Paddy Fahy's

George Keith taped this lovely and deceptively simple tune for me to learn when he was last in Denver. He says that this is a pretty much commonly played tune of Paddy Fahy's, the prolific composer and Galway fiddler. Apparently, Fahy himself seems to like this tune a lot; George owns a tape of a Fahy concert on which he says Fahy plays the tune four or five times during the course of the evening.

The ABC is a poor substitute for the actual tune, especially since I'm not very good at ABC and especially as George plays it -- for a bit, I'll have the MP3 I made of George playing it (there's a bit of a skip on the second A, sorry, and George had a bit of Guinness stuck in his throat towards the beginning) at http://www.zinalee.com/sounds/pfahys1.mp3 . Hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

Zina

# Posted on July 25th 2002 by Zina Lee

Lovely!

Hey Zina! Good job on the ABC transcript! And lovely playing by the Boston fiddler, George Keith. Definately one to put under the fingers.

# Posted on July 30th 2002 by Caoimghgin

Calling Zina ding-a-ling

Zina this is a lovely tune and I want to learn it - can you verify what the E#s are in the 2nd whole bar? Are they E# i.e. the same as F natural, or are they supposed to be F#s?
Ta
Mark

# Posted on February 9th 2003 by Dr. Dow

Mark, those are F nats. All the true Es are E nats, too, but the Fs wander between Fsharps and Fnats, in both halves of the tune. You'll get the hang of it soon enough--the breaks to F nat are actually very obvious once you play it. Listen to Keith's version on the link Zina posted above and you'll get it.

Incidentally, I played this at a gig a few weeks ago and this little old lady came right up to the microphone while I was going, and just stood there. When we finished the set, she said, "that was the loveliest Irish tune I've ever heard. What do you call it?" And then she came back after the show and asked me to play it again for her, which I gladly did.

For performance purposes, I'm playing it right after Bobby Casey's Hornpipe (the air version of Humours of Tullycrine, a la Kevin Burke).

# Posted on February 9th 2003 by Will Harmon

Ay-yup, Will's right there, Mark. George played it for me going into another Paddy Fahy's, sort of a matched set. You can hear that one at http://www.zinalee.com/sounds/pfahys2.mp3 and I think it was Will or Jeremy who posted it here at The Session.

When I grow up, I'd love to be George Keith, at least where fiddling is concerned.

Zina

# Posted on February 9th 2003 by Zina Lee

Oh yes, and there's also a track of George playing the tunes faster as a set at http://www.zinalee.com/sounds/George/pfahys.mp3 -- there's a fairly bad glitch in the first round through, sorry, I got it off a tape George did for John Carr and it apparently got whacked or something. Please do me a favor if you download any of these tracks and don't play them off the server - download them to your hard drive and play them from there. Thanks!

zls

# Posted on February 9th 2003 by Zina Lee

Here's another Paddy Fahy's with a similar A-part http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3346.

# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by Dr. Dow

Paddy Fahy's

Some versions I found on the net:

X: 1
T: Paddy Fahy's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
_B2dB ~c2dc|BG~G2 DE=FD|GABG c2dc|BGAF DGGA|
(3Bcd Bd ~c3d|BG~G2 DE=FD|GABG ccdc|1 BGAF G3A:|2 BGAF G2 (3ABc||
|:dggf dgBg|dgag fdcB|ce=f2 cfAf|c=fag fdcA|
dg~g2 dgBg|dgag fdef|g2ag fage|1 fdcA G2Bc:|2 fdcA G3A||

A nice take on bars 3 and 4:

X: 1
T: Paddy Fahy's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
BABd c2dc|BG~G2 D=F~F2|EccB cedc|BDFA GFGA|
_BABG c2dc|BG~G2 D=F~F2|Ec~c2 cedc|BdAB G3B:|
|:dg~g2 dg~g2|gbaf gdcA|c=f~f2 c=f~f2|=fage fdcA|
dg~g2 dg~g2|gbag fdef|gdef gbag|fdcA BGG2:|

...and one from Norbeck with more F nats:

X: 1
T: Paddy Fahy's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
B2dB c2dc|BGG=F DEFD|BcdB c2dc|BGG=F DGGA|
B2dB c2dc|BGG=F DEFD|BcdB cedc|BGA=F DGG2:|
|:dg~g2 dgBg|dgba gedB|c=f~f2 cfAf|c=fag fedc|
dg~g2 dgBg|dgba gdef|gbag fdeg|fdcA AGG2:|

X: 1
T: Paddy Fahy's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
(3Bcd Bd c2dc|BGG=F DEFD|GBdB c2dc|BGAF ~G3A|
BDGB c2dc|BGG=F DEFD|GBdB c2dc|BGAF ~G3z:|
|:dg~g2 dcBc|dgag fdcB|c=f~f2 cfA_B|c=fag fcBc|
dg~g2 dcBc|dgag fdef|gbag fd (3efg|fdcA ~G3z:|

X: 1
T: Paddy Fahy's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
B2dB c2Bc|dGG=F DEFG|BcdB c2Bc|dGG=F DGGA|
(3Bcd (3Bcd c2Bc|dGG=F DEFG|BcdB cedc|BGA=F DGG2:|
|:dg~g2 dgbg|(3gab ag fdcA|cf=~f2 cfaf|c=fag fedc|
dg~g2 dg~g2|bgag fdef|gbag fdeg|fdcA G4:|

# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by Dr. Dow

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