Key signature: Edorian
Submitted on August 30th 2002 by abush.
This tune has been added to 124 tunebooks.
Also known as Donogh And Mike's First August, Donogh And Mikes.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: 1st August
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor
DEEE GEGA|B3B BAGB|AAAB AGFG|(3Bce dB AGFA|
DEEE GEGA|B3B BAGB|AAAB AGFG|1 EGAE GAEG:|2 EGAG ABcd||
efge fedB|e3d BAGF|EGGG A2AA|B2Bd BAGF|
EGGG AGGG|(3Bce dB AGFG|EFGB AGFA|1 GGGF G2Bd:|2 GGGF G2EG||
1st August
Several things.
1. I love this tune
2. I have no vertical line on my Spanish keyboard so the abc notation was supplimented with dashes (-) for bar demarcation.
3. I´m not too sure of the key, if anyone knows better, please let me know.
4. abc transcription is not my forte so I´ve left out many triplets and ornamentations from this tune. There are several ways that Lunasa play the two tags, but for simplicity I´ve only included two. Have fun and you can really include some nice variations.
# Posted on August 30th 2002 by abush
5. Composed by Donogh Hennessy of Lunasa.
# Posted on August 30th 2002 by Miss Lonelyhearts
Donogh and Mike's First August
I too love this tune.
It's really fun on fiddle (haven't tried it yet on flute, but that's coming), and holds up well even if you play it without the new age guitar and bass backup the boys use (and which I happen to like)on the Merry Sisters of Fate cd.
Here's my take on what Sean Smyth is playing on fiddle on the cd. As for key, I'd call it E dorian, but since there's not a single C note in the whole thing, E minor would also work.
T:Donogh and Mike's 1st August
C:Donogh Hennessy
L:1/8
R:Reel
K:E dorian
|:D~E3 GDEG|A~B3 BAGB|(3BBA AB AGEA|
|(3Bde dB AGEA|G~E3 GDEG|A~B3 BAGB|
|(3BBA AB AGED|1 EGAE GAEG:|2 EGAG ABde||
|:fgag fedB|e3 d BAGD| E~G3 A2 GA|~B3 d BAGD|
|E~G3 A~G3|(3Bde dB AGEG|DEGB A^GAB|
|1 G2 GF G2 (3Abd:|2 G2 GF GBFG||
In the 4th measure of the A part, Sean plays it one note different the second time around: |(3Bde dB AGED|
# Posted on September 1st 2002 by Miss Lonelyhearts
Another name for Mike's
There is another name for Mike's reel. It's Windbroke.
It's not the same name on the CD in France and in England.
Why ?? I don't know.
You can find it here
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/910
# Posted on September 1st 2002 by Mandolman
Name
As a swiss piper I wonder whether Donogh has named this nice rule after the swiss national holyday which is known for lots of fireworks, boring speeches and lots of pints ....
Regards
Urs
# Posted on September 1st 2002 by swisspiper
Key
Since it starts on a d, and finishes on a G, i think this tune would be in D wouldn't it.
I think it's D dorian.
If someone could explain why it's not, that would be good.
# Posted on June 8th 2005 by kjay_bc_box
Sorry, D Mix.
I think...
# Posted on June 8th 2005 by kjay_bc_box
Kjay, what determines a tune's key and mode isn't the note it starts or ends on, but two other things: (1) what note it wants to resolve to--what note most people would hold as the main tone to end on. In this case that would be E (to my ear, at any rate), and (2) what notes are sharped or flatted.
A tune that resolves to E, with D naturals (if it had D sharps it might be E major), and two sharps (F sharp and C sharp) would be E Dorian. If it has only one sharp (F sharp), it would be E minor. As I mentioned in a post above, this tune has no C notes, so we can't really tell whether it's Edor or Em, but that's not a big deal--backers can think "Em" chords and do just fine.
The distinction between what note a tune ends on (on paper), and what note it wants to resolve to is an important difference. Lots of Irish tunes have "automatic returns"--a phrase at the end of a half that feeds the melody back to the beginning or smoothly on to the next half. Usually, the last note of such a phrase is NOT the note that you would hold extra long if you were ending the tune all together. Similarly, the first note of this tune is a "pick-up" note--the D gives a sense of movement going into the real first note of the tune, that long E.
For an easy explanation of how to figure out keys and modes, go to: http://www.slowplayers.org/SCTLS/modes.htm. Hope this helps.
# Posted on June 8th 2005 by Miss Lonelyhearts
Thanks Will, definitely cleared things up for me.
# Posted on June 10th 2005 by kjay_bc_box
Wonderwall
Has anyone else noticed that the chords to this tune are exactly the same as the ones for Oasis's "Wonderwall"?
It's just that whenever I hear it on the Lunasa album, I want to start singing, "Today is gonna be the day...."
# Posted on April 30th 2006 by Joe CSS
Wonderwall
ya know, we were at a gig, finishing up this reel, and our guitarist did actually launch into Wonderwall. I almost threw my fiddle at him, but the crowd liked it, so...
# Posted on October 19th 2007 by meredithrachael
Guitar Chords
Speaking of chords... would anyone happen to know what the chords ARE, exactly?
I'm positively useless with a guitar, so I was pretty stumped...
# Posted on May 31st 2008 by Celtic.ceilidh
Notes
And (one more thing, sorry) isn't that F natural in the refrain supposed to be an E? It doesn't sound quite right when I play it...
# Posted on June 2nd 2008 by Celtic.ceilidh