Tab & Notation « Asheville Mandolin. The Following Files are Mandolin Tablature and Standard Notation for Your Enjoyment and Edification. More tunes will be posted weekly. Note: These files are also good sheet music and tablature for octave mandolin, fiddle and tenor banjo. If you would like to add to this collection of high quality mandolin tab and standard notation, please contact me at AshevilleRyan@rocketmail.com.
PDF’s are preferred, but I can convert certain other file types into PDF’s for this purpose. ***I’ve also started creating (tab) tablature with standard notation for flat pick guitar in standard tuning and DADGAD. 25 Irish Fiddle Tunes in Standard Notation and Mandolin Tablature The Ash Plant Before the First Session at Jack of the Wood Attfield’s Lament Banish Misfortune Bank of Ireland Banshee, The The Battle of Evermore Bill Sullivan’s The Blackbird The Black Rogue Blarney Pilgrim, The Brenda Stubbert’s Bron Yr Aur Mandolin Arrangement Bunker Hill Calliope House Campbell’s Caracena Catharsis The Choice Wife Christmas Eve. Irish Banjo Recordings by Enda Scahill - endascahill.com.
Foinn Seisiún Book - Volume 1. Vashon Celtic Tunes. Below is a list of Celtic tunes (mostly Irish) with sheet music and chords. These are JPG images, and you should be able to display them in your browser and/or print them. Just click on the name to see the page for that tune. There are midi files, and a few mp3's, too. The midis are pretty crude, of course, but will at least give you the general idea. Please feel free to add a bit more lilt, backbeat, and other dynamics as you see fit. A Note on the Chords Assume you've put any number of backup players in a locked room, and given them their own selection of pistols. These tunes are shown with my own choice of chords.
There's a compact list of chords for ALL the tunes, if you want to make a cheat-sheet notebook. A Note on the Sources These tunes come from a variety of sources. Feel free to contact me (Steve Austin) with any tune requests at saustin98(at)comcast(dot)net. Recent Additions Jigs Slip Jigs Reels Hornpipes Marches Waltzes Polkas Slides Mazurkas Miscellaneous Tunes English Country Dance Tunes. Danny Carnahan: Music Writing. Back to Music Articles Index An Energy Kick From Key Changes Anyone who has spent more than twenty minutes at an Irish bar session and is actually paying attention to the music will be struck by how Irish jigs and reels are strung together in medleys.
And a good medley can go on for quite a while, winding down only when the session musicians have to rehydrate with another round of Guinness. This combining of tunes is as old as the tradition, made necessary by the combination of long set dances, short tunes, and the limited attention span of the musicians. But some transitions are more seamless and emotionally satisfying than others. So how do you decide what tune to kick into after you get to the end of that one you’re playing? I’ll mention a few popular sessions tunes below. One striking tune transition happens when you pair off two tunes in the same key, but played mostly in different octaves or registers.
Next, try moving from major to minor or vice versa within the same key.
Danny Carnahan: Music Writing. Radio 2 - Folk and Acoustic. Nigel Gatherer's The Scottish Mandolin. Cantaria folk song library, www.chivalry.com/cantaria - StumbleUpon. IRISH SONG LYRICS. So Just What Exactly Is A Cittern, Anyway? By Robin Bullock (Column originally written for Acoustic Musician Magazine - used by permission) If you've spent any time at all around Celtic music, you'll have noticed the frequency with which citterns, bouzoukis, octave mandolins, mandolas, mandocellos and even blarges show up.
You might be wondering what exactly these strange creatures are. Even if you're aware that they're all midrange members of the mandolin family, you might well be confused what the distinctions among them might be. And your confusion, alas, will not be helped by the fact that there isn't a great deal of nomenclatural consistency among those of us that play, um, those things. Fast forward to the 1960s, when a young Irishman named Johnny Moynihan discovered the Greek bouzouki. However, by this time, these guys and the players who followed in their footsteps were playing newly-made instruments that had flat or arched backs, more like big mandolins than genuine bouzoukis. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Celtic music archive. Free Celtic Sheet Music: Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melodies.