Fred Parcells' "the reel book" - Wow!

[anniemcu]

Fred Parcells was part of the “Black 47” band.

$10 membership accesses a boatload of transcriptions and clips from a bunch of great recordings. Looks to be a heck of a resource! Anybody used this?

Apparently it’s best accessed through IE, not Mozilla, though.

http://www.thereelbook.com/

@Fred Parcells

I created this site in 2005 after a flood nearly destroyed my collection of 1739 transcriptions of Irish Traditional Music Performances.

There are 973 pages of hand written music which come from the recorded performances of 190 Irish musicians from 117 albums along with several field recordings. The albums release dates range from the 1920’s up to 1992. See: Tunes by category

I collected these albums and transcribed the performances over a ten year period using standard music notation. As the project progressed, I included ornamentation in the scores.

The best way to use this site is to listen and follow along with the written music.

[MTGuru]

I’m a member. It’s an interesting collection, all scanned transcriptions, and Fred seems like a nice guy. I helped him ID a few of his Gan Ainm tunes a while back.

[The_Weekenders]

One might go blind but the more the merrier. And for $10? Seems worth supporting. Of course, me, I never use sheet music. Nyuk.

[anniemcu]

@MTGuru

I’m a member. It’s an interesting collection, all scanned transcriptions, and Fred seems like a nice guy. I helped him ID a few of his Gan Ainm tunes a while back.

MT, do any of the transcriptions include the chords?

[irish69]

@anniemcu

Fred Parcells was part of the “Black 47” band.

Not only was he a part of Black 47, but he still is a part of Black 47. BTW- Anybody who’s in the Upstate New York area, Black 47 is playing at the Bridgewater in Kingston on April 5th.

[MTGuru]

@anniemcu

MT, do any of the transcriptions include the chords?

Mostly not, Annie, as far as I can tell from a random sampling. Just melody lines, but very detailed. Fred has his own conventions for writing out ornaments, but they’re easy enough to figure out.

[anniemcu]

@MTGuru

@anniemcu

MT, do any of the transcriptions include the chords?

Mostly not, Annie, as far as I can tell from a random sampling. Just melody lines, but very detailed. Fred has his own conventions for writing out ornaments, but they’re easy enough to figure out.

Ah well, then, I think I’ll leave it to the fiddling and fluting members of the crew to see if they want to subscribe. As others have already noted - if I need more tunes to learn, I’ve got at least 4 books full of ones I don’t yet know.

Thanks!