OK so I’m being ultra-lazy here, but I looked for this on JC’s ABC tunefinder, and the whole thing is written an octave too low for the whistle. I think it could be played an octave higher throughout, but I need to transpose it.
Does anyone have a link to a whistle friendly score, before I spend an evening doing this? I know I should learn it by ear, but it’s like trying to jump on board a moving express train!
The recording I have is by the Shaskeen Ceili Band, catalogue number CHCD 1039. It’s on a 3 tape set I picked up cheap in Kensale, and listened to all round West Cork & Kerry (I can only take so much Gerry Ryan); now the tune is in my head and I want to learn it. It is coupled with Graf Spee, for those who like to keep track of these things!
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!
Martin, it just so happens that I transcribed this tune for someone else a while back so here you go missus. I haven’t marked any ornamentation because I prefer it that way.
And here’s the abc code:
X:1
T:The Kylebrack rambler
M:C|
L:1/8
C:Richard (?) Dwyer
S:As played by Kieran Crehan
R:Reel
D:Broken-Hearted I’ll Wander
Z:“Brother Steve” Jones
K:AMix
AE E2 AEcE | AE E2 GEDE | AE E2 A3 B | cdec d2 cd |
ea a2 agef | gdeg dBGB | AGED EA A2 |1 cedB A3 B :|2 cedB ABcd ||
: e2 de cA A2 | a3 g efgf | g2 dg Bgdg |gaba gede |
a2 c’a be e2 | ^ge e2 Be e2 | dB B2 GA (3Bcd |1 gedB ABcd :|2 gedB A2 (
3Bcd ||
: eA A2 EA A2 | ae e2 agef | g2 fa gedB | Ggfa gedB |
cA A2 EA A2 | ae e2 agef | g2 fa gedB |1 GBdB A2 (3Bcd :|2 GBdB A3 B ||
PS This will go nicely with Haste to the Wedding. 
PPS Yes you should have learned it by ear. But I don’t want to forgo the glow of gratitude I’ll feel coming my way.
[ This Message was edited by: StevieJ on 2002-03-27 14:00 ]
StevieJ,
I don’t care what everyone else has been saying about you in the chat room, you’re a GOOD MAN!
Thanks x a million, this is going to save me hours of trying to transpose, when I could be whistling!
Edit: Hi StevieJ,
after trying the tune out I don’t think this is the tune being played by the whistler on my recording - but he isn’t playing the following tracks either! I think the track listing must be wrong. There follow “The Siege of Ennis”, a polka, and then Rick’s Rambles & the Pleasure of Hope, hornpipes. None of these sound like the right tune! Maybe the poor whistler got missed off the list altogether.
I need to go back to the tape and listen to the whole thing again, marking off the tunes as I recognise them. Determied to get to the bottom of this one!!
cheers, M
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[ This Message was edited by: Martin Milner on 2002-03-28 08:42 ]
StevieJ, I don’t care what everyone else has been saying about you in the chat room, you’re a GOOD MAN!
Sure what would they know, anyway.
Sorry it’s not the right tune. I didn’t transpose it, BTW, this is the key that fiddle-player Kieran Crehan played it in on a Dolores Keane & John Faulkner record.
The Kylebrack rambler is a pretty challenging tune anyway - as far as making a decent job of it is concerned - so if it’s not what you were looking for put it on the back burner and try it again in a few years’ time.
True - all the C#s sound like they should be Cnats to me so far - but I’m sure played at speed they give the tune that extra zip.
Rick’s Rambles is also a bit tricky with the Cnat runs, but Pleasure of Hope is nice. Now I need to get a Hornpipe set together around it. I have the Brown Coffin (An Comhra Don) and The Blackbird, both off the Wandering Whistler’s site. Once I’ve got all 3 up to scratch, maybe I can fit them together.
Now I need to work out how to transfer “Naked Ladies and Electric Ragtime” from Guitar to whistle.
Anyway, thanks for all the help!
Now I need to work out how to transfer “Naked Ladies and Electric Ragtime” from Guitar to whistle.
You’re showing your age. I have that record too, or at least I did about 30 years ago.
On 2002-03-28 11:03, StevieJ wrote:
Now I need to work out how to transfer “Naked Ladies and Electric Ragtime” from Guitar to whistle.
You’re showing your age. I have that record too, or at least I did about 30 years ago.
Hey, I’m a young 35! My dad used to be big on ragtime, and that’s what I mostly played on the guitar a few years back. It really suited my favoured finger-picking style. Then I got rid of my car, and found a Mandolin more portable on a bike - until I discovered the whistle!
My dad used to be big on ragtime…
Now I’m feeling mine. (Age that is.)
On 2002-03-27 08:20, Martin Milner wrote:
I know I should learn it by ear, but it’s like trying to jump on board a moving express train!
I’d like to learn it by ear. Can anyone help me out? Maybe I could borrow your cassette tapes Martin? =)