Key signature: Amixolydian
Submitted on November 11th 2001 by Jeeves Tones.
This tune has been added to 78 tunebooks.
Also known as Finbar Dwyer's Fancy, Kyle Brack Rambler, Kylebrack Rambler, Kylebrack Ramblers, KyleBrack Rambles, The Kylebrack.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Kylebrack Rambler, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
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 ||
Kylebrack rambler
This is an A-mix version of the tune as I remember it played by Kieran Crehan (fiddle) on the album "Broken-hearted I'll Wander" by Dolores Keane and John Faulkner. The version recorded by Altan is in D, but otherwise substantially the same.
# Posted on November 11th 2001 by Jeeves Tones
Two part version
Altan don' t repeat the second part, but continues directly with the third part of your version, so a two part version remains.
# Posted on November 12th 2001 by Henk Bos
A Minor
This tune is in A Minor not D Major as indicated, therefore all the 'C's are natural not sharp. The tune sounds awful if you pay it with C sharps. This is probably obvious to people who play by ear.
# Posted on September 12th 2005 by JACKB
Not true
The tune is in A mixolydian, not Aminor, and not D, with all the Cs sharp , and the transcription is accurate. There's not a C natural in the tune anywhere. Like Steve Jones, I first heard this played by Kieran Crehan at Aberdeen Folk Club nearly 30 years ago. It's listed here as on 11 recordings, and the first was by "Shegui", played as a whistle duet by John Skelton and Sean Keane. The transcription here is how Crehan, Skelton and Keane played it. Some where along the line, someone may have changed the Cs to naturals as a variation, but I believe this is the original version.
I think this tune is usually attributed to Finbar Dwyer, but will have to check up on that.
# Posted on September 12th 2005 by Kenny
Cs are definately natural Kenny
This tune would sound awful if you play all the Cs sharp, despite what Kenny has stated, it just isn't musical with sharp Cs.
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by JACKB
It's that Kenny knows the tune.
I've also often heard the Dmix version as played by Altan: DA,~A,2 DA,FA,|... with the F accidentalised & played natural for the 1st bar only, then # thereafter.
I play it in Amix myself - learnt from the Dervish version actually, and it's one of my fave tunes. Can't be bothered to post it in case someone accuses Liam Kelly of not playing by ear. That would just make me wince.
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by Dow
I could post a Martin H**** version but I won't - anyway it's pretty similar (Amix). The only Cnat is in the first bar. The rest are sharps.
# Posted on December 4th 2005 by Donough
Those pesky C's
I'm a "by ear" player, and I've been learning this tune off Mark Robert's new (and great) recording, The Gloup. I'm hearing a C# and THEN C natural. But get to this address, listen yourself (it's the second tune in the set) and see what you hear: http://efolkmusic.org/ArtMusic/viewalbum.asp?ProductCode=93_7549&Artist=Mark+Roberts&AID=93#93_7549.
TED
# Posted on June 9th 2006 by tedsoulos
=C & ^C & _B ! ! !
This is my transcription from John Whelan's CD Celtic Roots - The Spirit Of Dance. It's in Dmix and has both C natural and C sharp, And even a Bb!
And it's plenty musical.
X: 12
T: The Kylebrack Rambler
M: C|
R: Reel
C: Finbar Dwyer
S: John Whelan - Spirit Of Dnce (5.1)
Z: Kevin Fontaine (06-24-2007)
K: Dmix
DA,~A,2 DA,=FA,|DA,~A,2 CA,G,A,|DA,~A,2 DA,DA|FDAF GEFG|
Adde d^cAB|cGAc GECE|CB,A,G, A,D~D2|1 FAGE D3^C:|2 FAGE DEFG||
|:AFGA FD~D2|dedc AGdB|c2Gc EGce|dced cAGE|
~d2fA ~d2fd|^cA~A2 EA^CA|GE~E2 CDEG|cAGE DEFG:|
|:AD~D2 A,D~D2|dA~A2 dcA_B|BcdB cAGE|CcBd cGEG|
FD~D2 A,D~D2|dA~A2 dcA_B|BcdB cAGE|1 CEGE DEFG:|2 CEGE D3^C||
Enjoy . . I know I do!
JQQ
# Posted on June 25th 2007 by JohnQ
Emix
Finbarr Dwyer recorded this tune in E mixolydian so maybe that's the original key.
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by PaddyCmusic