The Dogs Among The Bushes

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on March 15th 2002 by bsykes62.

This tune has been added to 156 tunebooks.

Also known as Dog Among The Bushes, The Dog Among The Bushes, Dog Amongst The Bushes, The Dog Amongst The Bushes, Dogs Among The Brushes, Dogs Among The Bushes, Dogs Among The Rushes, Dogs Amongst The Bushes, The Dogs Amongst The Bushes, Down Among The Bushes.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Whistle On The Wind by Joanie Madden
• An Traidisiun Beo by Angelina Carberry
• Best Of Irish Ceili Music by Various Artists
• Best Of Irish Fiddle by Florie Brown
• Beyond Words by Niall Vallely
• Blackwater by Altan
• Collection Of Jigs And Reels by Shaskeen
• Fidil by Ciarán Ó Maonaigh And Aidan O'Donnell
• Fingal by Fingal
• If Anyone Can! by Leo McCann
• Irish Traditional Music by Paddy Carty
• Irish Traditional Music And Song by Shaskeen
• Jigs To The Moon by Dordan
• Kerry's Delight by Tom Fleming
• Past Masters Of Irish Fiddle Music by Various Artists
• Pigtown Fling by Randal Bays And Joel Bernstein
• The Best Of The Chieftains by The Chieftains
• The Celebrated Recordings by John Doherty
• The Chieftains 8 by The Chieftains
• The Green Mountain by Pat O'Connor
• The Hour Before Dawn by Solas
• The Kells by The Kells
• The Last House In Ballymakea by Junior Crehan
• The Little Country by Charles De Lint
• The Minstrel From Clare by Willie Clancy
• The Nervous Man by Mícheál O' Raghallaigh
• The New Road by Charlie Piggot And Gerry Harrington
• The Well Below The Valley by Planxty
• The Whirlwind by Paddy Glackin And Robbie Hannan
• Traditional Irish Music From County Clare by Eamon Cotter
• Traditional Irish Sessions by Various Artists
• Traditional Music Of Ireland by Joe Burke
• Traditional Music Of Ireland And The Bucks Of Oranmore by Joe Burke And Charlie Lennon
• Tunnel Vision by Christel Rice
• Two Gentlemen Of Clare by Gerard Commane And Joe Ryan

X: 1
T: Dogs Among The Bushes, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
BG~G2 DG~G2|BG~G2 cedc|BG~G2 DGFG|AF~F2 fdcA|
BG~G2 DG~G2|BG~G2 c2cA|BG~G2 DGFG|AF~F2 fdcA||
dggf ~g3f|dg~g2 bgaf|dffe fgfe|df~f2 af~f2|
dggf ~g3f|dg~g2 bgag|bg~g2 aggf|d^cde fd=cA||
"version 2"
|:BG~G2 DG~G2|BG~G2 cedc|B2GB DGBd|AF~F2 fdcd|
BG~G2 DG~G2|BG~G2 cedc|B2Bc defd|1 cAeg fdcd:|2 cAeg fdcA||
|:dggf g2gf|dg~g2 bgaf|defe ~f3e|dfeg fdcA|
dggf ~g3f|dg~g2 bgag|bg~g2 agbg|1 d2eg fdcA:|2 d2eg fdcd||

This tune is also played in A mixolydian.
Like many other reels, it is a descendant of a Scots Strathspey (to be found in the Atholl collection - I forget the name). The Chieftains (Chieftains 8) play it as a Strathspey (or Highland?), then break into the reel, all in Amix.

# Posted on March 15th 2002 by ragaman

Dogs

Also recorded by "Planxty" on "Cold, Blow & The Rainy Night"
and Paddy Carty - "Master Collector Series Vol 1"

# Posted on March 16th 2002 by Kenny

F Natural

I'm not sure what recording I'm basing this on or whose playing but for my ear it sounds better with a change to F natural in bar 4.
Try it and see what you think.
Cheers
Donough

# Posted on March 17th 2002 by Donough

F natural

That was what I meant by A mixolydian - although, of course, in Amix it would be G-natural instead of F-natural. Am I making sense?

# Posted on March 19th 2002 by ragaman

HIgh F

As a struggling piper, I find that popping the high f in the first part sounds preety good to, just don't over do it!

# Posted on July 9th 2002 by macfion

Strathspey variation

The strathspey variation is called Athole Brose - key of D...

# Posted on May 20th 2005 by drone

Altan and Solas both recorded this in E Mixolydian, I'm not sure how common of a variation that is? I prefer playing it in E on the fiddle.

B3 A|:GE~E2 B,E~E2|GE~E2 AcBA|GE~E2 B,EGE|FDD2 dBAF|
GE~E2 B,E~E2|GE~E2 AcBA|GFGA BcdB|1AFDF A2 BA:|2AFDF A3 c||
|:Bee2 efed|Beef gefe|Bddc dedc|Bdde fdec|
Be/e/e/e efed|Beef gefe|ge/e/e/e ~B3 c|d2 dc dcBA:|

# Posted on August 27th 2005 by errik

Is this an ancestor of "Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel"?

# Posted on December 25th 2005 by slainte

Gmix setting

Here's the setting we play in our session. It's similar to Altan's setting (although they recorded it in Emix). In the fifth measure of the B-part, we often play that first F as an F#.

X:1
T:Dogs Among The Bushes, The
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:reel
K:Gmix
|BG~G2 DG~G2|BGAB cedc|BG~G2 DGBG|AFAc fdcA|
BG~G2 DG~G2|BGAB cedc|BABc defd|cAFe fdcA:||
g3g2 agf|dgga bgaf|dffe fgfd|cdfg afgf|
dggf gagf|dgga bgag|bggf d3e|f2fe fdcA:||

# Posted on February 11th 2007 by alec b