Tich’s reel

Another tune composed by Northumbrian fiddler Willy Taylor, often played in a set with ‘Shirley’s’ and ‘The Pearl Wedding’.

The ends of section feel more like hornpipe endings or is that just me.
Donough

One of the characteristics of Northumbrian and Scottish reels is that their structure is more hornpipe like in that they are based round arpeggios that go all over the place, and the section endings either contain 3 crotchets or similar. I think I mentioned this in the dicussion thread on “Northumbrian tunes” the other day.

Setting from the playing of the composer himself (play it with a lot of swing):

|:c|BcdB c2BA|Gfgf e2dc|BcdB GABG|FAAB A2dc|
BcdB c2BA|Gfgf e2dc|BcdB cAFA|AGGF G2G:|
|:g|fgaf g2fe|dcAc BGGg|fgaf gedB|cAA^G A2dc|
BcdB cdeg|fgaf g2dc|BcdB cAFA|AGGF G2G:|

“Shirley’s” ~ reel
Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on December 7th 2002 by Dow.
https://thesession.org/tunes/1188

“The Pearl Wedding” ~ reel
Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on December 8th 2002 by Dow.
https://thesession.org/tunes/1190

“Snowy Monday” ~ jig
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on December 17th 2002 by Dow.
https://thesession.org/tunes/1222

“Farewell to the Dene”
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on June 10th 2005 by Dow.
https://thesession.org/tunes/3249

“Willy Taylor’s” ~ polka
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on August 31st 2004 by snowyowl.
https://thesession.org/tunes/3470

“The Shining Pool” ~ hornpipe
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on June 13th 2005 by Dow.
https://thesession.org/tunes/4593

“Wee Kerry’s Welcome to the Dene” ~ jig/quickstep
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on July 28th 2005 by ceolachan.
https://thesession.org/tunes/4790

“Nancy Taylor’s” ~ reel
Key signature: G Gajor
Submitted on December 15th 2005 by alexboydell.
https://thesession.org/tunes/5313

“Farewell to the Dene” ~ schottische / barndance
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on June 10th 2005 by Dow.
https://thesession.org/tunes/3249

“Willy Taylor’s Jig”
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on November 28th 2006 by Dow.
https://thesession.org/tunes/6430

“Christine Taylor’s Jig”
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on February 8th 2007 by JACKB.
https://thesession.org/tunes/6775

Of course Tich was Tich Richardson…….

Got this from Peter Tickell last week, just subtle differences.

X: 1
T: Tich’s
C: Willy Taylor
S: Peter Tickell
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|: dc | BcdB c2 BA | GBgf e2 dc | BcdB GABG | FAAB A2 dc |
BcdB c2 BA | GBgf e2 dc | BcdB cAFG | A G2 F G2 :|
|: g2 | fgaf g2 fe | dcAc BGGg | fgaf gedB | cAAG A2 dc |
BcdB cdeg|fgaf ~e2 dc | BcdB cAFA | AGGF G2 :|

# Added by noelbats - July 25th, 2014
https://thesession.org/tunes/13759