Black Cat reel

Black Cat has been added to 10 tunebooks.

One setting

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X: 1
T: Black Cat
R: reel

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
|:D2|"G"G2BG "D7"D2AD|"G"G2BG cGBG|"Am"E2AE BEAE|ABAG "D7"FDEF|
"G"G2BG "D7"D2AD|"G"G2BG cGBG|"Am"E2AE BEAE|"D7"DGGF "G"G2:|
|:E2|"G"D2GD EGDE|GDEA GFED|"Am"E2AE BEAE|E2AE "D7"GFED|
"G"D2GD EGDE|GDEA GFED|"Am"E2AE BEAE|"D7"DGGF "G"G2:|

Two comments

Black Cat

I happened across John Chamber’s ABC transcription of this French-Canadian reel, began playing it, and have become quite fond of the tune. It’s a good dance tune, with unexpected cross-bowings throughout. It sounds good in the key of A as well.

I noticed that there are no renditions of the tune on Youtube, and during my thirty years of fiddle-playing I’ve never run across it. Time for a revival, perhaps!

sounds even better in D…..

X:1
T:Black Cat
R:reel
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:Dmaj
|:A2 | “D”d2fd “A7”A2eA | “D”d2fd gdfd | “Em”B2eB fBeB | efed “A7”cABc |
“D”d2fd “A7”A2eA | “D”d2fd gdfd | “Em”B2eB fBeB | “A7”Addc “D”d2 :|
|: B2 | “D”A2dA BdAB | dABe dcBA | “Em”B2eB fBeB | B2eB “A7”dcBA |
“D”A2dA BdAB | dABe dcBA | “Em”B2eB fBeB | “A7”Addc “D”d2 :|

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