The Ritual reel

There are 4 recordings of this tune.

The Ritual has been added to 3 tune sets.

The Ritual has been added to 4 tunebooks.

One setting

1

X: 1
T: The Ritual
R: reel

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Emin
|:G3A BEFG-|~G2cB BEGA|~G3A BEFG|B~d3 cBBE|
G3A BEFG-|~G2cB BEFG-|~G2cB dcBG|1 ABGE G2DE:|2 ABGE GABd||
|:g3f edBA|G2cB BABd|gaf ~g3 de|g~d3 cB (3Bcd|
g3f edBA|G2cB BEFG-|~G2cB dcBG|1 ABGE GABd:|2 ABGE G2DE||

Four comments

The Ritual

This is "The Ritual", as played by The Old Blind Dogs in their album "The World’s Room (2006)"
here is a sample : http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-worlds-room-mw0000252488

Re: The Ritual

edit : https://www.amazon.fr/Ritual-Leap-Year-Johnnie-Macdonalds/dp/B0029R4ASK

Re: The Ritual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny1bdpNktpU

Re: The Ritual

I can’t tell if this tune is in G major or its relative E minor. It feels minor but always wants to end on a G, I don’t understand.

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