A beautiful jig written by Alistair McCulloch “composed following a late night party on St Pete’s beach, Florida. The headlights coming along the beach at 2 AM belonged to the local constabulary and not the turtle watchers as first thought!”
Re: The 2 AM Turtle Patrol
Just stumbled upon this tune when querying the database for a random one. Very nice jig! I do like E major tunes a lot for some reason…
Parts of this do remind me of a tune which I can’t put a name to but will link to when I find it… I think it’s in F instead of E. Another key I like.
Re: The 2 AM Turtle Patrol
The tune I’m thinking of is in fact a Cape Breton jig in F called “Buddy’s Detour”, composed by David Greenberg. It’s not actually very similar to this tune at all, but the “fef|gfg fed” phrase reminded me of it.
Re: The 2 AM Turtle Patrol
We learned this from the man himself at the weekend.
I don’t think the transcription is exactly the same but I’ll listen to his recording and post another setting, if necessary.
It’s a bit like The Heights of Cassino in the first part but a different key of course…
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