If I Get A Bonnie Lass reel

Another traditional Shetland Reel - urs. Like Jeannie Shook da Bairn it’s fairly old and with a simple structure as you can see. I’ve tried to indicate typical bowing patterns for fiddle from memory, but like most people, I doubt if I play it identically on different nights - ‘grey cell anarchy’. Like most Shetland tunes you tend to let the open A and D strings ‘ring’ a lot but I thought that it would overcomplicate the notation, so just experiment. Like the band name - get’s straight to the point!

As an uilleann piper I can ring only some D, but as long as I like too….

There are a couple of notes not quite right:

1) Bar 4, last note (a2) should be an octave lower (A2).

1) Bar 6, last note (b2) should be an octave lower (B2).

This is just a correction of fifer’s abc. Just implementing Nigel Gather’s comments. It’s too good a tune to be left like that.
Often played in a set;
Jeannie Shook the Bairn; If I Get a Bonnie Lass; Oot Be Est Da Vong

This is just a correction of fifer’s abc. Just implementing Nigel Gather’s comments. It’s too good a tune to be left like that.
Often played in a set;
Jeannie Shook the Bairn; If I Get a Bonnie Lass; Oot Be Est Da Vong

Much nicer formatting as well, but how do you do an up-bow on a whistle, Mr W? ;->