The Flogging reel

I learned this setting from Tony DeMarco who learned it from Martin Wynn.This is classic NYC/Sligo stuff & I’m sure many fluters & pipers will like the ‘c part’. no F nat’s

This is actuaaly an old scottish pipe tune called “The Flagon Reel”. The irish stole it, jazzed it up and then gave a slightly different name. This tune is also recorded by Blazin’ Fiddles on their new album “The Old Style”.

Murphy’s mob does this tune in a set with Donegal Tinker, Flogging Reel, Castle Kelly and Foxhunters.

A great banjo-tune when played fast. Fun too.

I play this tune with some f naturals in the last part, I think it sounds better that way.

T:Flogging Reel
R:Reel
This sounds like the version Mary Bergin plays on Feadoga Stain
S:Bruce’s 250
M:C|
L:1/8
Q:1/4=200
K:G
|:B~G3 BGdG|B~G3 (3Bcd gd|B~G3 BdcB|AGFG ABcA:|
|:~g3d BGBd|~g3d fgaf|~g3d BGBd|AGFG ABcA:|
|: (3Bcd gd Bdgd|Bdgd BGG2|Ac=fc Ac=fc|Ac=fc A=FF2|
(3Bcd gd Bdgd|Bdef ~g3a|bgaf gdBd|AGFG ABcA|]

re: version with f naturals-it’s on Feadoga Stain 2

X:1
T: Flogging Reel, The
M:4/4
L:1/8
R: reel
K:Gmaj
|:dc | BG G2 BGdc | BG G2 (3Bcd gd | BG G2 (3BAG dB | AD F2 ABcA |
BG G2 BGdc | BG G2 (3Bcd gd | BG G2 (3BAG dB | AFDF ABcA ||
|:g3d BGBd | g3e fgaf | (3gfe dc BcdB | AD F2 ABcA |
g3d BGBd | g3e fgaf | bgaf (3gfe dB | AFDF ABcA ||
|:(3Bcd gd (3Bcd gd | (3Bcd gd BG G2 | (3ABd fd (3ABd fd | (3ABd fd BG G2 |
(3Bcd gd (3Bcd gd | (3Bcd ef g3a | bgaf (3gfe dB | AFDF ABcA ||

this tune is in o’neills with f naturals in the third part, sounds much better in my opinion, although obviously not much use for flute players

In my opinion, It’s not the Flogging Reel without the F naturals which is one of the things that makes the tune special.

But I heard it’s not uncommon to play the tune with F naturals in the last part among pipers.

Sorry, I mean “it’s not uncommon to play the tune with F *sharps* in the last part among pipers.” I recently learnt to play the tune with F naturals on the keyless flute using a cross-fingering.

Heard Jerry Holland playing this last night. This is a Cape Breton setting from Live at West Mabou Hall:

X: 1
T: Floggin’s
M: C|
L: 1/8
K: G
[BG]G G/G/G [BG-]G[cG]G|[BG]G G/G/G Bdgd|[BG]G G/G/G [BG-]G[cG][BG]|AGFG ABcA:|
g3d (3Bcd dB|g3e fgaf|g3d BcdB|AGFG ABcA|
g3d (3Bcd dB|g3e fgag|bgaf gedB|AGFG ABcA|
|:(3Bcd gd (3Bcd gd|(3Bcd gd BGGB|(3ABc =fc (3ABc fc|(3ABc =fc A=FFc|
(3Bcd gd (3Bcd gd|(3Bcd ef g2ga|bgaf gedB|AGFG ABcA:|

Alonby Lasses
https://thesession.org/tunes/10982

…by Jack Talty and Cormac Begley, a John Kelly version.

Bannerman beware: there’s no F naturals in their version!

I’ve posted the Flagon Reel from the Vickers’ manuscript. https://thesession.org/tunes/13022

Personally I feel it has more drive than “Alonby Lasses”.

X:5 from the fiddling of Lad O’Bierne, on a home acetate: https://app.box.com/s/8wavey2c8eoi5sweoou3 I didn’t realize the original transcription for this tune was from Tony D’ who learned from Lad and other fiddlers in the Big Apple, it’s a quite obscure setting. Anyways compare the two transcriptions and listen to Lad and see what you think, I love the run down to the fiddle’s low G, Coleman did that as well in Miss McLeod’s and the Shaskeen.

http://youtu.be/k7TVNo4dCW0

play video

I heard this version from Gerry O’Connor and also from KevinGriffin.
I especially like the third part with the high and low f natural.

Willie Clancy’s version - one set of variation and not all the ornamentation…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAPgd11ADdM

play video

There’s my version of this tune. I hope you enjoy!

X: 1
T: The Flogging
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
BG ~G3 BGcG | BG ~G3 B/c/dgd | BG ~G3 cG ~G3| AGFG AcBA :|
~g3 d BGBd | ~g2 eg fgaf | ~g3 d BGBd | AD (3EFG Adef |
~g3 d BGBd | ~g2 eg fgaz | bgaf gedB | AGFG AcBA ||
|:(3B^cd gd (3B^cd gd | (3B^cd gd BG~G2 | Ac_fc Ac_fc | gage edBA |
(3B^cd gd (3B^cd gd | (3B^cd ef g z2 a | bgaf gedB | AGFG AcBA |]

This setting is from Dan Herlihy’s 2003 publication of manuscripts given to Padraig O’Keeffe’s pupils (page 40 tune 1). Unusually it has a name, made out from a tattered manuscript, as The Flagon - so much for generalisations about “the irish”. There is another setting from Padraig O’Keeffe on the ITMA site:
https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/score/padraig_okeeffe_horan_ms_041 .
The transcription says The Flogging but I’m not sure what the manuscript says. This version also has an unusual sequence in the 3rd and 4th bars of the third part (where some like to play an f nat.), where it has Acec in place of Adfd. Again whether that is in the manuscript, who knows?