Paddy Fahey’s jig

By Paddy Fahey

Also known as Paddy Fahey’s Jig #5, Paddy Fahy’s.

There are 8 recordings of this tune.

Paddy Fahey’s has been added to 9 tune sets.

Paddy Fahey's has been added to 77 tunebooks.

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Two settings

1
X: 1
T: Paddy Fahey's
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Cmaj
F|E/F/GC DEF|GcA Bcd|efd ga/g/e|fdc BGF|
E2 C EFD|GCD EFG|Bc/d/B cBG|FDB, CGF|
EGC DEF|GcA Bcd|efd ga/g/e|fdc BGF|
E2 C EFD|GCD EFG|Bc/d/B cBG|FDB, CEG|
|:cd/c/B Gce|gfa gec|Ad^c de/f/g|fdc BGF|
G,CE Gce|{a}gfa gec|AdB cBG|1 FDB, CEG:|2 FDB, CGF||
"Final ending, last four bars of Part B"|GCD EB,D|G,CE {G}F3|GBd cBG|FDB, C3||
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2
X: 2
T: Paddy Fahey's
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Cmaj
"C"FGC "G"DEF|"C"GcA "G"Bcd|"C"efd g2 a|"Dm7"fdc "G7"BGF|
"C"E2 G "G7"F2 D|"C"GCD EFG|"G"B/c/dB "C"cBG||1 "Dm7"FDG "C"C3:|2 "G7"FDG "C"CEG||
|:"C"c(3d/c/B/c "Am"Ace|"G"gfa "C"gec|"Dm"Ad^c "Em7"deg|"D7"^fdc "G7"BGF|
"C"G,CE Gce|"G"g^fa "C"gec|"Dm7"AdB "C"cBG|"G7"FDG "C"C3:|
# Added by Bazza .

Six comments

Paddy Fahey’s

This is the second Fahey tune in a set of jigs on The Well Tempered Bow by Liz and Yvonne Kane, following the Paddy Fahey’s jig I posted here yesterday.

This one’s a bit more of a finger twister on fiddle, and definitely gets your bow jumping across the strings, but it doesn’t need to go fast to sound good, so ease into it. I like the lope that Liz and Yvonne give to it, emphasized with some well-placed cuts and triplets. Watch for that lone c sharp in the B part.

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Abc’s

this is wierd. i can’t get this tune to print out from my abc2win program. i’ve never had this problem before. all the other recent tunes work fine. any ideas?

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It could be one of several factors. I’m no abc expert, and I don’t mess with abc software at all, so I’m probably blowing smoke here. But…does it matter whether there’s a space bewteen the colon and the labels in the abc header fields? You could try deleting the space. Also, I neglected to put a double bar line at the end of the A part. Could that be fouling things up? Finally, maybe abc2win doesn’t like the line of text introducing the final ending. Delete that and give it a try.

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Abc’s

i deleted the ending and it printed. thanks for the tip, i’m glad it worked ’cause i’m no wizard with abc’s. thanks!

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Paddy Fahey’s, X:2

The setting is from the appendix to Maria Holohan’s thesis (PF’s jig No 5) with my chord suggestions.

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