Pressed For Time reel

A dangerous track if you have flook’s Rubai-cd on the car-system. Even if you

Thank you soo much for this tune. Been trying to learn it for ages but it is just too damn fast. Gordon Duncan is a scottish piper and has 3 CDs out called Just for Seamus, Thunderstruck and The Circular Breath. He is my all time favourite composer of trad music and all his tunes are really cool. Look out for Break Yer Bass Drone, Where’s Ma Mace?, The High Drive, among others…

A brilliant tune, Finlay Macdonlad’s latest album is named after it. His version is definatly the best i have heard. Not to sure about the session A9 one though just dosnt seem to work in my opinion.

Why do you never see Gordon Duncan in concert?

The words ‘loose’ and ‘cannon’ are probably appropriate to use in any reply to the above question.

Here’s a perhaps-easier-to-read transcription of what’s on the CD from me:

X: 1
T: Pressed For Time
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amix
|:GAgG AfGA|eGAe GAeA|GA~A2 d2cA|GA~A2 d2cA|
GAgG AfGA|eGAe GAeA|cA~A2 dAcA|~A2eA e2z2:|
|:GAdA cAGA|~A2dA cA~A2|cd~d2 ed~d2|effe a3f|
eA~A2 BAeA|~A2e2 d2cA|GA~A2 dAcA|1 ~A2eA e2z2:|2 ~A2e2 zGB/c/d||
|:~g3f geef|~g3a geeg|~f3g fedB|dBde f2dB|
eA~A2 GAeA|~A2e2 d2cA|GA~A2 dAcA|~A2e2 zGB/c/d:|
|:~g3f geef|~g3a geeg|~f3g fedB|dBde f2dB|
[1 eaae aaea|aeaa bfgf|eaae aaef|gfdB cdea:|
[2 eA~A2 BAeA|~A2e2 d2cA|GA~A2 dAcA|~A2eA e2z2||

This isn’t the sort of tune I go for at all, but I’ve heard it played at my local session lots recently.

Gordan Duncan is died a few years ago.

sorry, it wasn’t as long ago as a few years actually..

My friend bb has this tune as the ringtone on her phone. She likes to annoy me with it.

And her little baby lilting it?

why are there no embellishments on the sheet music? this is a bagpipe tune after all?

I know that this originally is a Flook tune (GO FLOOK!!), but I also have heard a good version of it by a band called the Rogues.

APH, it has been recorded by Flook, but is certainly not originally a Flook tune. See first comment: it’s a Gordon Duncan composition.

Given that there are rests and / or a high b in the versions posted, it would seem that none of them is taken from the original pipe music.

Seems this tune has just hit a period of increased popularity, no bad thing in my opinion for what that is worth. Noting that though I thought maybe this might help aspirant players in their approach. Here’s the tune played by Ali Hutton, on pipes, and Ross Ainslie, whistle, 2 of Gordon Duncan’s former pupils and directors/leading lights in the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust. If you want the original music why not do your bit and buy the book?
http://www.gordonduncan.co.uk/musicbooks.htm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWm43nfo-9s

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https://youtu.be/nP7GH_tLQds

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This setting is according to the original bagpipe score as written by Gordon Duncan, and published in the book called Gordon Duncan’s Tunes.

edited a few things to match Flook version.

On harmonica: https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=I7OiRteK6mw

In just about any other genre of music a tune as brilliant as this would have made the composer a millionaire ( instead as well as being a recording artist, composer, tutor and musician he worked as a local authority bin man ). It is stunning piece of music and the 3rd part is ecstatic for what my opinion is worth. If you’ve the ability to pull this one off go for it. The world needs music as celebratory of everything it is to be wired on life as this tune so seemingly is.

This is the version I picked up from We Banjo 3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccf9FzCeGNE

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