Mick Carr’s strathspey

Highland I got from a fiddle teacher when I started. He used to do double stops in the first part, like this:

[A,2F2][A,F][A,D] [G,G][G,A][G,G][G,D] | [A,2F2][A,F][A,F] [A,G][A,E][CE][A,E] | [A,2F2][A,F][A,D] [G,2G2]FG | Addc dBAG |
[A,2F2][A,F][A,D] [G,G][G,A][G,G][G,D] | [A,2F2][A,F][A,F] [A,G][A,E][CE][A,E] | [A,2F2][A,F][A,D] [G,2G2]FG | Addc dfed ||

Doing that makes it very fun to play. 🙂

But it’s impossible to read… Oh, well, you get the point, I guess.

Here’s my take on this, but trying to keep close to the contribution here, in two keys and with more of the classic 2-bar second ending for the B-Part, which helps the dance in it. The asterisks used for ‘alternative’ places for a ‘snap’ are just that, possibilities, and asterisks because, as some of you will know, the less-than sign does funny things in this area of the site… Here’s the take, simple and in an alternate key:

K: G Major
|: d>c |
B2 B>G c>dc<G | B2 B>G c*AF>A | B2 B>G c2 B>c | d*gg>f g2 :|
|: (3bag |
f2 d*c B>cd*e | =f*dd>c B*G G2 |1 g2 d*B c2 B>c | d*gg>f g2 :|
2 B2 (3BAG c2 (3ABc | d*gg>f g2 ||

Paul O’Shaughnessy and Harry Bradley recorded a fantastic version of this tune. It goes like this:

K: Dmin
DE|:F2FD G^FGE|F2FA GECE|F2FA G2FG|1 Add^c d=cAG:|2 Add^c d2ed|]
K: Dmaj
cAAG FGAB|cAAG FDD2|cAAF G2FG|1 Addc d2ed:|2 Addc d=cAG|]