The Miller Of Droghan reel

Here is Lunasa’s version transposed in G.

|:G2BG DGBG|EGef gdBA|G2BG DGBA|GEGA BdBA|
G2BG DGBG|EGef gdBA|faef d2ed|1 BAGA B2BA:|2 BAGA BG (3Bcd|
|eEE2 DEBE|DEGA B2BA|GEE2 DEBE|DEGA BG(3Bcd|
eEE2 DEBE|DEGA B2BA|GEE2 DEBE|DEGA B2BA|

This setting is much more friendly to whistle and flute players.

Good tune Thanks donchad and slainte

Don’t want to seem picky but there are one or two inaccuracies in Slainte’s Lunasa transcription. Here’s what I hear them playing, again transposed into G:

X: 1
T: Miller Of Droghan, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|:G2BG DGBG|EBef gedB|G2BG DGBA|GEGA BdBA|
G2BG DGBG|EBef gfed|faef deBA|1 GEGA ~B3A:|2 GEGA BA (3B^cd||
eE~E2 DEBE|DEGA ~B3A|GE~E2 DEBE|DEGA BA (3B^cd|
eE~E2 DEBE|DEGA BdBA|GE~E2 DEBE|DEGA ~B3A||

That’s one of my earliest posts here. And I admit it’s a horribly inaccurate transcription. I haven’t heard this tune for long.

I learned this ages ago off the De Danann recording. So my fiddle and flute versions are based on Frankie Gavin’s fiddle setting, which I like better than Lunasa’s version. As follows:

X: 1
T: Miller Of Droghan, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: G
G2 BG DGBG|Eeef gedB|G2 BG dGBA|GEGA BcBA|
G2 BG DGBG|Eeef gfeg|fdef dBBA|1 GEGA BcBA:|2 GEGA BA (3Bcd||
e~E3 DEB,E|DEGA BcBA|G~E3 DEB,E|DEGA BA (3B^cd|
e~E3 DEB,E|DEGA BcBA|G~E3 DEB,E|DEGA BcBA||

On flute, the only change is playing those low B,s an octave higher.

I was recently driving back to Massachusetts from Cape Cod and visiting JasonG, and had John Carty’s "I Will If I Can" on the cd player in the rental car. His tenor guitar version of this got put on repeat for no little time — it’s lovely (he plays it with Eleanor Neary’s), and it was perfect for driving through the lovely green trees and blue skies and waters of a Cape Cod summer…

I’ve been using G, C D, Em and the occasional Bm but there’s still something missing. Any suggestions? Thanks

F sharp diminished, B flat major seventh, C sharp suspended fourth, E seventh flattened tenth, F minor sixth, D thirteenth, C minor seventh flattened fifth?

Hilarious…..

The slowed down version of this by Lunasa on Otherworld is in Bb - the G transcription above will work if you have an F whistle to play it on (and two colleagues also on F whistles 🙂 )

Having heard the Lunasa version first it took me a while to realise that the Miller of Drangen (as played by Kevin Burke) was actually the same tune - although the two versions are about as far apart as it is possibe to imagine

I like both versions

Lunasa tunebook has the following
X:1
T:The Miller Of Drohan
N:Lunasa play it in Bb by using the G fingering on F whistles
N:Chords as per Lunasa tunebook transcribed to G
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:reel
K:G
|:"G" G2BG DGBG| "Em" EBef gedB | "G"G2BG DGBA | "C"GEGA "D"BdBA |
"G"G2BG DGBG | "Em" EBef gfed|"Bm" faef deBA |1 "C"GEGA "D"~B3A:|2 "C" GEGA "D" BA (3B^cd||
"Em" eE~E2 DEBE | "D" DEGA "Bm" ~B3A | "C" GE~E2 DEBE|"Bm"DEGA "G"BA (3B^cd|
"Em" eE~E2 DEBE|"Bm" DEGA BdBA|"C"GE~E2 "D" DEBE|"Em" DEGA "F#m" ~B3A||

Good tune. Thanks.

From "The Stranger at the Gate". A few nice twists.
X: 1
T: The Miller of Draughlin
Z: Bill Wolfe
S: Paddy O’Brien, "Stranger at the Gate"
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Emin
Bd[|eE EE DGB,G|DEGA BAGA|GE EE DGB,G|DEGA BABd|
eE EE DGB,G|DEGA BAGA|GE EE DGB,G|DEGA BdBA||
G2 BG dG (3BAG|Eeef gedB|G2 BG dGBA|GEGA BdBA|
G2 BG dG (3BAG|Eeef gfed|faef deBA|GEGA Bdef|]

Can somebody give me a brief info about the chord system? Small letters (minor ?), numbers ? etc.

New member here on The Session.
Benna

Welcome, Benna. The only setting on this page with chords is No.5 from Edgar Bolton. The strings of letters and numbers represent the melody: large (uppercase) letters are the lower octave, small (lowercase) letters the upper octave. The numbers represent the length of note: usually no number = eighth note; 2 = quarter note; (3 = triplet. Does that get you started? The system is known as "ABC Notation".

As played by Loretta Egan Murphy on Beyond the Watery Lane, swapping the A and B parts.