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John McKenna’s jig
Also known as John McKenna’s.
There are 16 recordings of this tune.
This tune has been recorded together with
- Up Leitrim (a few times).
John McKenna’s has been added to 8 tune sets.
John McKenna’s has been added to 64 tunebooks.
Eight comments
Leitrim Equation
This tune is the first on the Leitrim Equation album. I understand John McKenna used to play this tune sandwiched in between the other jig called McKenna’s on this database (aka Up Leitrim). On the album Kevin plays this with a bit of breath pulse on the Bs and plenty of rolls and cranns on the B part. Good stuff!
ABC
I think you have left out the ‘|’ where a barline is supposed to appear - i’d change it before the sheetmusic is put up, otherwise there will just be a string of notes.
ABC
You’re right samburnstone. Sorry about that. I suppose Jeremy corrected it-thanks. BTW, forgot to mention that when repeating A part can play:
| GBd edg :|| and play the | GBd e2d | when going into B part.
Kevin taught this at a workshop recently as described above (the breath pulse being done with a throat/glottaral push). Video here…
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/video/video.php?v=1289918166751
it’s worth noting that this is the same tune as the ‘Black Rogue’ (O’Neill’s version) just with McKenna’s twists at the end of phrases.
https://thesession.org/tunes/1076
This tune is quite different from Black Rogue. While the transcriptions and intervals look a little similar the two tunes sound very different because of where the notes fall relative to the tonic. You could not possibly mistake one for the other in a session.
Someone did put an ABC very close to Up Leitrim in the Black Rogue comments but I suspect it’s a variant of Up Leitrim recorded under the wrong name.
Link to tunes with similar contours at the Tickle Her Leg With The Barley Straw / Get Up Old Woman And Shake Yourself / Mind Your Leg Of The Train Maid Anne complex:
https://thesession.org/tunes/1937
Loughcurra is right - this is pretty much the same tune as ‘The Black Rogue’, but not the one that starts d|cAA BGG|CAA A3. It’s this one:
https://thesession.org/tunes/12291
A setting of this version is also posted on the page of the more common Black Rogue/Rogaire Dubh:
https://thesession.org/tunes/1076#setting14306
And in another key, it seems to be known as Life is All Chequered:
https://thesession.org/tunes/7458