Saturday, 26 June 2010

EZ Fingers Reel

EZ Fingers, Here is a reel that I have played around with for some time, that is why it ended up with six parts, you could always leave out the parts you don’t need if you are going to fit it into a set.

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Liquid Time - Nosebag Time - Slip Jigs

Two 9/8 jigs or sometimes called “slip jigs” There is a false fingered F and some slides in these, listen to the mp3 to hear them.



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Time Crisis Reel

Getting old, going deaf, getting fat ..... facing a Time Crisis ... Doh!



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Shirley's Lullaby

This tune is named after my daughter Shirley


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Sunday, 13 June 2010

Perry Gothic (set of reels)

Perry Gothic is the name of the font that I use on the headings of all my manuscripts

This tune is named after the software I use to write my tunes Piobmaster



Two Tree Island is a place in Essex, England. I don’t know if it has only two trees!

Mudchute (Jig set)

Mudchute is one of the stations on the Dockland Light Railway, I recently amended this, I think the changes make it better. False finger the C in the third part (listen to MP3)

A Jig I wrote for my son Dean, he has very long and bendy fingers and he is always cracking his knuckles, which Im sure doesn’t help!

CAYO, An EZ jig named after the district in Belize. You can easily slur or slide the note from C to D and D to E as marked on the tune. I know this is frowned upon by several pipers and teachers but I see no harm in copying the techniques used on the other Celtic instruments if used in the appropriate place like party's etc.




Cattle Landing & Rangers of Iraq

Cattle Landing is a small town in Belize. Rangers of Iraq was written to commemorate my regiments deployment in the Iraq war.

Colonel Tim Collins Royal Irish
his famous speech is here

The Canary (jig and reel)

The Canary is a simple effective tune that works well as a Jig or a Reel