7 June 2021. A session standard - although one which I was quite slow to learn. The impetus to learn it was the experience of a flute/whistle playing session mate who I sat alongside at a particularly sparsely-attended session one evening. He kicked off The Swallow's Tail and found himself playing solo until the change. He had assumed I'd know the tune and had felt under a deal of pressure until I was able to play the next tune in the set and give him some support. He needn't have been concerned; his solo whistle version was excellent...
Why "revisited"? In early June 2021 I took the opportunity to review the sound quality of the sound files in the videos which I posted to this channel when I first established it in November 2020. My original recordings were made with recording equipment which was a little more primitive than my current set-up and I hadn't figured out how to remove ambient noise from the sound files. I'm now using a Zoom H1n digital recorder and I clean away ambient noise and normalise the sound file to -3dB using Audacity software. I'm also playing better instruments than the Eastman MD304 which features on those early recordings. Therefore I decided to re-record the "offending" sound files with updated and improved versions. From time to time in these "revisited" videos I will play the tunes in both a mandolin version and a tenor guitar version, each of which will hopefully spotlight different aspects of the tune in question. I hope these new recordings are easier on the ear and a better aid to learning tunes than the original sound files.
Notated, tabbed for mandolin and played on his G&O #34 mandolin by Aidan Crossey. More on this and many other tunes from the Irish musical tradition at www.TheIrishMandolin.com - follow the link to "learn some tunes".
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