Searching for tunes with a High-B note

[Patrick McLaurin]

Originally Posted by Kevin

The Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp by the late great Gerry Holland is another fine tune.

I sure wish the link to the sheet music worked on their website!

https://www.rmfiddle.com/rmfc-tunes-and-scores

[Patrick McLaurin]

Originally Posted by Patrick McLaurin

I sure wish the link to the sheet music worked on their website!

https://www.rmfiddle.com/rmfc-tunes-and-scores

To continue talking to myself, I'll be darned if I can even find a recording of this tune as "Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp" gives lots of YouTube hits but none of the actual tune, just of the camp.

[Travis Carr]

This is a lot of great information. Thanks for the help everyone. And I had no idea about Scotland the Brave. I learned O'Keefes slide yesterday on my new smallpipes and it sounds fantastic with the high B. Also, I'm finding that in many tunes where a high A is followed or preceded by a high G, it sometimes sounds better if I insert a high B in place of the high G.

[Travis Carr]

I've been having trouble locating right sheet music for Come By the Hills. That's a beautiful song.

[CalumII]

Originally Posted by Patrick McLaurin

I’m curious about this version of STB. I’ve got the tune that goes with John MacLean’s March which is similar but it goes to high B in the 3rd bar and high C in the 2nd line. Different tune or are you thinking of it in G where I’m thinking in A?

T: Scotland The Brave
R: polka
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
D2 D>E|FD FA|d2 d>c|dA FD|G2 B>G| FA FD| E2A>B|AG FE|
D2 D>E|FD FA|d2 d>c|dA FD|G2 B>G| FA FD|E2 D>E|D4|
e2 e>d|ec A2|d2 f>e|dA FA|d2 dd|c2 dc|Bd cB|AG FE|
D2 D>E|FD FA|d2 d>c|dA FD|G2 B>G| FA df|e2 AB/c/|d4|


Sorry, you'll have to transpose, but I'm sure you can manage. The tune to John MacLean's is based on Scotland the Brave but Hamish had a habit of being quite free with his adaptations of tunes - I think his song predates the tune becoming famous in the early fifties.

[Patrick McLaurin]

Thanks! I can hear The Corries singing...

Land of the kilt and sporran, Underneath there's nothing worn, How I wish the wind was warm, Scotland the Brave!

I must admit it's pretty gruesome, Walkin' about with a frozen twosome, It's all we've got we musn't lose 'em, Scotland the Brave!

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Travis Carr

I've been having trouble locating right sheet music for Come By the Hills. That's a beautiful song.

Come by the Hills is a more recent song to the traditional(?) tune of Buachaill ón Éirne. You might have some more luck searching for the latter. It is typically in G-major so you will have to transpose it up a 5th (7 semi-tones) to D-major.

Best of luck,
Kevin

[Travis Carr]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Come by the Hills is a more recent song to the traditional(?) tune of Buachaill ón Éirne. You might have some more luck searching for the latter. It is typically in G-major so you will have to transpose it up a 5th (7 semi-tones) to D-major.

Best of luck,
Kevin

Got it, thanks!

[will103]

Originally Posted by CalumII

Sorry, you'll have to transpose, but I'm sure you can manage. The tune to John MacLean's is based on Scotland the Brave but Hamish had a habit of being quite free with his adaptations of tunes - I think his song predates the tune becoming famous in the early fifties.

Hi, you can use the free application Musescore (https://musescore.org/en) to do the transposing. It also has a function to import abc files.

Ta will

[Travis Carr]

Originally Posted by pancelticpiper

There are probably more tunes that need the high B than tunes that don't.

We're just used to the pipes' defective versions.

Scotland the Brave for one! The first note of the 2nd part is high B.

I'm beginning to realize the truth of this!