X: 2
T:Bean ag Baint Duileasc
T:The Connachtman's Rambles
A: Donegal
G: Fiddle
N: Appears in O'Neill's under this title as well as giving an alternative: Gathering Dilisc.
N: Pronounced: Baan egg bine (to rhyme with nine)-tch dill-isk. Translation: The Woman
N: Gathering Seaweed.
R:double jig
S: John Gordon, (at home in Belleek, 1994)
Z: Before you start to learn the tune, listen to it repeatedly. If you have any recordings of people
Z: playing this tune listen to them repeatedly. If you have a friend who can play it, get them to put it
Z: SLOWLY on a tape for you. Listen to it over and over until you can hum THE WHOLE TUNE to
Z: yourself. Only then start to learn it. Such technologies as half-speed tape recorders and computer
Z: programs that can slow tracks down without changing the pitch will help much.
Z: The introductory 2 notes are played on a down then up bow with the first full note played on a
Z: down bow. Practise playing the tune with single bows (i.e. change the direction of your bow stroke
Z: with each new note) throughout the whole tune. When you are practising, PLAY SLOWLY and
Z: listen to yourself!!! Make sure you are playing the notes (cleanly, and clearly = tone) and the notes
Z: have the right sound (=pitch, for example, they are not sharp = too high or flat = too low). Place
Z: your left hand fingers firmly on the strings when making a note and try to get them so that the end
Z: part of your finger (from the tip to the first knuckle going back up your finger) is perpendicular to
Z: the fingerboard!!
Z: Only when you are able to play the tune confidently and without looking at written music, try
Z: to introduce a simple variation into the first bar. Rather than play the first three notes of the
Z: first full bar as FAA, try playing FGA and listen to the subtle difference. This is melodic variation.
Z: Also at this stage, you might like to try and switch around the pattern of the notes in the first and
Z: third bars of the second part and play them like this -- faa fbb for more melodic variation.
Z: In terms of rhythm, try and play the six notes of each bar using a beat pattern like this --
Z: hard, soft, soft, hard, soft, soft, where the hard notes get the emphasis from your bow and the soft
Z: notes get played without emphasis.
Z:Donegal on-line Fiddle Tutor (DOFT); Jig 1
M:6/8
K:D
AG|FAA dAA|BAB dAG|FAA dfe|dBB B2A|FAA dAA|BAB def|gfe f2e|1 dBB B2A:|2 dBB B2g:||
|fbb faa|fef deg|fbb faa|fed e2g|fbb faa|fef def |gfe f2e|1 dBB B2g:|2dBB B2A:||
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