Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on June 4th 2002 by seara.
This tune has been added to 585 tunebooks.
Also known as Brenda Stubbert.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Brenda Stubbert's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
|:B|A/A/A (BA) GAAB|A/A/A (BA) edde|G2 (BA) BGGB| c2 (BA) BGGB|
A/A/A (BA) GAAB|A/A/A (BA) edda|gedB GABd|{d}e2 dB eAA:|
|:B|A/A/A a2 A/A/A g2| Aage ageg|G2 (BA) BGGB| c2 (BA) BGGB|
[1A/A/A a2 A/A/A g2| Aage agea| gedB GABd|{B}e2 dB eAA:|
[2A/A/A (BA) GAAB|A/A/A (BA) edda| gedB GABd|{d}e2 dB eAA|]
Um...this tune was written by Brenda Stubbert, a Cape Breton fiddler, and she holds copyright on it. Enjoy it for personal use, but send Brenda a check if you play it for profit.
# Posted on June 4th 2002 by Miss Lonelyhearts
Brenda Stubbert's
Whistle players could try it in Bm - works well, I think.
# Posted on June 5th 2002 by Kenny
odd, I always thought that Jerry Holland wrote this tune. Learn something new every day, eh? This tune gets played alot around here (well, at the 3 sessions I've been to, here in Santa Fe and Abq, it has been played each time) - great tune and the audiences seem to love it.
# Posted on June 6th 2002 by chicagofiddler
Brenda Stubbert's
I really like this reel. It was written by Jerry Holland for Brenda Stubbert (it's in "Jerry Holland's Collection of FiddleTunes" a book published by Paul Cranford), a great fiddler from Cape Breton. We often play it after Cutting Ferns, and sometimes follow it with High Road to Linton or Cooley's Reel.
# Posted on June 6th 2002 by aoife
Duh, you're both right, it's Jerry Holland. Sometimes I take my brain out of its case but forget to rosin the bow.....
# Posted on June 6th 2002 by Miss Lonelyhearts
Combination
Lower the key to E Dorian, and move on to "Killarney Boys of Pleasure." It sounds great.
# Posted on June 16th 2002 by slainte
The Bm version is in the Lunasa Tune Book, which confirms that the tune was written by Jerry Holland in honour of Brenda. I was taught this tune (Ador version) yesterday in a workshop, hence this comment. Whether I can play it yet is quite another matter...
# Posted on February 8th 2003 by lazyhound
Combination
Or play Killarney Boys of Pleasure in A minor, just move over a string.
# Posted on July 24th 2003 by maderinerue
Does anybody happen to have (and would you please post?) Mutt's Favorite, which is what Jerry Holland put after this on The Fiddlesticks Collection? The set he has is Cutting Ferns/Alex Dan MacIsaac's/Brenda Stubbert's/Mutt's Favorite, then Bernadette's and Lady Gordon of Gordonstown. Then they reattach his bow arm.
# Posted on July 24th 2003 by maderinerue
In the B part, I play the A to a and A to g jumps as a low A triplet and then a high a triplet, and then the same for the high g. Really, really nice sound on the banjo! All around great tune, perhaps my favorite.
# Posted on March 13th 2004 by Paddy
I learned the Bm version because it was a bit easier on the flute. Cooley's works really nicely after it.
# Posted on April 9th 2004 by autumn
He has a few of his other tunes on his website at http://www.jerryholland.com/
# Posted on September 24th 2004 by Kerri Brown
And here is an MP3 of Jerry playing this tune:
http://www.cranfordpub.com/mp3s/jerryholland9.mp3
# Posted on September 24th 2004 by Kerri Brown
Brenda Stubbert's
I've been playing like this:
K: Ador
A2BA GAAB|A2Bd eddB|G2BA BGGB|c2BA BGGB|
~A3B GABG|A2Bd edda|gedB GABd|e2dB eA~A2:|
Aza2 Azg2|eage ageg|G2BA BGGB|c2BA BGGB|
Aza2 Azg2|eage agea|gedB GABd|e2dB eA~A2|
Aza2 Azg2|eage ageg|G2BA BGGB|c2BA BGGB|
A3A GABG|A2Bd edda|gedB GABd|e2dB eA~A2||
I think the first part was influenced by the Edinburgh version of the tune. Nobody else plays my version, but it's much easier on whistle or flute.
This tune is really well-known but isn't standard at all in Ireland (though the situation seem a little bit different in some parts of Britain and the States). But it's true there are some fanatic fans of this C. B. tune who often play it as a solo piece.
# Posted on March 1st 2005 by slainte
Composer
Just to clarify come confusion from earlier posts, this tune was indeed composed by the great Jerry Holland from Cape Breton (home).
Brilliant tune that really get's audiences fired up.
# Posted on November 3rd 2006 by fiddlingcaper
No sharp
one of these hexatonic tunes that come very handy when I fiddle on me old battered piano with its one slow, quiet, sunken F# and one jangling, jarring flat f#!
# Posted on July 15th 2009 by birlibirdie
'why play all the notes when only the best will do?' (saw this on a jazzbuff's tshirt once)
This tune examplifies this principle beautifully:
or/and was the auld mythical scots thriftiness at work here? (lots of repeated bars and motifs, a 6 note scale within just over the range of an octave) Halleluja!
# Posted on July 15th 2009 by birlibirdie