captbanjo - Posted - 05/30/2017:  11:58:32

Allow me to post one of my favorite hornpipes, the favourite of the good police chief himself. I wonder how much Irish music would exist if the Chief didn't take the time to write them down?I have an injury to the C6 in my neck so I haven't touched a banjo (or any instrument) in a few weeks but I'm pulling this one out of a video I made last year.

Wayne

VIDEO: Chief O'Neill's Hornpipe on Irish Banjo Fingerstyle
(click to view)

 

captbanjo - Posted - 05/30/2017:  12:01:05

Here's a fiddle version:

youtube.com/watch?v=Wy0TDe68Wgo

and an octave mandolin version:

youtube.com/watch?v=LXMFB_B-Yuk

JanetB - Posted - 05/30/2017:  21:46:19

I like your version and was reminded I worked it out for 5-string banjo in standard G tuning, which I hope you don't mind me attaching below.  Now that I'm watching your video and comparing my tab to it, I see I only used the 5th string one time for a melody note and had to go up to the 7th fret several times.  What tuning are you in, Wayne?  (I'm not familiar with a 4-string banjo.)

Here's some info included in my post back then:  This tune is one that Francis O'Neill published in his eminent book O'Neill's Music of Ireland published in the first decade of the 1900's. It was named his favorite by the man, Edward Cronin of Tiperary, who played it for him in Chicago when O'Neill was chief of police and collected Irish tunes as a hobby. It's also the first hornpipe notated in that book with 1,850 selections.

Chief O'Neill's Favorite

 

captbanjo - Posted - 05/31/2017:  03:00:56

Nice version Janet, very melodic!

I'm using the generally accepted tuning for playing Irish on a tenor, GDAE. Same as fiddle or mandolin but an octave below.

Wayne

Bribak - Posted - 05/31/2017:  06:27:57

 Very nice versions. It's funny how we can be familiar with melodies for years and never know what they're called. I am putting that one on my list to learn! Thanks. 

benhockenberry - Posted - 05/31/2017:  18:50:35

Nice, Wayne and Janet! Here's a pretty straightforward tenor version: youtu.be/VemE_D6w9Oc

captbanjo - Posted - 05/31/2017:  19:17:47

Here's a link to Ben's fine version:

youtu.be/VemE_D6w9Ocs

benhockenberry - Posted - 06/01/2017:  03:46:16

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Here's a link to Ben's fine version:

youtu.be/VemE_D6w9Ocs

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Thanks, Wayne! I was posting from mobile and the editor did not want to play nicely with my phone; I must have chopped off that last character by accident. :)