The Ultimate Reel Book: 301 Traditional Reels in Standard and Abc Notation With Fiddle Bowings

301 reels – all the traditional session favourites, plus lots of lesser-known tunes Fiddle players! For great sounding reels, you need effective bowing directions that will bring these timeless tunes to life – every tune in this essential book has all the bowing info you need for fast rhythmic playing – in easy-to-read standard (dots) and abc notation. The bowing is all important! Full explanation of abc notation, including bow directions. The book is not just for fiddle players – any traditional melody instrument player will find this collection indispensable. The collection has been compiled by Phil Berthoud, author of many books on Irish and other folk styles for fiddle, mandolin and guitar. Every tune is listed with additional useful information – the key (D major, A mixolydian, E dorian etc...) tune length (32 bars, 48 bars etc...) - very useful when playing for dancing A selection of the reels included:

Abbey Reel, the An Ugly Customer Are You Willing? Around the World for Sport Ashplant, the Bag of Spuds, the Ballinasloe Fair Bank of Ireland, the Banshee, the Barrowburn, the Bean An Tí ar Lár Belles of Tipperary, the Bird in the Bush, the Blackberry Blossom, the Blackhaired Lass, the Boil the Breakfast Early Bonnie Kate Boyne Hunt, the Boys of Ballysodare, the Boys of Malin, the Boys of the Lough, the Brogan’s Ferry Broken Pledge, the Bucks of Oranmore, the Bunch of Green Rushes, the Bunch of keys, the Bunker Hill Bush in Bloom, the Cameronian, the Carrigaline Castlekelly Chicago, the Chorus Reel, the Christmas Eve Clumsy Lover, the College Groves, the Colliers, the Colonel Fraser Concertina Reel, the Congress Reel, the Contradiction, the Convenience Reel, the Cooleys Craig’s Pipes Crock of Gold, the Crowleys Cup of Tea, the Curragh Races, the Dairy Maid, the Daisy Field, the Dan breen’s Devanny’s Goat Devil’s Dream, the Dick Gossip’s Dinkey’s Doctor Gilbert’s Dogs Among the Bushes, the Donegal Reel, the Doon Reel, the Dowd’s No 9 Down the broom Drogheda Bay Drowsy Maggie Drummond Lasses, the Drunken Landlady, the Dublin reel, the Duke of Leinster, the Dunmore Lasses, the Earls Chair, the Eddie Kelly’s Reel Eileen Curran Famous Ballymote, the Far from Home Farewell to Connaught Farewell to Erin Farrel O’Gara’s Father Kelly’s Fermoy Lasses, the Flax in Bloom, the Flogging Reel, the Flowers of Edinburgh Flowers of Redhill, the Flowing Bowl, the Four Courts, the Fourpenny Bit, the Foxhunter’s, the Fred Finn’s Reel Galtee Rangers, the Galway Rambler, the George White’s Girl That Broke My Heart, the Give Us Another Glass of Beer, the Golden Keyboard, the Good Morning to Your Nightcap Gooseberry Bush, the Gravel Walks, the Green fields of America, the Green Fields of Rossbeigh, the Green Groves of Erin, the Green Linnet, the Green Mountain, the Hare’s Paw, the Heather Breeze, the High Reel, the High Road to Linton, the Highway to Limerick, the Humours of Ballyconnell, the Humours of Lissadell, the Humours of Tulla, the Hunters House, the Hunters Purse, the Ivy Leaf, the Jackie Coleman’s Jenny Dang the Weaver Jenny Picking Cockles Jenny’s Chickens Jenny’s Wedding Jenny’s Welcome to Charlie John Doherty’s John Stenson’s No 1 John Stenson’s No 2 Jolly Tinker, the Jug of Punch, the Julia Delaney Killarney Boys of Pleasure, the Killavil Fancy, the Kiss Me Kate Kiss the Maid Behind Barrel Kit O’Connor’s Kitty Goes a Milking