Tune Arranging Workshop

"Take down a musical instrument

Let the beauty we love be what we do

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

From jalai ud-Din Rumi. (Sufi mystic)

Hi fellow guitarists and any other musicians wandering through. Check out my article on arranging if you want, or go straight to the tunes. I have a baker's dozen posted one to a page. Here you will find a midi file link, a Power tab file link and music notation and tablature in jpeg form. My notes on arranging and performance are at the bottom of each page.

I have a growing number of tunes in Power Tab format. I recommend this - its a great learning tool for both working through other peoples arrangements and writing out your own.

If you have the freeware "Power Tab Editor", (See my freeware page for a description and site link,) you can down load and sample the tunes directly from the table below.

You will find my Arranging ideas, with each tune, under the View menu in Performance Notes. Where I know a tune's composer, I have acknowledged them in the notes and put their name in brackets after the tune name in the table.

All the tunes are available in midi format from the Midi tune files page. If you like what you hear on the midis and are inspired to have a go, I'd be interested in knowing how you get on. Drop me a line via the Contact page. I'm happy to help with specific problems.

My Power Tab tune files:

Scollay's Reel	Rodney's Glory	Maple Sugar
Sally Sloane's Mazurka	Slieve Russel	Margaret's Waltz
Booth shot Lincoln	Coloured Aristocracy	Frosty Morn
Lost Indian	Rosbif - The French Waltz	Marching through Georgia
The Marquis of Granby	The Drover	Old Blair Store
Angelina Baker	Conjewai Polka	Boys of Ballysadare
Hardiman the Fiddler	The Star of the County Down	Johnny Cope
Waiting for the Federales	Kitchen Girl	Childgrove
Yew Piney Mountain	Chicken Reel	Red Haired Boy
Peacock follows the hen	Abe's Retreat	Pretty girl milking a cow
Cotton eyed Joe	Briarpicker Brown	Wolves are howling
Loch Lavan Castle	Ger the Rigger	The Young Maid
Si beg si mor	Kingdom Coming	Pretty little dog
Bill Cheatham	Cradle song (J Scott Skinner)	Circus time
Native Cherry (Max Campbell)	Black cat piddled in the white cat's eye	Eighth of January
Poor but happy	Eli Greene's Cakewalk (Sadie Koninsky)	Blackberry Blossom
Over the Waterfall	St Anne's Reel	Seth Davy
Old Molly Hare	Frailoch	Arthur McBride
The bard of Armagh	She moved through the fair	John Brosnan's Arranged by Ross Smithard
Er meliner	Cluck Old Hen	The water is wide
Coleraine	Spootiskerry	Run rabbit run (Clarence Herdman)
Snake baked a Hocake	Le Marinier	Falls of Richmond
Tri Martolod	Reality 2 (Max Campbell)	Branle Des Chevaux
Doing the business (Max Campbell)	Ryan's	Whiskey Kisses (Max Campbell)
Willafjord	Sonny's Mazurka	The Noisy Friar (Max Campbell)
Hunting the Buffalo		Stir it up (Max Campbell)
Fishing Blues

Links to other Power Tab resource sites:

Find the freeware Power Tab Editor at: www.power-tab.net

Here is a large and various resource: www.acousticpower.com

Here are links to many other sites: www.powertab-central.net