Today I was inspired to tab out one of my recent favorite tunes. One is called The Choice Wife, or O’Farrel’s Welcome To Limerick. The mandolin tablature also has standard notation. You can access these files as .pdf clicking the links below or through the tunes page.
This is a tune played often at the Jack of the Wood session, when Sean is on the pipes. It’s got a great groove, and nice melody.
Last week our local piper at the early session at the Jack of the Wood, encouraged me to back him up on a jig and a slip jig. They are great tunes, so I spent some time researching and creating a chord arrangement to for rhythmic backing.
Here are the chords I found from VCP Sheet Music for “the Choice Wife”. They work nicely.
Next up are some chords I’m playing around with for “Muireann’s Jig”.
A
Bm- BmEm BmEm BmEm B- BmEm Bm- BmEm
B
Em- F#m- G- Am Em- F#m- G- Am
C
Bm- D- D- DEm Bm- D- D- DEm
D
DBm DA D- DEm DBm DA BmA DEm
I feel it can still use some tweaking, but it works well enough at the moment.
If you’d like to play along, use the videos below.
The Choice Wife is also called O’Farrell’s Welcome to Limerick
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