3 Irish Reels You Should Know /// Mandolin Lesson

Here are 3 classic Irish reels: "Maid Behind the Bar," "Cooley's Reel," and "Sally Gardens Reel"--all standards that every mandolin player should know! PDF transcriptions and MP3 backing tracks available over on my Patreon page here: / davidbenedictmandolin
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[@blackenedktulu]

Played guitar for the last 20 years, bought a cheap mandolin and came across your page on TikTok like the next day- you’re a Godsend!

[@CactusRanch]

Maid Behind the Bar 0:30 Cooley’s Reel 8:50 Sally’s Garden Reel 20:21 These are great… thank you for the work you put in!

[@samue1991]

Cooley's reel is one of my favorites that I play on the Irish tenor banjo, sounds great on the mandolin too

[@ReedShield1962]

Three awesome Reels! I love Irish mandolin music! I think my favorite of these three is Cooley's Reel. It's a little advanced for my skill level , especially with the triplets, but I'll give it a try. Thanks David!!

[@TRONOFTHEDEAD]

That cut on Maid behind the Bar is tasty!

[@johndoe-rj1ls]

Thank you very much for the excellent lessons.

[@Ubu987]

That pull-off from C# is too drastic. Fiddle players just briskly brush with the flesh of the third finger on the D, while flute players will just twitch their finger in an action called a 'cut.' Though it is written as a grace note it is really just an 'interruption' which serves to delineate the repeated B note. Great playing!

[@philipt54]

You make playing look so easy but it is not easy to me

[@nonzer0value]

It’s a bit confusing to hear the Irish triplet played with that idiomatic stutter, but see it bore written as two 16ths. I wonder if there is a different/better/more clear notation?

[@whatever-qm3ii]

Maid Behind the Bar: A: 4:39 B: 6:25 Cooley's Reel: A: 11:55 B: 15:32 Sally Gardens Reel: A: 21:28 B: 23:38

[@mandolinogfolkemusik4818]

You talk about triplets, but in the notes there is two 16 and one 8 notes. Why is it not written as a triplet?

[@mandolinuk]

Because as he says they are not true triplets in the classical music sense but as they are written. What this means is that the third note of the “triplet “ lands at the same time as the second note if it was just played at two 8 notes. It’s quite easy to rush the first note after the triplet when in fact the timing of it comes the usual 8th note after the last note of the triplet which wouldn’t be the case with a true triplet which spreads the 3 notes evenly across the time between the notes either side of the triplet. Hope that makes sense

[@mandolinogfolkemusik4818]

@@mandolinuk Makes sense. Thanks.

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