Chords for Tin Whistle Lesson - Planxty Fanny Power (O'Carolan)

_ Hey y'all!
In some of the comments in the previous videos, I was asked to play some slower tunes, teach some of those, and
this is one I thought might be a good choice.
It's a tune called Plank Steep Fanny Power.
It's a Terlach O'Carrollan tune.
_ [Em] If you don't know anything about him, Blind Harper from the 1700s, if I'm not mistaken,
wrote a whole bunch of great tunes.
So I thought this would be good one to work on, and I'll play like I always do, up-tempo,
relatively speaking.
It's a slower tune with all the ornaments, and then go back and break it down.
So here we go! _
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_ right, so that's the whole tune.
Now the basic melody,
it starts on the bottom D, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
first section.
[A#] _ _ Second [E] section here. _ _
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_ [F] it off as similar [E] in both A and the [Em] B part. _ _
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_ So I'll play the whole A part all together. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [E] _ So that's the whole A part.
The B part goes up the second octave, as most of these tunes tend to do.
Starts on the B.
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_ _ _ _ The last section, like I said, is similar to the A part.
_ Slightly different, but the bit ends the same way. _
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_ _ [Gm] _ [E] Just the whole B part there. _ _
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So that's the whole basic melody.
Hopefully you're able to pick that up.
Ornaments-wise, with the Plank Steep tunes, the Terlach O'Carrollan tunes,
it's one of those where it's easy to overdo it.
So I would say less is more in this case,
but there's a few [E] things that I like to do.
Simple cuts [D#] and stuff like that.
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[E] _ _ _ So a couple things there.
Just again, a simple [Em] cut.
_ _ Slide. _ _ _ _
_ _ I tend to use the vibrato on these because there are a lot of long notes.
To my ear, it just makes it sound a bit more interesting.
[B] You can always apply [Em] more or less of that.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] That's one thing I do on a lot [Em] of tunes.
_ _ _ [F] It's kind of a double cut.
That's what that is.
[A#] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [E] That's out. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ So again, there's a lot of these things that you can add or subtract.
_ That's maybe more than is necessary, ornaments-wise, but hopefully that'll give you an idea for the A part.
Now the B part does a couple of triplets in there that you can use pretty well. _ _ _
_ So _ [N] there, I'm doing again that sort of like a half cramp.
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_ _ [F#] And [E] as I come back down to the G, it's just [Em] on a short note.
_ _ _ _ Yeah, and that's where the triplet is.
So you're finishing up the first section, the A part. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So rather than _ going_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] There's a few things.
There's a triplet to get up to the E, [Em] and _ then_ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [E] it'll give you an idea on a few things you can do with that tune.
Play around with it.
See what you think.
If people like these, I'll post more of the O'Carrollan tunes,
because there are a whole bunch of great ones.
_ They're a good tune to work on if you're looking for something a bit slower.
But they're good tunes in their own right, so hopefully you like that.
Questions, comments, as always, let me know, and I'll see you guys in the next one.
Take care, y'all.
Bye-bye.