I am new here and woud like some help finding this Tabulature ( Fields OF Athenrey ) for the mountin Dulcimer. Thanks for all the good people I have heard from. Mary Ann

[Mary Ann Bissell]

I am new here and woud like some help finding  this Tabulature ( Fields OF Athenrey ) for the mountin Dulcimer. Thanks for all the good people I have heard from.  Mary Ann

[Mary Ann Bissell]

Thank You Tom.    Mary Ann

[Tom McDonald]

These youtube examples might help you to learn the song. I did one, and Dana McCall the other. I'm mostly an "ear" player, although I did find standard music for this piece. I also played this on harmonica before learning it on dulcimer.

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[john p]

Hi Mary Jane,

Strumelia has just suggested in a recent post :

... this would be a perfect question to ask in our "Help Me Learn This Song" GROUP, located here:

http://mountaindulcimer.ning.com/group/help-me-learn-this-song-please

You may well get more attention posting there, rather than in a blog.

The main problem I find with this sort of request is knowing what style of play you want, and what you are capable of.

If you're an 'ear' player and can hold a tune in your head, then it's just a case of finding where the tune sits on the fretboard and tuning accordingly. The only answer needed is something like "Ionian tuning, starts on the open string, ends at the 3rd fret".
Back in the days when I made songlists this would have been written down as:
The Fields of Athenrey _ Io, 000345
just the tuning and the first half dozen frets or so.

If you're not so good at holding the tune then a complete fret order may be more useful, as long as it is accompianied by a sound clip to give you the rhythm and note phrasing.
I can provide this for you if you think it would help.

If you're starting from sheet music then I can show you how to produce your own fret order, and you can pick up the note duration/phrasing etc. from the sheet.

That assumes you are playing traditional style.

As you're asking for TAB then maybe you've been taught in the modern way that limits you to just one tuning and compensates by using the drones to play melody/chords and adding extra frets for the 'awkward' notes. Not my style I'm afraid, so can't really help there.

john

[Dusty Turtle]

Hi Mary Anne.

First let me welcome you to FOTMD. You will certainly find lots of people eager to help you with all sorts of questions.

A blog post is probably not the best place to ask a question like this. Blogs are not as highly frequented as the discussion boards.  And there are several groups where this question might belong. One is the Beginner Group. But the Irish Music group and the Help Me Learn This Song are also groups with specific interests that might be able to help you.

The song Fields of Athenrey was written in 1970s and is still under copyright. That means that you probably won't find free tablature around. If someone has arranged a tab version of it, it is probably in a printed book somewhere. That being said, you can find online versions that contain lyrics and chords, so that might be a place to start.