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This is Mark’s collection: rock, pop and folk for rhythm guitar & lead guitar or mandolin, with a taste for the quirky + some fine harmonies

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	set	tune(s)	tasting notes	lead	MIDI	score	tab	XML	date
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	Auntie's jigs	Lillibulero | Barwick green trad. England/Ireland | Arthur Wood	Two jigs from Auntie BBC: the World Service theme tune Lillibulero and the Archers theme tune Barwick Green. They go together like cheese and chutney. Includes 2ⁿᵈ part	Mandolin			—		17/01/2025
	Austin set	Four up | Durham Rangers | Double lead through	Three jaunty morrissy tunes (one modern, two trad) to get your bells tinkling. Includes 2ⁿᵈ part	Mandolin			—		17/01/2025
	Cymru set	Cadair Idris | Pant corlan yr ŵyn | Rhyfelgyrch Gwŷr Harlech aka Sweet Jenny Jones | Lamb’s fold vale | Men of Harlech	Three lovely, contrasting Welsh tunes: one fairly well known and one absolute classic, sandwiching a lively rural tune. Includes 2ⁿᵈ part	Mandolin			—		11/01/2025
	Dubya's defense set	Bottom of the punchbowl | East Neuk o’Fife trad. Scotland	Jolly Scottish tunes. (”Dubya’s” because Neuk is a bit like the way he would say nuculer)	Mandolin			—		24/01/2025
	Entertainer	The Entertainer Scott Joplin 1902	Made famous by the 1973 film The Sting. Lovely syncopated piece. Tricky but rewarding. Mandolin & guitar tabs included	Mandolin					11/01/2025
	Flatback caper	Miss Susan Cooper | The friar's britches | The sport of the chase | Carolan’s concerto tune 2 aka Frieze breeches	Four trad tunes brought together by Dave Swarbrick and Dave Pegg on two mandolins for the 1970 Fairport Convention album Full House	Mandolin			—		11/01/2025
	Gas cat 3	The gas almost works | The cat on the mixer | 3 left feet John Kirkpatrick | Maartin Allcock x 2	Gloriously bonkers set in 4/4, 5/4, 6/4 & 7/4… sometimes mixed in the same tune. Put together by Maart Allcock for Fairport Convention’s 1986 album Expletive Delighted!	Mandolin			—		24/01/2025
	Myra's jig	Myra’s jig	Lively tune with a Scottish flavour. Bars 1 & 5 of the B music sort-of jump into 3/4 from 6/8, which is fun	Violin			—		17/01/2025
	Nights in Madrid	Nights in Madrid Boccherini - Night music from the streets of Madrid	Will be recognised by followers of the Lubber’s Hole podcast on the Aubrey-Maturin novels of Patrick O’Brian, though it does admittedly sound more stately in their cello + strings version	Violin			—		12/01/2025
	Pachelbel canon	Canon in D (excerpt) Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)	Bit of a classic. Even if you don’t know it by name you probably know it. For two violins with chords	Violin			—		24/01/2025
	Pinball wizard 01/2025 work in progress	Pinball wizard Who		Guitar	—	—	—	—	05/09/2017
	Thomas the Tank	Theme from Thomas the Tank Engine Mike O’Donnell & William Campbell 1984	A remarkably sophisticated 24 bars’ worth for a kids’ tune, with a key change (C to A♭) to keep rhythm guitarists on their toes. Includes tab & chords	Guitar					24/01/2025
	Wicked game	Wicked game Chris Isaak	A tune so gorgeous it was once used to advertise Jaguar cars, if that’s not too gross a non-sequitur. Includes lead guitar tab. Requires a whammy bar	Guitar					12/01/2025
	Windy Jess	Jessica | The wind that shakes the barley Betts | Joyce	The Allman Brothers’ Jessica – also known as the BBC Top Gear theme – and an Irish rebel balad played Irish-fast. An unlikely combination, made by Maartin Allcock for his 1999 album OX15. Includes lead guitar tab	Guitar					12/01/2025
	You're wondering now	You're wondering now Dodd - theme from Death in Paradise (BBC)	Clement Dodd’s 1979 song as arranged for the theme to BBC’s crime series Death in Paradise – follows original (2011) version. Includes lead guitar tab	Guitar					12/01/2025
					MIDIs ↑ Notation Player (free) shows a MIDI score as it plays		↑ MXL is compressed music XML. Either should work with most notation apps