Sam Cormier’s reel - Accompaniment by TopScoreMusic Academy Declan Plummer

 Once a week, every Tuesday, Declan Plummer of TopScoreMusicAcademy, brings his live stream on youtube where he tries to work out an accompaniment to a tune he hasn't accompanied so far. The latest tune he worked on was Sam Cormier's Reel, composed by Denis Lanctot. 

He always uses Video recordings by Fiddler Olivia Barrett. She plays this Reel in E, which seems to be the key in which Denis Lanctot composed it, although it seems that most musicians play it in D. 

Here you'll find the short version of Declan playing Whistle and Bouzouki 

This is the whole video, it's very long but it's interesting to watch how he developes his accompaniments.

This is the video of the final run through all the ideas, but without the melody played so you can listen to the accompanyment. 

I made a tab out of his ideas which you can download here. First Line Melody from thesession, second line Declan's accompaniment.