That's what I was getting at all along, good sir!NicoMoreno wrote:Without the third, how is it a minor chord?
What are your favourite slip jigs?
Re: What are your favourite slip jigs?
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Re: What are your favourite slip jigs?
Thread necromancy, I know. But I found one that should go here. It's called "Another Jig Will Do", and it's in O'Neill's. Has a neat back-and-forth between Cnat and C# in the B section.
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Re: What are your favourite slip jigs?
John Doonan has a great version of this, one of my favorite slip jigs. I'll second (or third or fourth or whatever) An Phis Fliuch, as well as Fig for a Kiss, Hardiman the Fiddler, and the Swaggerin' Jig.Anomylous wrote:Thread necromancy, I know. But I found one that should go here. It's called "Another Jig Will Do", and it's in O'Neill's. Has a neat back-and-forth between Cnat and C# in the B section.
I love slip jigs, and try to learn a lot of them, mainly because I feel like if I don't start a set no one will. Why are they so neglected at sessions (at least the ones I go to)?
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Re: What are your favourite slip jigs?
Yes these three are favourites of mine! I first head Donald Willie and his Dog back in the late 1970s and I thought it was the coolest tune ever, and I've been playing it ever since.bogman wrote:There are some really great Scottish slip jigs
Donald, Willie and his Dog
The Grinder
Angus John MacNeil of Barra
Terry Ho The Grinder is often played as a 9/8 march, and that category has quite a few great tunes, any of which can also be played as slip jigs, such as
Heights of Dargai
Brose and Butter
Battle of the Somme
Bonnie Highland Mary
I Have a Wife of my Own
Banks of the Lossie
As far as Irish slip jigs go, my favourite set is
O Farrell's Welcome to Limerick > Elizabeth Kelly's Delight
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Re: What are your favourite slip jigs?
The Boys of Ballisodare and Open the Door for Three haven't been mentioned yet (I think). I'll also put in another vote for The Arra (or Arragh) Mountains.
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A Fig For A Kiss
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Chloe's Passion
The Countess Cathleen
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Re: What are your favourite slip jigs?
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Re: What are your favourite slip jigs?
how do you tell a slip jig from a hop jig?
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Re: What are your favourite slip jigs?
I think it's easiest to just think of some obvious examples:john wrote:how do you tell a slip jig from a hop jig?
See The Kid on the Mountain? That's a slip jig.
See The Butterfly? That's a hop jig.
It's reasonably clear, I think, that those two have quite different rhythms.
Mind you, the terms do seem to have been fluid over time and in different places, so it's not totally black and white ...
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Re: Mind you your slips & slides
So what is My Mind Will Never be Aisy, Mr. Hall?
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Speaking of fluid.
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Speaking of fluid.
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Re: What are your favourite slip jigs?
Sorry, didn't answer the OP's ?
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Re: Mind you your slips & slides
It's a slip jig. As usually played.Ben Steen wrote:So what is My Mind Will Never be Aisy
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Re: What are your favourite slip jigs?
True that. In my neck of the ITM woods, those who strongly differentiate slip and hop jigs think of hop jigs as being really better thought of as in 3/2 meter, including tunes such as The Dusty Miller or Rocky Road to Dublin. Yes, I know they're frequently transcribed in 9/8, and personally I don't get that. Those tunes are closer to a mazurka than a slip jig, if you think about it. And also remember that it's a characteristic of these tunes that they are typically played singly - that is, without repeats. They tend to repeat within themselves, anyway.benhall.1 wrote:Mind you, the terms do seem to have been fluid over time and in different places, so it's not totally black and white ...
For me, The Butterfly could never be a hop jig. It fits solidly in 9/8, but its structure strikes me very much as slide-ish. I give it a category of its own and call it a slip-slide.
Remember further that context counts: a hop jig to a dancer is melodically a single jig to me, and if I play for dancers, it behooves me to remember that. But when the dancers are safely tucked away, my fellow musicians and I are now free to have "hop jig" mean something melodically altogether different, again The Dusty Miller, etc.
And then again, come to think of it, I know one or two people who would never fail to remind me that a 3/2 tune would be considered a species of hornpipe in certain English contexts!
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Re: What are your favourite slip jigs?
Thing is ... Slip/Hop is as much an approach to playing a 9/8 tune as something inherent in the tune itself. So arguing whether a particular tune is one or the other is somewhat moot. It depends on how you count, place accents and add/drop notes.
Listen to Julie Fowlis and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh playing "Rocky Road" (An Bairille). It's clearly a 9/8 slip jig here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raOhfgsft8I
And this harp setting of The Butterfly sounds strongly 3/2 hoppy to me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX1OBhSzVLI
I think Nico and I had a go at this issue here a few years ago.
Listen to Julie Fowlis and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh playing "Rocky Road" (An Bairille). It's clearly a 9/8 slip jig here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raOhfgsft8I
And this harp setting of The Butterfly sounds strongly 3/2 hoppy to me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX1OBhSzVLI
I think Nico and I had a go at this issue here a few years ago.
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Re: What are your favourite slip jigs?
Not to me with the first song (Tha 'm buntàta mòr, something about a big potato), MTG. To me that's really more a 3/2, just not as drive-y as what I think of as hop jigs. But on that we'll just have to agree to disagree. The second song is of course definitely 9/8.MTGuru wrote:Listen to Julie Fowlis and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh playing "Rocky Road" (An Bairille). It's clearly a 9/8 slip jig here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raOhfgsft8I
A damn wonderfully fine set in any case, isn't it.
I do catch what you're saying about the harp piece. As you say, how you play it will make all the difference.
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