Song That Can Be an Air and a Reel or Jig
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Song That Can Be an Air and a Reel or Jig
Hey folks!
I really love the way it sounds when a piper goes from an air to a jig in the same tune.
With that in mind, I am looking for a fairly easy tune (I am a newbie... only playing since Feb) which can be played both as an air as well as a jig or reel. My target is, the same song that sounds good slow, and can then played double or triple time for the jig/reel part and also sound good.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
I really love the way it sounds when a piper goes from an air to a jig in the same tune.
With that in mind, I am looking for a fairly easy tune (I am a newbie... only playing since Feb) which can be played both as an air as well as a jig or reel. My target is, the same song that sounds good slow, and can then played double or triple time for the jig/reel part and also sound good.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Re: Song That Can Be an Air and a Reel or Jig
There's many tunes existing both as a reel or a jig, but I never noticed one with a slow air version.
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Re: Song That Can Be an Air and a Reel or Jig
This one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_GxP_zWmSs
Then the 2nd tune here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4znYb46GHE.
or these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328wZ5jo_G8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_GxP_zWmSs
Then the 2nd tune here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4znYb46GHE.
or these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328wZ5jo_G8
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Re: Song That Can Be an Air and a Reel or Jig
Great suggestions! Especially O'er the Water to Charlie. I'm going to learn that, as an air/jig combo.oleorezinator wrote:This one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_GxP_zWmSs
Then the 2nd tune here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4znYb46GHE.
or these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328wZ5jo_G8
I enjoyed listening to The Blackbird again - haven't heard that for ages. These days - I expect it's age - everything by The Bothy Band sounds very fast to me - the air, set dance and reel all sounded fast. Lovely stuff though, and I think they were breaking ground and making a point at the time they did these things.
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Re: Song That Can Be an Air and a Reel or Jig
An Páistín Fionn has multiple slow air / hornpipe / jig versions including the jig usually known as 'Statia Donnelly'
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Re: Song That Can Be an Air and a Reel or Jig
It was a bit too early this morning when I wrote down my answer: There' the Willie Clancy "purty Molly Brannigan-green fields of America".
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Re: Song That Can Be an Air and a Reel or Jig
I posted a while back about a forgotten air version of 'Kitty's Rambles to Youghal" called "The Heart of my Kitty":
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=104014
They'd work well if you transposed the air version into D minor and then followed it with the jig (usually D mixolydian these days, though D minor in O'Farrell).
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=104014
They'd work well if you transposed the air version into D minor and then followed it with the jig (usually D mixolydian these days, though D minor in O'Farrell).
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Re: Song That Can Be an Air and a Reel or Jig
Pretty Maid Milking the Cow - Harry Bradley turned this into a mazurka. It also works as a slip jig (I turned it into one anyway)
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Re: Song That Can Be an Air and a Reel or Jig
OK, just to follow up my last post, here's the air "The Heart of my Kitty"
http://tunearch.org/wiki/Heart_of_My_Kitty_Soon_Turns_to_Me_(The)
Transpose down a tone and follow with:
https://thesession.org/tunes/1843
http://tunearch.org/wiki/Heart_of_My_Kitty_Soon_Turns_to_Me_(The)
Transpose down a tone and follow with:
https://thesession.org/tunes/1843
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Re: Song That Can Be an Air and a Reel or Jig
The is a slow air version of the set dance " The Blackbird" also there is a slow air version of
" Job of Journeywork" too
I'm working on a slow air version of " The Broken Pledge "
" Job of Journeywork" too
I'm working on a slow air version of " The Broken Pledge "
Re: Song That Can Be an Air and a Reel or Jig
I play a three-part jig version of Marbha Luimhní...
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Re: Song That Can Be an Air and a Reel or Jig
Thanks, gents! I have lots of choices here... maybe I need to do more than just one of them.
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