Listened to "Sea Image" by The Chieftains and wanted to know whether it's a jig or a reel. So I searched for videos explaining the difference and opened this one first. Guess what - the first example was the jig "Rolling Waves" - the very tune played in "Sea Image" by The Chieftains. What are the odds? Anyway, thanks for the great video!
Sean: Thanks for this lesson. With the jig in particular, it is evident from your demo how varying the emphasis on certain beats really perks up the tune. When researching trad rhythms, one source I found indicated that with a Jig in 6/8 time, the first and third notes should be emphasized, but the third note less strongly than the first. Is that how you approach it? Thanks again. Dan
Good idea - I do have an old plastic Susato whistle which is my car whistle, though I'm not sure if I have any cheap factory made whistles left. I tend to give those away
Since my original request for this tutorial I found a jig version of, "Clumsy Lover" (Neil Dickie) The tune was originally composed as a reel. The jig is an interesting spin.
I'm sure it could, but at some point you'd probably lose enough of the melody of the original piece that it would be hard to call it anything but a new tune.
Would you describe 'lift' as being similar to swing? I'm thinking specifically of the differences between the Dubliner's version of Musical Priest compared to the straight forward reel version. What would you call that?
Hmm, good question -- no, when I hear the term swing it's usually in the context of bluegrass or old-time and it's definitely not the same thing. It's got the bounce but it's less square and more driving, I'd say. When I hear it it makes me go "uuggghhh" in the style of James Brown, not "yee-haw" in the style of, say, Hee-Haw.
Rhythm. This often eludes me. Would you consider a tutorial doing a tutorial on using both foot taps and a digital metronome to keep time? I'm just not getting the relationship of taps, clicks/sweep and where to play notes, especially in 6/8, 9/8 and such.
I've never used a metronome so I wouldn't be much help there - it's all foot taps for me, but if you're having trouble keeping things in a consistent tempo then a metronome might be a good way to go.
I think my difficulty is dividing my attention between either metronome/tune or tap/tune. It just does not correlate for me. Where should the notes fall in relation either a click/sweep or tap/step? To focus on either way of counting is often to loose the tune. It is usually easier to listen to CDs or YT and try to match that. I had played the GHB for some years and my marching was often off a step. I could play the tunes along with the others but I was often on the wrong foot to the others. Or I could walk about while playing a jig or reel because my hands and feet seemed to operate independently. The PM was rather displeased.
Correction to my comment above. Should read "...with a Jig in 6/8 time, the first and fourth notes should be emphasized, but the fourth note less strongly than the first"
+Daniel Dunlop Yeah, that's it for the most part -- but the real trick is to use the ornaments to mix it up a bit as jigs can get pretty rhythmically repetitive otherwise. Mix in some long held out notes rather than always dropping in rolls, for example.
Listened to "Sea Image" by The Chieftains and wanted to know whether it's a jig or a reel. So I searched for videos explaining the difference and opened this one first. Guess what - the first example was the jig "Rolling Waves" - the very tune played in "Sea Image" by The Chieftains. What are the odds?
Anyway, thanks for the great video!
Really good video, and something that I think a lot of begginers have trouble with. Thanks.
Thank you, you fo a great job at explaining hard concepts .
Sean: Thanks for this lesson. With the jig in particular, it is evident from your demo how varying the emphasis on certain beats really perks up the tune. When researching trad rhythms, one source I found indicated that with a Jig in 6/8 time, the first and third notes should be emphasized, but the third note less strongly than the first. Is that how you approach it? Thanks again. Dan
Would you post some comment and comparison between brass, aluminum, wood and synthetic whistles?
Good idea - I do have an old plastic Susato whistle which is my car whistle, though I'm not sure if I have any cheap factory made whistles left. I tend to give those away
Since my original request for this tutorial I found a jig version of, "Clumsy Lover" (Neil Dickie) The tune was originally composed as a reel. The jig is an interesting spin.
Yeah, I heard Battlefield Band record it that way - pretty cool!
So can such a shift be done to any tune? Could "Amazing Grace" be made a jig or reel?
I'm sure it could, but at some point you'd probably lose enough of the melody of the original piece that it would be hard to call it anything but a new tune.
Would you describe 'lift' as being similar to swing? I'm thinking specifically of the differences between the Dubliner's version of Musical Priest compared to the straight forward reel version. What would you call that?
Hmm, good question -- no, when I hear the term swing it's usually in the context of bluegrass or old-time and it's definitely not the same thing. It's got the bounce but it's less square and more driving, I'd say. When I hear it it makes me go "uuggghhh" in the style of James Brown, not "yee-haw" in the style of, say, Hee-Haw.
would like to know how you did the ornament to the song the song Galway Girl could you do tutorial to that please.
Sure, it's right here: ua-cam.com/video/0c7zm3k1hNA/v-deo.html
Rhythm. This often eludes me. Would you consider a tutorial doing a tutorial on using both foot taps and a digital metronome to keep time? I'm just not getting the relationship of taps, clicks/sweep and where to play notes, especially in 6/8, 9/8 and such.
I've never used a metronome so I wouldn't be much help there - it's all foot taps for me, but if you're having trouble keeping things in a consistent tempo then a metronome might be a good way to go.
I think my difficulty is dividing my attention between either metronome/tune or tap/tune. It just does not correlate for me. Where should the notes fall in relation either a click/sweep or tap/step? To focus on either way of counting is often to loose the tune. It is usually easier to listen to CDs or YT and try to match that. I had played the GHB for some years and my marching was often off a step. I could play the tunes along with the others but I was often on the wrong foot to the others. Or I could walk about while playing a jig or reel because my hands and feet seemed to operate independently. The PM was rather displeased.
my player vol is full on, yet your voice requires me to hold the player to my ear, while your playing volume is excellent.
Yeah, unfortunately in some of these old videos my compression was terrible - hopefully I've solved that in recent ones!
Correction to my comment above. Should read "...with a Jig in 6/8 time, the first and fourth notes should be emphasized, but the fourth note less strongly than the first"
+Daniel Dunlop Yeah, that's it for the most part -- but the real trick is to use the ornaments to mix it up a bit as jigs can get pretty rhythmically repetitive otherwise. Mix in some long held out notes rather than always dropping in rolls, for example.
+whistletutor
Understood, thanks.