What goes with Kesh?
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Depends on if you mean before or after Kesh!
Try A minor tunes (Ten Penny Bit, Killiloe Boatman, My Love is in America etc)
E minor tunes (Swallowtail, Road to Lisdoonvarna, Gallagher's Frolics etc)
Or D major tunes (My Darling Asleep, Connaughtman's Rambles, Frost is all over etc) Years back when trad Irish musicians started to link tunes together, many would link tunes in the same key rather than go for the more dramatic key change (no wonder some people think there is only one Irish jig, one reel, one polka....
Try A minor tunes (Ten Penny Bit, Killiloe Boatman, My Love is in America etc)
E minor tunes (Swallowtail, Road to Lisdoonvarna, Gallagher's Frolics etc)
Or D major tunes (My Darling Asleep, Connaughtman's Rambles, Frost is all over etc) Years back when trad Irish musicians started to link tunes together, many would link tunes in the same key rather than go for the more dramatic key change (no wonder some people think there is only one Irish jig, one reel, one polka....
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My friends and I make a set of (1) DonnyBrook Fair (2) Saddle the Pony, then (3) Kesh
We play DonnyBrook Fair once through very slowly with a sort of Scottish lilt, then play it again straight, but still quite slow. At the end of this we stop dead for one beat, then one instrument will break into Saddle the Pony at a reasonable tempo, but gradually getting faster as the others join in. By the time we get into Kesh it's really pumping. We end on that high G in Kesh and stop it dead ... no sustain at all ... which makes a very dramatic ending which listeners love.
We play DonnyBrook Fair once through very slowly with a sort of Scottish lilt, then play it again straight, but still quite slow. At the end of this we stop dead for one beat, then one instrument will break into Saddle the Pony at a reasonable tempo, but gradually getting faster as the others join in. By the time we get into Kesh it's really pumping. We end on that high G in Kesh and stop it dead ... no sustain at all ... which makes a very dramatic ending which listeners love.
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The Bothy Band tune "Give us a Drink of Water" is supposedly misnamed on the cd. A self-annointed expert in my area says the tune is rightfully called The Swaggering Jig. I've always interpreted it as being in 6/8 time, not 9/8 (slip jig). I guess it's where you put the emphasis; it would work either way, I suppose. (I know it works as 6/8)
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I am aware of the name confusion with Swaggering Jig. Now I have to go back and listen where they put the emphasis.On 2001-10-29 18:49, TonyHiggins wrote:
The Bothy Band tune "Give us a Drink of Water" is supposedly misnamed on the cd. A self-annointed expert in my area says the tune is rightfully called The Swaggering Jig. I've always interpreted it as being in 6/8 time, not 9/8 (slip jig). I guess it's where you put the emphasis; it would work either way, I suppose. (I know it works as 6/8)
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Well, call me crazy, but I tried Swaggering Jig in both 9/8 and 6/8 time. The way I play it, you can't tell the difference. Hmm...
I'm wondering if the guitar player at our session was playing it as a slip jig while I whistled away in 6/8, neither of us knowing what the other was up to. Which reminds me of a song a friend of mine sang to me just to annoy me (to the tune of The Irish Washerwoman)So, I'll annoy you with it:
"McGilvrie is dead and his brother don't know it,
His brother is dead and McGilvrie don't know it,
They're both of them dead and they're in the same bed,
And neither one knows that the other is dead."
Tony
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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: TonyHiggins on 2001-10-30 23:53 ]</font>
I'm wondering if the guitar player at our session was playing it as a slip jig while I whistled away in 6/8, neither of us knowing what the other was up to. Which reminds me of a song a friend of mine sang to me just to annoy me (to the tune of The Irish Washerwoman)So, I'll annoy you with it:
"McGilvrie is dead and his brother don't know it,
His brother is dead and McGilvrie don't know it,
They're both of them dead and they're in the same bed,
And neither one knows that the other is dead."
Tony
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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: TonyHiggins on 2001-10-30 23:53 ]</font>
The ‘original’ Give us a drink of water was recorded by piper Patsy Touhey during the early years of the last century, coupled to Maid on the Green and Pay the reckoning (which he called Jackson’s), another change from 6/8 to 9/8. When you don’t realise you are actually making this change in rhythm it feel just that slight bit awkward, you can ‘iron out’ the differences between the two a certain extent.
I wonder if that is what you are doing as I can’t make the Swaggering jig work with any sense in 6/8 (I tried it by now)
The 9/8 starts BGG AGE DGG|BAG GFG A2|etc
Which is a clearly marked distinct phrase in 9/8, when played in 6/8 the accents start falling differently:
BGG AGE|DGG BAG|GFG A2d|BGG AGE|etc
The end of the phrase in the melody falls on the end of bar 3 but as the rhythm goes the end of the phrase should really fall at the end of bar 4 (or am I too stuck to projecting the double jig structure to the 6/8 rhythm?)which makes the end of the phrase fall on the first bar of the second phrase of the melody. . Thus you end up with an extremely awkward shift in rhythm and phrasing plus the fact you depart from the eight bar structure of the double jig.
Sorry, I just don’t see how to pull it off and still make sense of the tune or have I arrived I in full blown jibberish mode yet?
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I wonder if that is what you are doing as I can’t make the Swaggering jig work with any sense in 6/8 (I tried it by now)
The 9/8 starts BGG AGE DGG|BAG GFG A2|etc
Which is a clearly marked distinct phrase in 9/8, when played in 6/8 the accents start falling differently:
BGG AGE|DGG BAG|GFG A2d|BGG AGE|etc
The end of the phrase in the melody falls on the end of bar 3 but as the rhythm goes the end of the phrase should really fall at the end of bar 4 (or am I too stuck to projecting the double jig structure to the 6/8 rhythm?)which makes the end of the phrase fall on the first bar of the second phrase of the melody. . Thus you end up with an extremely awkward shift in rhythm and phrasing plus the fact you depart from the eight bar structure of the double jig.
Sorry, I just don’t see how to pull it off and still make sense of the tune or have I arrived I in full blown jibberish mode yet?
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Peter Laban on 2001-10-31 06:30 ]</font>