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Can someone recommend some of these for mando. I've got the O'Neils Fiddle book which has quite a few but sometimes the ornamentation doesn't translate well to mando (unless you're Tim O'Brien). Thanks
twaaang
Jan-06-2006, 4:39pm
"Kid on the Mountain" is pretty straightforward, with several parts and room for some variation. -- Paul
glauber
Jan-06-2006, 5:41pm
Kid on the Mountain is great, but has, like, 17 parts (feels like). I also like "A Fig for a Kiss" (celebrating the ancient tradition of trading love for fruit!) and "I'm the Boy for Bewitching Them". Both are in O'Neil's. Another perennial favourite (although not much liked in straight trad circles) is the Butterfly.
zoukboy
Jan-06-2006, 6:40pm
take a look at these:
T:Drops of Brandy
M:9/8
L:1/8
R:Slip Jig
K:G
|:d2c BGB BGB|d2c BGB cBA|ded BGB BGB|cBc A2B cBA:|!
|:GBd gdB gdB|GBd gdB cBA|1 GBd gdB gdB|cBc A2B cBA:|
2 GBd gba gdB|cBc A2B cBA||
T:Dever the dancer
M:9/8
L:1/8
R:Slip Jig
K:EDor
BEE BEE G2A|BEE BAG FGA|BEE BEE G2A|Bcd ABG FED|!
BEE BEF G2A|BEE BAG FGA|BEE BEF G2A|Bcd ABG FED||!
ded dAF G2A|ded def gfe|ded dAF G2A|Bcd ABG FED|!
ded dAF G2A|ded def gfe|afd ece d2A|Bcd ABG FED||!
T:Humours of Whiskey
M:9/8
L:1/8
R:Slip Jig
K:G
gfe fBB fBB|gfe fBB fga|gfe fBB fBB|agf efd cBA:|!
|:d2e fdf ecA|d2e fed gfe|d2e fdf efg|agf efd cBA:|!
You should be able to find ABCs for many more slip jigs on these two sites:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html
http://www.norbeck.nu/abc/
Enjoy!
Roger Landes
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Thanks Guys, And Roger thanks for the links. I really like Deaver the Dancer, also found it in O'Neills. I would imagine the trick is putting some of these together in an interesting medley. Is it Kosher to mix jigs with polkas or hornpipes etc.?
Whatever sounds good to you mikeguy.
Even some traditional dance sets mix jigs, marches and reels
Foxhunters Jig in D goes well on the mandolin, and there's Rocky Road to Dublin and Rattlin' Roarin' Willie, both can be played as songs or just tunes. Make sure you don't hyperventilate or get short of breath if you're singing them!
Eugene
Jan-07-2006, 11:50am
Here's one I doubt anybody else will mention. #Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762) was an Italian violinist who settled in London. #In Edinburgh, he published a book of instruction and sonatas called "The Art of Playing the Guitar or Cittra" (1760); however, the "guitar/cittra" Geminiani had in mind was a wire-strung cittern, usually called the English guittar. #The first sonata from that book closes with a movement called "Giga: allegro", but it really is a very cool slip jig, mostly based around arpeggios in C. #I think it would work quite nicely on mandolin.
Bertram Henze
Jan-07-2006, 12:00pm
Two I can recommend:
- Give me a Drink of Water (also called Gie's a Drink)
- One I picked from a Michael Flatley dance show video, I called it "Hardiman's #1", you can hear it on my website (under "music"); maybe someone here knows the true name?
Bertram
John Flynn
Jan-07-2006, 1:33pm
Some that my session group does that have not been mentioned are:
The Devil and the Baliff
Moll Roe
Hunting the Hare
The Snowy Path
Comb Your Hair and Curl It
zoukboy
Jan-07-2006, 3:43pm
T:Hardiman the Fiddler
M:9/8
L:1/8
R:Slip Jig
L:Dmix
A2G FDE F2G|~A3 AGA cAG|A2G FDE F2G|Add ded cAG:|!
Add d2e ~f3|Add ded cAG|Add d2e f2g|agf ged cAG|!
Add d2e ~f3|Add ded cAG|dcA d2e f2g|agf ged cAG||!
Roger Landes
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craigtoo
Jan-07-2006, 3:59pm
One of my favorites is
Drops of Spring Water....
You can download dots or ABC from JC's... (the "trillian" link above)
craig
Bookman
Jan-07-2006, 4:22pm
Hey Eugene,
Any place that an ordinary mortal could find the music for that very cool slip jig? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
Eugene
Jan-07-2006, 11:37pm
Here's a facsimile edition (http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/store/smp_detail.html?cart=10800199164&item=4621380)
I have the edition prepared by B. Tonazzi (1972, Sei sonate per chitarra o violino, violoncello e cembalo, Suvini Zerboni, Milan). You should be able to find it through a music retailer that carries Zerboni editions. It only has six of the eleven sonatas, but it does include the first with the groovy slip jig. I have odd recordings on 6-string guitar and harpsichord (Migliorni & Clemente, 1996, Koch-Schwann, 3-1359-2 H1) and 5-course guitar, harpsichord, and cello (Dondolo, Frige, & Fantinuoli, 1992, Nuova Era, 7126), but don't know of any recordings made on the original cittern. Click here (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004TVAS/qid=1136698265/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl15/002-9925978-3569612?n=507846&s=classical&v=glance) and check out the sample of track 7 to hear a taste.
Bookman
Jan-08-2006, 6:37am
Thanks for that, Eugene. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Bob DeVellis
Jan-08-2006, 9:53am
I like a tune that I believe is Humours of Derrykissane. A concertina-playing friend lifted it from a Geariod O'hAllmhurain CD and I then later found another version that I thought worked better on mandolin. Goes well with Drops of Spring Water. On some CD I have (forget which one) the liner notes observe that slipjigs can really be played in either a "courtly" style at a slow tempo or at more of a dance tempo with a more jig-like sound. I've found that a useful concept. The same tune can really give a different feel played almost as an air or almost like a variant of a double jig (which, I guess, it is) with the notes played as triplets (well, not quite). Snowy Path, played slowly, reminds me of cowboy music. I can just imagine a cowpoke in the saddle, with his horse at a slow walk. Think the first few bars ofthe music at the end of Gunsmoke. Dervish plays it at much more of a clip, also cool, but very different. I think it's worh trying both tempos on slip jigs; almost like getting two tunes for the price of one.
zoukboy
Jan-09-2006, 6:21pm
I like a tune that I believe is Humours of Derrykissane.
Is this the one?
T:Humours of Derrykissane, The
M:9/8
L:1/8
R:Slip Jig
K:D
~F3 FAF G2E|FED FGA EFG|FED FAF G2B|1 AFD DED D2E:|
2 AFD DED DFA||!
d2d BAG FGA|BGE EFE EFE|ded BAG FGA|dAF DED DFA|!
d2d BAG FGA|BGE EFE E2A|ABc dcB ABc|dfd edc dDE||!
Roger Landes
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withak
Jan-09-2006, 11:03pm
For some reason I can't stand The Butterfly or Fig For A Kiss on mando or tenor banjo. It seems like the rythmn in those doesn't lend itself to flat-picking at all.
I do like Kid On the Mountain and Cock & Hen and some other longer one that I don't know the name of though. Foxhunter's is good as well.
Bob DeVellis
Jan-10-2006, 8:29am
Roger - looks like the same tune in a different key. The version I've settled in on is in G, starting on the A-string, second fret. Looks like this:
stevebenn
Jan-10-2006, 8:38am
There's a really great set of slip jigs, Mother's Day and Sport of the Chase on a CD I heard recently ... I can't recall exactly who recorded it ... some guys from out west I believe. I seem to remember that the CD received some sort of acclaim like it was one of the top 30 Celtic CD's as chosen by the government of Latvia ... or something like that ...
SteveB
zoukboy
Jan-10-2006, 10:21am
There's a really great set of slip jigs, Mother's Day and Sport of the Chase on a CD I heard recently ... I can't recall exactly who recorded it ... some guys from out west I believe. I seem to remember that the CD received some sort of acclaim like it was one of the top 30 Celtic CD's as chosen by the government of Latvia ... or something like that ...
SteveB
Ha! Ha! I resemble that remark, Steve...
"Mother's Day" is a nice tune of Randal's.
Here's "Sport of the Chase"
T:Sport of the Chase, The
M:9/8
L:1/8
R:slip jig
K:Dmix
~D3 AGE ABc|~D3 AGE G2E|~D3 AGE ABc|1 BAG AGE G2E:|2 BAG AGE G2A||~B3 dBG ABc|~B3 dBG c2A|1 ~B3 dBG ABc|BAG AGE G2A:|2 def gfe dBG|BAG AGE G2E||
Roger Landes
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stevebenn
Jan-10-2006, 10:55am
Sorry Roger ... I couldn't help myself! I have posted Mother's Day at TheSession. org, with Randall's permission. BTW Roger, when will I be notified about my winning entry in the Zoukfest raffle?
zoukboy
Jan-10-2006, 12:25pm
BTW Roger, when will I be notified about my winning entry in the Zoukfest raffle?
after your name is drawn... ;-)
Roger Landes
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Mutiny
Jan-14-2006, 9:19pm
since both hardiman the fiddler and humours of whiskey were mentioned I wanted to add that I play those two in a set together (starting with hardiman)it works well starting in Am and then going up to Bm like that.
whistler
Jan-15-2006, 11:57am
An Ceannabhain Ban is a nice simple one - a nice starter for a set.
M:9/8
K:G
BGG AGE GED|EGD DEG A3|BGG AGE GED|EGD DEF G3:|
: Bdd edd BAG|Bdd edB A3|1 Bdd edd BAG|GED DEF G3:|2
Bdd gdd BAG|GED DEF G3||
For some reason I can't stand The Butterfly or Fig For A Kiss on mando or tenor banjo. It seems like the rythmn in those doesn't lend itself to flat-picking at all.
I do like Kid On the Mountain and Cock & Hen and some other longer one that I don't know the name of though. Foxhunter's is good as well.
I just rediscovered this thread... great list of tunes... I love the feel of slipjigs.
It seems like The Butterfly is pretty commonly played in Utah. Shanahy has a nice set of The Butterfly/Kid On The Mountain on their first CD. Our band turned it around for a dance group; twice through Kid... (that's about all one can stand! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif ), three times through Butterfly, then finish out with one final A part from Kid On The Mountain. I enjoyed playing on mando, but we also had fiddle and whistle to fill it out.
Eugene; Thanks for the obscure reference. That sounds like it would be a fun tune to do if only for the fact that it would be unfamiliar.
To contribute to the thread, here are some links from Ceolas.org that I've used in the past. Unfortunately Ceolas.org has not been well maintained (these things take time) and many of the links that used to be good are now broken.
John Walsh Collection I (http://www.ceolas.org/pub/tunes/tunes.pdf/SessionTunes.pdf)
This is the PDF version... there's also an ABC version (http://www.ceolas.org/pub/tunes/abc.tunes/sessionTunes.abc) for those with the reader installed. This is a huge collection, but only 3 slip jigs: Foxhunter's, Kid..., and Butterfly.
John Walsh Collection II (http://www.ceolas.org/pub/tunes/abc.tunes/sessionTunesII.abc)
4 more slip jigs, ABC format only.
Dan Biemborn's Virtual Tunebook (http://www.celticmusic.com/cgi-bin/tunes.pl)
Only 4 slip jigs, but I would be remiss not to include the link! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Irtrad-L (http://users.cnnw.net/~oneil/9_8.abc)
Another set of 4 slip jigs in ABC format. Humors of Whiskey and Drops of Brandy are repeats, but I'm unfamiliar with the other 2.
There are a number of other good links from Tunes section of Ceolas.org (http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/).
Paul Doubek