Re: Need help with Jigs
Learn Blarney Pilgrim. DUD DUD. If that doesn't do it for ya, then move on. At least you will have another tool in the toolkit, and another song under your fingers.
And I have to chime in on the jig picking debate. In my vast experience (ha!) it's DUD DUD. Nothing dogmatic about it, learn it this way, then expand as necessary. I agree that you need to be flexible when it comes to ornamentation, but DUD DUD just sounds more Irish. Even if you are doing DUD UDU, you will be swinging an 8th note somewhere. It is just way easier to do it on DUD DUD.
Not to refute what sblock has said, but calling Land's End a jig is kinda like calling the Dead's Shakedown Street disco. A recent example that opened my eyes to the point sblock is making was the tune "The Road to Lisdoonvarna". It was presented as a 6/8 jig in a class I took. When playing with the backing track, I would dial into rhythm and bounce like a jig is supposed to. Yet when I play it solo, I would have a tendency to not swing as much. So I looked it up on the session.org, and it was presented as a 12/8 slide. wth is a slide, and I can barely wrap my head around what a slip jig is, now I gotta figure out 12/8??
But this toon works way better as a slide than a jig. The preponderance of quarter notes just leant itself to squaring those 8th notes. While I was doing that (to a point) while playing a strict DUD DUD, it may be better to end a beat on an up stroke. As a fiddler said last night in the session I attend, "Sometimes you just gotta feel it". Regardless of the tool you use, its the result you are looking for.
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