Two questions/observations:
A. Variations of Melody:
1. New to Celtic music.
2. Have the Fiddler's Fakebook, and 121 Favorite Irish Session Tunes.
3. The song, Rights of Man (just one example), appears in both books, and each book has a slightly different version.
Is there one "correct" version, or is variation in melodic content the norm? And if so, what happens in a jam where everyone else is playing the "other" version?
B. Eigth Notes
I've been listening to some Celtic music, and found that sometimes the eigth notes in hornpipes are played straight (as written), and other times played with a swing approach.
Is there any hard and fast rule as to which songs should be played swing, or staight?
That is, reels=straight eigth notes, hornpipes=swing, etc.
Thanks.
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