First published at 22:19 UTC on October 20th, 2022.
Three unusually great slip jigs, played at slow, medium (or "dance"), and faster speed. They are:
Up and Down: slow | med | fast
Ride a Mile: slow | med | fast
The Humours of Whiskey: slow | med | fast
Well, you don't have to agree wi…
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Three unusually great slip jigs, played at slow, medium (or "dance"), and faster speed. They are:
Up and Down: slow | med | fast
Ride a Mile: slow | med | fast
The Humours of Whiskey: slow | med | fast
Well, you don't have to agree with me that they are "unusually great," and I am very highly disposed to find most slip jigs unusually great, but these are all great even for slip jigs, in my opinion. The first two are tunes I believe I learned as much from sheet music as anywhere else, and are given more or less in "my own" approach here. Probably I found "Up and Down" in O'Neill's or Ryan's Mammoth Collection, and I probably picked some features of "Ride a Mile" from the playing of Andy McGann, if I'm not mistaken. As to the third tune, this setting of the popular Donegal tune "The Humours of Whiskey" mostly comes from Francie Dearg Byrne.
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