I've been playing flute for a while now and a couple of days ago I decided to try and pick up the bodhran (don't ask why...). It's been going alright but I can't figure out how to beat to a slip jig - do you just play like a double jig and let every other measure start on an upstroke? i have no clue - can someone help?
i would guess you would have to beat it almost exaclty like the ryhtm of the tune, its hard to explain. imagine rocky road to dublin then imagine playing the tune on the bodhran
if that makes any sense. sort of imagine it in your head how youd want to play the bodhran to the tune then figure a way to do it , there is no correct way. i belive.
i only have a small expierience of bodraning tho.....
Basics, as I'd been shown several times way back, but using the standard tipper, just a basic run, using the above notation ~ but 'x' is a movement contrary that is without the tipper stricking the head. The capital letters are for emphasis ~
| Dxd uxu dud | Uxu dxd uxx | Dxd uxu dud | Uxu dxd uxx |
I use this pattern: D U D, U D U, D U D-D U D, U D U, D U D-D U D, U D U, D U D-D It's a basic jig rythm with a double-down at the end (9-1) That way you're starting the 9/8 pattern on the down stroke each time. Sometimes I'll follow throught without doing the double-down to ad variation and resolve it with the double-down on the change between parts.
practise, practise, practise,
what the big boys do is leave out a lot more beats of a slip jig. Only play the bits you're sure of, mainly 'cause many musos are not totally around slip jigs and at sessions they nearly always come out a bit pear shaped and you can't play that on a bodhran.
Pear shaped?,a mad galloping scramble on the 12345 and then everyone goes back to 6/8 sort of
think I'll leave now
My way to play slip jig:
Dud udu dud | Udu dud udu or
Dud udu dud | Dud udu dud or
Dud dud Udu | Dud dud Udu
I would nor recommend to play only the dud - pattern: If you play to a set of jig follwed by a slip jig ther will be no difference between these rythms - a slip jig is not a jig
Bodhraning to slip jigs
Bodhraning to slip jigs
I've been playing flute for a while now and a couple of days ago I decided to try and pick up the bodhran (don't ask why...). It's been going alright but I can't figure out how to beat to a slip jig - do you just play like a double jig and let every other measure start on an upstroke? i have no clue - can someone help?
thanks
~Sam
# Posted on July 26th 2006 by Sam2
Re: Bodhraning to slip jigs
i would guess you would have to beat it almost exaclty like the ryhtm of the tune, its hard to explain. imagine rocky road to dublin then imagine playing the tune on the bodhran
if that makes any sense. sort of imagine it in your head how youd want to play the bodhran to the tune then figure a way to do it , there is no correct way. i belive.
i only have a small expierience of bodraning tho.....
# Posted on July 26th 2006 by S.McMullen
Re: Bodhraning to slip jigs
Here are some patterns that I use. (d = downstroke, u = upstroke)
dud dud dud
dud dud d d -or- dud udu d d
d d dud dud -or- dud udu d d
You get the picture.
# Posted on July 26th 2006 by Craymcla
Re: Bodhraning to slip jigs
Basics, as I'd been shown several times way back, but using the standard tipper, just a basic run, using the above notation ~ but 'x' is a movement contrary that is without the tipper stricking the head. The capital letters are for emphasis ~
| Dxd uxu dud | Uxu dxd uxx | Dxd uxu dud | Uxu dxd uxx |
# Posted on July 26th 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Bodhraning to slip jigs
& if you wanted to repeat the down stroke per measure, another 'variation' (not law):
Dxd uxu dxx | Dxd uxu dxx | ~ etc...
# Posted on July 26th 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Bodhraning to slip jigs
Another 'variation', as some are able to and choose to, using 't' for the top of a standard tipper (to distinguish fromthe Tommy Hayes' way):
| Dtu dtu dtu | ~
# Posted on July 26th 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Bodhraning to slip jigs
I use this pattern: D U D, U D U, D U D-D U D, U D U, D U D-D U D, U D U, D U D-D It's a basic jig rythm with a double-down at the end (9-1) That way you're starting the 9/8 pattern on the down stroke each time. Sometimes I'll follow throught without doing the double-down to ad variation and resolve it with the double-down on the change between parts.
# Posted on July 26th 2006 by Phantom Button
Re: Bodhraning to slip jigs
Just count to 9 quickly and emphasise 1 everytime. Should see you thru...
# Posted on July 27th 2006 by Farr
Re: Bodhraning to slip jigs
Yes PB, that's another choice I'd been shown... That last one I gave is basically a simpler variant of that...
Dxd uxu dxx | Dxd uxu dxx | ~
Dud udu dud | Dud udu dud | ~
# Posted on July 27th 2006 by ceolachan
Maybe not 'simpler' ~
# Posted on July 27th 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Bodhraning to slip jigs
practise, practise, practise,
what the big boys do is leave out a lot more beats of a slip jig. Only play the bits you're sure of, mainly 'cause many musos are not totally around slip jigs and at sessions they nearly always come out a bit pear shaped and you can't play that on a bodhran.
Pear shaped?,a mad galloping scramble on the 12345 and then everyone goes back to 6/8 sort of
think I'll leave now
# Posted on July 27th 2006 by mcknowall
Re: Bodhraning to slip jigs
My way to play slip jig:
Dud udu dud | Udu dud udu or
Dud udu dud | Dud udu dud or
Dud dud Udu | Dud dud Udu
I would nor recommend to play only the dud - pattern: If you play to a set of jig follwed by a slip jig ther will be no difference between these rythms - a slip jig is not a jig
# Posted on August 1st 2006 by McFolker