It seems I missed this whole chapter in my musical learning. I still don't understand what these are used for. When you are about to play a jig, do you actually have to think "how does a 6/8 rhythm go again...oh, wait, it's Lexington, Lexington"? Don't you just sort of hear/feel the rhythm?
Rhythm phrases
Rhythm phrases
Hello,
I am looking for those little phrases that contain the rhythm of jigs, reels, slipjigs etc...
for example
Butter and Eggs, Butter and Eggs, Butter and rashes, sausages, and eggs
Any favorites out there?
# Posted on December 1st 2006 by josephf
Re: Rhythm phrases
Jiggidy, Jiggidy
Salt and pepper, salt and pepper
~ the list is endless...
# Posted on December 1st 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Rhythm phrases
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/10925
# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by llig leahcim
Re: Rhythm phrases
http://www.dejavuehounds.com/
# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Rhythm phrases
artichoke/pineapple for jigs
artichoke/pineapple/Mexico for slip jigs
# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by mandomac2
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I'm still on "Gen-er-a-tor" for reels. I have to update my vocabulary with a few new words. Kids these days.
# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by Eliot
Re: Rhythm phrases
I've been dancing too long - I just think in set dance instructions!
# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by SineadE
Re: Rhythm phrases
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/9012
# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by Rudall the time
Re: Rhythm phrases
Pardon my asking, but what do you use these "rhythm aids" for?
# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by timmy!
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I learned the artichoke/pineapple, etc. routine when I attended a bodhran workshop. It was very helpful in learning that instrument.
# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by mandomac2
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Mares eat oats and does eat oats and 'little lambs' eat ivy... a kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?
This is ceolachan's rhythm phrase for hornpipes.
# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by Phantom Button
Ranting phrases
Yeah, I do like oats and ivy and swinging on a star...
There are all those Balkan ones I could add, for Jeremy... Oh yeah, and the ones for different steps too, like ~
potato chip, potato chip, potato chip ~ one take on the "RANT"
# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by ceolachan
Get yur clogs on ~ "POTATO CHIP ~ "
potato chip, potato chip, potato chip ~ (disappearing down the road...into the sunrise...with a big SEG
)
# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Rhythm phrases
uh-ta-ta, uh-ta-ta, for 6/8
um-pa-ti-tle, um-pa-ti-tle, for 4/4
# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by wvwhistler
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sh*t! I dropped my noodles!
# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by The Merry Highlander
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Hey MH, you reminded me of an old Naval one, for a 2/4 polka, or:
"Shight on a shingle" = | So/a/ sg | = | NN/N/ NN |
# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Rhythm phrases
Around here tend to be:
For reels ... Cin-cin-nat-i
For Jigs .. Lex-ing-ton
# Posted on December 2nd 2006 by RogueFiddler
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Gene-ration
Energy, Energy
# Posted on December 3rd 2006 by Matt_Celta
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I do this with my 6th grade music classes:
quarter notes- grapes grapes grapes grapes
eighth notes- apples apples apples apples
triplets- oranges oranges oranges oranges
sixteenths- watermelon watermelon watermelon watermelon
# Posted on December 3rd 2006 by Greg the Piano Tuner
Re: Rhythm phrases
It seems I missed this whole chapter in my musical learning. I still don't understand what these are used for. When you are about to play a jig, do you actually have to think "how does a 6/8 rhythm go again...oh, wait, it's Lexington, Lexington"? Don't you just sort of hear/feel the rhythm?
# Posted on December 3rd 2006 by timmy!
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For reels "this is a rhythm that the irish call a reel"
jigs "naming the enemy,naming the enemy"
# Posted on December 3rd 2006 by dafydd
Re: Rhythm phrases
Reels---Black and Decker, Black and Decker----
Jigs----Hop- Two-Three; Hop- Two- Three;-----
Hornpipes----Tum -Te -Tum-Te-Tum-Te-Tum
# Posted on December 5th 2006 by banjoian
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Edible elephant and animated alligator are my favorites.
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by AlBrown
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Mersey Docks and Harbour Board and I can see New Brighton . . . hornpipe varient?
# Posted on December 7th 2006 by Alancorsini