At our usual tuesday night gathering someone played the Long Note, a single jig http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/long_note/
It was suggested that Horslips had recorded it at some stage. I've got most of their recordings but I can't ever remember hearing their version of it. Any ideas?
I´ve never heard of Horselips recording it, but the version that I enjoyed and remember well is the one by Paddy Clackin and Jolyon Jackson: http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/409
because it was the signature tune of an RTE1 programme of the same name.
It's interesting that Comhaltas call that a "single jig" - sounds like a reel to me...
Dow has put it in the tunes database as a slide, but I've only evey heard it played as a reel. Can't think of any Horslips albums with it on, and I think I have all of them. Mind you, they reformed a couple fo years ago; could thay have done it then?
Both of the above links definitely refer to a reel.They are nothing like a single jig. My guess is someone made a "typo". A single jig would be written in 6/8 and has a similiar rhythmic structure to a slide. The "A" part of the famous pop song "The Teddy Bears' Picnic" could be played as a single jig. If it was taken somewhat quicker it could be used as a Slide.(The B Part is in March time,2/4).
Perhaps the reference in the Comhaltas link should be for a single REEL as the parts to the tune are only played once each???
My favorite recording of a single jig is a Liz Carroll set of 3 single jigs she played on the famous "Fathers and Daughters" recording from the 1970s beginning with "The Dancing Table".
I play it as a reel, but not often in sessions these days as it tends to get turned into Jenny's Welcome to Charlie by other players
It is often presented in 12/8 in collections, but I've mostly heard it done as a reel. I think Seamus Tansay may have recorded it as a single jig though.
I've always felt that slides (which I think of as different from the more sedate types of single jigs) are heading away from jig country in the general direction of reel, it doesn't surprise me that some tunes are played as single jig (particularly slide) and also as a reel. Perhaps in the case of this tune the reel version was given a bit of impetus as it is very similar to JWtC.
There were some inconclusive musings about the single jig/reel confusion, with reference to the Long Note among other tunes, in this thread (about halfway down, starting with a post by me.
I think of the jiggier "single jigs" as "single jigs"
but slides as generally faster and played much less "jiggy", as I said inhabiting some ground lying between a jig and a reel. Whether you consider slides to be a sunset of single jigs or a different category of tune is IMHO a matter of semantics. They certainly don't sound like the more sedate single jigs.
Of course many tunes can be played both ways. But if it is played overly jiggy then IMHO it isn;t really a "slide" any longer, at least not how I think of a slide.
That said I definately play the Long Note as a reel and not as a slide.
The Long Note Single Jig
The Long Note Single Jig
At our usual tuesday night gathering someone played the Long Note, a single jig
http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/long_note/
It was suggested that Horslips had recorded it at some stage. I've got most of their recordings but I can't ever remember hearing their version of it. Any ideas?
# Posted on August 26th 2009 by southpaw
Re: The Long Note Single Jig
I´ve never heard of Horselips recording it, but the version that I enjoyed and remember well is the one by Paddy Clackin and Jolyon Jackson:
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/409
because it was the signature tune of an RTE1 programme of the same name.
# Posted on August 26th 2009 by murfbox
Re: The Long Note Single Jig
Sorry ! "Glackin"
# Posted on August 26th 2009 by murfbox
Re: The Long Note Single Jig
It's interesting that Comhaltas call that a "single jig" - sounds like a reel to me...
Dow has put it in the tunes database as a slide, but I've only evey heard it played as a reel. Can't think of any Horslips albums with it on, and I think I have all of them. Mind you, they reformed a couple fo years ago; could thay have done it then?
# Posted on August 27th 2009 by bc_box_player
Re: The Long Note Single Jig
Both of the above links definitely refer to a reel.They are nothing like a single jig. My guess is someone made a "typo". A single jig would be written in 6/8 and has a similiar rhythmic structure to a slide. The "A" part of the famous pop song "The Teddy Bears' Picnic" could be played as a single jig. If it was taken somewhat quicker it could be used as a Slide.(The B Part is in March time,2/4).
Perhaps the reference in the Comhaltas link should be for a single REEL as the parts to the tune are only played once each???
My favorite recording of a single jig is a Liz Carroll set of 3 single jigs she played on the famous "Fathers and Daughters" recording from the 1970s beginning with "The Dancing Table".
# Posted on August 27th 2009 by Tony O'Rourke
Re: The Long Note Single Jig
There's a brilliant version of the Long Note jig on Tony MacMahon's 'Traditional Irish Accordion' http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/325
(OK, how do you do links?)
# Posted on August 27th 2009 by Pippa
Re: The Long Note Single Jig
I play it as a reel, but not often in sessions these days as it tends to get turned into Jenny's Welcome to Charlie by other players
It is often presented in 12/8 in collections, but I've mostly heard it done as a reel. I think Seamus Tansay may have recorded it as a single jig though.
I've always felt that slides (which I think of as different from the more sedate types of single jigs) are heading away from jig country in the general direction of reel, it doesn't surprise me that some tunes are played as single jig (particularly slide) and also as a reel. Perhaps in the case of this tune the reel version was given a bit of impetus as it is very similar to JWtC.
I like this tune much better as a reel anyway.
- Chris
# Posted on August 27th 2009 by ramblingpitchfork
Re: The Long Note Single Jig
There were some inconclusive musings about the single jig/reel confusion, with reference to the Long Note among other tunes, in this thread (about halfway down, starting with a post by me.
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/2474
# Posted on August 27th 2009 by Jeeves Tones
Re: The Long Note Single Jig
I think of the jiggier "single jigs" as "single jigs"
but slides as generally faster and played much less "jiggy", as I said inhabiting some ground lying between a jig and a reel. Whether you consider slides to be a sunset of single jigs or a different category of tune is IMHO a matter of semantics. They certainly don't sound like the more sedate single jigs.
Of course many tunes can be played both ways. But if it is played overly jiggy then IMHO it isn;t really a "slide" any longer, at least not how I think of a slide.
That said I definately play the Long Note as a reel and not as a slide.
- chris
# Posted on August 27th 2009 by ramblingpitchfork
Re: The Long Note Single Jig
Not saying I'm right on the single jig v slide front, mind (it has been controvercial here before now), but that's how it seems to me.
# Posted on August 27th 2009 by ramblingpitchfork