How would you advise playing the following pattern that is frequent in jigs/slides either as the end of a phrase or as the end of a section: BAG G3? The example is arbitrary, but Merrily Kiss the Quaker has several examples of similar patterns (end of the first section eg).
While a cut before the final G seems the minimum, it would also seem possible to do a cut and then a long roll. I hear many playing the converse pattern G3 GAB as a roll followed by a cut before the second G, but in the session I attend, I usually hear patterns with an ending long note played rather plainly.
Slides are very much dance tunes and maybe should be played faster and plainer than jigs. The G at the end of the first part of MKTQ should be two Gs, separated by not much more than a quick cut & tap, as that 2-note pattern at the end of each part is pretty much what defines a slide.
I'm sure someone will disagree.
Having shot my mouth off, I thought I should check up on this. (I don't play slides an awful lot), and indeed, looking through the Johnny O'Leary Book, virtually all the slides end on two dotted crotchets.
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Advice
How would you advise playing the following pattern that is frequent in jigs/slides either as the end of a phrase or as the end of a section: BAG G3? The example is arbitrary, but Merrily Kiss the Quaker has several examples of similar patterns (end of the first section eg).
While a cut before the final G seems the minimum, it would also seem possible to do a cut and then a long roll. I hear many playing the converse pattern G3 GAB as a roll followed by a cut before the second G, but in the session I attend, I usually hear patterns with an ending long note played rather plainly.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Hugh
# Posted on March 23rd 2006 by flutefry
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Slides are very much dance tunes and maybe should be played faster and plainer than jigs. The G at the end of the first part of MKTQ should be two Gs, separated by not much more than a quick cut & tap, as that 2-note pattern at the end of each part is pretty much what defines a slide.
I'm sure someone will disagree.
# Posted on March 23rd 2006 by Ottery
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I play MKTQW on the guitar and, in the final cadence, I usually play a long roll on the dotted crotchet.
“that 2-note pattern at the end of each part is pretty much what defines a slide.”
I did not know that. So it’s sorta like the traditional hornpipe ending? I assume it’s to accommodate the dance steps?
[“play a long roll on the dotted crotchet” … must remember to say that at work tomorrow.]
# Posted on March 24th 2006 by Bob himself
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i'd do the following (apostrophe means a cut):
'BAG 'GF#G
or
'BAG [G roll]
# Posted on March 24th 2006 by Brendan
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Having shot my mouth off, I thought I should check up on this. (I don't play slides an awful lot), and indeed, looking through the Johnny O'Leary Book, virtually all the slides end on two dotted crotchets.
# Posted on March 24th 2006 by Ottery
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Hi Flutefry I would tend to put a short role on the second G such that the timing would be BAG GG2.
PP
# Posted on March 24th 2006 by Pied Piper