Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on August 3rd 2007 by Frulator.
This tune has been added to 30 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Jig Of Life
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Ador
AB^c cBA|cBA GAD|EGc ABG|d2c ABG|
AB^c cBA|cBA GAD|EGc ABG|d2c Bcd|
g2e dec|cde G3|GcA dBe|Aed cda|
g2e dec|cde G3|FDA EBG|e3 edc|Bcd GAB||
Kate Bush
This tune is from Kate Bush's album 'The Hounds of Love', the sleevenotes give a credit for 'finding' the tune but I've never heard it anywhere else and I've no idea where it was 'found' .... any thoughts?
# Posted on August 3rd 2007 by Frulator
Kate Bush's Jig of Life
I've just posted 'The Jig of Life' from Kate Bush's 'Hounds of Love' album. The albums sleevenotes credit someone with 'finding' the tune, any idea where it was found? or was it written especially?
Great tune, sounds oddly authentic and oddly neo .....
any thoughts?
# Posted on August 3rd 2007 by Frulator
Re: Kate Bush's Jig of Life
i'm pretty sure it was written by her brother paddy.
# Posted on August 3rd 2007 by pavlf
Re: Kate Bush's Jig of Life
really? does he play? cos it was obviously written by someone who knows what they're doing .... they probably celebrated celtic festivals in the Bush household growing up.
Cheers.
# Posted on August 3rd 2007 by Frulator
Re: Kate Bush's Jig of Life
Giani,
I think that was a joke from pavlf.....
# Posted on August 3rd 2007 by Shylock
Re: Kate Bush's Jig of Life
No I always thought it was written by her brother too
# Posted on August 4th 2007 by bazouki dave
Re: Kate Bush's Jig of Life
no, it wasn't a joke. Paddy Bush is on several of Kate's albums. He plays all sorts of instruments (passably) and was apparantly the formative folky influence on her music ... like he's the bloke that got her into lunny, spillane, kevin burke and then bulgarian stuff later on. I'm more or less certain that he wrote the tune.
# Posted on August 4th 2007 by pavlf
Re: Kate Bush's Jig of Life
so there!
# Posted on August 4th 2007 by Frulator
oh? this was obviously not suitable for a discussion thread? Funny? I thought it might have been. Fair enough.
# Posted on August 4th 2007 by pavlf
yeah, we've been relegated to the deep dark depts of the tunes comments .... so, to discuss the tune (and not the composer) it does seem like he studied some advanced trad theory and then put it into practice, the modal shift, the syncopated run and the hangover bar at the end ... hangover bar, good name for a pub!
# Posted on August 4th 2007 by Frulator
Tricky
This is great tune—and I've always liked side two of Hounds of Love—but I find this fiendishly tricky to play. That's not a criticism of the tune; I think I'm just really out of practice.
Does anyone else find this one tying their fingers up in knots?
# Posted on August 5th 2007 by Jeremy
Composed by John Sheehan, I believe
As far as I know, John Sheehan composed the jig bit that is transcribed here, but I might be wrong.
# Posted on August 5th 2007 by hnorbeck
I just fed < 'John Sheehan' 'jig of life' > into Google: nothing came. At any rate, the Hounds of Love was published in 1985...
Her brother or herself are the most likely composers of the tune unless it was 'found' or refined by the Irish instrumentists during the studio-sessions?
At any rate, most of the c's in this tune, as played on the album, are natural except for the 1st 2 -in the 1st and 5th bar- (both #) with a tricky cut there for the whistle player: try the 'brushing' method: brush up and down over the top 3 holes with your left fingers...)
It is played with no repeats but an unexpected extra bar, both feature making it seem at once short and long (just like life?).
+ If you feel it needs 'squaring' why not try: FDA EBd | edc bag ||
as the last 2 bars instead of the last 3?
# Posted on August 6th 2007 by birlibirdie