Re: Dots and Jigs In one of our old time bands, we had a claw-hammer banjo player who insisted she couldn’t play jigs. One day the hammer dulcimer player suggested we play Ship in Full Sail, and launched into it. The rest of us obliged, with the banjo player looking at the chords since she didn’t know the tune. She did a wonderful job, and at the end I turned from the piano and said “I didn’t know you could play a jig!” She looked at me and said, astonished, “That was a jig?” After that we started playing jigs in the band. She said she’d noticed it felt sort of odd at first, but then she found some way to bum-teedle it that worked. So it can be done! Martha > On May 17, 2019, at 8:17 PM, musicians-request(a)lists.sharedweight.net wrote: > > Send Musicians mailing list submissions to > musicians(a)lists.sharedweight.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/musicians-sharedweight.net > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > musicians-request(a)lists.sharedweight.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > musicians-owner(a)lists.sharedweight.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Musicians digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Dots & Jigs (Thomas Verdot) > 2. Re: Dots & Jigs (Meg Dedolph) > 3. Re: Dots & Jigs (Thomas Verdot) > 4. Re: Dots & Jigs (Erik Hoffman) > 5. Re: sheet music Musicians Digest, Vol 25, Issue 5 (Jonathan Werk) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 19:14:58 -0500 > From: Thomas Verdot &lt;tverdot(a)socket.net&gt; > To: musicians(a)lists.sharedweight.net > Subject: Re: [Musicians] Dots & Jigs > Message-ID: &lt;361e85b4-346b-d8b3-7210-16743bd6c951(a)socket.net&gt; > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > This is an aside from the conversation & I hesitate to start something > new that is bottomless, but since you mentioned it... > > Why have jigs been discarded over the decades by most "old time" > fiddlers? They were certainly used by many up to the early part of the > 20th century but in most places they have almost completely disappeared. > I love starting a dance with a jig & transitioning to to a reel or > hornpipe (both as a player & a dancer). > > Regards, Tom Verdot > > On 5/17/2019 6:37 PM, Meg Dedolph via Musicians wrote: > But I made an offhanded comment about how a particular dance >> worked well with jigs and the fiddler recalled a New England jig that he >> knew, but hadn't played for a while and decided to try it, but the >> guitarist was not comfortable backing jigs and ... the band did not >> sound as good on that tune as they did when they were playing old-time >> reels. >> Meg > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 19:21:15 -0500 > From: Meg Dedolph &lt;meg.dedolph(a)gmail.com&gt; > To: Thomas Verdot &lt;tverdot(a)socket.net&gt; > Cc: musicians &lt;musicians(a)lists.sharedweight.net&gt; > Subject: Re: [Musicians] Dots & Jigs > Message-ID: > &lt;CACs7sFVPH8COAdbF=zMmZEvxeG7BTgRAMYS4O8THa7Bvu0aSwA(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > you know, this is something I've wondered about as well. There's this > thread on the Fiddle Hangout that has people putting forth some ideas. > https://www.fiddlehangout.com/archive/22858 > A couple people in that thread mentioned that jigs are hard to play on > clawhammer banjo, and so maybe that has to do with why they are not really > part of the old-time repertoire? That seems like a good theory to me .... > meg > > > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 7:15 PM Thomas Verdot via Musicians < > musicians(a)lists.sharedweight.net&gt; wrote: > >> This is an aside from the conversation & I hesitate to start something >> new that is bottomless, but since you mentioned it... >> >> Why have jigs been discarded over the decades by most "old time" >> fiddlers? They were certainly used by many up to the early part of the >> 20th century but in most places they have almost completely disappeared. >> I love starting a dance with a jig & transitioning to to a reel or >> hornpipe (both as a player & a dancer). >> >> Regards, Tom Verdot >> >> On 5/17/2019 6:37 PM, Meg Dedolph via Musicians wrote: >> But I made an offhanded comment about how a particular dance >>> worked well with jigs and the fiddler recalled a New England jig that he >>> knew, but hadn't played for a while and decided to try it, but the >>> guitarist was not comfortable backing jigs and ... the band did not >>> sound as good on that tune as they did when they were playing old-time >>> reels. >>> Meg >> _______________________________________________ >> Musicians mailing list >> Musicians(a)lists.sharedweight.net >> http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/musicians-sharedweight.net >> >