songs with a slipjig beat

Subject: RE: songs with a slipjig beat
From: Vic Smith
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 05:05 PM

Bonnie wrote -
"Sorry The Day I Was Married - you should hear Mike Waterson sing it (solo) on one of their early albums. Stunning."

That is a very interesting one. I can see why you would want to call it a slip-jig but if the dance bands of Central France play tunes with this emphasis, I think they would call it a mazurka.
Any other thoughts on this?

Subject: RE: songs with a slipjig beat
From: GUEST,#
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 04:58 PM

Good thread about slipjigs and 9/8 accents.

Subject: RE: songs with a slipjig beat
From: Vic Smith
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 04:52 PM

Robert Burns was very fond of songs using 9/8 time As well as Rattling, Roaring Willie there is I'll Tell You A Tale of a Wife, Tam Glen, Brose & Butter and Hey Ca' Through.

That's off the top of my head - probably more if I give it some thought.

Subject: RE: songs with a slipjig beat
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 04:22 PM

rocky road to dublin.

Subject: RE: songs with a slipjig beat
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 04:18 PM

D'OH !!!! Nine quavers/EIGHTH-NOTES to the bar. I've lived away from America too long...

Subject: RE: songs with a slipjig beat
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 04:15 PM

Freddy, a slip-jig (nine quavers/quarter-notes to the bar - which may leave you little the wiser!) has a "pulse" of three to the bar, or - to put it more generally - three pulses to the phrase. In other words, an ordinary double jig, as the name suggests, has a feeling of two: i.e. ONE-two ONE-two (think The Irish Washerwoman and imagine yourself tapping along to it in a pub).

In a slip-jig it's ONE TWO THREE, with more or less equal weight (SORry the DAY i was MARRied) - again, if you listen to one and try tapping along to it, you'll probably find yourself falling into that pattern of emphasis naturally.

Subject: RE: songs with a slipjig beat
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 04:03 PM

Sorry The Day I Was Married - you should hear Mike Waterson sing it (solo) on one of their early albums. Stunning.

Subject: RE: songs with a slipjig beat
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 03:18 PM

Sorry i dont know.
Could you give me a little lesson in what makes slipjig? I read the wiki on it but didn't understand. :-(
It mentions five beats but I can't see that in AO'B.

I learned the words from the Full English track.... still trying to work out when to breath!

Extra q
Does the beat in
Martin+Carthy : Byker+Hill
have a name? -121212123
(should that be another thread?)

Subject: RE: songs with a slipjig beat
From: Mo the caller
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 03:05 PM

There are words in the thread Drops of Brandy. Just one verse though and no more in DT.
DT has this song.

Subject: RE: songs with a slipjig beat
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 03:01 PM

The Devil and Bailiff Maglynn.
Rattlin' Roarin' Willie.
Some 9/8 tunes probably have words or had at one time, e.g. Show me the Way to Wallington.

Subject: songs with a slipjig beat
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 02:37 PM

I've just fallen in love with the song "Arthur O'Bradley on the Full English album and I am quite interested now in learning some songs to sing that have a 9/8 slipjig beat. The only other one I can think of is Rocky Rd to Dublin. Does anyone know any others? Hard to sing but a good challenge.