Tune Add: Mystery of the Missing Jig

Subject: Tune Add: Mystery of the Missing Jig
From: GUEST
Date: 30 May 23 - 05:52 AM

Hi, I have made a jig and would like to share it. How would I do it?

I only have a recording. I generally only like dealing with things by ear although I can read, I resist meddling with that side of things unless there is no audio.

Can someone help me get the tune out for others to enjoy.

It is the first tune I have made myself and I am rather pleased with it.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Mystery of the Missing Jig
From: Stanron
Date: 30 May 23 - 06:05 AM

Put the recording on soundcloud or youtube or a similar site and post the link here.

Some of my stuff on youtube;

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-AAGc2N2O6HrXZmskkFJjA

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Mystery of the Missing Jig
From: GUEST
Date: 30 May 23 - 03:10 PM

Here it is: https://gofile.io/d/WIHWjR

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Mystery of the Missing Jig
From: GUEST,RJM
Date: 30 May 23 - 04:16 PM

Most jigs have at least 2 distinct parts, the second part os known as a turn, a suggestion compose another 8 bars as a turn, try making the turn go upwards to stasrt perhaps in a major key for contrast

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Mystery of the Missing Jig
From: GUEST
Date: 31 May 23 - 12:47 AM

Ah right. I didn't actually follow any particular structure I just thought it sounded like other jigs I have played. Thanks for the information.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Mystery of the Missing Jig
From: Stanron
Date: 31 May 23 - 03:27 AM

Maybe you've changed it from first posting but I can hear two distinct parts. A part twice and B part twice. Its ok. I've heard some of the phrases before but not necessarily in that order. Have you tried playing it in a tunes session? If so what was the reaction?

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Mystery of the Missing Jig
From: GUEST
Date: 31 May 23 - 03:32 AM

The audio is identical, I did not change it.

No I have not fielded it anywhere, I have only just created it.

Well from your initial appraisal of not finished to sounding 'ok'. I will take that :).

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Mystery of the Missing Jig
From: GUEST
Date: 31 May 23 - 03:55 AM

My mistake, it was the other poster who said it was only one part.

Yes I felt it was two parts too. I know that many tunes go up a register in the second part but not all and I chose not to here deliberately.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Mystery of the Missing Jig
From: Stanron
Date: 31 May 23 - 04:06 AM

Sounding ok was not meant to be a criticism. But there are thousands of tunes out there. When I went to tunes sessions I went to play. Playing a tune I already knew was far easier than playing a tune I didn't. Tunes sessions that I went to played tunes in sets. Often three tunes in a set and each tune would be played through two or three times. Every one got used to which tunes went together and once a tune was started, knew which tunes were coming up. It means that once you knew the session you could play all night. Heaven!

A new tune introduced could be a welcome relief, a challenge or an irritant. A good ear player might well be able to pick a new tune by the first repeat. Others might take longer. The point is that people go to tunes sessions to play, not so much to listen to others play. Too many times having to sit out and not play can be irritating. So going to a session you've not been to before and playing a tune that nobody knowsw could end up being an uncomfortable experience. On the other hand, if you were in a band and introduced a new tune, this could be very welcome.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Mystery of the Missing Jig
From: GUEST,GUEST
Date: 31 May 23 - 04:09 AM

ok,some constructive critricism
it is alright, but I have no inclination to play it, I find the two parts too similiar,
here is a suggestion listen to a lot of tunes analyse chord structures , imo some of the best jigs like the Hags Purse, have different feel between the two parts.
Another example of a tune with two contrasting part a is Chief O NIELLS HORNPIPE, where the second part goes to an f major chord or the galway hornpipe which has an intersting chord PROGRESSION at rhe beginning of the turn
imo it is a fairly average composition, nothing that grabs me and makes me want to play it