“Bouncing tunes” are my favorites. I mean, those tunes where you have ‘leaps’ just like, for example, “The Harvest Home”, “Drowsy Maggie”, some versions of “Cooley’s reel”, “The Ashplant”, etc. I assume you understand what I mean.
I wanted to ask you more tunes where there are many bouncing notes, since I’m rather new to this and I don’t know a lot of tunes.
I assume, by “leaps”, you mean jumping past the octave mark. I like that too.
Some of my favorite leapers are Tarbolton, Trip to Sligo, Haste to the Wedding,
Rolling in the Rhygrass, and The Musical Priest.
Thanks, Wanderer. Actually, I’ve read your post a time ago (I DO use search function! )
I wanted to create a thread just to ask people to name tunes and more tunes for keeping me busy!
But that topic would help people to realize what I mean by “bouncing tunes”.
“The Glass Of Beer”, “Tam Lin” are another great examples. I love those two tunes by the way.
Yeah, I thought there was some good tune examples in the discussion, so I linked it..i wasn’t trying to imply you shoulda searched. I just happened to remember the discussion
I like tunes with that pedal note feature…audiences 'round these parts tend to like them too
I love that one. It sounds a lot tougher than it really is and is a lot of fun to play. I usually play it right after a couple of repeats of Boys Of Bluehill
Hard to say. Sounds more to me like he’s talking about variants of what could be called pedal point (considering you can only play one note at a time on a whistle). Anyone know if the term “pedal point” is borrowed from the pipe organ tradition and used in cases like this, too? Someone told me the term applied, but I’m not sure.
Never mind. Did some checking, and “pedal point” is the term for the bouncy stuff…presupposing there’s a recurring root note to bounce off of.