"Bouncing tunes"

“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.

Thanks for you help :smiley:

You mean the tune has that thing when it’s got that swing. Just about all hornpipes, reels, and jigs can be made to swing.

No, sorry, I didn’t mean the swing.

I like tunes where there are ‘leaps’ such as the named 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.

I brought up a similar topic on these notes about 3 years ago :wink:

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=26770

Yes, I mean something like that, although the “leaps” can be in the same octave, an example of this is the A part of “The Harvest Home” :smiley:

Thanks for your help!

Thanks, Wanderer. Actually, I’ve read your post a time ago (I DO use search function! :laughing:)

I wanted to create a thread just to ask people to name tunes and more tunes for keeping me busy! :stuck_out_tongue:
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.

Regards,
Martin

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 :wink:

I like tunes with that pedal note feature…audiences 'round these parts tend to like them too

Mooncoin Jig has that in the (I think) third part.
Reconciliation reel

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA that’s it!! I didn’t know “Reconciliation reel”, it’s FULL of leaps!! HAHAHA

Sorry, I’m a bit crazy, I really like those kind of tunes!

Thanks!!

Keep naming tunes like these, please!

Killavil Reel and Five Mile Chase.

The Belfast hornpipe (Sweeps). I play three parts.

Michael

Do you mean arpeggios? Lots of hornpipes have arpeggios.

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

How about Vincent Broderick’s Reel?

I searched it.. it’s “The Tinker’s Daughter”, isn’t it?
It has nice leaps in the A part, very funny. Thanks!! :smiley:

Ooh, The Gravel Walk is a good bouncy one:

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/42

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. :slight_smile:

That’s awesome! The part B is the heaven, lol!

Thank you very much.

“Tinker’s Daughter” That’s it! I only knew it as Vincent Broderick’s.

~Sean