A while back I posted a list of variations possible in the opening phrase of Sean Bui.
I finally got a camcorder and made a video of some of them and posted it to YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyj5LMH6aOI
These principles can be applied to any other jig, reel, or whatever.
Nice vid. Last night at a kitchen session I proposed we go around the table playing an A part once each, each player doing a variation that had not been done yet. We didn’t do it, but everyone thought it would be fun to do sometime. Ideally you’d pass the tune around seamlessly.
great vid. thank you!
be well,
jim
Yep - nicely done and useful too.
thanks
Stephen
Wow guys thanks for the kudos. 
I thought people would come on here raking me over the coals for being nontraditional or whatever.
I was ready for some of this:
The idea of going around with everybody doing variations is cool. I’ve heard that exact thing done in “old timey” sessions (where they play the same two-part tune over and over for ten minutes) but never in an ITM session.
Erm.. I don’t think I’d do that at a session, because lots of people are playing the melody and besides that’s not the point. Two or three times thru and on to the next. But we were sitting around in a kitchen more or less playing with instruments. I think everyone had something in their hands that they didn’t play or were just coming to grips with, and I thought it might be a fun challenge and produce some cool variations (as well as some clunkers) if we made “variations” on purpose. Lord knows we were making a lot of them without trying . Maybe next time.