Slip-jigs recap
273 views · Published 20 November 2018 · 11:59 · Indexed 6 November 2026
Channel: Shallibodhran · 2018 · People & Blogs
Still having problems with slipjigs/hopjigs? This is how I break it down: 1) Start with a Waltz at 3/4 time. 2) Now just play a jig patter in 6/8. 3) what you get is a jig pattern fitting into waltz time signature, but it's actually in 9/8. The most important thing is to not count out as "1,2,3,4" or "123,123,123,123", rather cound our at "one AND 2 AND 3 AND". The idea is to stretch that waltz feel over the jig pattern. Then spend your time feeling that change by going back and forth between the jig cound while playing a jig pattern, and the slipjig time while playing jig pattern. Lastly I show 2 patterns to help develop this: a circulating pattern emphasizing that final "AND", and a more inside out pattern on the 5.
