Tune names...very frustrating indeed. Slides on the banjo (in my opinion) tend to be where I'm thinking "supporting instrument" not "lead instrument". Our fiddler likes to play slides and I just lay back, accentuate the rhythm, and try to make him sound better. We play "O'Keeffe's" (but one of the other ones). I was taught that 12/8 was just 4/4 with triplets. Accent on beat 1 and 7 (7 being slightly less accented than 1). I also note that fiddlers tend to ornament slides with snaps (grace notes) rather than rolls, mordents or triplets. Thank you for another interesting video!
Looking forward tot he Patsy Geary video - funnilly(?), the video I found for that song was Fergal Scahill's tune a day. Great, but I'm a picker not a bower.
Great breakdown of the 12/8 timing etc. Super interesting!
Tune names...very frustrating indeed. Slides on the banjo (in my opinion) tend to be where I'm thinking "supporting instrument" not "lead instrument". Our fiddler likes to play slides and I just lay back, accentuate the rhythm, and try to make him sound better. We play "O'Keeffe's" (but one of the other ones). I was taught that 12/8 was just 4/4 with triplets. Accent on beat 1 and 7 (7 being slightly less accented than 1). I also note that fiddlers tend to ornament slides with snaps (grace notes) rather than rolls, mordents or triplets. Thank you for another interesting video!
I agree 100%!
Looking forward tot he Patsy Geary video - funnilly(?), the video I found for that song was Fergal Scahill's tune a day. Great, but I'm a picker not a bower.
Slides sound more stuffy and (European? Aristocratic?) to my novice ear. Almost like jigs are for fun parties/pubs and slides are for balls, no?
😂 fair observation!!
@@IrishTenorBanjo haha well thank you for making the video regardless!
Ever-entertaining and informative. :*)