This week's winner is Fig for A Kiss, also known as Figs For A Kiss, Gáire Na MBán, The Old Dutch Churn, The Splashing Of The Churn, Two In A Gig. Here's the ABC from www.thesession.org. Be sure to check out the comments section, for several other ABC versions. X: 1 T: A Fig For A Kiss M: 9/8 L: 1/8 R: slip jig K: Edor |: G2B E2B BAG | F2A D2A AGF | G2B E2B BAG | [1 B/c/dB AGF DEF :|2 B/c/dB AGF E3 || |: g2e g2e edB | f2d dcd fed |1 g2e g2e edB | dBG GBd e2f :|2 gfe fed ecA | B/c/dB AGF E2F || Here is a link to notation and midi on www.8notes.com
.tef file for Std Notation and TABs http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/at...0&d=1292589616
A quickie to get it started... this was recorded last January as part of a 3-tune set. I'll get an up-to-date version in later...
A quickie to get it started...
Eddie Short but SWEET. [Like a fig] Gary
I've known this tune for quite a while so I took some liberties and tried to make it a little different and non slip jigish, I'm pretty sure that's not a word. Slip jiggy?
Beautiful, David.
Way to get jiggy with it, David.
David's version has a very medieval feel to it!
That is very enjoyable David, a great arrangement. I did see however that aliens were firing photon torpedoes at your instruments and seemed to score a direct hit around 1:07!
Nice jobs fellas!
David, love your playing and arrangement on this one. Eddie, I've not seen this part of your house before. Fine playing wherever you record.
David, Wonderful playing and your arragement is great. Eddie, Really nice playing and thanks so much for getting it started. I listened to it on my TablEdit and didn't make much progress until I heard you play it. Bob Scrutchfield
Well, I'm surprised this only generated generated two posts. I think I voted for it, so I thought I should post. It's still a work in progress and I was only able to get through it once without royally screwing it up. So, for better or worse, here it is.
I had a much harder time than I expected with this tune. It's a lot of fun and I'll keep working with it, but this is the best I could manage for now. The really short A and B parts don't leave much room to prepare before the repeats. Also, I was using a really thick pick and kept getting tangled in the strings. I had never heard of a slip jig before. Thanks for the eye opener.
I love slip jigs! Here's "Fig For A Kiss" with "Fox Hunters'".
Great stuff there Mike!
While I visit this social group every day, this is only the second video that I've posted here (and it's been over a year since I posted the last one). I really enjoy this group and have learned so much from watching others. I do want to contribute to the degree that I'm able. This one is short, but I'm hoping this will get me in the mode of doing this a little more often.
Nice one Jean! I was actually watching John Huston's last film "The Dead" last night on DVD and towards the end of it there's a wee snippet of this tune playing!
That's a great first slip jig, ten or! Very nice, Jean; I'm noticing how nice your fretting hand technique is.
An Irish Slip Jig played on a Scotch-drenched Fylde Touchstone Single Malt mandolin...
I love this tune ~ and it's awesome the way you play it ~ full of spirit, clean and just fun.
Nice one Eddie, and that Fylde sounds lovely as well!
Thank you ladies.
I aim to work my way through some tunes from the past… This one gave me the opportunity to use a banjo I picked up around 10 months ago but have barely played…but I shall give a plug for Will Howson for doing a great job on the set-up https://www.wgfhowsoninstruments.co.uk/ Ivor Pickard Octave Mandola Gold Tone IT-250 Tenor Banjo Faith Naked Mercury (parlour) Guitar
Great bit of playing there, John W. I like the tone you are getting from that octave and the banjo does not intrude into your arrangement but is still present in the mix. That mandolin on the couch behind you has a lovely rosewood back!
Thank you, John… I love the tone of this OM… The mando is there as I was undecided which instrument to play ‘up front’…and although it is a beautifully made instrument, it just didn’t cut through in the way the OM did.
Nice one John! Lovely bounce to it!
Good stuff, John, really moves along nicely. And don’t quote me, but the banjo adds a nice element to the backing.
Thank you Jill and bbcee (and don’t worry bbcee…your secret support for the banjo is safe with me).
Really nice playing, John, me too, I like the banjo.
Great playing, John. I like the sound of your OM.
Thanks Christian and Frithjof… it’s great that there are a range of instruments, and specific instruments of a particular type, that take our fancy at different times…
Glad you revived this thread, John. And your version on the octave mandolin is great. I wish I could make mine sound like that.
Here's my go at this tune:
Very nice, William, nice clear, crisp notes and good on the high ones too. Great pics.
Great playing, William. Glad too to call you by your name now.
Thanks Ginny and John for your kind words....
Nice one William and very lovely tone you're pulling from your mandolin as well!
Very nice William! So nice to hear you play...
Thanks Jill and Frank.
Fine mandolin playing, William, and nice visuals.
I'm not sure how I missed John's recording, but now I get the twin pack with William's version! Both are really nice. Well arranged and well played, a joy to listen to.
It's only the very slightest of tweaks but I prefer A Fig For A Kiss in "proper" E Minor rather than E Dorian. So here's my E Minor take on the tune...
Great stuff, Aidan.
Thanks, Richard...
Another fine jig and once again at a pace I like, Aidan. Picked as cleanly and clearly as always.
Thanks, John...
Coincidentally, I just saw this on my fakebook timeline this morning... A Fine For A Kiss...
Just dipping in/adding brief comments to a few threads I have some familiarity with (see my latest comment in response to Simon’s most recent comment in the “lack of interest” thread). I enjoyed both William and Aidan’s versions of this tune. Aidan, I suspect Miss Clark didn’t go back to Black Rock !
