Re: Practicing the swing feel for Irish music
Folded Path is aiming you in the right direction; from how i understand the question behind the question, it might be a more complex problem than simply looking for the correct dots that will immediately put you in the right place to play an Irish reel or jig. They don't exist. Written music, to most ITM players, is merely a suggestion for what the tune should be. You should listen to someone singing an Irish lilt, or listen to a piper. There's way more going on there than most instruments can mimic. It would be nice if you could take a type of musical genre -- swing, say, or bluegrass -- and use the same technique to play an entirely different genre. Like playing a mandolin as if it's a guitar. You can do it, but it won't be the same thing. Irish session/instrumental music is, above all, individuals playing in a group -- not like an orchestra, where a group is playing identically -- during a session, everybody is playing the tune as they learned it, and few people learned it from the same source, or refined it the same way, or puts an emphasis on the same bit of pulse. And that's fine, because it's all good. A good alpha player can pull you through the rhythm regardless of where you started out. But put that on paper? Can't be done.
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