Hello, as a bouzouki and mandolin player, I am familiar with the different kinds of Irish session tunes, and these include a relative small number of slides (12/8) that are represented in the local repetoire, eg Star Above the Garter, Dingle Regatta, Road to Lisdoonwarner, O'Keefe's. We tend to play them together, but it seems to me they sit well with the jigs too, since the 12/8 and 6/8 time signatures allow it. So my quetion is, "What essentially makes a slide a slide?" Another way to ask the question is, if I were writing a tune (I have written a few) what would inform me whether I was writing a slide or a jig? Surely its not simply a matter of which time signature I choose? Since it is all basically dance music, does it have to do with the nature and rhythm of the dance?
Thanks for any clarification. I tried to look up old threads, but all I got was "slide mandolin" which is not really what I meant....
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