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Audacious Jig

By dreat on June 14, 2026 2:43 pm

I finally found a "recipe" for trash jig.

It's in 7/4, characteristics are 3x quarter note, 4x 8th triplets (thou this might vary).
AABBAABB
CCDDCCDD
B'B'A'A'B'B'A'A'
CCDDCCDD

E dorian (obviously tongue )

if anyone wants to try it big_smile

rendered as a loop

I know it's pretty audacious to "create a style" within foreign folk tradition, but I did it out from my appreciation for the music and wanted to give it my little spin.

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I love this! I think the pattern you’ve established fits well with other established styles, but blazes its own path. I would love to hear this mixed into a set - start with a jig (6:8), then a trash jig (7:4), and then go to a slip jig (9:8). The little stagger in the trash jig would be a great contrast to other styles.

So cool. I need to play with this smile smile

Paisleyfrog wrote:

I love this! I think the pattern you’ve established fits well with other established styles, but blazes its own path. I would love to hear this mixed into a set - start with a jig (6:8), then a trash jig (7:4), and then go to a slip jig (9:8). The little stagger in the trash jig would be a great contrast to other styles.

So cool. I need to play with this smile smile

Thank you! I was worried what you'd say about this tbh big_smile super happy you enjoyed it! big_smile
Feel free to mess around, can't wait to hear what you make of it

Also, love the jig progression idea big_smile

dreat wrote:

Thank you! I was worried what you'd say about this tbh big_smile super happy you enjoyed it! big_smile
Feel free to mess around, can't wait to hear what you make of it

Also, love the jig progression idea big_smile

In my mind, this is EXACTLY what traditional music...and really, any kind of music...should do - morph and change and become new things. Sort of like how so many trad tunes have different names depending on the region and slight variation - Morrison's is also known as The Stick on the Hob, and Paddy Stack's Fancy Jig smile

Those three quarter notes in the phrasing make me think of a hornpipe I wrote close to 20 years ago - I was on a train in Scotland and we went past three apartment towers that made me think of notes. I should try and make a set with that and a trash jig, and then finish with like Swallowtail or something. Dr Frog wants to do some trad music, so I think the plans for summer are coming into focus!

Very audacious, this is going places.

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