Jigs

Tonight we learnt the jig ‘Jig Runrig’ (the music is on the tunes page), and talked a bit about bowing jigs to get a dotted rhythm.

We spent some time at the start of the evening looking at things we can do to help us play in tune. We also started looking at how to use the first finger and the pinkie to control what our bow is doing throughout the bowstroke. We’ll come back to both of these points again during the term.

I had to laugh at this, after our inadvertent brush with a bit of synchronised bow twirling in the class tonight – here’s a video showing a few other things we’ll definitely not be covering this term!