Bowing Pattern Variation for the Gobby-O Jig

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m David Kaynor for expertvillage.com. I’m going to get a little deep into the bowing of the Old British Isles jig the Gobby-O, sometimes known as Jefferson and Liberty. And it’s important to say at the outset that this is not a traditional bowing pattern; it’s a bowing pattern I learned from my formally trained violin playing cousin, and basically it entails doing a down stroke for the first two 8 notes and an up stroke for the third 8 note, a down stroke fourth and fifth 8 notes and an up stroke for the 6th. And this bowing creates a different density of tone, because the up stroke is not only a different direction, but it’s twice as fast as the down stroke. And to make an entire jig work with this bowing is really kind of contrived. There are parts of a lot of these jigs where it doesn’t really work very well, but I’m going to try to force it on the whole jig for illustrative purposes, and I’m going to play it a little slowly. That’s part one to the approach to bowing."