How to Create a Lilt in the Gobby-O Bowing Pattern

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m David Kaynor for expertvillage.com. I’m analyzing the bowing of the Gobby-O, and old jig from the British Isles. And then to review, I started with using a down bow for the first 2/8 notes of the measure, an up bow for the third, a down bow for the fourth and fifth, and an up bow for the sixth. What I’m after with this bowing pattern is a way of building in a rhythmic flavor which is sometimes referred to as a lilt. There are a number of different musical applications of the word lilt, and this is only one of them. But the idea is to have a lift on the up beat at the end of each group of three notes, and I did it before just using single notes. Now I’m going to use it adding in some adjacent strings: sometimes I’ll be using a finger to cover two strings, sometimes I’ll be just using an open string, but the idea is to bring more life and energy into this lilt."