Here are the videos and dots for Jigolo, a Welsh tune by Iolo Jones – we’ll be sticking with this one for a few weeks as well as returning to The Mallard and trying various things there too.
Try adding joining notes between A section repeats and B sections too, notes above or below the main notes work well, or a D of some description can also sound good.
The Mallard is a tune from a long time ago! I wanted to revisit it and to potentially pair it with Enfield Wash, though I found it a bit notey and so wanted to simplify it a little.
Stage one: we took out as many notes as we could until we had the bare skeleton of the tune – but it still had to be recognisable as the tune.
Stage two: we add notes back in, either from the original tune or using similar figures.
Stage three: as we tried things out, I wrote down some of the ideas that came out. The two versions below represent some of the ideas that came out during that experimentation. They are not supposed to be definitive versions but rather examples of what can happen if you play around with a tune in this way.
New Ealing Sessions 