How can fiddle accompany traditional irish music?
I have a bluegrass background, and recently have been playing more and more irish music. Often, it is just myself, and two friends, one on guitar, one on mando, and mself on fiddle. The mando player can pick up to speed on most tunes, and it would be more fun if I could get out of her way and let her play the melody for a verse. Unlike bluegrass where I can shuffle, play thirds, or long tones, I haven’t the slightest idea of how to accompany Irish music. I understand this may not be very traditional, for the fiddle to stop playing the melody for a verse, but it will make it a lot more fun for our jam sessions nonetheless. I would appreciate any ideas, arrangements, or the like. One thing we did discover the other day is that you can play Morrison’s with mando starting on the B part and fiddle on the A and it sounds pretty darn cool. It almost works perfectly except I believe there’s a quick G in the B part that sounds a little akward. Try it out sometime…
