Celtic jig ending

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Hi Luke,
Do you still plan to add an ending to the Celtic Jig? That would be so very nice :slight_smile:

Thanks!
Martine

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Yes!!! Iā€™m embarrassed, and as I seem to practice not TDD or BDD but EDD (Embarrassment Driven Developmentā€¦ programming humor) I will be getting to this before too long. I took a stab at this a few months ago but implementing it was surprisingly a huge challenge that didnā€™t make sense to take on at the time. But weā€™ll get there. Iā€™m laying some groundwork for some fun customization options for the Celtic strumming style as well. :slightly_smiling_face:

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O no, please donā€™t be embarrassed Luke and steer clear of the EDD, especially not on my account :joy: Iā€™m totally in awe of what you have done with the app so far, and looking forward to what other gems await us up the road! Looking forward to the Celtic customizations!

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Hi luke,

I know you have an awful lot on your strumplate, and youā€™re doing so many great things with the instument settings!!! Itā€™s just that so many of my tunes are celtic jigsā€¦ May I please remind you of this little thing?

(just a single strum woud be so much better already)

Thanks! Martine

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Thanks for the prod. I donā€™t really play Celtic tunes myself so Iā€™m not reminded of this shortcoming very often. Iā€™ll see what I can do. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I guess there are multiple ways to end a jig, but quite often itā€™s something like 123 4 - - or sometimes 1- - 4 - - Rarely it would just be 1- - - - -

If I could choose only one way, I would probably go for 123 4 - - Because itā€™s mostly the last 56 that are the irritating ones :smiley:

I hope youā€™ll find a quiet moment at some point :slight_smile:

Thanks, Martine

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Just updated the Celtic strumming pattern on v405.4 of the beta version of Strum Machine. Jigs now end with ā€œ1234__ā€. Youā€™re right, thatā€™s certainly better than what was there before.

My aim was (and still is) to have an elegant way to support what I hear as the most common ending in Celtic music, which is to wrap around to the first beat of the song and end it with one strum there. The Strum Machine version of Miss McLeodā€™s Reel shows how this can be accomplished with existing tools: by making an ā€œoutroā€ section of just one chord.

But I was letting the perfect be the enemy of the ā€œgood enough for nowā€. Thank you for your persistence, and for spelling out the jig endings such that I could see what I was overlooking!

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Thanks Luke, that was really lightning fast!! :smiley:

Yes, perfectionā€¦ - but I bet there will always situations or, in this case, songs that still wonā€™t fit the moldā€¦

Ultimately it might be nice to be able to ā€˜designā€™ the last measure on a per song basis, but right now Iā€™m just very happy with this solution!! And if necessary thereā€™s always these work-arounds.

So thanks again and sorry if I have been overly persistant. So many great things happening!

Martine

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O forgot to mention another ending that I notice sometimes: 1- 3 - - - :smiley:

Anyway: happy!

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I often add that one chord outro to my tunes to resolve them on the correct chord. See this: Gillian Jiggs. If you open that up, youā€™ll also see an Intro to the tune. I prefer using an Intro instead of the metronome count-in. I donā€™t know that Iā€™ll ever use Strum Machine in a live situation. To start a practice session Iā€™ll make a medley of a lot of tunes and just want to play them one after the other without the Count In.

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That tune is Celtic. It may benefit from your new Celtic style. Iā€™ll mess with that later today.