Paddy's Leather Breeches
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Only Three Rhythms in the Whole Tune Paddy's Leather Breeches is a four-parted 6/8 jig built from just three rhythmic shapes — the GDE gracenote triplet, the dotted quarter note, and the quarter-eighth pattern — so control and consistency matter more than variety.
A Changing-Note GDE Is Still a GDE When the GDE gracenote pattern lands on a changing note like C-A-A in bar four, it's easy to mistake it for a tachum and cut the C — but it needs the same even, uncut rhythm as any other GDE.
Beat Placement: The First Sound of the Doubling Is on the Beat When a doubling comes off high A, the first sound of the doubling itself — not the note before it — lands on the beat, which is why stretching out the high A first is so important.
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00:04Jig 6/8 Introduction: Four-Parted A🔒
00:25Only the in Tune Rhythms Three🔒
01:06Changing a Note on GDE🔒
02:39Bar the Don't C Four: Cut🔒
03:00Bar F-to-B The Two Strike in🔒
03:40Part: Second Stretching High A's🔒
04:18for Doublings Beat Placement Rule🔒
05:22G-D-E-D Third Tricky Part: Pattern The🔒
06:40Part: Keeping High Round Last A-G-A🔒
07:46Wrap-Up: Speed Then Control First,🔒
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