I've asked frequently for biab to improve on the 6/8 ( jigs ) tempo. The Irish / celtic / Cape Breton styles jigs are way too busy and need simplified. It's possible to use various styles for Irish music. Western Swing for example. You could use just piano, bass & drums. Dixieland piano would work beautifully with ragtime. Of course there's the jazz stride piano as well. For clarinet polka try using CHETCMP.STY. Change mandolin to Cape Breton reel and have the tempo around 90.
One of the tricks I learned was that for a good Celtic / Scottish drum backing especially on reels/ polkas & 4/4 marches, try using tango real drums. Speeded up they're super for our needs !

Last edited by furry; 05/17/14 08:06 AM.
Graham............

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