Slide (tune type)

In Irish traditional music, a slide is a tune type in 12
8 akin to, and often confused with, a single jig. Slides originated the Sliabh Luachra region of southwestern Ireland.

Though slides contain the same number of beats per tune as a single jig, melodies are phrased in four rather than two beats. Consequently, single jigs are notated as having eight bars per part and slides as having four bars. Furthermore, the pace is quicker than single jigs, often around 150bpm. While single jigs are often danced solo by step dancers, slides are usually danced in groups by set dancers, sometimes in sets with polkas.

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Rhythm (Tune Type) Definitions

Irish dance

General

Step dances	Irish stepdance Sean-nós dance Sean-nós dance in United States

Group Dances	Ceili dance Set dancing South Galway Set Clare Lancers Set

Folk dances

2 2 and 4 4 Dances	Reel Hornpipe

6 8 Dances	Single and Double Jigs

9 8 Dances	Hop and Slip jigs

12 8 Dances	Slide

Irish music

General	Céilidh Folk music of Ireland Irish dance Music of Ireland Sean-nós dance Set dance

Folk song	Sean-nós song Traditional Irish singing Lilting

Instruments	Accordion Bodhrán Bones Bouzouki Concertina Fiddle Flute Hammered dulcimer Harp Lambeg Melodeon Tenor banjo Tin whistle Uilleann pipes

Tune Types	2/4 Dance Polka 2/2 and 4/4 Dances Barndance Fling Highland Hornpipe Reel Strathspey Schottische 3/4 Dances Mazurka Waltz 6/8 Dances Single and Double Jigs 9/8 Dances Hop and Slip jigs 12/8 Dance Slide Non-dance Tunes Marches and Airs which exist in various meters.

Scales	Aeolian mode Dorian mode Ionian mode Mixolydian mode Pentatonic scale

Relations	Cape Breton fiddling Folk music of England Folk music of Scotland Folk music of Wales

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Slide (tune type)

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