I really love the quick tempo of Jigs, Reels and Hornpipes!

I have been working on a Jig called "Corkhill"  it is a pretty common first or beginner Jig.  Nothing too complicated about it, the usual GDE runs and quick tempo.  Like all tunes you have to start slow and work your speed up.  All to often a beginner piper will try to rush things and play too fast and with Jigs (reels and hornpipes too) there seems to be a natural tendency to want to speed things up, when this happens the execution and fingering really suffers.

To improve my Jig and Hornpipe playing I have been doing a lot of GDE exercises and really focusing on keeping a tight rhythm and even tempo on the GDE gracenotes and melody notes.