@anonkid: what a great job! Katie.

Awesome, our youngest member is doing so well. I'm impressed.

Keep up the good work, Katie.

@OldCrow: well done, both your violin and ukelele playing. Made me want to pick up one and start learning.

Keep up the good work, OC.

If you allow me to chime in a bit. I looked at KS pdf and it's fine, not reversed, but maybe it's not quite clear as all of those notations are transcriptions of a traditional tune and there're some conventionally playing agreements that are not notated down clearly.

This is a 32 bar basic jig, dance tune usually playing twice (or 3 times), symmetrical and divided into 2 parts. For notation, each part is 8 bar long (playing twice), which consisted of the part melody and a tag. In basic form, the same tag is used for both A and B parts. As pickup notes serve to lead into the part melody, tag serves as a transitional phrase to either repeat the current playing part, switch to the other part through its pickup notes or to another tune.

For Swallowtail Jig, its A and B part melodies are only 4 1/2 bar long, the remaining 3 1/2 bar is the tag. Notice that 3 1/2 bar section is the same for both A and B part.

So at the last bar of a tag, the last one or two notes (in question) on the sheet are not the ending. It's the beginning and is/are the pickup note(s) of the next playing part.

As player reaching the last bar of a tag, there are several options. In usually playing convention, if A part melody is repeated then squeezing in its pickup note as the last note of the bar and still keeping the bar length correct, for switching to B part melody then doing the same with its pickup note, for playing other tune then using its pickup note(s) instead, and for finishing the tune then just play the whole bar long with its ending note, omitting the pickup note. Also there is option not to use any pickup note as well.

The F# in question, which is at the very first 1 ending is actually the A part melody pickup note, which is not explicitly notated (for easier understanding, it's usually written at the very beginning, outside of and before the first bar (the starting bar of A part melody). And also that F# is at the very end of the sheet which is suggesting to go back to A part melody again to play the whole tune one more time as that 32 bar is too short for people to dance, playing only once. It's sometimes played 3 times or continuously with one or more jigs to make the dance more enjoyable, so called set playing.

So for ending of the tune, the F# should not be played as it's the A part melody pickup note.

Hope that this clear some, or confuse some more, lol. I try.

Anyway, great jobs, both of you and I'm so proud for you.