I’m sure we do Paul. Wednesday night at the Chemic is my stomping ground. Angela Usher graced us with her presence a few months ago.
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I’m sure we do Paul. Wednesday night at the Chemic is my stomping ground. Angela Usher graced us with her presence a few months ago.
Quarter note eighth note combinations interspersed with runs of eighth notes. Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, describes this with humpty, and dumpty each being a quarter note eighth note combination...
This may be of interest- particularly the discussion around the lack of a string tree and a workaround using shorter tuners.
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Simon - try the Bodhran by Mark Stone, an album of Irish rhythms played, not suprisingly, on the bodhran. If you use slow down software you can set the tempo to whatever you want. It’s still a bit...
I've reached a stage in my playing where I'm starting to put in ornamentation and simple variations, and trying to do so on the fly. It doesn't always come off but a great learning tool is to video...
Dang why have I been messing about with blu tac all these years- thanks Paul. One thing I did ditch a few years ago was “locking” the treble strings where you go under then over ( or something like...
Maybe listen with headphones- quite clear a lot ot drone double stop accompaniment in addition to melodu playing. There is a welcome boost to the mandolin in the mix up agsinst three fidles. It’s the...
Marla Fibish has a great lesson on The road to Lisdoonvarna on her peghead nation course. She plays it first as a Jig DUD DUD then shows you how to play it as a slide, which is basically DU for the...
OK my bad to simplify it as a reel. I was talking about Irish Jigs. I should have said that Tim O'Brien plays Irish Jigs DUD DUD. The piece if music you linked to is great but not an example of an...
sblock, your link was to Tim O'Brien playing a set of reels. Tim plays Jigs DUD DUD
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Honestly Bob if Jigs aren’t grabbing you don’t bother with them. They require a completely different approach and arguably years to perfect. I don’t think any of this time will benefit your bluegrass...
This is the party trick demonstration of independent index and little finger straightening. Try to separate your index ring and little fingers in turn. The bending in of the middle finger robs the...
There’s an anatomical reason thar your little finger is able to have a mind of its own. It’s not tethered to the adjacent finger in the way that the middle and ring fingersare. In other words...
English, Irish , Scottish or mixed session? Being in England the range of sessions is huge and complicates things somewhat. An English session is not a bad place to get back into trad - there tends...
When I first learned how to play the zouk I came to it from the mandolin with very much the idea that using a capo is cheating (despite no qualms using it on a guitar), and I spent a lot of time...
It's not as interactive as Mike Marshal's site but there is a forum where you can post questions to Marla and I posted a link to a video of me playing one of the tunes and she gave some very helpful...
I think no matter what level you are at you'd get a lot from Marla's course. I remember you saying over on the social group that you struggle with reels because of the pace but the biggest thing I've...
Thanks. D'Addario J74s and Dunlop Primetone 1.4.
Hope to make one of Simon Mayor's workshops one day - great player and entertaining character.
And this is what it's supposed to sound like!
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Anyone else taking the Irish mandolin course on Peghead Nation taught by the wonderful Marla Fibish and care to share a video of their progress? She's teaching Irish slides at the moment. It's really...
I think that is the joke, at least that's how I appreciated it having started playing through it expecting to be able to put my best Jig picking pattern on it and had a straight up rendition of Jesu...
Really good, well done. Harmonics on the bass are a lovely light touch.
Back to back triplets feature in Irish hornpipes and this question is addressed by Paddy Cummings in his course on the online academy of Irish music (he's a member here so he'll correct me if I am...
Marla Finish addresses this on her peghead nation course and she is quite clear that it should be a down, in other words don't break the DUD DUD pattern regardless of whether you are playing 8th...
I think the thing to do is not learn a version of the tune but just pick out the basic melody - the target notes as Mike Marshall puts it. Know where you should be at any point in the tune to retain...