BODHRÁN EXPLORERS SPRING/SUMMER 2021 BOOKING PAGE
Bodhrán Explorers: The Session
These workshops will be rooted in Irish traditional music with a wee bit of Scott’s and English folk for good measure! We will focus on tunes that are likely to crop up in a traditional music session and how to approach them on Bodhrán. We will work through a selection of tune specific patterns and ornaments that you can use as a foundation for building your own interpretation and dig a little deeper into the musicianship required for backing tunes on bodhrán effectively.
There will be a weekly playlist of tunes available with a selection of regularly played jig’s, reels, slides, slip jigs and hornpipes to get familiar with and build your practice around.
BODHRÁN EXPLORERS: WORKSHOPS
Bodhrán Explorers is a series of workshops for bodhrán players with some experience of playing, a desire to learn more and challenge themselves. Anyone who has participated in either my Creative Approach to the Irish Bodhrán course or my 6 week How To Play Bodhrán course is very well placed to join this group to develop their skills on bodhrán.
In these workshops we will journey through a range of in-depth technical and musical skills. Contemporary and traditional repertoire will be explored in detail, with forensic attention to form and technique being a basis for each session. You will have listening and practical work to take away, and past sessions have covered syncopated patterns and irregular time signatures, soloing, improvisation, and patterns inspired by other world rhythms.
In this workshop we will work through a selection of groovy jig patterns, and apply them to a selection of traditional and more contemporary tunes.
In this workshop we will work through a selection of groovy reel patterns, and apply them to a selection of traditional and more contemporary tunes.
Speed and dexterity and endurance! All really important tools we need to play tasty polka patterns. In this workshop we will work through a selection of polka patterns, and apply them to a selection of traditional and more contemporary tunes.
Lilting is a form of traditional singing common in the native speaking areas of Ireland. It goes under many names, and is sometimes referred to as diddling, or mouth music, and is particularly beautiful when applied to rhythms on the bodhrán. In this workshops we will break down some simple approaches to lilting, and how you can use it in your practice and performance.
Triplets, or rolls can be a lovely addition to a bodhrán groove though it can sometimes be tricky to know where and how to apply them for best effect. In this workshop I’ll give you the tools to break down a pattern and apply single ended or double ended triplets to almost any beat, and develop your single ended and double ended triplet chops.