OK, now that I've got Weird Metronome (http://www.pinkandaint.com/weirdmet.shtml) on my PC, I was going to 'program' it to play a bodhran-like beat to practice playing with a steady rhythm in a way that would sound more interesting than the tock-tock-tock of my 'normal' metronome.
Then, of course, it occurred to me that I have no idea what a good bodhran player does to get the different rhythms they can play.
Can some kind-hearted bodhran player please try to describe how the go about setting up a rhythm?
Using Weird Metronome, you can set up to nine different MIDI sounds (drums, woodblocks, cymbals, etc) as the various 'ticks' and then play them in any order at any speed less than 1000 bpm, so the program has a good amount of variablility that "might" cover the sorts of things I hear good bodhran players doing.
Len
PS, does anyone know how to say (spell) "thanks in advance" in Gaelic?
I'm not a bodhran player but I believe that the general consensus is that the best players "learn each tune" individually, i.e there isn't a selection of different rhythms that you "pull out of a hat" to suit each style of tume. Of course, that's what what many bodhran players (and guitarists) do but that's not considered to be the best way to proceed. No doubt, the bodhran experts will elaborate here.
I believe pint has an s *pints* and there is a heavy emphasis on both the *i*s. Its the same *i* as in *mine*. As in "you would have to be pretty stupid to believe your thread, but you are just clueless if you believe mine."
Using Weird Metronome, you assign each sound to a separate beat, so if you want a more complicated sound, you have to increase the bpm to accomodate.
Most of the good bodhran players I've seen/heard strike the drum *a lot* more than twice-a-measure when drumming along with a jig; in Weird Metronome, each 'hit' has to be a beat ... thus the support for what seems like impossibly fast tempos.
Len,
I'm not sure I could describe how to set up rhythms by writing it out. Is it possible to programme varying degrees of bass and treble?
Apart from cd's etc. that you can listen to to get say a "basic" rhythm for a reel or a jig, maybe try this site deuhttp://www.bodhran.ie/tutor/4.html which Zina recently recommended to someone who is learning the bodhr
Bodhran playing?
Bodhran playing?
OK, now that I've got Weird Metronome (http://www.pinkandaint.com/weirdmet.shtml) on my PC, I was going to 'program' it to play a bodhran-like beat to practice playing with a steady rhythm in a way that would sound more interesting than the tock-tock-tock of my 'normal' metronome.
Then, of course, it occurred to me that I have no idea what a good bodhran player does to get the different rhythms they can play.
Can some kind-hearted bodhran player please try to describe how the go about setting up a rhythm?
Using Weird Metronome, you can set up to nine different MIDI sounds (drums, woodblocks, cymbals, etc) as the various 'ticks' and then play them in any order at any speed less than 1000 bpm, so the program has a good amount of variablility that "might" cover the sorts of things I hear good bodhran players doing.
Len
PS, does anyone know how to say (spell) "thanks in advance" in Gaelic?
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by KeepFiddlin'
Re: Bodhran playing?
I'm not a bodhran player but I believe that the general consensus is that the best players "learn each tune" individually, i.e there isn't a selection of different rhythms that you "pull out of a hat" to suit each style of tume. Of course, that's what what many bodhran players (and guitarists) do but that's not considered to be the best way to proceed. No doubt, the bodhran experts will elaborate here.
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by Johnny Jay
Re: Bodhran playing?
I'd be interested to hear a bodhr
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by Trevor Jennings
Re: Bodhran playing?
That would be quite some wrist action....
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by nick b
Re: Bodhran playing?
Len
the gaelic for Thanks in advance is:
"canigetcha pint?"
Dave
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by showaddydadito
Re: Bodhran playing?
I believe pint has an s *pints* and there is a heavy emphasis on both the *i*s. Its the same *i* as in *mine*. As in "you would have to be pretty stupid to believe your thread, but you are just clueless if you believe mine."
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by Maple
Re: Bodhran playing?
Using Weird Metronome, you assign each sound to a separate beat, so if you want a more complicated sound, you have to increase the bpm to accomodate.
Most of the good bodhran players I've seen/heard strike the drum *a lot* more than twice-a-measure when drumming along with a jig; in Weird Metronome, each 'hit' has to be a beat ... thus the support for what seems like impossibly fast tempos.
Dave, that's cute....
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by KeepFiddlin'
Re: Bodhran playing?
Len,
I'm not sure I could describe how to set up rhythms by writing it out. Is it possible to programme varying degrees of bass and treble?
Apart from cd's etc. that you can listen to to get say a "basic" rhythm for a reel or a jig, maybe try this site deuhttp://www.bodhran.ie/tutor/4.html which Zina recently recommended to someone who is learning the bodhr
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by Joe Quinn
Re: Bodhran playing?
len,
I think you'd have to translate it as "write" in Irish as in "Conas a scriobhann t
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by Joe Quinn
Re: Bodhran playing?
this one's just got to be a wind up
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by ...
Re: Bodhran playing?
Michael, why does this have to be a wind up?
What's wrong with wanting a bodhran-sounding metronome instead of 'tock-tock-tock?'
Practicing with a metronome is a good way to practice playing steady rhythms and 'tock-tock-tock' is boring as hell.
Oh, that's right, you don't believe in practice, either....
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by KeepFiddlin'
Re: Bodhran playing?
Ha ha ha, priceless
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by ...
Re: Bodhran playing?
No, not priceless. The going rate is
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by showaddydadito
Re: Bodhran playing?
Thanks, Joe
That site was exactly what I was looking for.
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by KeepFiddlin'