Seeking some technical advice - jigs, 6/8 - when long rolling a G (first group of eight notes) and the second group of eigth notes starts with a G - do you cut or tap this G? I'm using G as an example - question applies to many other notes. I have been tapping (striking) in these situations but just haven't been getting smooth flowing melodic lines and I am wondering if it has anything to do with this issue. Any advise will be apreciated.
Well, as you know there are bascially three approaches for this situation, where a long roll is followed by a note of the same pitch:
1) cut. 2) tap. 3) articulate with the tongue or diaphragm.
I suppose the third might be the most controversial, as some flute players never tongue, some would only use the diaphragm to seperate D's, etc etc.
But I myself use all three ways depending on situation or whim.
On the pipes, using a cut seems to be the most common, though you certainly will hear pipers tapping.
Then there is the "piper's roll", a different way of playing long rolls, where instead of going note-cut-note-tap-note you go cut-note-tap-note-tap-note. In other words, the first note of the roll in accented with a cut, and followed by two taps. If you hear Paddy Keenan playing the Kesh Jig on the old Bothy Band album, you will hear him using that style of rolls on the G and A at the start of the tune. I can't remember at the moment whether he uses a cut or a tap to articulate the following note.
There was an old Clare fluteplayer I learned a lot of stuff from who had a distinctive way of repeating G's- he would do the "piper" style roll (cut-tap-tap) and use yet another tap for the following G. Often his versions of tunes were set up so that he would play four, five, or six G's in a row all seperated by taps. I haven't heard anyone else do this tapping thing.
Flute Players - Long Rolls
Flute Players - Long Rolls
Seeking some technical advice - jigs, 6/8 - when long rolling a G (first group of eight notes) and the second group of eigth notes starts with a G - do you cut or tap this G? I'm using G as an example - question applies to many other notes. I have been tapping (striking) in these situations but just haven't been getting smooth flowing melodic lines and I am wondering if it has anything to do with this issue. Any advise will be apreciated.
# Posted on July 21st 2007 by ecologia
Re: Flute Players - Long Rolls
Well, as you know there are bascially three approaches for this situation, where a long roll is followed by a note of the same pitch:
1) cut. 2) tap. 3) articulate with the tongue or diaphragm.
I suppose the third might be the most controversial, as some flute players never tongue, some would only use the diaphragm to seperate D's, etc etc.
But I myself use all three ways depending on situation or whim.
On the pipes, using a cut seems to be the most common, though you certainly will hear pipers tapping.
Then there is the "piper's roll", a different way of playing long rolls, where instead of going note-cut-note-tap-note you go cut-note-tap-note-tap-note. In other words, the first note of the roll in accented with a cut, and followed by two taps. If you hear Paddy Keenan playing the Kesh Jig on the old Bothy Band album, you will hear him using that style of rolls on the G and A at the start of the tune. I can't remember at the moment whether he uses a cut or a tap to articulate the following note.
There was an old Clare fluteplayer I learned a lot of stuff from who had a distinctive way of repeating G's- he would do the "piper" style roll (cut-tap-tap) and use yet another tap for the following G. Often his versions of tunes were set up so that he would play four, five, or six G's in a row all seperated by taps. I haven't heard anyone else do this tapping thing.
# Posted on July 21st 2007 by Richard D Cook