Listening to recordings of traditional session players is a good starting point.
Someone Like Sharon Shannon or Matt Molloy will give you a good feeling for the rhythm(s) of session tunes. Obviously they are doing more than hitting good notes & laying down the tempo. Remember it took them time to be able play as well as they do.
You may be a beginner, yet it is never to soon to start treating your ears as your 1st instrument.
Cheers!
One of the blessings (or curses) of this site is that it does not purport to put out the one true answer to all things session-ish. There is a place for this on the web, as shown by all the links above. I would suggest that if there is some nugget of information that you want people to know, put it in your profile, and then you can direct people to it when they ask questions. I know there is room on those profiles, after all look at Dow's thesis! He has everything, except the Dow's List of 50 tunes everyone should know, on there!
Whether you are a beginner or wheathered session player a sense of humor seems to help.
Believe it or not I got this from one of Dow's links.
Anyone know which one?
Here is the link which I thought had Irish humor.
I cannot find that.
I thought I 1st saw it in Dow's profile.
Cannot find that either.
I liked the humor wherever it came from.
O'Regan's Tunebook http://music.gordfisch.net/oregans/
A growing collection of tunes focusing on those played at the Wednesday night session at O'Regan's pub in Montreal. Web based format with abc and pdf available for download as well as a download of the entire site for offline browsing.
On this channel you will find a collection of short instructional videos and other materials for learning a variety of Traditional Irish instruments, including whistle, flute, Uilleann pipes, Anglo concertina and Drop-D (DADGBE) tuned guitar.
A beginner's guide
A beginner's guide
Following on from recent, informative threads, could we perhaps use this thread to provide guidance and encouragement to newcomers to the music?
Perhaps we can also provide links to useful resources, samples etc.?
# Posted on June 24th 2008 by Feargal French
Re: A beginner's guide
If you are looking for tunes that are popular in sessions, try members > tunebook. What you get is
'Most Popular Tunes
These are the tunes that members of The Session have added to their tunebooks, listed in order '
# Posted on June 24th 2008 by Henk Bos
Re: A beginner's guide
http://ababasoft.com/music/teory_ear_training.html
# Posted on June 24th 2008 by Feargal French
Re: A beginner's guide
http://www.irishtune.info/
# Posted on June 24th 2008 by Henk Bos
Re: A beginner's guide
http://ezinearticles.com/?You-Can-Learn-To-Play-By-Ear&id=668179
# Posted on June 24th 2008 by Feargal French
Re: A beginner's guide
http://www.slowplayers.org/
# Posted on June 24th 2008 by Henk Bos
Re: A beginner's guide
http://comhaltas.ie/
# Posted on June 24th 2008 by Henk Bos
Re: A beginner's guide
http://www.alan-ng.net/irish/learning/
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6464/fidintro.html
http://tradschool.com/
# Posted on June 24th 2008 by Feargal French
Re: A beginner's guide
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/sessions/swf/folkmenu.html
# Posted on June 24th 2008 by tomw
Re: A beginner's guide
Listening to recordings of traditional session players is a good starting point.
Someone Like Sharon Shannon or Matt Molloy will give you a good feeling for the rhythm(s) of session tunes. Obviously they are doing more than hitting good notes & laying down the tempo. Remember it took them time to be able play as well as they do.
You may be a beginner, yet it is never to soon to start treating your ears as your 1st instrument.
Cheers!
# Posted on June 24th 2008 by Random_notes
Re: A beginner's guide
One of the blessings (or curses) of this site is that it does not purport to put out the one true answer to all things session-ish. There is a place for this on the web, as shown by all the links above. I would suggest that if there is some nugget of information that you want people to know, put it in your profile, and then you can direct people to it when they ask questions. I know there is room on those profiles, after all look at Dow's thesis! He has everything, except the Dow's List of 50 tunes everyone should know, on there!
# Posted on June 24th 2008 by AlBrown
Re: A beginner's guide
Whether you are a beginner or wheathered session player a sense of humor seems to help.
Believe it or not I got this from one of Dow's links.
Anyone know which one?
# Posted on June 24th 2008 by Random_notes
A beginner's sense of humor
Here is the link which I thought had Irish humor.
I cannot find that.
I thought I 1st saw it in Dow's profile.
Cannot find that either.
I liked the humor wherever it came from.
O'Regan's Tunebook
http://music.gordfisch.net/oregans/
A growing collection of tunes focusing on those played at the Wednesday night session at O'Regan's pub in Montreal. Web based format with abc and pdf available for download as well as a download of the entire site for offline browsing.
(submitted on March 8th 2006 by lildogturpy)
# Posted on June 24th 2008 by Random_notes
TradLessons; A beginner's guide
On this channel you will find a collection of short instructional videos and other materials for learning a variety of Traditional Irish instruments, including whistle, flute, Uilleann pipes, Anglo concertina and Drop-D (DADGBE) tuned guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/user/tradlessons
# Posted on June 24th 2008 by Random_notes