I just thought I would try and get an idea of the backround of the general users of this website, I might put up this poll again once or twice later in the year .
If you could leave a comment saying
1) what country, county/state your from.
2) your instrument
(I know people play more than one so please pick your favourite or the one you play the most).
3) What type of music you listen/play the the most (i.e Irish Trad, Scottish Trad, Breton, Northumbian etc.)
4) How do you learn tunes (if not an accompanying) (i.e ABC, stave notation, by ear or other - please list all)
5) where do you get most of your tunes ( cd's, internet, sessions, teacher etc - please list all ways).
I'd ask as people as possible to do the poll so I can get a more accurate result thanks!
Well I'll post the info. up on the thesesssion.org for thesesssion.org and for nothing else,
it should be interesting to see the results with such a wide variety of musicians using the site.
1) England, now living in Wales
2) Mandolin
3) Irish (due to circumstances, I now actually play more of other genres music than Irish, but Irish tunes still make up the greater part of my repertoire, and I am more familiar with that genre than any other).
4) By ear, staff notation
5) In order of prevalence: Sessions, recordings, one-to-one (from friends etc), internet, tunebooks, workshops
1) Babylon
2) Vulcan Arse Flute/ Trouser Changer
3) Bebop/ Jesus & Mary Chain/ Val Doonican
4) I don’t; I noodle all the time and polish up my hotw*ter bottle collection but I find Larry Adler speaking to me from beyond the grave in Klingon quite handy- who wouldn't?
5) Radio 3, Cilla Black’s Greatest Hits, off the labels on the back of wig glue tubes & packets
1) Born in Cobh, Co.Cork/ raised in the U.S.
2) Flute
3)ITM
4) Bring a recorder to the session and practice tunes at home by ear, and I can figure out sheet music only if I know the tune well.
5) Sessions, cds, and here. I like to pick the version I like best to play.
1) London (ENGLAND, not bloody Ontario)
2) Fiddle (and whistle sometimes)
3) Irish
4) By ear, unless I absolutely can't find a recording or someone to teach me it
5) Sessions, one-to-one, recordings, this website, tunebooks...
My nose, without a shadow of doubt. I pick it 24 / 7, which is a lot more hours than I put in on any other instrument.
The nose was created almost exactly in the middle of the bygone century. It is quite likely in old pitch, but I have never got round to taking it to a tuner. Its scale is highly indeterminate and its melodic range varies considerably from season to season, those of winter chest colds and of summer hay fever evincing something like extremes of depth and height in the notes produced. There may be tenuous similarities with the music of the Turkish hammaluk, gez or nusrat, but I have yet to investigate this, just having made these up.
The presence of notable amounts of house dust mite excreta is the most reliable guarantor of a sustained and energetic performance. At concerts, my fans compete with one another to tip out sacks of the stuff at my feet; that way they get a guaranteed encore, whether I've actually wanted to do one or not.
More general feedback, however, is vastly in agreement that the music of my proboscis neither entertains nor elevates, but solely disconcerts. I find myself, therefore, the bearer of a harried and marginalised tradition. The crass majority spurns it, for what even I concede are pretty clear reasons, while I am fated to perpetuate it, and must therefore belabour my brains to fabricate the most fantastical reasons for doing so.
And then, i suppose, I can call myself a Traditional Folk Nasalist and get grants and handkerchiefs and stuff.
1. Georgia, USA
2. Fiddle (I play guitar more, but for diddley, I prefer fiddle.)
3. Irish Trad (but I listen to just as much classical, maybe more.)
4. 98% by ear, 2% stave notation
5. CD’s, Internet, friends
The problem Premier with this sort of thing is apart from obstinate sorts who don't think it's anyones business is that there is no sticky facility (perhaps thankfully) on thesession.org, so your survey will rapidly drift off the radar by tomorrow by which time only a tiny proportion of the members here will have seen it - so it's kinda futile Or maybe a snapshot in time - who looked in on one day or so and chose to participate.
Anyway just so I can't be accused of being an obstinate *boll*x*
Ireland - southeast
That's tricky - whistle, flute, concertina in any order.
mostly trad but I'll happily play any ditty that infiltrates.
ear mostly but if I get lazy or frustrated I'll look up a tune book or abc's here.
friends, sessions, recordings
1) Beyond the Sun
2) Didjerizoo (a cross between didgeridoo and kazoo)
3) Solo North Albanian juice harp music
4) 90% intravenous, 10% skin absorption
5) Directly from North Albanian juice harpists, which I convert to didjerizoo. ABBA's Greatest Hits.
Play: Irish trad & some Scottish, English & French.
Listen to: (besides the aforementioned): all sorts; at present The Beatles Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, JS Bach, LV Beethoven...
JW:
> Bring a recorder to the session and ...
You'll find you get a better reception from your fellows if you leave the recorder and take up the tin whistle. Recorders are SOOoo post-baroque.
1/ Co,Antrim N.Ireland
2/ Fiddle
3/ Irish trad
4/ Was by Ear Taped session's, now find ABc listen to Midi More
5/ Was Cd's/session's, Now Internet More
FWIW
(and in homage to Jeremy for doing a little housecleaning on this thread, thank you!)
1) Helena, Montana, USA
2) Fiddle (mandolin, flute, tenor banjo, guitar)
3) Irish traditional music (also teach rock, blues, folk, bluegrass, old timey)
4) Ear (also teach by ear and use dots, abcs, and tab)
5) Friends and at sessions
1) Originally Colorado but now Glasgow
2) Uilleann pipes and whistle]
3)Irish trad and Scottish trad.
4)Ear
5)CDs (well, really Mp3s these days), sessions, friends, Internet
1. Rhode Island, USA (dampest state in the union these days!)
2. Whistle (accordion, guitar, harmonica, none especially well).
3. Irish, but Scots and American, too.
4. Ear, supplemented by dots (but I only use dots in the privacy of my own home).
5. Session, and sometimes CDs or radio (but mostly I just learn tunes my friends play).
California Uilleann Pipes and whistle Irish Ear Most all of No. Five, in about equal parts. Precious few tunes from teachers, though. Precious few teachers.
1) Arizona USA
2) Banjo (but also dabble in mandolin, fiddle, bass guitar, piano and drums for the simple joy of it)
3) If my i-pod is any indication, 70% Irish, the rest a hodge-podge of everything from the Foo Fighters to the Ohio Players and even a little backwoods country-n-western.
4) Learn by ear -
5) - from CD's or from friends with an occasional ABC file thrown in for bad measure.
1. Wes Vinglun, UK, where I was born.
2. Fiddle/violin (progress satisfactory), D/G box (learner), cello (very experienced). Also piano (not much now) and classical guitar (many years ago).
3. Classical (from baroque to modern), and Irish and English trad (including Morris).
4. Mostly by ear, but also from sheet music if there is no other source available.
5. Mostly sessions and tune workshops, but sometimes from sheet music.
1. Denver, CO, USA
2. Tenor Banjo
3. Irish Traditional, almost exclusively these days.
4. Ear, with occasional reference to ABC
5. Friends, Sessions, Session recordings, and the occasional commercial recording
1) Dublin, Ireland, sometimes East Galway, but now live in Brokeland, CA
2) Mandolin/Tenor banjo
3) trad
4) by ear/ABC's
5) recordings/internet/sessions
1) Seattle, Washington, USA
2) Flute (also old-time banjo, hammered dulcimer, clarinet)
3) Irish trad, mostly, a smattering of other folk traditions
4) Mostly by ear, but am a fluent sight reader (I never bring the book to sessions)
5) Recordings, internet, sessions
1) Central Poland
2) Guitar, flute
3) Play: Breton, jazz manouche, musette; listen to: many
4) by ear and from memory (great fun!)
5) internet, recordings
1 scot living in England
2 voice, absolute beginner's harp
3 Scottish/Irish trad but trying expand slightly vocally
4 Vocally by ear - dots for the harp
5 sessions, song circles, cds
1 Guernsey now in North London UK
2 Bezuki ( I like the alternative spelling )
3 Eclectic
4 Stave and ear
5 sessions and cds
and partner is;
1 New York now North London
2 Flute/whistles
3 like me
4 like me
5 like me. ( Well, she would, wouldn't she ).
1] Hampshire, England
2] Tenor Banjo
3] Trad Irish
4] Ear, CD, recordings but sometimes from dots, then look up recordings to get variations and 'twiddly-bits'
5] Pick up tunes at sessions, but usually then look up recordings to practice at home - also avid listener to clare.fm podcasts daily/in-car to select good tunes/sets, then learn direct from podcast at home later, or buy CD if really impressed with a set, so I can get the rest of the tracks
1) Scotland, wester-ross
2) Tenor banjo, guitar, mandolin, voice
3) STM ITM bluegrass, old time, americana, folk and many others
4) Notation, abc and ear
5) recordings, sessions, pals, collections and online, the radio
1) Manchester, NH - USA
2) Mountain Dulcimer, mandolin, guitar (and many other international folk instruments)
3) Pan-Celtic Folk (i.e. not one Celtic country in particular), International folk, Mediaeval/Rennaisance
4) stave notation, tablature, ear
5) internet, tune books, recordings(cd & vinal), anywhere I can get notation/words.
1) Galloway, Scotland
2) Whistle, Octave Mandolin & just starting on Uilleann Pipes
3) playing - Irish/Scottish, listening - anything bar C&W
4) whatever it takes - by ear, face to face with someone though I can't pick something up by ear at session speed, slowing recordings down, dots, and various combinations of the above
5) cd's/mp3's, video streams on websites like TG4 / BBC iPayer / Scoiltrad / Youtube, teachers/other players & Books
1) from Pittsburgh USA - in Canberra 10 years; in Perth (Aus) 9 before that
2) fiddle (and others)
3) mainly Irish Trad in recent years - I've gone off other musics for now
4) combo of ear and dots
5) sessions, The Session, recordings, tunebooks
1) York (is there another one?)
2) Fiddle, Diatonic button accordeon (well - I actually call it a melodeon) and guitar.
3) Largely the folk music of the British Isles.
4) Dots, abc and ear.
5) T'Interweb Thingy, sessions, workshops, band practice and playing with friends.
New Eltham, Kent (OK then south London) UK
Whistle plus learning other things incl piano
ITM
Some sheet music also ears
CDs, youtube, this and other websites
Do you plan to go down through this discussion and type the info into a spreadsheet? Why not use something like survey money if you plan to be serious about this , otherwise you are wasting your time
2. bodhran/spoons/shakey egg (gave up fiddle and viola years ago)
3. Trad Irish Music (sic)
4. always dots, aided by metronome (without the ornaments)
5. sheet music and midi files
1. ) Currently based in the county of Lancashire, Northwest England
2. ) Whatever is within reach, and often times just lilting. I love most musical instruments in the right hands, which doesn't necessarily mean my hands. If I lost the use of my hands, and lost my voice, I would still be making tunes in my head, though others may not hear them. They are there now as I type, and they are available whenever I need them.
3. ) Whatever takes my fancy, and sometimes just plucked out of the air or delivered by the fairies and other powers at nature's command.
4. ) By osmosis, through the ears mostly, but I also enjoy and value several forms of notation, including dots and ABCs, and I love exploring different takes on a melody. But, I learn best from a friend, live, and definitely a form of osmosis, as much more is shared and learned than just pitch, rhythm and twiddles. I also learn by physical involvement, movement, rhythm ~ including through dance ~ and from the heart, but a balance between heart and mind...
5. ) See the previous, but I enjoy a good listen wherever it comes from, if preferring live over everything else. Sadly, most of my most valued live sources have long since passed out of this existence. Most of my tunes were/are #4, blessed by the hospitality, generosity, humour and character of others. But I see no need to limit ones resources, I travel through life with open ears and, generally, an open heart... However, to be honest, sessions are not a favoured source...
As far as collecting data goes, this must be painful. How are you going to compile it all? I guess there must be some software that would pull it all from the webpage for you. If not, fuggetaboutit.
1&2: username
3: this music, you know, the one that's mentioned on the home page
4: any/all tools with the ears in charge
5: don't discriminate
Re answer ( 2 );
I don't think one instrument is enough; what about "Er Indoors, who goes out to a session with a shopping bag full of whistles, flute, ukulele, washboard, bones, spoons, and jews harp, and sometimes a banjo over her shoulder too ( 5-string, NOT tenor ) ?
Even I, that no longer takes a guitar to a session, will have bezuki, concertina, and bodhran for our regular meets.
1. Oregon, USA
2. Fiddle
3. Irish, Old-time
4. Whatever works
5. Friends, earworms
I, alas, am only a semi-permeable membrane.
Please, I would like the snazzy thesession.org tote bag, the water bottle, AND the 100-CD set of "The Chieftains Play Everything With Everybody In A Manner That Nods At Tradition."
Oregon Coast.
Uilleann Pipes, whistle, mandolin, guitar, voice.
Irish tunes, a few old timey tunes, Irish and American folksongs.
Ear mainly, occasionally I refer to dots.
I learn tunes and songs from old recordings, people, rivers, trees, birds, mountains, the wind and the ocean.
Well, despite the possibility of raising some hackles with the instruments :
1) Minneapolis MN USA area
2) hammered dulcimer, whistles, English Concertina, B/C box probably in order of skill.
3) Various kinds of trad music depending on what catches my ear
4) dots are easy for me, but I try to do most of my trad learning by ear. (Let's not have that discussion again just yet )
5) Recordings, friends, reading sessions by myself, internet (dots and sounds not MIDIs) and whatever else.
Osmosis requires a strong solution and a weak solution. As with money, water moves only from weak to strong. Now there's a conundrum. Or is that a carborundum. Illegitimes non carborundum.
I just liked the analogy of the fact that in sea esturies plant life survives where osmosis happens in the reverse way. So you start off as a weak musical force but as the years go by it builds untill the flow reverses maybe; I like that : ) maybe some day
- Galicia (Spain)
- Flute
- I listen to almost all kinds of music. Play just Irish and Galician Trad. music
- Use to learn using stave notation and also hearing recordings
- Internet
Western Massachusetts, USA
12 and 6-string guitar
Trad Irish/Scottish, Cape Bretton, Contra, Quebecois
By ear, I don't read music
Sessions, friends, recordings
2) All instruments are as one with me. I play them all. I am an expert on all, for I am monarch of all instruments I survey.
3) I invented all forms of music.
4) All tunes are learned from me, yea, though even as a backer I am the ultimate "glue".
5) I am the tunes and they are me. However, I am available for weddings, christenings, bar mitzvahs, ritual humiliations and many other social events in East Clare.
1. North Little Rock, Arkansas
2. Piano and bass
3. Anything and everything
4. Sheet music (dots) and listening by ear
5. Books, recordings, and sessions
1) California, US
2) Flute
3) Irish Trad
4) Strictly by ear. I broke the dots habit.
5) Anywhere and everywhere. Sessions, friends, teacher, recordings.
1) California, US
2) Fiddle, Guitar
3) Play mostly Irish on fiddle, blues and swing on guitar, listen to everything, but mostly alt rock nowadays
4) Sheet music tempered by listening to how players actually play it.
5) My teacher plus a few books and, of course, The Session. I actively seek out tunes I like from the aforementioned resources, of course.
1. Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2. Fiddle, guitar
3. Irish on fiddle, all styles on guitar. listen to everything and everything, but mostly trad.
4. I learn mostly by ear, reinforced by dots.
5. I get most of my tunes from sessions, then CDs, then sheet music in that order.
1; me house
2; me Pipes
3; me trad
4; Tascam DR-07 PDR (o yea)
5; initially, anywhere where there was good shteam. at this moment just from the playing of Mc Sherry & O Duinnchinn.
1) Central New Jersey
2) Fiddle
3) Irish, Scottish, Breton, French Canadian, probably in that order
4) Depends on why I'm learning it - notes if I can find them, ear if I'm absorbing
5) Everywhere. You tube, iTunes, fellow musicians, radio, CDs, books.
1. Franklin County in Massachusetts (in the Connecticut River Valley).
2. Fiddle
3. Mostly contra and Swedish dance music
4. Listening, imitating, remembering and mis-remembering, reading.
5. Any and all sources, but mostly from friends or because of them.
A "thesession.org" poll, please take!
A "thesession.org" poll, please take!
I just thought I would try and get an idea of the backround of the general users of this website, I might put up this poll again once or twice later in the year .
If you could leave a comment saying
1) what country, county/state your from.
2) your instrument
(I know people play more than one so please pick your favourite or the one you play the most).
3) What type of music you listen/play the the most (i.e Irish Trad, Scottish Trad, Breton, Northumbian etc.)
4) How do you learn tunes (if not an accompanying) (i.e ABC, stave notation, by ear or other - please list all)
5) where do you get most of your tunes ( cd's, internet, sessions, teacher etc - please list all ways).
I'd ask as people as possible to do the poll so I can get a more accurate result thanks!
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by premier
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Co.Tipperary, Ireland
Flute
Irish Trad
By ear, staff notation
Cd's, sessions
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by premier
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It might help if you explain why you want this information--how you intend to use it.
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by Will Harmon
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Co Clare Ireland
Fiddle/pipes/guitar
Trad all the way.
Ear/staff
friends/ sessions/cds/books
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by piobagusfidil
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Well I'll post the info. up on the thesesssion.org for thesesssion.org and for nothing else,
it should be interesting to see the results with such a wide variety of musicians using the site.
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by premier
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1) England, now living in Wales
2) Mandolin
3) Irish (due to circumstances, I now actually play more of other genres music than Irish, but Irish tunes still make up the greater part of my repertoire, and I am more familiar with that genre than any other).
4) By ear, staff notation
5) In order of prevalence: Sessions, recordings, one-to-one (from friends etc), internet, tunebooks, workshops
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by CreadurMawnOrganig
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3)...by which, of course, I mean Irish *Traditional* Music
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by CreadurMawnOrganig
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1)..and, to be more specific, London, now living in Powys, Mid Wales.
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by CreadurMawnOrganig
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Co Clare Ireland
Fiddle/Mandolin/Guitar
Irish Trad.
Ear/Staff
Sessions/Recordings/Books
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by Bernie
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1) Babylon
2) Vulcan Arse Flute/ Trouser Changer
3) Bebop/ Jesus & Mary Chain/ Val Doonican
4) I don’t; I noodle all the time and polish up my hotw*ter bottle collection but I find Larry Adler speaking to me from beyond the grave in Klingon quite handy- who wouldn't?
5) Radio 3, Cilla Black’s Greatest Hits, off the labels on the back of wig glue tubes & packets
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by yhaalhouse
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1) Born in Cobh, Co.Cork/ raised in the U.S.
2) Flute
3)ITM
4) Bring a recorder to the session and practice tunes at home by ear, and I can figure out sheet music only if I know the tune well.
5) Sessions, cds, and here. I like to pick the version I like best to play.
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by pipersgrip
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The Netherlands
Fiddle
Classical music, modern rock music, Irish trad
By ear, staff notation
Cd's, sessions, tune books
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by Henk Bos
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1) London (ENGLAND, not bloody Ontario)
2) Fiddle (and whistle sometimes)
3) Irish
4) By ear, unless I absolutely can't find a recording or someone to teach me it
5) Sessions, one-to-one, recordings, this website, tunebooks...
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by Joe CSS
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Texas, USA
Accordion
Irish right now but it changes every few months
staff notation/by ear (I have to use both to get it right)
internet and books
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by Gringo
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County Cook, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Box, Whistle
Irish Trad
by ear, by spots, by abc
Teacher primarily, some by CD,
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by zippydw
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1) Perthshire, Scotland
2) Mandolin
3) Scottish
4) Ear, staff
5) Records, sessions, friends
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by nigelg
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1) Giessen, Germany
2) Flute (at times whistle)
3) irish
4) by ear, only sometimes by dots
5) CD, friends, session
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by brotherstorm
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Fairfield County, Connecticut USA
Box
ITM
dots
cds, sessions, books etc
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by Threewood
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San Francisco, (a small nation on the west coast of the USA)
Concertina, flute, whistle, bodhran
Irish trad, but a long and sorted musical history covering many genres and styles
A variety of sources being primarily by ear from people and or recordings of people but not excluding notations
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by Phantom Button
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1) Russia, Moscow
2) whistle
3) listen to metal, play ITM
4) mostly staff
5) internet, sessions
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by Elvellon
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"Your instrument - please pick your favourite..."
My nose, without a shadow of doubt. I pick it 24 / 7, which is a lot more hours than I put in on any other instrument.
The nose was created almost exactly in the middle of the bygone century. It is quite likely in old pitch, but I have never got round to taking it to a tuner. Its scale is highly indeterminate and its melodic range varies considerably from season to season, those of winter chest colds and of summer hay fever evincing something like extremes of depth and height in the notes produced. There may be tenuous similarities with the music of the Turkish hammaluk, gez or nusrat, but I have yet to investigate this, just having made these up.
The presence of notable amounts of house dust mite excreta is the most reliable guarantor of a sustained and energetic performance. At concerts, my fans compete with one another to tip out sacks of the stuff at my feet; that way they get a guaranteed encore, whether I've actually wanted to do one or not.
More general feedback, however, is vastly in agreement that the music of my proboscis neither entertains nor elevates, but solely disconcerts. I find myself, therefore, the bearer of a harried and marginalised tradition. The crass majority spurns it, for what even I concede are pretty clear reasons, while I am fated to perpetuate it, and must therefore belabour my brains to fabricate the most fantastical reasons for doing so.
And then, i suppose, I can call myself a Traditional Folk Nasalist and get grants and handkerchiefs and stuff.
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by nicholas
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I’ll play along.
1. Georgia, USA
2. Fiddle (I play guitar more, but for diddley, I prefer fiddle.)
3. Irish Trad (but I listen to just as much classical, maybe more.)
4. 98% by ear, 2% stave notation
5. CD’s, Internet, friends
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by Bob himself
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Well, here's a link back to a sort of similar poll of about 3 years ago - http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/14732
Or maybe a snapshot in time - who looked in on one day or so and chose to participate.
The problem Premier with this sort of thing is apart from obstinate sorts who don't think it's anyones business is that there is no sticky facility (perhaps thankfully) on thesession.org, so your survey will rapidly drift off the radar by tomorrow by which time only a tiny proportion of the members here will have seen it - so it's kinda futile
Anyway just so I can't be accused of being an obstinate *boll*x*
Ireland - southeast
That's tricky - whistle, flute, concertina in any order.
mostly trad but I'll happily play any ditty that infiltrates.
ear mostly but if I get lazy or frustrated I'll look up a tune book or abc's here.
friends, sessions, recordings
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by the wounded hussar
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Premierflute ~ when you do your repeats you might consider doing them one point at a time... Good luck with your polls...
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by ceolachan
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1) Beyond the Sun
2) Didjerizoo (a cross between didgeridoo and kazoo)
3) Solo North Albanian juice harp music
4) 90% intravenous, 10% skin absorption
5) Directly from North Albanian juice harpists, which I convert to didjerizoo. ABBA's Greatest Hits.
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by Jimmy B
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1) Upper Volta, mailing address in USA
2) Cauld Wind Glockenspiel (defies description, you have to see it)
3) Progressive Raga
4) I assimilate them with the incense I burn while chanting ancient Pre-Christian Welsh mantras in Afrikaans.
5) I brazenly steal them and take all the credit, I even rename them and claim their authorship- Fear me if you dare!!
Muah-ha-ha-ha!!
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by Piece
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Glasgow
flute
Play: Irish trad & some Scottish, English & French.
Listen to: (besides the aforementioned): all sorts; at present The Beatles Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, JS Bach, LV Beethoven...
ear
sessions mostly, nowadays
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by Rudall the time
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1) Indiana, USA
2) flute
3) Irish trad
4) ear, notation
5) sessions, CDs, friends, classes
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by mcswiss
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Co Clare Ireland
Bodhran/ voice
Irish Trad.
Ear
Sessions/Recordings/Books
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by RockyRoader
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1. Belfast / Glengormley
2. Fiddle (+ pipes beginner)
3. Irish Trad
4. Ear, abc
5. Local music club, one- on one with friends, cds
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by richrua
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JW:
> Bring a recorder to the session and ...
You'll find you get a better reception from your fellows if you leave the recorder and take up the tin whistle. Recorders are SOOoo post-baroque.
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by Alex Wilding
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I think I meant nouveau-baroque.
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by Alex Wilding
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1/ Co,Antrim N.Ireland
2/ Fiddle
3/ Irish trad
4/ Was by Ear Taped session's, now find ABc listen to Midi More
5/ Was Cd's/session's, Now Internet More
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by FIDDLE4
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Damn. OK, you've outed me. So here it is: Daniel O'Donnell is my all. Happy now?
# Posted on April 12th 2010 by Steve Shaw
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FWIW
(and in homage to Jeremy for doing a little housecleaning on this thread, thank you!)
1) Helena, Montana, USA
2) Fiddle (mandolin, flute, tenor banjo, guitar)
3) Irish traditional music (also teach rock, blues, folk, bluegrass, old timey)
4) Ear (also teach by ear and use dots, abcs, and tab)
5) Friends and at sessions
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Will Harmon
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1) Originally Colorado but now Glasgow
2) Uilleann pipes and whistle]
3)Irish trad and Scottish trad.
4)Ear
5)CDs (well, really Mp3s these days), sessions, friends, Internet
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by DrSilverSpear
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1. Rhode Island, USA (dampest state in the union these days!)
2. Whistle (accordion, guitar, harmonica, none especially well).
3. Irish, but Scots and American, too.
4. Ear, supplemented by dots (but I only use dots in the privacy of my own home).
5. Session, and sometimes CDs or radio (but mostly I just learn tunes my friends play).
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by AlBrown
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California Uilleann Pipes and whistle Irish Ear Most all of No. Five, in about equal parts. Precious few tunes from teachers, though. Precious few teachers.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Atahualpa Quigley
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Make of the above what you will.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Atahualpa Quigley
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1) Arizona USA
2) Banjo (but also dabble in mandolin, fiddle, bass guitar, piano and drums for the simple joy of it)
3) If my i-pod is any indication, 70% Irish, the rest a hodge-podge of everything from the Foo Fighters to the Ohio Players and even a little backwoods country-n-western.
4) Learn by ear -
5) - from CD's or from friends with an occasional ABC file thrown in for bad measure.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
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1. Wes Vinglun, UK, where I was born.
2. Fiddle/violin (progress satisfactory), D/G box (learner), cello (very experienced). Also piano (not much now) and classical guitar (many years ago).
3. Classical (from baroque to modern), and Irish and English trad (including Morris).
4. Mostly by ear, but also from sheet music if there is no other source available.
5. Mostly sessions and tune workshops, but sometimes from sheet music.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Trevor Jennings
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New Zealand
Flute/Cello
Irish /Folk
Play mainly by Ear
Sessions Sessions and more Sessions
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by frogeyes
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1. Denver, CO, USA
2. Tenor Banjo
3. Irish Traditional, almost exclusively these days.
4. Ear, with occasional reference to ABC
5. Friends, Sessions, Session recordings, and the occasional commercial recording
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Reverend
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1. Sydney, Australia
2. Tenor Banjo
3. Irish Traditional
4. By ear
5. From friends or recordings
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by camwebby
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Tacoma, WA, USA
Fiddle
Irish Traditional, Cape Breton, Quebecois, Cuban, 20's jazz
Ear
Friends, recordings
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by John Culhane
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1) Dublin, Ireland, sometimes East Galway, but now live in Brokeland, CA
2) Mandolin/Tenor banjo
3) trad
4) by ear/ABC's
5) recordings/internet/sessions
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by triplet upstairs
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1) Seattle, Washington, USA
2) Flute (also old-time banjo, hammered dulcimer, clarinet)
3) Irish trad, mostly, a smattering of other folk traditions
4) Mostly by ear, but am a fluent sight reader (I never bring the book to sessions)
5) Recordings, internet, sessions
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by mkchen
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1) Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
2) Tenor Banjo/Mandolin
3) Trad tunes, pub songs
4) by ear, but tabs if I want to get it quick.
5) bandmates/internet
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by CleverName
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Reverend isn't being completely honest about learning tunes. (He already knows them all.)
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Will Harmon
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1) Central Poland
2) Guitar, flute
3) Play: Breton, jazz manouche, musette; listen to: many
4) by ear and from memory (great fun!)
5) internet, recordings
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Janek
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1) Northern California, USA
2) Fiddle, Octave Mandolin (mandolin, guitar, clawhammer banjo)
3) Irish Traditional/Old-Time
4) by ear and from notes when absolutely necessary
5) recordings, sessions
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by fiddlerdan
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1) Berks England
2) Fiddle ( GHB, Uilleann pipes, whistle, guitar)
3) IT
4) Ear, Staff for GHB
5) CDs, internet, piping books
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by gam
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Leitrim
Guitar
ITM
Ear
CDs/Sessions
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by John McCartin
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England, but I'm considering retirement options
Flute, whistle
Mainly irish, but am open minded
Dots at home (laziness), ear at sessions
Sessions
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by minijackpot
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1. Galloway, Scotland
2. Fiddle, baroque violin, mandolin, OM, guitar
3. Scottish trad, Irish trad, early music, everything else except country & western.
4. combination of ears and dots.
5. Sessions/cds.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by skreech
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1 scot living in England
2 voice, absolute beginner's harp
3 Scottish/Irish trad but trying expand slightly vocally
4 Vocally by ear - dots for the harp
5 sessions, song circles, cds
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by jfother
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1 Guernsey now in North London UK
2 Bezuki ( I like the alternative spelling )
3 Eclectic
4 Stave and ear
5 sessions and cds
and partner is;
1 New York now North London
2 Flute/whistles
3 like me
4 like me
5 like me. ( Well, she would, wouldn't she ).
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
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1 Bretagne
2 Flute
3 Irish, Breton, Scottish
4 by ear
5 cd's, internet, sessions, teacher...
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Bran Ruz
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Hartlepool , UK now Angers, France
Cittern
Irish trad ,Phillip Glass, music from Mali
both ears
sessions CDs MP3s
tootey Herself
Vendee France now Angers France
Flute Whistle
Irish French Breton African music
Ear and sometimes dots
Sessions CDs
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by bazouki dave
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1) USA (Maryland)
2) flute
3) Irish trad
4) by ear; occasionally use staff notation to fill in missing gaps in trickier tunes
5) session, friends, CDs
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Jason G
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1) Nova Scotia, Canada
2) Fiddle, piano
3) Cape Breton, Irish, Scottish, classical
4) ear, notation
5) recordings, sessions, teachers/workshops, tune books, internet
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by jsmith
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WV, USA
fiddle
old time
ear
all the ways you listed
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by oriley
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1] Hampshire, England
2] Tenor Banjo
3] Trad Irish
4] Ear, CD, recordings but sometimes from dots, then look up recordings to get variations and 'twiddly-bits'
5] Pick up tunes at sessions, but usually then look up recordings to practice at home - also avid listener to clare.fm podcasts daily/in-car to select good tunes/sets, then learn direct from podcast at home later, or buy CD if really impressed with a set, so I can get the rest of the tracks
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Enob
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1) Scotland, wester-ross
2) Tenor banjo, guitar, mandolin, voice
3) STM ITM bluegrass, old time, americana, folk and many others
4) Notation, abc and ear
5) recordings, sessions, pals, collections and online, the radio
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Solidmahog
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1) Manchester, NH - USA
2) Mountain Dulcimer, mandolin, guitar (and many other international folk instruments)
3) Pan-Celtic Folk (i.e. not one Celtic country in particular), International folk, Mediaeval/Rennaisance
4) stave notation, tablature, ear
5) internet, tune books, recordings(cd & vinal), anywhere I can get notation/words.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Kavik
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1) Galloway, Scotland
2) Whistle, Octave Mandolin & just starting on Uilleann Pipes
3) playing - Irish/Scottish, listening - anything bar C&W
4) whatever it takes - by ear, face to face with someone though I can't pick something up by ear at session speed, slowing recordings down, dots, and various combinations of the above
5) cd's/mp3's, video streams on websites like TG4 / BBC iPayer / Scoiltrad / Youtube, teachers/other players & Books
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by markt123
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1) from Pittsburgh USA - in Canberra 10 years; in Perth (Aus) 9 before that
2) fiddle (and others)
3) mainly Irish Trad in recent years - I've gone off other musics for now
4) combo of ear and dots
5) sessions, The Session, recordings, tunebooks
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Hup
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1) York (is there another one?)
2) Fiddle, Diatonic button accordeon (well - I actually call it a melodeon) and guitar.
3) Largely the folk music of the British Isles.
4) Dots, abc and ear.
5) T'Interweb Thingy, sessions, workshops, band practice and playing with friends.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Ebor_fiddler
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Do we go into a draw for movie tickets or a meat tray?
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Hup
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Why has no-one mentioned osmosis? OK, I will then. Osmosis.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Steve Shaw
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1) USA, Fairfax County, Virginia
2) mandolin
3) Irish Trad
4) dots and ears
5) Cd's, sessions, workshops
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Jiml
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New Eltham, Kent (OK then south London) UK
Whistle plus learning other things incl piano
ITM
Some sheet music also ears
CDs, youtube, this and other websites
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by 'S dat you, O'Flibberty?
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With all due respect
Do you plan to go down through this discussion and type the info into a spreadsheet? Why not use something like survey money if you plan to be serious about this , otherwise you are wasting your time
Bryan
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by skooter500
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- "Reverend isn't being completely honest about learning tunes. (He already knows them all.)"
Ha! Yeah... All 350 of them!
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Reverend
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1) Oslo, Norway
2) Concertina/fiddle
3) Irish trad
4) Ear and dots
5) Sessions, recordings.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by snorre
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1. Forrest Road, Edinburgh
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by domhnall.
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2. bodhran/spoons/shakey egg (gave up fiddle and viola years ago)
3. Trad Irish Music (sic)
4. always dots, aided by metronome (without the ornaments)
5. sheet music and midi files
in loco Lligis
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by domhnall.
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1. ) Currently based in the county of Lancashire, Northwest England
2. ) Whatever is within reach, and often times just lilting. I love most musical instruments in the right hands, which doesn't necessarily mean my hands. If I lost the use of my hands, and lost my voice, I would still be making tunes in my head, though others may not hear them. They are there now as I type, and they are available whenever I need them.
3. ) Whatever takes my fancy, and sometimes just plucked out of the air or delivered by the fairies and other powers at nature's command.
4. ) By osmosis, through the ears mostly, but I also enjoy and value several forms of notation, including dots and ABCs, and I love exploring different takes on a melody. But, I learn best from a friend, live, and definitely a form of osmosis, as much more is shared and learned than just pitch, rhythm and twiddles. I also learn by physical involvement, movement, rhythm ~ including through dance ~ and from the heart, but a balance between heart and mind...
5. ) See the previous, but I enjoy a good listen wherever it comes from, if preferring live over everything else. Sadly, most of my most valued live sources have long since passed out of this existence. Most of my tunes were/are #4, blessed by the hospitality, generosity, humour and character of others. But I see no need to limit ones resources, I travel through life with open ears and, generally, an open heart... However, to be honest, sessions are not a favoured source...
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by ceolachan
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Ceolachan and I are basically just semi-permeable membranes.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Steve Shaw
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1) London, England originally, Co. Cork, Ireland since 1986.
2) Fiddle
3) Irish trad, classical sometimes.
4) By ear, staff notation.
5) sessions, recordings, books.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by cathycook
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As far as collecting data goes, this must be painful. How are you going to compile it all? I guess there must be some software that would pull it all from the webpage for you. If not, fuggetaboutit.
1&2: username
3: this music, you know, the one that's mentioned on the home page
4: any/all tools with the ears in charge
5: don't discriminate
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
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I don't think it would be too difficult using an excel spreadsheet - each category with a list of options. You could do simple stats and charts also.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Rudall the time
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Re answer ( 2 );
I don't think one instrument is enough; what about "Er Indoors, who goes out to a session with a shopping bag full of whistles, flute, ukulele, washboard, bones, spoons, and jews harp, and sometimes a banjo over her shoulder too ( 5-string, NOT tenor ) ?
Even I, that no longer takes a guitar to a session, will have bezuki, concertina, and bodhran for our regular meets.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
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1. Vermont, USA
2. Mandolin, tenor banjo, voice
3. Any music I like
4. Ears & occasionally notes
5. Friends and recordings
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by primrose lass
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Well sure danny, but manual data entry? zzz...
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
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1) Michigan, USA
2) fiddle
3) Irish
4) by ear and dot
5) friends & recordings
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by fidkid
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1. Farley's Rusk
2. Ch. Leoville Barton 1996
3. Penny Farthing
4. Dark Side Of The Moon
5. Ted Heath
Please email me for address details if I win the meat tray.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Mike Floorstand
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1. Oregon, USA
2. Fiddle
3. Irish, Old-time
4. Whatever works
5. Friends, earworms
I, alas, am only a semi-permeable membrane.
Please, I would like the snazzy thesession.org tote bag, the water bottle, AND the 100-CD set of "The Chieftains Play Everything With Everybody In A Manner That Nods At Tradition."
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Michele Sims
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Oregon Coast.
Uilleann Pipes, whistle, mandolin, guitar, voice.
Irish tunes, a few old timey tunes, Irish and American folksongs.
Ear mainly, occasionally I refer to dots.
I learn tunes and songs from old recordings, people, rivers, trees, birds, mountains, the wind and the ocean.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Gone to work
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Co Antrim
Mandolin
Irish folk/trad
Ear
Sessions
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by bodhran bliss
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Denbigh North Wales (UK)
Mandolin
Irish Trad
Ear
Internet / cd's
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by weebag
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Southampton
banjo
Irish trad and Zeppelin
Teacher (and osmosis- which works both ways and has no sense of direction)
Teacher session session.org
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Eòsaph
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Well, despite the possibility of raising some hackles with the instruments
:
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1) Minneapolis MN USA area
2) hammered dulcimer, whistles, English Concertina, B/C box probably in order of skill.
3) Various kinds of trad music depending on what catches my ear
4) dots are easy for me, but I try to do most of my trad learning by ear. (Let's not have that discussion again just yet
5) Recordings, friends, reading sessions by myself, internet (dots and sounds not MIDIs) and whatever else.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by cboody
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Osmosis requires a strong solution and a weak solution. As with money, water moves only from weak to strong. Now there's a conundrum. Or is that a carborundum. Illegitimes non carborundum.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Steve Shaw
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I just liked the analogy of the fact that in sea esturies plant life survives where osmosis happens in the reverse way. So you start off as a weak musical force but as the years go by it builds untill the flow reverses maybe; I like that : ) maybe some day
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Eòsaph
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I realise its counter intuitive which blows my analogy out of the estuary ha ha but it was nice to recolect a bit of biology.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Eòsaph
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By my osmosis analogy the more musical force you gain the more you absorb!
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Eòsaph
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- Galicia (Spain)
- Flute
- I listen to almost all kinds of music. Play just Irish and Galician Trad. music
- Use to learn using stave notation and also hearing recordings
- Internet
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by euoar
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When the flow reverses, doesn't that mean you start forgetting the tunes you learned?
Then I believe the process is called lossmosis.
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Mike Floorstand
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Western Massachusetts, USA
12 and 6-string guitar
Trad Irish/Scottish, Cape Bretton, Contra, Quebecois
By ear, I don't read music
Sessions, friends, recordings
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by Celtic Guitar
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1) Gisborne, New Zealand
2) Flute
3) Irish Trad, then Scottish second
4) dots mostly. occasionally by ear
5) cd's, internet, friends
# Posted on April 14th 2010 by Bredna
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Mike F.
Ha Ha - whatever its called- mines chronic
# Posted on April 14th 2010 by Eòsaph
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1) Boston, MA (USA)
2) fiddle, flute
3) classical, 90%; trad, jazz, rock, 10%
4) dots
5) internet
# Posted on April 14th 2010 by Greg the Piano Tuner
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LOL @ "lossmosis." Brilliant! Glad to finally have a diagnosis!
# Posted on April 14th 2010 by Will Harmon
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1) Milan (I)
2) violin - viola - guitar
3) progressive rock - itm
4) dots
5) every source is just fine
# Posted on April 14th 2010 by fiddlemax
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1) California, USA
2) Violin
3) Scottish and Cape Breton
4) Dots, simple tunes by ear
5) Books and sessions
# Posted on April 14th 2010 by serenity8286
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1) I inhabit my own galaxy.
2) All instruments are as one with me. I play them all. I am an expert on all, for I am monarch of all instruments I survey.
3) I invented all forms of music.
4) All tunes are learned from me, yea, though even as a backer I am the ultimate "glue".
5) I am the tunes and they are me. However, I am available for weddings, christenings, bar mitzvahs, ritual humiliations and many other social events in East Clare.
# Posted on April 15th 2010 by MacCruiskeen
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1. North Little Rock, Arkansas
2. Piano and bass
3. Anything and everything
4. Sheet music (dots) and listening by ear
5. Books, recordings, and sessions
# Posted on April 15th 2010 by fauxcelt
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1) Hertfordshire, UK
2) Mandolin, tin whistle, guitar, bodhran, fiddle, tenor banjo, bouzouki
3) Folk, Ir/Scot Trad
4) By ear, mostly
5) Internet lists and discussions, sessions, gigs, radio, recordings, books
# Posted on April 15th 2010 by buddhuu
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1) California, US
2) Flute
3) Irish Trad
4) Strictly by ear. I broke the dots habit.
5) Anywhere and everywhere. Sessions, friends, teacher, recordings.
# Posted on April 16th 2010 by ElaineT
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1) California, US
2) Fiddle, Guitar
3) Play mostly Irish on fiddle, blues and swing on guitar, listen to everything, but mostly alt rock nowadays
4) Sheet music tempered by listening to how players actually play it.
5) My teacher plus a few books and, of course, The Session. I actively seek out tunes I like from the aforementioned resources, of course.
# Posted on April 16th 2010 by Resodan
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1. Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2. Fiddle, guitar
3. Irish on fiddle, all styles on guitar. listen to everything and everything, but mostly trad.
4. I learn mostly by ear, reinforced by dots.
5. I get most of my tunes from sessions, then CDs, then sheet music in that order.
# Posted on April 17th 2010 by jwvansteenwyk
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1 . Co Armagh, NI
2. Uilleann pipes
3. Trad
4.Ear, Tunepal,books
5. Other musicians, recordings
# Posted on April 17th 2010 by tommy fegan
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1; me house
2; me Pipes
3; me trad
4; Tascam DR-07 PDR (o yea)
5; initially, anywhere where there was good shteam. at this moment just from the playing of Mc Sherry & O Duinnchinn.
# Posted on April 17th 2010 by Miss Mulligan
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Scotland
Guitar
Irish and Scottish Trad
By ear
spotify + cds
# Posted on April 17th 2010 by JockMacCain
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1) New Jersey, USA
2) Harp
3) Irish Trad
4) All - by ear, ABC, dots
5) Workshops, session friends, CDs
# Posted on April 18th 2010 by drinharp
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1. CA, USA
2. Fiddle
3. Trad Old Time/Trad Irish
4. By ear and dots
5. Sessions, friends, CDs, workshops, books
# Posted on April 18th 2010 by Leendah
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1) MA, USA
2) Mandolin.
3) ITM
4) staff notation from books. Some from ear.
5) books, internet, friends, CDs.
# Posted on April 18th 2010 by abuteague
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1. Mi, USA
2. hammered dulcimer
3. ITM, Old timey
4. By ear and The Amazing Slowdowner
5. Friends, random itunes
# Posted on April 19th 2010 by jrathbun
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1) Vermont/Ontario
2) flute
3) Irish tunes. Mostly from the west coast.
4) by ear and occasionally from dots
5) inspiring friends and colleagues
# Posted on April 19th 2010 by bestcraic
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Newcastle, Australia
Mandolin
Celtic/Australian folk
By ear
CD's
# Posted on April 19th 2010 by tyardy
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Chicago
Cello!!
Celtic/Irish
By ear, and if I can't find a recording, the sheet music
CDs, friends, recordings I take of cool tunes at sessions
# Posted on April 20th 2010 by muhly07
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I'll bite:
1) Central New Jersey
2) Fiddle
3) Irish, Scottish, Breton, French Canadian, probably in that order
4) Depends on why I'm learning it - notes if I can find them, ear if I'm absorbing
5) Everywhere. You tube, iTunes, fellow musicians, radio, CDs, books.
# Posted on April 20th 2010 by wolfhul
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Boston, Massachusetts
Fiddle
Scottish
by ear, dots
Sessions, radio, CD's etc.
# Posted on April 20th 2010 by Twistytie
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1. Franklin County in Massachusetts (in the Connecticut River Valley).
2. Fiddle
3. Mostly contra and Swedish dance music
4. Listening, imitating, remembering and mis-remembering, reading.
5. Any and all sources, but mostly from friends or because of them.
# Posted on April 20th 2010 by Kaynor
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1. Vermont, USA
2. Fiddle
3. Quebecois, Irish Trad
4. Ear, ABCs, staves
5. Performance, session, recordings, web, books, friends, workshops, etc.
# Posted on April 22nd 2010 by HipCzeck