Tag: irish music
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My thoughts on flutes, let me show you them
This is a writeup of recommendations I made to a friend on what to do if you want to get a flute for trad music playing, especially in a session.
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Some tunes practice tonight
Rossignolet is rapidly becoming my practice flute of choice–at least, as long as I’m not trying to play along with any recording that isn’t actually in A. If I pretend I’m playing a D flute and ignore how I’m actually a fourth up, this flute’s responsiveness is wonderful for just trying to get fingering patterns…
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Reading Grey Larsen's Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle…
… and even though I’m only into Chapter 1 thus far, already I’m finding this thing highly informative. Some of what he’s going over in the first chapter is familiar to me–basic stuff about how time signatures work, for example. And the difference between a tongued note and a slurred one. I remember these things…