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The Drone. Player. A Traditional Music Library of folk music, tune-books, songbooks and sheet music. Irish, Scottish and Appalachian Fiddle Music: Talk and Demonstration. Comhaltas Globally Promotes Traditional Irish Music Dance Culture for Students, Educators, Visitors, Musicians & Journalists. Comhaltas: ComhaltasLive #227 - 1: Attracta Brady - Jigs. Advanced Search ComhaltasLive #227 - 1: Attracta Brady - Jigs Play Current Time 0:00 Duration Time 0:00 Remaining Time -0:00 Stream TypeLIVE Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Fullscreen Mute Playback Rate Subtitles subtitles off Captions captions settingscaptions off Chapters Chapters A selection of jigs played on fiddle by Attracta Brady who was chairperson of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Tullamore in August 2007.

Comhaltas: ComhaltasLive #227 - 1: Attracta Brady - Jigs

Download Audio Date 9 Oct, 2007 Tune The Twins' Delight/McIntyre's Created By Willie Fogarty Source ComhaltasLive This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License. Programme: ComhaltasLive #227: Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2007 RSS Feed (What is this?) Keywords for This Entry Fleadh Cheoil, Fiddle, Guitar, Jig, ComhaltasLive Recent Posts Category Archives.

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Collections. How to Learn a Tune by Ear. Learning to learn tunes by ear is one of the hardest things to do when you're a beginner.

How to Learn a Tune by Ear

It seems terribly intimidating and almost impossible at times—but don't give up! Every good Irish traditional musician learned to do it at some point or other, and we can all relate to your frustration. It's especially hard if you began by learning off of music (the dots, as many players call them). You'll find that most experienced musicians are much more forgiving of your learning curve than perhaps you are yourself, so don't let your embarrassment make you give up. All we can tell you is that you really truly will find that your playing will leap forward in huge amounts if you learn to learn by ear (called "learning aurally").

The advantages of learning aurally are many. Honest. In fact, some of the more snobbish Irish players look with scorn on other players who can only learn off the music (although using printed dots as a tool is usually seen as all right). How to learn tunes by ear. Welcome to The O'Flaherty Irish Music Retreat.

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Traditional Irish Music and Dance on the Dingle Peninsula, Ireland. Click Here for details of traditional music lessons and festivals An expression of praise for any feat in Corca Dhuibhne, the West Kerry Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking area) is "Mo cheol thú" – You are my music!

Traditional Irish Music and Dance on the Dingle Peninsula, Ireland

– which is in itself an indication of the indigenous place music has in the life of the area. Both instrumental music and song have a long tradition on the Dingle Peninsula. In recent times, with the increasing international interest in Irish traditional music, the area has become a mecca for traditional music lovers to the extent that many roving musicians have come to settle in the area and have blended their talents with those of the local native musicians.

For many years the music tradition of the area concentrated on the dance tunes played for the West Kerry Set Dance – mainly polkas, slides (single jigs) and, on occasion, hornpipes. The Kerry Polka reached the international stage with the famous duo performances of Séamus Begley and Steve Cooney.

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Sean Nos. Teetotallers. 04 Clare Reel, The East Clare Reel, Sporting Nell - The Teetotalers. THE TAMLIN - Irish Fiddle Lessons by Ian Walsh. ZOË CONWAY & JOHN Mc INTYRE:'Ringing The Bell'(Fleadh Cheoil 2015-Sligo) ComhaltasLive #481_1:Dublin musicians. Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Captions captions settingscaptions off Dublin musicians L/R - Seán Montgomery, Claire Walsh, Tom Doorley and Eoin Ó Cionnaith, play a selection of reels ( “Over the moor to Maggie” and “The wind that shakes the barley”), at the Cairde Charna unique feast of traditional music, song and dance at Cultúrlann na hÉireann, Dublin on 10th October 2015 to support and promote the very exciting Carna Project in Connemara, Co.

comhaltasLive #481_1:Dublin musicians

Galway. Download Audio] Tune Over the moor to Maggie and The wind that shakes the barley Created By Willie Fogarty Source ComhaltasLive This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License. ComhaltasLive #481_11:Dylan Foley and Jimmy Noonan. ComhaltasLive #441-5: Haley Richardson. Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Captions captions settingscaptions off The current All-Ireland Under-12 Fiddle Champion Haley Richardson from New Jersey, USA plays a reel - “The Bunch of Keys” - at a session at the North American Comhaltas Convention 2014 in Parsippany, New Jersey.

ComhaltasLive #441-5: Haley Richardson

Download Audio Keywords: Convention, Fleadh, Session, Solo, Fiddle, Reel, ComhaltasLive Date 30 June 2014 Tune “The Bunch of Keys” Created By Willie Fogarty Source ComhaltasLive This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License. Trip to Athlone / Cailleach An Airgid / Leg Of the Duck (Irish Jigs) Irish tunes. Learning to play the fiddle. Jeremy Irons shows how. Faoi Lán Cheoil. Mary Custy 1991.