I prefer the old metronome. I can both see and feel where I am in the beat. I find having the physical swinging in my peripheral vision to be much more helpful to me. If I play in say, 4/4, and the measure is a mixture, especially 8th and 16th notes, then when I first start learning a tune I'll mark the middle of the measure so I know that when the pendulum is straight up, I should be half way through the beat. If it's really hard for me I've marked the quarter beat. It's like having my own conductor with the pendulum being the baton. Luckily, the metronome doesn't yell.
@@HannahHarrisCeol 🤔🤣 Clarinet for 9 years in school. For years my anxiety dream was putting my clarinet together, getting out the music and not being able to remember how to play. Baton is up, I'm frozen, mind blank. My playing days were long ago, class of '78, so I don't remember any of it. Or so I thought. When I decided to do this I bought a Concert Series from Fiddlerman, downloaded everything I could find, read everything I could find. I was assuming I was going the tablature route but it made me feel like I was going to be limited, or like I was cheating somehow, so I tried to get both, tabs and notes. The first two days were depressing because I could feel knowledge but couldn't grab it. Third day the flood started and in about ten days it had all come back! I was just amazed. What I miss about playing orchestral type music is when you're playing something, you know it backwards and forwards, it's a piece that slowly picks up speed and then everyone is flying through this music. You are both a part of as well as surrounded by sound. You don't just hear it, you can feel the music vibrating inside you. You almost become part of it. It's like nothing I've experienced when I'm audience. I know I sound like a crazy old lady but it's something I'll never forget.
@@AVToth I know that feeling well! It comes up in playing sessions in Irish music, so must be the group element and playing in community with others :)
I follow Altan (Irish band). I have most of their albums and the only one I haven't liked is the one they did with an orchestra; they were dragging that orchestra around like a dead weight. I had a chance to speak with Claire Friel about it and she said she knew what I meant, and that their accordion player was trying to explain how to play a tune and they just weren't getting it.
Love Altan and Clare! Great musicians :). Coming originally from the classical world myself, it is definitely not an overnight process for getting the feel for the style or even for one project like recording an album! It would be fun to hear an orchestra made up entirely of trad players, but even then I think you'd run into a situation where everyone is playing in their own style and you'd miss a bit of the cohesive sound an orchestra can create. Guess they each have their strengths in their own fields!
I've been in a session with a about 25 musicians playing a tune; the sound is just unbelievable, and a recording doesn't capture the feeling.@@HannahHarrisCeol
💮💗🎋🎄✨♒✨🎋🎄🌙🌠 *Bunaithe ar ghrá amháin. Chuir Dia a Mhac Íosa Críost chun báis inár n-áit. Ansin ar an tríú lá d'ardaigh sé ó na mairbh é.* *Anois, cé go bhfuil Íosa Críost ina aonar. Thug Dia bronntanas saor na beatha síoraí dúinn. Sábhálfaidh agus leigheasfaidh sé tú, má iarrann tú air.* *Má admhaíonn tú le do bhéal an Tiarna Íosa agus má chreideann tú i do chroí gur ardaigh Dia é ó mhairbh* *Tabharfaidh sé beatha shíoraí duit* *(féach suas agus iarr air)*
Thanks Hannah, you are awesome.
a very solid approach.. thanks for the tips...
So glad you enjoyed! What other tips would you like to see?
Great music! Great tips! Thank you for sharing 💜
Thank you, Mary! So glad you enjoyed!
I prefer the old metronome. I can both see and feel where I am in the beat. I find having the physical swinging in my peripheral vision to be much more helpful to me. If I play in say, 4/4, and the measure is a mixture, especially 8th and 16th notes, then when I first start learning a tune I'll mark the middle of the measure so I know that when the pendulum is straight up, I should be half way through the beat. If it's really hard for me I've marked the quarter beat. It's like having my own conductor with the pendulum being the baton. Luckily, the metronome doesn't yell.
I love that analogy, Amy! Had to giggle at the yelling conductor too -- are you coming from the classical world?
@@HannahHarrisCeol 🤔🤣 Clarinet for 9 years in school. For years my anxiety dream was putting my clarinet together, getting out the music and not being able to remember how to play. Baton is up, I'm frozen, mind blank. My playing days were long ago, class of '78, so I don't remember any of it. Or so I thought. When I decided to do this I bought a Concert Series from Fiddlerman, downloaded everything I could find, read everything I could find. I was assuming I was going the tablature route but it made me feel like I was going to be limited, or like I was cheating somehow, so I tried to get both, tabs and notes.
The first two days were depressing because I could feel knowledge but couldn't grab it. Third day the flood started and in about ten days it had all come back! I was just amazed.
What I miss about playing orchestral type music is when you're playing something, you know it backwards and forwards, it's a piece that slowly picks up speed and then everyone is flying through this music. You are both a part of as well as surrounded by sound. You don't just hear it, you can feel the music vibrating inside you. You almost become part of it. It's like nothing I've experienced when I'm audience. I know I sound like a crazy old lady but it's something I'll never forget.
@@AVToth I know that feeling well! It comes up in playing sessions in Irish music, so must be the group element and playing in community with others :)
Another cool video Hannah! What tune are you playing here?
Thanks Steven! The tune is called Burnt Old Man. And then I was lilting Jimmy Ward's part way through. :)
@@HannahHarrisCeol Cool! Thank you very much as ever Hannah.
I follow Altan (Irish band). I have most of their albums and the only one I haven't liked is the one they did with an orchestra; they were dragging that orchestra around like a dead weight. I had a chance to speak with Claire Friel about it and she said she knew what I meant, and that their accordion player was trying to explain how to play a tune and they just weren't getting it.
Love Altan and Clare! Great musicians :). Coming originally from the classical world myself, it is definitely not an overnight process for getting the feel for the style or even for one project like recording an album! It would be fun to hear an orchestra made up entirely of trad players, but even then I think you'd run into a situation where everyone is playing in their own style and you'd miss a bit of the cohesive sound an orchestra can create. Guess they each have their strengths in their own fields!
I've been in a session with a about 25 musicians playing a tune; the sound is just unbelievable, and a recording doesn't capture the feeling.@@HannahHarrisCeol
@@Finarphin agreed! Those are much better experienced in the thick of it in person :)
💮💗🎋🎄✨♒✨🎋🎄🌙🌠 *Bunaithe ar ghrá amháin. Chuir Dia a Mhac Íosa Críost chun báis inár n-áit. Ansin ar an tríú lá d'ardaigh sé ó na mairbh é.*
*Anois, cé go bhfuil Íosa Críost ina aonar. Thug Dia bronntanas saor na beatha síoraí dúinn. Sábhálfaidh agus leigheasfaidh sé tú, má iarrann tú air.* *Má admhaíonn tú le do bhéal an Tiarna Íosa agus má chreideann tú i do chroí gur ardaigh Dia é ó mhairbh* *Tabharfaidh sé beatha shíoraí duit* *(féach suas agus iarr air)*