Irish Banjo - Do You Even Know Where To Play Triplets?

[@alfredbarten4901]

Thank, thank you, thank you!!! When, here, why to play ornaments has been a burning question. I'm going to watch this again and again!!

[@danielaruta8816]

Thank you for this instructive lesson.

[@thelastshilling]

Brilliant mindset! Thank you for sharing this!

[@thequietgitfiddler]

Thinking of the tune as a narrative, pauses as a form of ornamentation...very helpful reframing for me.

[@ralphkruger9996]

What a great lesson on making music.

[@jstandley3014]

Brilliant !!! Thank you Enda, a masterclass in ornaments! Your approach (from musicality vs mechanics) makes it easy to understand, remember, and then apply.

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

thank you!

[@Whatzzzz999]

4/4 time:
2 minims (2 to the bar), 4 crotchets (4 to the bar), 8 quavers (8 to the bar), 16 semiquavers (16 to the bar), 12 quaver triplets, 12 to the bar.

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Yeah, it’s the quarter note, eight note vernacular that was new and confusing to me! Coming from a classical piano background.

[@TomMoose]

Fantastic playing and great ideas . Thanks !

[@aoifehorgan3617]

Makes so much sense. Thank you!

[@banjoontheroof8425]

It is really helpful for beginners like me... Thanks

[@BodhranWorld]

thanks for your ideas!

[@JulieStarlingMusic]

Very helpful! Thanks! 😊

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Thanks for watching!

[@MartinCrossin]

Great video 🎶

[@brendanmurphy4866]

This is excellent

[@mattfergoda]

Thanks for all the great content you put on here Enda. I was wondering what banjo head you have on your Oyster here? Almost looks like a Renaissance.

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

That is a Renaissance head, well spotted!

[@DoReMeaCulpa]

I don't even play Irish tenor banjo. But I am watching anyway because I love to hear you play and love sound of this instrument. Well, technically, I can play maybe one or two tunes on a tenor banjo, slowly and probably rather badly. Still, I am thinking that some of these tips could be applied to hammered dulcimer, it being another percussive type of instrument.
Anyways, thanks for the tunes and the teaching.

[@MW92.]

Jaysus enda fair play for the videos. Helping a lot of new banjo players 👍👍

[@andypay8020]

Thanks for the vids Enda, instructive and entertaining. I've always struggled somewhat with triplets, but I reckon that's because I need to be using finer plectrums (plectra?) than the 70s/80s I have, i.e. 50/60, right?

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

I prefer a 0.50 jumbo jazz pick from String Joy. I use them all the time

[@big_dave_7178]

This is really helpful. I wish I could play a triplet without air picking the next note

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Check your pick hold and your pick angle

[@owenllewellyn5692]

Do you use quadruplets when ornamenting jigs? I learned them decades ago and really like the contrast with triplets in jigs. For clarity, quadruplets are 4 notes played - in jigs at least- on 3 quavers (1/8th notes)- i.e. half a bar of a double jig. They have all the intricacies and options that triplets have, but to my ear, seems flow better than the quaver and triplet combinations used often in jigs- they can be used combined with triplets in phrases and work really well. Thanks for the excellent video- lots to try.

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

I try them and they sound awesome. I’d love to cram 6 notes into the 3 if I could pick it fast enough!!

[@moonbeam_base]

Who makes your banjo? (what brand?) Thank you

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

It’s the Oyster model from Clareen Banjos in Galway- www.banjo.ie

[@michaeladams2644]

Wish you were my neighbour ❤

[@tiberiuslallyian]

alright Gary

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

🤦‍♂

[@BenjaminHockenberry]

Nyahhhh!😁

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Hup!