browndog’s three hundred and eighty-four comments
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Re: Analyse my playing #2
@jeff_lindkvist: Isn't it obvious? It's because he's been to ten different teachers, and they've all told him the same thing, therefore teachers are useless, compared to books. So he came to this august group to hear all the same things, and deem all o... more…
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Re: Improving the abilty to pick up reels on the fly in sessions.
"I heard a session a week ago where for a lot of the time, 1 guy was playing the tune, and others were "noodling". It was scheidt." more…
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Re: Is it considered ‘incorrect’ to not use tonsof ornaments on hornpipes?
Truer words hath scarce been scribed, CMO. more…
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Re: Is it considered ‘incorrect’ to not use tonsof ornaments on hornpipes?
In the liner notes for Sean Maguire's _The Masters Touch_ CD, it is written that in days of yore, *set dances* were the most cherished tunes by master fiddlers because they were said to be the tunes that allowed the fiddler to best show off their virtuosi... more…
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Re: Playing like your influences
Awesome post, Richard D Cook! 🙂 more…
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Re: Cutting or Tonguing?
Hi Olivia, more…
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Re: Cutting or Tonguing?
For starters, your enthusiasm is clearly high, and as such, you should think less about "rules" and simply more about "making music", and listening listening listening and growing into your own style naturally. more…
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Re: Tunes which seem hard/ impossible to play
Yah, that bit is a finger-twister on flute, too, CheekE. more…
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Re: Tunes which seem hard/ impossible to play
Spike Island Lasses nearly broke me... ...until it became one of my favorite tunes ever. more…
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Re: Whistle Questions: Rolls and Accidentals
For your cuts, the way that you are moving toward is likely more beneficial than the way you started. It's been so long since I paid any conscious attention to it, but here is how I recall being taught by Mary Bergin. For notes on the bottom of the tube... more…