bravesentry’s seventy-nine comments

tl;dr: notes with # should be intonated sharper than ther equivalents with b. So the A# in an F# major triad should sound flatter than the Bb in an Ab7. The reason for this lies in the Harmonic series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_%28musi... more…

Hello all, more…

We´ve moved again. Here this time: https://thesession.org/sessions/6672 more…

We´ll be giving this venue a try on the 16th of December but hopefully we´ll move our regular session there, which would be a monthly session, taking place on the 3rd Sunday each month. Starting around 7pm. Mostly a tune session with the occasional song... more…

"So a tune loses its composed status when it becomes a trad tune?" more…

You can´t compose trad tunes. You can compose tunes that fit the idioms. They may become trad tunes if they get picked up by players and spread to different sessions. more…

I once heard of a session where they play Boys of Blue Hill as a reel, which sounds really disgusting. more…

Is this your first whistle/your first instrument at all? Then go for the dixon, I´d say the two-piece one, the reason is that they are reasonably priced and have a high continuity of quality. With Generation whistles for example you have to be lucky to g... more…

@jeff: I´m a long time bodhrán player and singer who has taken up the whistle a few years ago. As such I may be a special case, but with the majority of tunes I don´t have problems singing them and following them through in my head. The problem comes w... more…

Well, I guess the ideal way of learning anything is a teacher who is competent in both the thing and teaching the thing. Also, the teacher-student-relation should be a harmonious one. more…