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[ImNotIrish]

A couple of jigs that I love playing. I seem to have lost track of the A and B parts on the second one.... I was playing around some holding notes, not particularly in time. Oh well.....next attempt.
Arbo

http://www.box.net/shared/l4my16eheu

[drewr]

A couple of jigs that I love playing. I seem to have lost track of the A and B parts on the second one.... I was playing around some holding notes, not particularly in time. Oh well.....next attempt.
Arbo

http://www.box.net/shared/l4my16eheu

Good work, Arbo. Outstanding timing/rhythm. Do you play with a tick-track from headphones? Good tone too.

[ImNotIrish]

A couple of jigs that I love playing. I seem to have lost track of the A and B parts on the second one.... I was playing around some holding notes, not particularly in time. Oh well.....next attempt.
Arbo

http://www.box.net/shared/l4my16eheu

Good work, Arbo. Outstanding timing/rhythm. Do you play with a tick-track from headphones? Good tone too.

Thanks. And, nope... the only thing I play to are the loose bits rattling around in my head.
Arbo

[Wanderer]

I got a Dixon flute about a month ago at NTIF.

Here's my poor first effort.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahgntxMffT4

[ImNotIrish]

I got a Dixon flute about a month ago at NTIF.

Here's my poor first effort.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahgntxMffT4

Only a month? New to the flute? Well, I think you have a bright future. I enjoyed your clip. Like the phrasing, choice of tune. Tone, tuning...that will come. I think the fact that you have a 'feeling' for the music is paramount. Look forward to hearing more. By the way, I am going to learn that air.
Arbo

[Denny]

easy there Arbo...he's a ringer http://www.youtube.com/user/gmahan#p/a/u/2/8B7ofJmcJV0

Yer doin' well Greg!


I do have to say that, in my opinion, you need to straighten out your right wrist. (You don't bend it that way when playing whistle)

What it looks like to me is that you've turned in your head joint and are now turning it back out by bending your wrist back. (note: this has always been my issue with the turn the embouchure hole in crowd)

Play just the headjoint.
Find where your lips and the embouchure hole need to be.
Address each tenon as you add parts (put the left hand section where the left hand is happy with the head joint where it was in relationship with your lips)

Play with it for a bit. Look at the alignment when you're done.

[ImNotIrish]

easy there Arbo...he's a ringer http://www.youtube.com/user/gmahan#p/a/u/2/8B7ofJmcJV0

Ah, well....
So, not new to the music. Still, I like the interpretation. I am not going to comment about tone, etc. Based on the first couple of listens, I did identify what I saw as strong elements in the playing.
Arbo

[Denny]

I'm sure that he knows what he wants.
He'll just be a while building the muscles and control is all!

[ImNotIrish]

I'm sure that he knows what he wants.
He'll just be a while building the muscles and control is all!

I was trying to be supportive. I know all to well what's it like to be flailing along on one's own.
Arbo

[Denny]

sorry, me too....

[jemtheflute]

Address each tendon as you add parts (put the left hand section where the left hand is happy with the head joint where it was in relationship with your lips)

Play with it for a bit. Look at the alignment when you're done.

("tenon", I think you meant - though you were on about human rather than flutish anatomy a bit later on....)

[Denny]

that's at least twice now

couldn't ya just fix these things for me?


I can spell joint, maybe I should use that instead.....

[Wanderer]

easy there Arbo...he's a ringer http://www.youtube.com/user/gmahan#p/a/u/2/8B7ofJmcJV0

Yer doin' well Greg!


I do have to say that, in my opinion, you need to straighten out your right wrist. (You don't bend it that way when playing whistle)

What it looks like to me is that you've turned in your head joint and are now turning it back out by bending your wrist back. (note: this has always been my issue with the turn the embouchure hole in crowd)

Play just the headjoint.
Find where your lips and the embouchure hole need to be.
Address each tenon as you add parts (put the left hand section where the left hand is happy with the head joint where it was in relationship with your lips)

Play with it for a bit. Look at the alignment when you're done.

Yeah, I turned the headjoint back out a few days ago and found it a bit more comfortable. I think my biggest reason I tend to hold the flute that way is that the flute feels insecure in my grip, so I tend to try to bend the wrist a bit to 'cradle' it..i'm working on better grip all the time. I'll figure it out eventually..

I wouldn't really call myself a 'ringer', though

[Denny]

I've heard humility bein' praised somewhere or other.

Yer allowed to use your lower little finger to help.....above E anyhow

It isn't that much of a trick to get used to putting it down as ya get to the higher notes in the octave and pickin' it back up at the bottom. (given how much the 3rd finger wants to be with it) Some if us use 3 & 4 to stabilize the flute from C# to A or so. Sir James bein' one of 'em & he's on Boehm what ain't near as rollish as simple system.

[drewr]

Here's a couple of jigs played on my Dave Copley. Thread seems pretty quiet lately.



http://www.box.net/shared/xxmzxf1vyt