Foot Tapping
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Re: Foot Tapping
If you need to move some part of your body to keep time maybe you should consider taking up an instrument more suited to your talents,like the bodhran.
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Re: Foot Tapping
My left foot likes to be involved. Sometimes. It is DANCE music were talking about.
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Re: Foot Tapping
Say that to Martin Hayes !rorybbellows wrote:If you need to move some part of your body to keep time maybe you should consider taking up an instrument more suited to your talents,like the bodhran.
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People don't listen to Martin Hayes because they think he's a great foot tapper.oliver wrote:Say that to Martin Hayes !
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You're not into Québecois trad, are you?rorybbellows wrote:If you need to move some part of your body to keep time maybe you should consider taking up an instrument more suited to your talents,like the bodhran.
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I've wondered about how folks actually feel about this, as I see much less foot tapping then in the Scottish/Cape Breton music. Do most people feel the way Rory does, that they would rather no one tapped their feet while playing?
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Re: Foot Tapping
Do most people feel the way Rory does, that they would rather no one tapped their feet while playing?
I think foot tapping as you hear it in Irish music only adds a layer of noise. Podorythmie in the Cape Breton sense may be a different matter but , by and large, you don't really find that in Irish music and I don't believe it would be a practical option anyway when you have the body of a set of pipes sitting across your lap.
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I took Leo's advice to heart, tapping just seemed to get in the way of playing the regulators anyway. Then I got that Rita Byxbe tape from the 1964 Oireachtas, where Leo takes the stage and you hear this "BOMP! BOMP! BOMP! BOMP!"Mr.Gumby wrote:I don't think there are any hard andfast rules. It's merely a crutch we hang on to to keep time I suppose. Leo Rowsome had it as one of the 'Don't's in his tutor. I know a few people who can play sitting still without moving as much as a toe and play a rock-solid rhythm. I think that's a good thing. Then again, some make a virtue, or a feature, out of tapping their feet: anyone remember Mick Conroy?
Still don't tap. I think I can pound out a good beat - on the banjo, that is. The sean-nos dancing teacher I play for on occasion never has any complaints about my tempo, anyway. When I put on the pipes - at home - I like to revel in Reck-style rubato. "For the head and heart not feet and floor!"
So, this Mick Conroy is Andy's brother, right? Did he clog ala Canadian musicians? When I took up an interest in trad music I found an old Folkways LP of Quebec music with some cuts of melodeon + clogging, I always thought was great stuff.
Also - who "invented" tapping the foot double time? Older players don't do that all, including most baby boomers, but it seems de rigeur amongst youngsters these days. People tell me Jerry O'Sullivan was doing that over 30 years ago so perhaps it comes from Yonkers. Good thing he didn't popularize having the eyeballs rolling back into the head... Very intense fellow, Jerry. Onstage, anyway.
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Re: Foot Tapping
Of course, but I just like the way his whole body is involved when he plays... He's also a joy to watch, and not just to listen to.rorybbellows wrote:People don't listen to Martin Hayes because they think he's a great foot tapper.oliver wrote:Say that to Martin Hayes !
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If foot-tapping is done to keep time, it's a bad idea, feet are by no means a metronome...
To me foot-tapping's like anything else, it's ok when it's well done... which implies not spoiling the music.
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PJ wrote:When I started piping, I was unable to tap my foot while playing. When I got more proficient with the chanter, I found that I was tapping my foot without thinking. These days, I can't tap my foot if I'm playing the regs - there's just too much going on!!
I find the same thing is happening with me! I am starting to tap. My Rhythm still needs some errr.... Refinement though. Gotta whip out my metronone.
And with foot tapping, I don't mind it at all. It may be weird of me (I am generally a weird person, lel) but I actually enjoy the occasional stomp of the foot. Makes it all the more organic and authentic. IMHO
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Foot tapping usually degrades my concentration on an already complex instrument that is using a lot of my focus.
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Re: Foot Tapping
Is this mostly discouraged in sessions?
I did a quick search of the first six pipers to pop into my head on youtube and clicked on the first video I saw and all of them are tapping their feet.
Mick O'Brien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S7LYRnvzlc
Michael McGoldrick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnhPivtfUKU
Tiarnan O Duinnchinn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihq0dbwFQsE
David Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXJ4QZPNc94
Paddy Keenan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHI5lcMOWpU
Even Paddy Maloney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7pDiO52xSs
And the previously mentioned Jerry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTy8i-v8owM
Sorry, I can't stop myself from clicking on links!
Robbie Hannan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfX17kGGhvo
Padraig McGovern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FE4RzBbAPU
Cillian Vallely, once he gets to the dance music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9HwsawxMH0
Brain MacNamara:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdnqGufqXJo
Elliot Grasso:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpQ-8YErxf4
Almost forgot Joey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plf8NgotEzo
I did a quick search of the first six pipers to pop into my head on youtube and clicked on the first video I saw and all of them are tapping their feet.
Mick O'Brien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S7LYRnvzlc
Michael McGoldrick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnhPivtfUKU
Tiarnan O Duinnchinn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihq0dbwFQsE
David Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXJ4QZPNc94
Paddy Keenan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHI5lcMOWpU
Even Paddy Maloney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7pDiO52xSs
And the previously mentioned Jerry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTy8i-v8owM
Sorry, I can't stop myself from clicking on links!
Robbie Hannan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfX17kGGhvo
Padraig McGovern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FE4RzBbAPU
Cillian Vallely, once he gets to the dance music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9HwsawxMH0
Brain MacNamara:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdnqGufqXJo
Elliot Grasso:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpQ-8YErxf4
Almost forgot Joey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plf8NgotEzo
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Re: Foot Tapping
Here's Séamus Ennis also! Heck! They even zoom on on those leather shoes of his! ♪♫*Click* *clack* *clack* *click* *clack *clack* *click* *clack* *click*♫♪
Willie Clancy also taps, and even stomps hit foot on occasion.
Willie Clancy also taps, and even stomps hit foot on occasion.
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Re: Foot Tapping
Hey Elbowmusic,
did you not find the videos of Rory Bellows ?
did you not find the videos of Rory Bellows ?
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Re: Foot Tapping
Fred Morrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgRHnz3UR-A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgRHnz3UR-A